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And we move on to agenda item number four for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the regular redevelopment agency meeting of August 20th, 2025. Mayor Prom, is there a motion to approve? Move to approve. Please vote. Oops. Post. Motion carries. Agenda item number five, discussion for possible action regarding funding the amended security grant incentive program designed to proactively support small businesses by providing financial assistance before negative impacts occur with the goal of promoting economic stability in the redevelopment areas. $250,000 RDA special revenue fund. redevelopment areas one and two, wards 1, three and five. Um, Mr. Kenudson, Miss Diaz, and Miss Summers Armstrong. Please note this item is related to council item 18. Miss Babsky. Yes. Good morning, mayor. Good morning, city council members. Dina Babsky, director of EUD. Uh, this item actually I wanted to give a little background. Um about three or four months ago, you all approved a new sec security grant program to allow businesses to apply for up to $5,000 uh given that they meet certain criteria such as uh they had a security incident that was documented with the police department um or they were um they were facing issues with the roadway construction that you know would kind of put a detriment on their traffic. Uh what we've learned through the process as we've been processing these applications is that there's a lot of need for us to actually be more proactive in our approach and instead of waiting for an incident to happen uh our now intent is to make this program available to all eligible businesses in the redevelopment areas uh in a more proactive way. So essentially get them safe and secure before something bad happens. So this would be the only real change uh to the program to make it uh where the expenses are eligible uh for any business in the RDA. Um and also to give you a little bit of a a background again uh where what expenses are eligible uh it's things like permanent fencing uh lighting uh locks, doors, security films, uh security cameras and things of that nature. And it's important to remind um our constituents and you all is that this is a reimbursementbased program. So uh they can't install anything and then come back to us later. They have to go through the approval process, get approved and then uh you know move forward with the project. And just to give you uh some examples of the grants that we've processed already. Uh this is a best in the west safety. Uh that's a business uh in the RDA and as you can see their security film was pulled off. So they applied for the grant uh which then they used to uh buy new security film and install it. Another uh example is the security cameras at 7th and Carson. Similarly, they uh didn't have one before, but through the grant they were able to install them and now they can have monitoring. And um another example of the actual uh incident, you know, that did take place. They had a security incident. Their windows were broken. So that is one of the eligible costs. They applied for the grant and then they were able uh to get their windows replaced. With that said, happy to answer any questions and respectfully ask for your approval. Thank you so much. Are there any questions or comments from the agency members? Mayor Prom. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Miss Babsky. Um, I took a the crime support specialist from Balden Area Command to look at one of the businesses in my ward um because they had been broken into. Um, and I think it'd be a just a request is if we can connect with maybe the I think there's three different commands within the RDA to talk to their crime security specialists that when a business approaches us about a grant that maybe we tie them in with Metro so we can get some recommendations from Metro is how they spend that money. That's just a suggestion. Absolutely. Thank you. Yeah. Yes. Uh, Miss Diaz. Thank you, Madame Mayor. Um, thank you, Miss Babsky. I think that an ounce of prevention is worth its pound and cure. And obviously us um f make being more flexible with um providing the funds on the front end makes a difference a world of difference for a lot of the small businesses in the RDA and especially in times when we're hearing that everyone has to tighten their belts uh that cost of goods have increased that they want to keep their employees on payroll and this just facilitates an upgrade that is for everyone's well-being not only the establishment or the business but also the consumers because we're going to be able to enjoy that establishment for years to come in our fabulous city. So, um to um my colleagueu's comment, I actually have been very intentional in letting my downtown area captain know about this program. And actually when we deployed the other round or set of funds, I reached out and I said, "Can you rattle off all of the businesses impacted so we can personally reach out to these businesses and let them know these grant funds are available because we had a rash of different um incidents that happened in certain parts of downtown area command. So, um I think that it is uh something that moving forward we should kind of all be rowing in the same direction and they are the first uh responders to these incidents and we should probably let them know hey um this is happening and the same thing with our pop teams that are also um helping take care of certain areas in our city. I think they should be well apprised and aware so they can also be a conduit and a connector back to your department. Thank you so much. We'll take care of it. Yes. Um, of course, sir, one other thing is it might be more efficient. Um, the first request that Metro makes on every single one of these visits is to for the businesses to put up the no trespassing signs with the Associated Nevada Revised Statute. Um, I I'm I'm thinking it might be useful for our our sign shop to maybe print those and that's part of our package deals when we have when we do grant out that money if the if the no trespassing signs come with it. And I think that could be rolled into the program as well. Okay, we'll look into it. and Mayor Prom. Do we have a motion? I'm going to move to approve. Please vote post. Motion passes. Agenda item number six. RA-24-2025. Discussion for possible action regarding a resolution of the City of Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency uh redesating additional areas for redevelopment. uh valuation on approximately 1,200 acres generally bounded by East Owens Avenue to the north, North Nellis Boulevard to the east, and East Charleston Boulevard to the south. This is Ward three. Uh Councilwoman Diaz, please note this item is related to council item 38 R-65-2025 and item 6925-0285 uh D1. Miss Babski. Thank you, Mayor, City Council members. Dina Babsky, director of EUD. Um, we are very excited to pres to present this for your consideration. The 2050 city of Las Vegas master plan uh identifies 16 different sub areas uh across the city boundaries. And each of those sub areas is going to have a special uh area plan to ensure that neighborhood level strategies align with our overall city's vision. And East Las Vegas is one of those 16 areas. uh the East Las Vegas area plan that was approved by city council back in 2023. Uh new estro the east Las Vegas special area plan. One of the core ideas uh in that uh plan calls for conte contextual redevelopment of the aging commercial areas in uh WI 3 and the uh the east side transforming them into mixeduse walkable um vibrant communities. Um again the the plan itself uh it states that redevelopment in that area will help support the existing businesses increase economic opportunities and improve access to public transit overall and in doing so that will reinforce the neighborhood identity. So to achieve this, to achieve this, the plan actually calls out and recommends that the redevelopment agency supports the uh creation of a new redevelopment area that would support the East Las Vegas special area plan. So uh why a new redevelopment area? What does really that what does that really give us? Uh what tools uh will that allow us to use to help facilitate the redevelopment? When we establish a redevelopment area, uh we then um you know make tools available and have tools available at our disposal disposal to help assemble the land. As you know, in all of those kind of aging neighborhoods, the land parcels are oddly shaped. They're small. And so to uh really facilitate a larger meaningful development, we need to assemble uh and have larger parcels available. So um a redevelopment area um establishment would allow for that. Of course, you just all approved the security grant program. That's one of the uh incentives that we have in our portfolio that could then be available to uh to the businesses in this area along with our VIP program, um our tenant improvements program and others. Um another thing is of course the elimination of blight. Uh NRS279 specifically uh establishes the goal of a redevelopment agency to eliminate blight. And of course, how do they define it? They define it as you know um aging dilapidated uh buildings, aging infrastructure, again oddly shaped parcels. And so uh you know the the blight based on that development is what we will be looking for in the area as we do the study. Um and then with the ultimate goal to eliminate it. Um and then I think it's very important to mention that the dollars generated within a redevelopment area stay in that area. So there is no uh cross-pollination of funds between different redevelopment areas. As you know we have two already. This would be the third one. Um how does the process work to establish the uh the new RDA? So uh today I am presenting to you all and that essentially would allow us to uh start the blight study where staff would will be going out to individual properties and assess them against those criteria I just mentioned in NRS 279 and see if they are in fact uh blighted per the definition in the statute and then document the the current status of those. Uh also very important is the neighborhood outreach. uh we will be meeting you know with the community uh with you know explaining the process itself what we're doing there but also explaining the benefits of a potential redevel establishing the redevelopment area um and you know obviously it isn't a council and and the board's action to establish the area itself so the at the end uh of this process we will come back to you with uh a plan the proposed designated study area which I'll show you a map of the way it was determined uh our staff uh went out and just drove the area and identified some potential sites. Uh they haven't again been yet you know fully uh vetted against the criteria. We then uh presented the proposed study area to our citizen advisory committee which has nine members from the uh from the three wards that are in the RDA as well as the uh community members representing different types of businesses. Um, we also uh received their recommendations, actually had them go out and drive the area themselves and worked with them to fine-tune our proposal for the study area. And just to give you a little bit uh of a uh background on our current redevelopment areas, um this is redevelopment area one and two. Area 1 was established in back in 1986. Uh it will sunset in 2046. Uh and then redevelopment area two which is all the red that you see on the map. Uh that's a smaller area about a thousand uh acres in that one. Uh it was established back in 2015 in 2012 and will sunset in 2042. The redevelopment area one is actually uh three over 3,200 acres. So this is our biggest and oldest uh redevelopment area. Uh with that the proposed study area for the redevelopment area three is uh about 1,200 acres. Uh as you can see it is primarily in W it is all in W three. Um and again this is just a study area. We haven't confirmed any parcels and that's what we will be doing over the next six months. I also would like to show a map that um I know during briefings yesterday there were questions of how uh you know the scale of the maps the area 3 looks a little bit bigger. So I'd like to show this map right here uh what it actually would look like in terms of comparison to the acreage and the size of the other redevelopment areas. So this is all area 1 32 uh 100 acres. This is redevelopment area 2 about 1,00 and this is the proposed study area for uh redevelopment area 3. As you can see the there's a lot of uh item there's a lot of spaces in gray. This is primarily single family detached residential communities and we would not be studying uh you know those for potential uh to be in the actual boundary. So the areas that are included is primarily commercial corridors, retail, street facing areas that would be prime for redevelopment. May I have my PowerPoint back please? Perfect. Thank you. Um so you know where we are today uh the planning commission uh was presented this plan back on August 12th. Uh they unanimously approved it and supported. So here we are presenting it to you today for your consideration. Uh if all goes well today then our staff will conduct the blight study over the next six months. uh the public outreach that I just mentioned and we will draft a preliminary redevelopment plan for the area and bring it back for your consideration and the establishment. I know outreach is very very important anytime we do uh things that you know will impact the community. So we have a great plan and we will work closely with our communications team on a on the bilingual public outreach uh that will fit the community needs and uh we want to be sure we communicate well and clear. Uh the outreach will focus on the property owners, the residents as well as businesses. Uh and that will be done through multiple meetings, community engagements and you know we'll have staff available to answer any questions during the blight study as they're there you know assessing the properties. As I mentioned redevelopment plan has certain things required by NRS. Uh they um uh you know they're clearly stated that we need to identify the reasons why we're doing it. Describe the conditions of each individual property. uh you know talk about how we would finance the projects and as we all know that's through the property tax increment anything that we do in an RDA um and of course you know we will bring that back to the planning commission and to you all for your consideration and you know just make sure that we're all in alignment and uh before I answer any questions I'd like to thank the board because uh you know you all have been very supportive in our efforts in the redevelopment areas one and two and I do feel like we've done a lot there uh you know starting with the medical district, the arts district, gateway district and then now we have a lot of uh activity happening in the historic west side and a lot more to come around the cashman redevelopment. So we're truly excited for this opportunity to continue to do the work that we do now in in W three. Um, so thank you for your support and I also would like to thank uh our executive director of the RDA, Mike Jansen, for his leadership. And not to forget uh the folks that actually have uh been working on this very diligently and have a lot more work to do over the next six months is u my redevelopment manager Tracy Reich, her staff, Alex, and of course our uh city attorney's office. They uh they have been very very helpful. So with that, I'd like to um ask you for your support. All right. Thank you so much. Are there any questions or comments from agency members? Yes, Miss Rooney. Thank you, Mayor. Miss Babsky, are we internally doing the blight study or do we contract out with a third party and are we doing the public outreach internally or are we also contracting out with someone to do that? Yes. Uh thank you through you, mayor. Uh we will be doing it internally. Uh we have done that historically for all of our redevelopment areas, one and two, and any expansions that we've done in the past. Uh so the sta we'll have dedicated staff to work on each individual property and the outreach uh will be work will be developed uh with D with Mr. Wgleman's team and we will work uh side by side to make sure it's successful. Yes, Miss Armstrong, I just want to say thank you to Miss Babsky for um taking the time to sit um and talk with me about uh this yesterday and helping me to understand. I'm new uh and I'm trying to learn all the ins and outs and it's can be complicated but we know that these types of um innovations help us in increase uh the values in our communities and make cohesiveness and just bring life and so thank you so much and I'm um excited about this. Okay. Is there a motion Councilwoman Diaz? Thank you, Madame Mayor. And I just um before I make my motion, I want to say that, you know, we started um by starting the campaign to get information from our constituents. The east side of the city is a side of the city that feels often forgotten by us and that we haven't done a lot of investing in making sure that that community continues to be lifted and continues to not go to blight. Uh so that's why I think we set forth the uh engagement and the surveying and we came up and developed with the the Nestto Futuro plan at East Las Vegas. It's our future. Um now we're trying to get tools in our tool belt to then execute the vision of our residents, of our small business owners, of the entire community. And the way to do it is to go this step. And I'm um optimist optimistically hopeful that the study will come back with lots of information and hopefully support to move forward in a positive direction. So with that, I'm going to go ahead and move to approve agenda item six. I please vote [Applause] post. Motion passes. Thank you. Agenda item seven, RA-25-2025, discussion for possible action regarding a resolution finding the project proposed by the commercial visual improvement program agreement between the city of Las Vegas redevelopment agency and New Woo Art LLC located at 218 East Charleston Boulevard to be in compliance with and in furtherance of the goals and objectives of the redevelopment plan and authorizing the execution of a CVIP agreement by the RDA not to exceed $25,000 RDA special revenue fund redevelopment area one ward three Miss Diaz please note this item is related to council item number 37R-64-2025 Miss Babsky thank you mayor uh city council members Dina Babsky director of of EUD um I am excited to present for your consideration a VIP grant through the guideline with the guidelines of our uh visual improvement program. But before I present uh the project itself, I'd like to welcome um our applicant, tenant, and and property owner, Mr. Fon Douglas. Welcome. Thank you very much. Uh mayor, council, thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to speak before you today. Uh I'm a half owner of the uh 218 East Charleston building in the Las Vegas Arts District. uh myself on Douglas and my partner AB Wilkinson. Uh we've taken on this uh this project as we already have uh an arts compound on Maryland Parkway 1331 uh South Maryland Parkway with the NEWoo Art Gallery and Community Center. We are going on five years, but what we do not have is the foot traffic for our artists to sell their their wares and their goods. And so what we've done over the past year is we purchased this building that was very dilapitated um and wanting to you know really you know we care about Las Vegas, we care about the city is on our southern Pyute lands and we want to revitalize it. And so with this project we want to initiate bringing art uh more arts into the arts district especially as it pertains to Native American and indigenous arts and other local arts. Uh we have a number of great basin artists of course you know here locally and just through the state of Nevada. Uh but what we're going to be doing is bringing something very unique. Uh we're going to be bringing a portion of this gallery space because it is 3,800 square foot warehouse. We're going to be cutting that into three parts. The first part is the retail store uh which will be run by our nonprofit indigenous AF and the center will be a fine arts gallery and the back uh back of house will be our uh distribution center and place for packaging and selling merchandise online and so with your graces I mean I'm open to answering any questions and please let me know what uh you would also uh need of me. Thank you. Okay, thank you Miss Douglas. Uh just a little bit uh more detail on the project itself. So the site is located at 218 East Charleston Boulevard. Uh so it's on the south side of uh Charleston and I'm sure uh we all have driven by it. In the area as we know there is uh you know a lot of growth happening between the new residential, the retail, arts galleries, uh food and beverage places. So a lot happening in the arts district exterior before. So this is the building Miss Douglas was referring to. As you can see there is uh it's heavily uh you know it's dilapidated. It has graffiti. the windows had a lot of uh posters and so you know with this grant uh Miss Douglas and her partners will be able to move forward with their uh exterior renovations. So this is the exterior after the proposed renderings uh complete remodeled. So there is replacement of windows uh signage there is new uh facade parking lot upgrades um and of course installing new gates and security access. Um the pro the the property owner and the applicant they are investing a big uh amount of dollars into the project of which 163 uh.9,000 is going to go towards the exterior improvements which makes them eligible for the full amount of 25,000 uh from the redevelopment agency. Uh the exterior work for which this grant is being applied for will start in October, November hopefully once uh you all vote on it and the completion will be just a few weeks down the road. So, uh, with that, I, um, am also happy to answer any questions and ask respectfully for your approval. Thank you so much. Are there any questions or comments from agency members? Seeing none, is there a motion? Councilwoman Diaz, before I make my motion, mayor, I do have a question. I saw the walls and the renditions, but I'm sure you have some maybe uh, aspirations to bring some murals and some artists to put their art on on your walls. Is that going to happen, Miss Douglas? Uh, yes, of course. We're really looking forward to beautifying this space. You know, over the past year, it has been, you know, heavily uh graffitied and such. And so, we're really anxious to get started on this project and for, you know, some beautiful murals and arts to to grace the arts uh uh district area. All right. I knew that you were a shoe in for that answer, but I just wanted to make sure um because uh you do have uh a lot of connections to artists in our community that can bring and elevate that space and add some artistic contributions to the adjacency. Yes, absolutely. Even currently at the New Woo Art Gallery uh on Maryland Parkway, we have the Brian Martinez exhibition. I would invite all each and every one of you and the audience as well to please come and see what we're doing. We have gallery hours Thursday through Saturday. You can find us at newwooart.com. Awesome. So with that, I enthusiastically move to approve agenda item seven. Please vote post. Motion passes. Thank you so much. Thank you, councel. [Applause] Agenda item number eight, RA-26-2025, discussion for possible action regarding a resolution finding the agency reimbursement agreement between the city of Las Vegas redevelopment agency and Gonzo. That one was held in advance until October. Excuse me a minute. What's the matter? It was held in until October 15. I think we have to do we go ahead. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. To continue, um, Gonzo Madness LLC tenant conser concerning the retail lease of 525 South Main Street, sweet suite 150 is in the best interest of the public and to be in compliance and in furtherance of the goals and objectives of the city of Las Vegas redevelopment agency. $600,000 RDA special revenue fund redevelopment area 1, ward 3, Miss Diaz. Um, thank you, mayor. Um, council members, I would like to request that this item be held in abance until October 15th meeting. Um, yes. Thank you so much. Um, is there a motion, Miss Diaz? Yes, madam mayor. I move to hold agenda item 8 in abance until the October 15th RDA meeting. Please vote. Post. Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you so much. Agenda item number nine, citizens participation. Public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the redevelopment agency. No subject may be acted upon by the redevelopment agency unless that subject is on the agenda and is scheduled for action. If you wish to be heard, come to the podium. Give your name for the record. The amount of discussion on any single subject as well as the amount of time any single speaker is allowed may be limited. Is there anyone wishing to speak under this portion of the agenda? Please come forward. Please state your name for the record. Sorry. Okay. Please limit your comments to two minutes. Thank you. My name is Gail Serena Tolbert. Uh to the esteemed mayor and members of the city council. Again, my name is Gail. G A Y L E Serena C E R I N A Tobert T O L B E R T and I'm here on behalf of the Dittle Active Adult Community Center. I'm very excited and honored to be here today. First, I'd like to start by saying thank you all for your hard work and dedication. Thank you for providing valuable resources activities programs and services for the seniors here in Las Vegas and especially for the seniors at Doolittle. We acknowledge and enjoy the new renovations at Dittle. They are greatly appreciated. Today, we are here seeking your continued support. I'd like to bring to your attention a petition and the petition is signed by the members of the dittle community. Signed and prepared by the members of the dittle community. In addition to the petition, seniors have written letters of recommendations expressing their concerns and ideas for many more additional improvements. I've also included a few pictures for further illustration. We're asking you to take a good look at these pictures. Please read the letters and consider our recommendations. In addition, we seek the council's approval to form an action committee consisting of dedicated members of the Dittle Community Center. The goal of the member committee is to work along with your office to address the issues as they arise. It is our goal that the Dittle members committee work together with the mayor and the city council to promote, create, and maintain a welcoming, clean, and safe, environmental friendly space for active seniors to thrive as they continue to live out and enjoy our golden years. Thank you so much. Thank you. Is there anybody else wishing to address the redevelopment agency? Seeing no one, uh, the redevelopment agency meeting is a journ. [Music] Yeah, cuz you're a rockar in between the sets. Eyeliner and cigarettes. [Music] Shadow is burnt. Yellow dancing return. My lashes are bright. Purple tear drops are crying. Don't have a price. Loving you is terriy. 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Before we proceed with the agenda, would everyone please rise for the invocation given by chap uh chaplain Victoria Camp, messages of faith ministry, and please remain standing as she leads us in the pledge of for those who wish to bow their head and join in prayer. I pray, Almighty God, I come before you this day and ask for the blessings upon the city of Las Vegas, the city council, and the office of the mayor. I pray for good health, healing, and prosperity among the citizens of this great state uh community, state, nation, and people. I pray you feed our leaders here today on your wisdom and on your understanding for their good and for the good of all those whom they serve. Lord, I pray all things in your precious name and for your glory. Amen. Amen. Would you lead us in the pledge? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you so much for joining us. We will now proceed with the ceremonials. This is the cere this is the ceremonial portion of our agenda item of our council agenda and today we're recognizing Suanne Cornwell. Suenne, would you please come and join me at the podium? [Applause] Hello. Hi. How are you? Congratulations. On October 1st, 2017, Suanne was at the uh Route 91 Country Music Festival as a gunman, as we all know. opened fire on the 22,000 attendees, killing 58 that night, wounding many more, and changing our city forever. In the 5 days following the October 1st tragedy, the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden was built on land donated by the city as volunteers from all over the valley came together with a simple goal, to help. The garden has become a symbol for what this city can accomplish when we are united as well as a sacred place for mourning and healing. I know there are many people here that are volunteers and actively involved with the healing garden. May I ask everybody that's associated with the healing garden to please rise so we can uh recognize you for your efforts on all of our behalfs. Sadly, over the last eight years, we have had others pass away from complications to injuries they suffered at the event. The Community Healing Garden is a place for everyone whose lives were touched by this terrible tragedy. Today the garden continues to be a special place for our community and Suanne is one of the many people who can off who you can often find in the garden making sure it remains beautiful. I want to thank all of the volunteers and family members who visit and care for the garden. At any given time when you go there, you'll see people that are just caring for the memorial and we're very grateful for your efforts. Um, each tree is surrounded. The garden features 58 trees, one for each of those that were lost on tw in 2017. Each tree is surrounded by photos, keepsakes, and other remembrances. And Suanne is often at the garden on her own time making sure everything is clean and being cared for. Every year before the remembrance ceremony on October 1st, Suanne and her team are in the garden getting everything perfect for the families who will be coming to pay their respects and for those that are still trying to heal from the tragedy. In an article in the Las Vegas Sun in 2022, Suanne was quoted about the garden and this is what she said. When we used to come here, we used to feel real heavy and cry and it was very emotional. Now we feel 58 people hugging us when we walk through those gates. Suanne, your work can be seen in every corner of the garden that sits at the corner of South Casino Center Boulevard just north of East Charleston. Thank you for your work in taking care of our garden and for taking care of our community. And at this time, we'd love to hear from you. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. It's definitely an honor to be up here. Um we would not be here today. None of this would have happened had it not been for our 58 angels. They are the backbone of our healing and the backbone of the garden. The garden is an amazing place. Though I wasn't a part of building it originally, I I became a part of it. Um, one of the angels passed away in my truck that night and and I couldn't go down there for a long time. And then when the when the husband asked me to go down there and pick out a tree for Denise Bditis, that made it easy for me to go down there because then I was helping. And helping is what I've always done my whole life. So, the garden has become a place truly what it is meant to do. Not only for Route 91, but for our community, for visitors, for people that have buried loved ones outside of the state that bring a rock down there and paint it for their loved ones and it gives them a place of peace and comfort to come. I've seen people come in the garden broken and walk out with hope and walk out telling me that they can now begin to heal because they walked that path. So, thank you very much for this award. I I'm I'm very blessed that God has given me the time and the ability to do what I do and none of it is is um ca I'm not capable of doing any of it alone. I have a I have a mighty crew behind me and um the Route 91 survivors have become family. The families of our 58 have become family and thank you all very much for being here. Thank you. I'm going to give you welcome. Are there any family members of the 58 fallen angels uh with us today? If so, would you mind standing so we could acknowledge you as well? [Applause] and uh Suanne, on behalf of our city council and all of our fellow citizens, I proclaim today, September 17, 2025, as Suanne Cornwell Day, thank you for your service. Thank you for your help. Thank you for your love and your compassion. And let me You could join us up front. Let's thank [Applause] everybody else that beautifully goes to the healing garden. Thank you. goes to the healing garden and cleans and watches and cares for um uh the memorial. It's important for all of us, but not all of us actually go down there to clean up. So, thank you for making it easier for the rest of us to appreciate what transpired and what we have done in order to memorialize those that lost their lives on that very fateful day. And now we will be reconvening the city council meeting in about three minutes. [Music] Why would we drive 600 miles one way? Blow through cash that we ain't made. Get tattoos and wash our trucks. Push and press our love. Why would we ask when we know we can't dance? Show our hands and change our plans. Use our minds. break our hearts and learn to play guitar. Why does any man do anything in a whole world? Cuz there's a girl. Cuz there's a girl. There's a girl somewhere with eyes so blue. Know a color just won't do. So here I am on Highway 45. [Music] First girl to get me to ask myself how I'd been with anyone else any other minute of my life. Ain't it something how they get us doing something? Why would we drive 600 miles long way? Blow through cash that we ain't made. Kids have to tune and wash our trucks. Push and press our love. Why would we ask when we know we can dance? Show our hands and change our plans. Lose our minds. Break our hearts and learn to play guitar. Why does any man do anything in a whole new world? Cuz there's a girl. [Music] Cuz there's a girl [Applause] crazy how they get us going crazy. Why would we drive 600 miles one way? Blow through cash that we ain't made. Get tattoos and wash our trucks. Push and press our love. Why would we ask when we know we can dance? Show our hand and change our lose our minds, break our hearts, learn to play guitar. Why does any man do anything in the whole damn world? Cuz there's a girl. Cuz there's a girl. [Music] [Music] Some old boys need a couple tall boys to fire up the feeling good. And sometimes some nights don't come alive until a cover band plays. They wait on a soul song to make that move on. The girl that everybody else wants, but I already got one. And she's a hot one. One in a mill you never want to forget. One. Just a sweet lips. Good girl. The kind of girl your mama hope you love with. She's my dream. She's my stone. See you later, boys. I'm going home. I already got one. [Music] [Applause] I've been near and done that handcuffed in the back. Wilder than my daddy was. Run every red. Break the law. Jump a fence. Anything to feel a rush from out of blue eyes. I found a wild side. Now who the hell needs a Friday night? I already got one and she's a hot one. One in a mill you never want to forget one kiss from a sweet lip. Good girl kind of girl you mama hope you show up with. She's my dream. She's my stone. But see you later going home. I already got one. [Music] Don't need a reason for staying up and lose sleep by the way she's looking at me. Already got one, man. She's a hot one. One in a mill. You never want to forget one. Kiss on her sweet lips. Good. The kind of girl your mama hope you'd end up with. She's a dream. She's my stone. I see you later, boys. I'm going home. I already got one. I already got one. [Music] I already got one. [Music] I didn't think I was a bad guy. I knew that you were good. You were golden on the inside and you love me the best you could. I'm the one to dropped the ball. Got you high and let you fall. Let the best thing I ever had slip away. But what does that say about me? I could do you like I did. I can break an angel wings. What does that say about me? There sto in your car. What does that say about me? You're pretty hard. You're pretty hard. [Music] I've been drinking like a drunkard in these Austin neon lights. Burning smokes and wondering if there's anything I've done right. Well, I wish that I could go back. Hang on to what I had. Guess it's all nothing but a dream. What does that say about me? I can do it like I did that I could break. What does that say about me? [Music] Is it off in your car? What does that say about me? Now that I You're pretty. You're pretty hard. [Music] [Music] What does that say about me? I could do you like I did that I could break an angel's wings. What does that say about me? and stood there like a post as you drove up. Agenda item number seven. Public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters on the agenda for action. The amount of time any single speaker is allowed may be limited. All comments made will be cross referenced to those specific items. If anyone submitted a speaker card or who wishes to speak under this portion of the agenda, please come to the podium, state your name for the record. This is your opportunity to address the council, but the council is not able to respond or engage in dialogue. We will set the time at two minutes. Is there anybody wishing to address the city council? Please state your name. My name is Steve Small and uh I'm a registered architect retired in the state and I was an urban planner for major developments in the city. I work for Spo Homes and those homes in the early days. And uh the item I'm talking about is a project which is in the northwest valley the 900 it's item 57 that's on the agenda today but according to our communications director uh it has been pulled I believe to a different date. Now, although I'm it's on the agenda today, the big thing I have about it is that the price from BLM for direct purchase, I had brought that up originally with the city of Las Vegas Mayor Goodman in her last meeting that I was at and she said she'd take it all under advisement. And the thing is that you've you're trying to purchase that open lands for 6,000 houses for 90 a little over $90 million. That's 1/4th the actual price for R2 PUD R1, R3, R4 apartments, commercial for development and it will be under the master plan and see how it's over 300 acres. uh it can have a c a casino whether it might be not part of the master plan because it's not on a major highway frontage but what I'm talking about is it right in my neighborhood in the southwest valley it was 94 or 2 and a half acres was purchased for 1 million $250,000 by Ruani Now he's a player in land speculation and development. He's going to be gone. If you multiply that out across now, that's only zone for re halfacre lots in the in the CMA zone. Thank you so much. Your two minutes are up. Now out here in the northwest under that agreement if you just divide it back for the 2 and a half acres into the nine n over 900 acres you get four times that amount and that's just to based on re thank you that comes out to $376,000 I mean 376 million not sir your time has expired just at re you're talking our R our 5.2 two major minimum. Sir, your time has expired. Thank you very much. Based on those prices, he still can make a ton of money even at 376 million. Sir, your time direct purchasing and it's not under a bid expired that you don't understand which is required. Yeah. Your time has no minutes. Sir, your time has expired. Yes. Thank you so much. On the desk, you can call me anytime. Thank you, council. Thank you so much. Hi, Mayor. I have three items that I'm Would you please identify yourself for the record? Bryce Henderson, president of Noka Las Vegas, resident of Las Vegas in Councilwoman Diaz's district. Would you allow me three minutes? I'm commenting on three separate items and it's very difficult to get all of that in. I will give you that leeway. Yes. Thank you. I appreciate it. Uh first I was quite surprised today to see the animal foundation items on the consent agenda. The city has a reputation for rubber stamping uh items relating to the animal foundation and I don't see so you could I've never seen that more clear than today where there'll be no discussion on these votes. I've never seen that before with animal foundation votes and I would encourage one of the council members to pull it from the consent agenda so it can be debated upon and voted on individually. Back in 2014, for reference, especially for the newer members, the Animal Foundation received 4.3 million from the m municipalities while taking in 34,000 animals. Today, you're approving 11.4 million, yet they're taking in far fewer animals. 24,000 to be exact. So, their intake went down 30%, yet their funding has gone up 265%. Now, normally the community would be thrilled if you're giving more money to shelters, shelter services, but when it's going towards an organization that has lost the faith of the community and an organization that's released thousands of unsterilized animals in the last few years into our community. We would rather see the money going towards rescue groups who stretched their dollars much further. The same rescue groups that bailed out the animal shelter during COVID and during one of their many outbreaks over the last few years. The animal foundation closing its doors due to mismanaged outbreaks has been one of our main complaints over the last few years. The city promised us they would make the animal foundation come up with emergency plans so that outbreaks would not result in partial closures of the shelter, putting them in violation of their contract. But instead, you know what your city managers did in the new contract? For those of you who have not read it fully, they've created a clause that in the event of an outbreak, now the shelter, the head shelter vet can close the shelter without violating their contract. So instead of forcing them to solve the problem, you're now giving them the approval to exacerbate it. Once again, the animal foundation's pulling strings at city hall. As to the moratorium on new puppy store sales, I know you're not voting on that today, but it it will be coming up for discussion and you will have an opportunity to comment on that when it's on the agenda. Yes. Well, if you're thinking of placating the animal community, you're mistaken. Allowing 10 to 12 puppy stores to continue in in the city when Clark County, Reno, North Vegas have all banned them outright. That's not progress. What really disappoints me though is that former Councilman Seaman had told me, Mayor, that she had worked out an agreement with you to ban all of the stores within 90 days. And and this is not on the agenda. So you It is on the agenda. It is on the agenda. And so it disappoints me that now that Mayor or Councilwoman Seaman's gone, that clause has also been removed. Finally, mayor, back in February, you convinced your colleagues to vote no on an animal advisory committee because you promised you could have a better multi-jurisdictional one set up within 6 months. Well, here we are eight months later. There's no multi-jurisdictional committee and there's no city committee because you ask your members, your fellow colleagues to vote it down. And what we see here today basically is more favors and political um for your friends at the Animal Foundation. and while we're just continuing to get empty promises. Thank you. Thank you so much. Please state your name for the record and you have two minutes. Good morning, Patricia Reed. Last name Mark Ei. I ditto owe everything that Rice has said, Madame Mayor. When we I was last here in April, you had invited me to contact your office. The thing is is that I didn't see a reason to because you've already you don't see what the problem is. You have created so much division. So much division within the animal community as a whole. I had to keep myself saying concentrate more on Reeba's case than all of this mess that we've got going on. The fact that you're going to give the animal foundation more money. Okay. Well, at least I know that within a couple of years the county is going to help us and we're going to have something else to go on. So, we'll that will be crossed. So, whatever we've got to do to help animals, I guess we have to do it. Um, another thing there, there's just too much on here. The puppy stores, we need to go back cuz this is a Goodman issue. You need to go back to when the mayor overturned everything that we had worked on for years. We only had three or four stores here. Let's go back to those original three or four stores. and all of those stores that left their county and went right into city limits to open while it was still legal, all of those stores need to be included in the ban. Thank you. Now, my final statement is completely unrelated to this and it's about our replacement for War Council. I would like everybody to disclose how long you've known each candidate and what your background is with them for the record. Thank you. Thank you so much. Is there anybody else that would like to speak to the council? Yes. Good morning. Good morning. Will you state your name for the record? Okay. My name is Eric Melzdc Christ Nimrod. You can find my victorious twin brother Jesus Christ defeating death, the Roman cross, and poverty in the Gospels in Revelation 11:18 and Revelation 3:21. Good morning, beloved Mayor Shelly and all of you mighty council members. And tell Shannon thank you for her assistance. I will. All right. In Matthew 25:31, Christ teaches us that when you help the least of these, the homeless, the sick, and the prisoner, you are doing it to him. Agendas 11, the animal foundation, 12, 39, and 49 are very good about taking care of Father God's cats, dogs, and other cute creatures. And we all should take care of the homeless humans made in God's image living in homeless shelters caringly provided by the city of Las Vegas which is a city of loving people. God is love. Thank you for listening. Thank you very much. Good morning and please state your name for the record. My name is Joe Weber and I want to talk about item 58, the Bruce Apartments. So, I'm a homeowner in the vicinity of the project. I'm opposed to the project and have communicated that to you, Mayor Berkeley, and all the council members via email uh before this meeting and in responses to the city clerk's office. I also helped gather opposition petitions from the immediate area neighborhoods that have been emailed to Councilwoman Diaz's office. I'm opposed to the project because it's simply too big for the piece of land that sits there. The existing codes say it's too big for that piece of land. The planning commission staff reports that it's too big for that piece of land. At least 123 neighbors, neighborhood residents from 96 homes with within or near the 1,000 ft uh radius of the project sign petition saying it's too big for that piece of land. Existing parking space code requirements would require 29% more spaces than are planned and that say it's too big for that piece of land. The project organizers are asking for your support for a variance to reduce the required parking spaces by saying that it's a strategic decision because all resident services are within walking distance or that there's RTC bus service nearby. However, the reality is what most everyone that lives near there for any length of time knows is that very few resident services are within walking distance and that the RTC is not a viable u option for transportation. The organizers can say that the reduction is strategic, but I would contend that it's really just convenient because they know the project is too big for that piece of land. Thank you so much. I have a little more. Uh but you have no more time. Okay. You can wait for the discussion item. If you would like to wait for the discussion item, you can speak again at that time. Oh, very good. Okay. All righty. Thank you. Welcome and please state your name for the record. Good morning. My name's Joanna Weber. That's my husband that needs more time, which he could have had a few minutes of mine. Um I don't want to repeat myself and uh Councilwoman Diaz has had emails from me and understands what what my opposition is. I just wanted to say one more thing because we just were notified about the Cachman Field Center which is right there and close and we'll have all of that. We're going to have so much housing and I know you know the city needs that and that that makes us feel good but we already have Cashman. We have Desert Pines working in the same neighborhood. We have the little tiny houses that are going in at zero and 21st Street and we have Symphony Park going on. There's plenty around here. And piling it all into that one little neighborhood just it just doesn't it it he was supposed to leave me the petitions. These folks don't want it. And one more thing is these folks felt like as Griselle will tell you maybe that their voice would not be heard. they would sign but say they're going to do what they want anyway. And it's disappointing to me that that may be true and you know these folks really did expect you guys to do the right thing. So that's all I'm asking. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Welcome and please state your name for the record. Gel um Benites. I live at um 833 North 18th Street. Um, I strongly oppose the Bruce Apartments proposal agenda item 58. Most of the notices for this project were only sent in English, even thought the majority of our neighbors are Spanish-sp speakaking Latinos. Because of this, many families were unaware of the proposal, and I went door to door to inform them. The lack of bilingual outreach has left our community at a at a disadvantage and excluded from a process that should involve everyone. This project will overcrowd our neighborhood with six three-story buildings on a very small lot. It will increase traffic force and parking and invade the privacy of our nearby families. Our schools, especially Hely Hudson, all are already over capacity. The developer is requesting several variances. That means this project does not fit within the existing rules or the character of the neighborhood. Exceptions like this should not be granted when they harm the residents who already live here. Traffic safety is also a major concern. More cars means more congestion at Bruce, Harris, Bonansa, and Washington. Where children's walk to school and wait for buses. Overflow parking will spill into our streets, blocking visibility and making it dangerous for drivers, pedestrians, and even emergency vehicles. Um, we are we are not against growth. We are asking for a responsible growth. For this reason, I respectfully ask you to deny the proposal and its variances. Thank you so much. Thank you. Welcome and please state your name for the record. My name is Marola Latska. I foster for a local rescue. I'm here today to urge you to ban the retail of puppies in Las Vegas. Across the country, cities and states are recognizing that pet that pet stores are a direct pipeline from Midwest puppy mills. In the same way that we screen our adopters or local rescues, reputable breeders want to know where their puppies will be going to. So, no reputable, ethical breeder would ever sell to a pet store. Buying a puppy at one of these stores is nothing but a financial transaction where the buyer is misled into thinking they are getting a healthy well-b bred dog. We know from recent investigations that our puppy source source from awful puppy mills. These are largecale commercial breeding facilities. Um, and under USDA standards, these dogs are often confined in cramped wire cages that only need to be six inches larger than their bodies. This is how they live their their whole life. These they are bred with little regard for their health, leading to sick puppies that are shipped all over the country. Just recently, a neighbor here in Vegas reached out to me for advice after she bought a parvo positive puppy from Petland. They gave her a clean bill bill bill of health and refused to take any accountability for the emotional distress that they caused and the thousands of dollars in vet bills that resulted. By keeping keeping these puppy stores open, we are allowing poorly bred, often sick puppies to be shipped into our city. While we are already in a massive crisis, there are more puppies in our shelters and rescues right now than I've ever seen. Families who want to adopt can still find wonderful pets through local shelters, rescues, and responsible breeders. The current ordinance that I suggested is unacceptable. It's time to put compassion above profit, and it needs to be rewritten so that all of the puppy stores are banned. Thank you. Thank you so much. Welcome. And please state your name for the record. Melanie Shane, hysterical animal advocate, as I believe you mentioned in your recent press conference. So, as far as the shelter is concerned, we're up against a rock and a hard place. And I want everyone to know that we're not against the shelter. We want them to follow their contract and uphold the the information that's placed in there that they're supposed to follow. So, obviously, no one is willing to take over. So, I get that. But with that being said, who is going to hold the shelter accountable to upholding that contract moving forward? Why is it okay for any animal to walk out under the guise of a foster to adopt without being fixed? No animal should leave that facility unfixed unless for medical, pulled by a rescue, or if they're too young to be spayed and neutered. I would also be curious to know since you said you looked at the records, what percentage had not been fixed from how long ago, what action was taken by the shelter other than a phone call or a letter. I have personally spoken to several people who have had their dogs for sometimes a year or more as either a foster or an adopter with no contact from the shelter. Like no contact in a year at all. No followup. They don't even know where that foster dog is. So, how is that? So, you mentioned that the shelter moving forward is no kill. How is that supposed to happen when animals are being let out unfixed with minimal followup increasing the animal overpopulation? Like, that doesn't make sense. The shelter cannot manage and or control following up with hundreds of animals going out their door every single month unfixed regardless of the label that it's under. And to Bryce's point, where is the plan B or C when the shelter closes down? animal control. Telling the public to let the animal go on the street or forcing the public to take an unknown dog into their home is not the answer. You're putting the public at risk, unknown behavior of a dog or potential disease, and it's just irresponsible. It is their job as an open shelter, as you stated, to take in animals. And if you're going to close, you need to have a plan B or a plan C. As far as puppy stores are concerned, again, where's the followup on puppy stores spay or neuter? cuz I just took in two dogs that were unfixed that were bought at puppy stores. Thank you so much. Is there anybody else that would like to address the city council? In that case, we will move on to agenda item number eight for possible action. any items from the 9:30 a.m. session that the council staff and or the applicant wish to be stricken, tabled, withdrawn, or held in obeyance to a future meeting may be brought forward and acted upon at this time. Uh, mayor prom. Thank you, Madame Mayor. Item 44R-68-2025 obeyance to the November 5th, 2025 city council meeting. This is requested by staff. Item 5725-000046 SDR1. Applicant owner is Good Cluck West LLC on 1.69 acres at the southeast corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Kerry Avenue. Obeyance request by the applicant to the October 15th, 2025 city council meeting 63A through 63 C 25-0016 V1 SUP1 and SDR1. Applicant owner is Bonanza Auto Plaza LLC at AL on 2.09 acres at 4561 and 4565 East Bonanza Road. There's an advance request by the applicant to the October 15th, 2025 city council meeting. Item 6825-0179 D1 applicant owners the city of Las Vegas, the Charleston special area plan. There's an obeyance request by staff to the November 5th, 2025 city council meeting and item 6925-0285DIR1 applicant owner of city of Las Vegas redevelopment agency review of a preliminary plan for consideration of redevelopment area 3. There's a table requested by staff. That'll be my motion. Please post. Motion carries. Agenda item number nine for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the August 20th, 2025 regular city council meeting. May appro. May I have a motion to approve the minutes? Move to approve. Please vote. opposed. Motion carries. Agenda item 10. Uh, this item is being trailed to be heard after agenda item 43. Agenda item 11. Items number 11 through 40 are on the consent agenda, are considered to be routine, are recommended for approval by the departments, and may be enacted in one motion. Are there any items the city council wishes to bring forward? Mayor Prom, may I have a motion for the consent agenda for items 11 through 40? Move to approve items 11 through 40. Please vote. Post. Motion carries. [Applause] Agenda item 42, discussion for possible action regarding the appointment of an interim city council member for Ward 2 for the following finalists. Serena Cas Kasama, Cara Kelly, Tom Warden, $18,900 from the general fund. Ward two, Mr. Zamora, real quick. I think I think we need to read this because we're going out of order. So, it's this bottom part. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. Where was that? Okay. Oh, I see. I see. Okay. Um, Mrs. Zamora, before you proceed, I should uh talk change we're changing the agenda item order in order to accommodate our guests. So, having said that, um uh please proceed. Good morning, Mayor and Council. For the record, Vince Samura, human resources director. I wanted to take a little bit of time to provide a recap for you um relative to the process that we went through for you and for those in attendance and those um viewing on our uh KCT KCLVTV. Um on September 3rd, 2025, you directed human resources to to conduct a recruitment for the caretaker interim city council uh member. The eligibility requirements that um were provided to us by both um our city clerk as well as our um city attorney indicated that the individuals must be residents within the city of Las Vegas War 2, that they must be a qualified elector and must acknowledge on the public record that the appointment is temporary and agree not to seek election to the position in in the municipal election in 2026. the recruitment process as we um went through. On September 3rd, the job position opened. On September 5th, the position closed at 5:00 p.m. 57 applications were received. 17 were deemed ineligible, and they did not meet the War 2 residency requirements. On September 6th, the 40 applications resumes were forwarded to Mayor and Council for their individual review and ranking. And then on September 7th through 8th, mayor and council individually submitted their top three in ranking order to human resources staff. On se September 8th, based on the rankings, human resources staff forward the names of the three finalists to the city clerk for this particular agenda. On September 17th, city council will now be in the position to go ahead and hear from the finalists and make your determination. With that, I'm open to any questions and if not, we can proceed with the finalists coming up for their three-minute presentations in alphabetical order. Yes. Um, do any of our council members have any questions at this juncture? All right. Thank you so much. We appreciate that. Thank you. We would now invite our three uh finalist applicants to come and make a threeinut presentation to the city council. Uh, since we're going alphabetically, Serena Kasama, would you please join us at the podium? Welcome. Thank you, mayor. Mayor, members of the council, my sincere thanks for your consideration. My name is Serena Kasama, located at 2708 Baycliff Court, Las Vegas. I'm honored to be one of the finalists, and my wish is to help the city as a good interim steward and caretaker. With that, I'll say a little bit about myself. My parents and I moved to Las Vegas in December of 2002, and I've been proud to call Las Vegas home ever since. I did go to middle school and high school at Faith Lutheran. I went on to then get my college degrees in finance and economics. I worked in the real estate industry. However, the reason I believe I am most qualified for this position is my current position as vice chair of the Las Vegas Planning Commission. I am the current vice chair, and it's been a privilege to serve with my chair, Jennifer Taylor, as well as the tremendous staff at the city of Las Vegas. I believe it is in the best interest of the city and its constituents that the one appointed is able to hit the ground running with as seamless of a transition as possible. My time on the commission has allowed me to familiarize myself with this institution and the hardworking people that are a part of it. I cherish both W 2 and this great city. I fully support the city's 2050 master plan and would love to assist in the implementation. I'd also like to collaborate and work with each one of you as best as I can in the good work you are doing in all of your wards. From the support in the historic westside in Ward 5 to Lamadre Foothills in Ward 4 to the medical district in ward 1 to the arts district and the redevelopment of the east side in ward 3 as well as Kyle Canyon in W 6. So, I'd like to support and help local businesses as well in Ward 2, help guide the development of infill projects to remain harmonious and compatible with the community and to assist in the needs of the constituents. I know that public service is not easy, and I promise to be fully present and available. I remember speaking to one elected official who said words that stick with me to this day. We aren't put in these positions to have things be easy. We are here to make the tough decisions that we know to be the right ones. I would hope to live up to that spirit and be a dedicated public servant until the people are able to have their voice be heard and elect a new representative for W 2. It has been a privilege to serve on the planning commission and it would be a privilege to continue that service. My sincere thanks once again. Thank you so much. And now we'd like to hear from Cara Kelly. Would you please join us at the podium? Welcome. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you so much for being here, for having me here. Also, I'm thrilled to be part of the one of the finalists in this process and most especially being invited to address you this morning. I have a quintessential Las Vegas story. My family came out here in 1955, 50,000 people here, and I was born 10 yearsish later, Sunrise Hospital. And my family is is much like families who came here at this time and come here today. They were looking for opportunity. Uh and they found it. They found it in the service industry, in the hospitality industry, as maids, as bartenders, as uh waiters and waitresses or servers. I was able to grow up here and um also be a proud product of the public education system. um graduated high school at Valley High School. Go Vikings. And uh also I'm a proud graduate of UNLV. That bluecollar heritage of mine taught me a lot of fundamental things that that shaped my values. The value of hard work, the value of giving back, the value of leaving things and what you do better than when you left them. And my community service started very early. Uh it started at home with my mother and my grandmother when we would go do things. Um and my mom would take me to whatever um whatever she was involved in. She played softball and I was selling uh sodas and candies. I think I was probably about 10. Um, so that was really part of my early learning and and as I grew, I was in uh student government in high school, student government in college, uh, a girl after the mayor's heart, and I also was um, I was able to buy my first house in my late 20s, something that is very difficult to do now. I was the first female and youngest person ever appointed as the chief operating officer and the chief executive officer of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce. And now I'm vice chair of the Colorado River Commission. During my career, I've built coalitions and I'm very proud of certain accomplishments. One of which is early on I worked with the AFL CIO and other important parties to convince the public to in increase the sales tax by 25 cents. that received 74% of the positive vote from the voters and that is a great accomplishment and and at the time it was for a second straw out of Lake Meade and now now that money has funded a third straw and a fourth straw and continues to create that infrastructure the critical infrastructure we need for water. I've also been proud to serve on I've served the state of Nevada in various roles uh since the late 90s including Thank you so much. Your time is up. Thank you very much, Mr. Warden. Welcome. Thank you, Mayor. Well, good morning, Mayor, members of the council. I want to thank everybody here for your service to the city, but also personally thank you for being included in this group of finalists. Um, I saw the list of people who made the application. I think we all did and there were some really good applicants. Uh, I think that says a lot about Ward 2 and certainly given the quality of my two colleagues here, I know that whatever happens here today, W 2 is going to be in good hands. Um, the word caretaker though is what really uh is the focus for me. I I see this as an opportunity to make sure Ward 2 stays strong and that it's in really good shape when it's turned over to whomever wins the election cycle next year. Uh my qualifications would include uh 25 years with the Howard Hughes Corporation. uh over that time for most of it uh I was the community relations and government affairs person there and uh that put me out in the community it put me out talking to different groups neighbors HOAs citizen groups and uh in doing so you learn to listen identify what the issues are and then work with them uh trying to find a collaborative solution. other part of my job was government affairs and that afforded me the opportunity to sit at the planning table for this community of Summerland and man did I learn a lot by the professional planners of Summerland. Um, I learned all about land development and uh, everything starting all the way back to the um, original development agreement signed by the city and Howard Hughes all the way forward to today. Uh, use permits, uh, waiverss, everything in between. And I think all of that helps to stand me in goodstead to basically hit the ground running for a job like this. Uh before my years in um in Summerland, I was public communication director for Clark County. Yes, I was the David Wgleman for the county. David is a good friend of mine. We go way back. And as a matter of fact, like David, I am also a recovering TV newsman. So, uh we we have a good long history of friendship. Um my work uh I wanted to mention also with the nonprofits is uh something I wanted to say and that is uh I've served on a good number of boards over the years here in Las Vegas. Vegas PBS, Nature Conservancy, School Community Partnership Council, uh YMCA, Get Outdoors Nevada, many others. That's a great way to see the fine work that's being done by uh the nonprofits. Bottom line for me is that this would be the honor of a lifetime and uh for me this would cap my 36-year career here in Las Vegas. Thank you so much for the consideration. Thank you very much, Mr. Warden. I'd now like to go to questions or comments uh by the members of the city council. And Miss Brun, I think we'll start with you. All right. Thank you. Um, Miss Diaz. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Um, no doubt this has not been an easy task to embark on as a council member. Um, just want to say thank you to everyone who expressed a desire to serve. Public service is not for those that are weary at heart. Uh, so thank you. Um, I want to let the public know that this council took this very seriously. We vetted the 40 applicants in the beginning thoroughly. Um, it took about four to five hours out of my life to ensure that I read resumeumés and I read everything that was being conveyed as to why they sought this war 2 office. Abundantly clear, everyone's heart is in the right place. And I think the three finalists um you know it's always difficult to weigh the pros and the cons and figure out the best person to um inherit the reigns of the war and take care of it while the 26 election is underway and then they get elected. Um whether it be the primary or the general, we don't know at this juncture. Um, but something that I was looking in this candidate uh for the War II office was someone with um a huge level of Las Vegas that I think all of my colleagues and I have um the determined um and tenacity the determination and tenacity to do what's best not just for the ward but for the entire city moving forward because it does take all of the council to make things happen. And um I think one thing that weighed heavily was um you know making sure that we were prudent and we ensured that war 2 had a responsive council member also in between. So again um thank you all for applying. Thank you for being willing to step up and um I look forward to working with the next war two representative depending on how the vote goes here with my colleagues. Thank you so much, U, Mayor Pro Tim. Thank you, Madam Mayor. And I I wanted to just address some of the criticisms that have come forth over the last couple of weeks. Um so, one is the this the timeline. So, if we were to do an election because that was one of the criticisms is if we spend $500,000 for an election, $800 $800,000, it's a lot. Um it would put us at Christmas time of when that election would be over and filing starts again for that election in March. And so, it just didn't seem prudent. And so that was one of the biggest considerations for me is just trying to be as fiscally conservative as we can. We had 40 awesome applicants. The criticism came in today is how do how well do we know you? For the three up here, I would consider my relationship somewhat superficial. Um for about 20 people on the list, I had much deeper relationships. So much like Councilwoman Diaz, we spent a considerable amount of time looking through what are the qualities that we're looking for. Um, and there was for me there was about 20 really really qualified people that could have easily filled this spot. I was able to narrow it down to six and I sent in six names saying I'm okay with any of these six. Um, cuz the things that I was looking for was one is are do you live in the ward? Are you breathing? Those are the most two important things. Third third is the third is like how well do you know the ward? How well are you are you um familiar with the city of Las Vegas? familiar with other governmental entities and not going to be completely shocked and scared by sitting up here and having people scream and yell at you, frankly. Um, but the most important thing for me really was that kind, committed, and smart. Those are the values of the organization. And frankly, in the last representative, we didn't have that. And so I was looking for someone who could sit with this council, be kind, committed, and smart, agree to disagree, but do so in a respectful way, treat staff respectfully and kindly, and treat constituents with honesty and transparency. So those are the qualities that I looked for. Any one of you I'd be happy to vote for. You're all amazing candidates and would serve war and would serve our community well. So I'm grateful for the fact that you're sitting up here today, but kind, committed, and smart is what I stuck to. So thank you for being that. Thank you so much uh Miss Finski. Thank you Madame Mayor. [Applause] I too would like to thank the entire group of 57 applicants who are largely caring individuals who put their names forward to serve as award 2 caretaker. In front of me, I've put the applications of all the people who came forth. your city council had a call out to the people of Ward 4 to come before us and to volunteer their time and efforts and Ward 2, you've responded in spades and I thank you for that. Be being willing to take on this task as an interim council person speaks volume of your commitment to service and clearly demonstrates your willingness to work on behalf of your neighbors. Today we are fortunate that the three candidates before us each wholly and completely qualified to assume the role. I have no doubt about the integrity of all three of them. All three have pledged in writing and verbally not to run for this position in 2026. I believe each of them to be honorable people of their word. Madame Mayor, I'm going to refrain from my continued remarks and let you know that I'm prepared to make a motion whenever you're ready to entertain a motion. Uh, Miss Finsky, if you don't mind, we'll have the rest of the city council um comment and then I will entertain your motion. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Of course, Miss Summers Armstrong. Thank you, Madame Mayor. Um, and thank you for the three candidates for taking the time to meet with me. Um, I'm new at this job as you well know, but not new to public service. And I think for me, uh, the the newbie, but also representing one of the communities, uh, in the redevelopment agency area, um, and a community that's older, um, we know what it means to have, um, to the necessity to have good leadership, um, a good partner, someone who's going to, uh, put in the hours and make sure that, um, you are boots on the ground in a community uh and and helping the others um throughout the city ensure that that the entire city of Las Vegas is represented. Um you you were all very impressive. Thank you for taking time to meet with me and I think that we will do our best to make a good decision today, not just for W 2, but for the entire city of Las Vegas. Thank you. All right. Well, I I want to welcome the applicants. I too was very impressed by the um the quality of the applicants um uh who applied for uh this caretaker responsibility. And when I originally heard the word caretaker, I thought it was something like you're holding the place but not really doing anything. That is not the case. Um this is a very active city council. everybody and I am I'm new too but uh the thing that has impressed me the most by my colleagues is their extraordinary commitment to public service. I've dedicated my life to public service and I take it very seriously and I take my responsibility seriously as a public servant. I say that that commitment I would say without fear of contradiction is easily matched by every member of the city council. So we took our responsibility very seriously as we reviewed all the applications. The uh uh the final applicants I think were the cream of the crop and I think I believe that we we all collectively believe that uh any one of you would be a wonderful addition to the city council. I appreciate the mayor prom mentioning why we're not doing a special election aside for the time constraint. Um and again we would not have a decision until December. Um it's also an extraordinary cost at a time that we're all tightening our belts. But I don't think even with an election we could have done better than the candidates that are sitting here today. And I want to thank you all. As far as the question is we could um our relationships um I will state without fear of contradiction that I have known Tom and Cara for the better part of my life. Um I cannot tell you when we met or how we met. It's just a given um that we have known each other for many many years. um Serena and I uh became acquainted when I was running Toro University and I remember being wildly impressed with her and I'm a great fan of your mother. So please tell her that for me. So I am just delighted with the caliber and quality of the people that have applied and that are our finalists. And at this time I will entertain that motion. Miss Pinsky. Thank you Madame Mayor. Uh there is one candidate uniquely situated to hit the ground running as a council person. Commissioner Casama is soon approaching her third year seated on our planning commission. Wellversed in making the very difficult land use decisions we do every day in this building and on a firstname basis with many of our staff members. She would need minimal onboarding and would make the most of the very limited time available to the caretaker. In every way, she appropriately reflects the people of Ward 2. Raised in the ward and even a graduate of the local high school, Faith Lutheran. Her ancestry would mark another council first. She would be the first Japanese American council person to serve on this esteemed body. Madame Mayor, I move to elevate City of Las Vegas planning commissioner Serena Kasama to the W 2 vacancy as caretaker and councilwoman. Thank you so much. Shall we vote? Please post. Your motion fails. Madame Mayor, I do have um another motion to make for the council to entertain. Oh, do you need to make comments? Go ahead. Um, I'll let our colleague make a comment before my motion. Thank you. I I echo the sentiments of my colleagues. I think we had 57 amazing applicants. So, personally, narrowing down the applicant pool was hard for me because I know many of them. And I think the the three finalists, as everybody has said, could easily step in. Um I actually the the person that really struck me is actually the person that I know least well. Um and you know what struck me about this the candidate is uh they are a have been a lifelong nonregistered uh part or nonpartisan person which I think you know reflects where we are as a valley and I think that what I love about the city council is truly we have worked together in a very nonpartisan manner. we all put the city of Las Vegas first. And so this person has been a nonpartisan since they've been um old enough to vote. The second thing that struck me is um in talking to the person, they shared that, you know, their hope. We've been talking a lot about being a caretaker, but they said something when we were in an interview with them in which they shared, you know, I want the people of War II to hope to be able to say at the end of this period that they have been represented. And that really struck me because I think we've been thinking about someone just as a caretaker maybe not being as engaged, kind of staying the course. And so this person really sort of suggested that they're really going to be there representing their the people of War II. so that those people feel like they've truly have not missed a beat and have had good representation. And finally, the person is willing to um take this on full-time, which I think a lot of us came into this role thinking maybe we could um you know, have a a side gig or keep teaching, but really this is a full-time job even beyond that because it's 24/7 answering emails and calls at 10 p.m. or 7 a.m. And so, um the person I would like to nominate is Cara Kelly because she has said that she would do this full-time. um is a nonpartisan which I think reflects the the sentiment of the valley and war and truly is willing to um make sure her her the residents are represented. Thank you so much. And I will now entertain your motion. Yes, madame mayor. Um I just also want to clarify since some people said about the length and breadth of time that they've known the candidates. I think um I know Tom Warden going back because of how long I've been on the council. That's kind of where our path started across. Then Serena came on board with planning commission three years ago. And Cara Kelly is the least uh well-known commodity to me. Um and so uh with that, I'm going to move to appoint Cara Kelly to the W 2 um caretaker role um on behalf of their residents. All right. Thank you so much. Shall we vote? Sorry about that. Please post. Motion carries. Congratulations, Carara. Yes. Thank you all very, very much. We appreciate your commitment to our community. Carara, I'm going to put you on the spot. Would you like to say a few words? Can I say one thing? Oh, madam mayor, real quick, and I apologize. There's just there's some parents in the audience and I think you should be incredibly proud. Absolutely so proud. So, just wanted to say that. Thank you, Madam Mayor. And I'm so glad you made those comments because I have a parent listening from another state. So, thank you very much. I appreciate uh Commissioner Brun, I mean, Councilwoman Brun uh the comments that you made because um the the service part is very important to me and I am going to be dedicating most of my time to to serving this ward. I want to thank you all for your vote of confidence and I completely echo u I met Serena for the first time today but Tom and I I've known each other I think 35 years. I first met him when I was the Ned Day Memorial Scholarship winner uh and I was able to intern at channel 8 and Tom was there. Um, I'm I I am honored to be uh amongst this group and uh humbled by your vote of confidence in me. Uh, and I stand ready to help and with ears open so that you can write me when I'm I'm uh still trying to find the bathroom. So, I thank you very much. Thank you so much. Now, just for your own frame of reference, you will be sworn in at the special me uh special city council meeting on September 30th. Okay. 30th and um and you are welcome to bring friends and family with you at that time to watch the swearing in. Okay. Thank you very much. All right. And thank you again, Cara. We're all looking forward to working with you. Thank you very much. [Applause] We will now move to agenda item 43. discussion for possible action to designate municipal court marshall as a critical labor shortage position for a two-year period beginning September 18th, 2025 through September 17, 2027. This affects all wards. Oh, hello. Please identify yourself for the record. Good morning, mayor. Good morning, council members. Uh, for the record, Sue Brown, human resources deputy director. So the item before you today is a request for us to designate the municipal court marshall position as a critical labor shortage position. Um to provide a little bit of background, a critical labor shortage or CLS um designation would allow a PERS retiree to return to work in a CLS position and collect a paycheck without jeopardizing their retirement benefits. Um, under NRS 286.523, CLS designation determinations must first be discussed in an open meeting by the designating authority. If it's approved, we will submit the information to PERS and the designation will remain valid for two years. And as a reminder, the municipal court marshall position was previously already approved as a CLS position um in August 2023. So, this is a renewal. Um, as you can see in the backup materials, municipal court marshals are category 1 peace officers. And one of the challenges that we face is how long it takes to recruit, um, select and train the new employee. The recruitment process includes a full background investigation, medical examination, physical agility testing, polygraph, drug testing, and psychological suitability assessment. On average, a full recruitment cycle takes about 6 to 8 months. Once the person is hired, the new recruit must also complete a six-month academy followed by 27 weeks of field training before they can fully serve as a court marshal. So, a CLS designation would allow us the flexibility to quickly hire somebody to fill the gaps while we continue with the long-term recruitment goals. And will that with that, I'll hand it over to Hans. So, would you identify yourself for the record? Yeah, my name is Hance Jessup. I'm the court administrator for the municipal court. Uh council members and mayor, thank you for having us over here. Uh this is an item that really bolsters our ability to continue to recruit and fully staff the municipal court. It is supported by myself and our chief judge who's here uh with us as well. Uh and we would encourage your uh support of this effort. All right. Thank you so much. Are there any questions or comments from members of the city council? Yes, go ahead. Thank you. I'm just curious if you have an idea as to how long we're going to have this designation and if there's anything else. Oh yeah, but beyond the two years because this is our second time of doing that. So if there's anything else we need to do beyond what's currently happening now. So I'll I'll answer that strategically. This is for us uh another arrow in our quiver when we run into the inability to fill these positions. um uh our last recruit that we were able to run through wasn't able to complete the academy and so now we have almost a year's gap to re-recruit for that position and ultimately fill a position. So this gives us that arrow in the quiver. Um it's that's kind of a non-answer for you, but our hope is that if we run into those types of situations in the future that this is another arrow in our quiver that we can bring back before the city council and utilize when that need arises. I think a better way for me to ask the question is are there other arrows in the quiver that you need? I think this is it. Uh the there's ongoing negotiations and things of that nature, but this is that that quiver that we would need to keep our ourselves fully staffed in that position. And yes, thank you for uh being here. Can you I I did not Can you explain or just tell us how many folks on your staff are previous law enforcement who are in retirement? Um through you mayor at this time none. Um municipal court marshall did receive designation as a CLS position two years ago but so far we have not had to use it. Um this renewal will allow us the flexibility to use it if we need to. Thank you. That's good to know. Okay, we're good. All right, Mayor Prom, uh, can we have a motion? Move to approve. Okay. Shall we vote? Please post motion car. Oh, did you want to change that? Yes. I'm sorry, can we please change my vote? You have to do it on your mic. Okay. Thank you. Um motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. We will now hear agenda item 10. Discussion for possible action regarding the annual review of city manager Mike Jansen. Mr. Jansen. Good morning. Mayor Berkeley, members of city council. Mike Jansen, city manager. Um, let me start off by saying a year ago I was here and I told city council then that uh that was the fastest year of my life and I will tell you that this year was even faster and the reason for that speed of a year is because what we accomplish as a team on a daily, weekly, monthly basis is incredible. Uh, I will tell you this is not a job for the faint of heart, but I will also tell you this is a job that is incredibly rewarding. And what I'll share with you today is what I think are some of the really rewarding things that we as a city have been able to accomplish as a team. And I'll tell you, uh, no city can accomplish things without a great team. I had our finance team run a quick report yesterday. I wanted to know how many employees were working for the city as of yesterday, and the number was 3,562 employees. What I'll tell you is our accomplishments start with every level of the city. From our hourly employees to our entry level employees, our supervisors, our managers, our directors, the city manager's office, the city attorney, the city auditor, and all of you. Um, we accomplish things because we have a great team. And so with that, setting the table for today's presentation. Um, I want to start off with really, um, tried to look at the last year and review. And, uh, so many good things I could bring to you. I could probably have a list of top 100, but I said for time sake, um, here's the top 25 that I think happened this past year in review. This time last year, I was sitting here. I completed my eval last year. And, uh, later in that agenda was an item to um, move the Las Vegas Museum of Art forward, a $200 million investment, 90,000 square foot museum. And that project was formally moved forward with the transfer of city-owned land in Symphony Park. I'm going to talk a little bit more about this particular project in some upcoming slides, but to me that was a really big day for us. A few weeks later, we had another incredibly big day for us. We were notified of an award of $50 million in partnership with the housing authority for a choice neighborhood grant awarded by HUD that's going to help fund 627 new affordable and market rate housing units as part of an overall $326 million redevelopment of Marble Manor. That was one of those projects where everyone at the federal, state, and local level came together and we presented to the HUD team. We told them how important this project was to our community and lo and behold some time later we were notified we like your project too. We like your team. We're going to support you on this. So a really big day for our community. Another big milestone that came up later in that month we were notified by the US Department of Treasury that we were going to be allocated $60 million in new market tax credits secured by our economic and urban development department for what's known as our Las Vegas Community Investment Corporation. We had not gotten any new market tax credits since 2018. So this was a significant moment for the city. These are dollars that are very important for the stacking on a project. They're part of the capital stack that oftentimes can make a project happen or not. Few weeks later, we had another significant day really tied to our Civic Plaza project where we brought to you a Chamber of Commerce long-term lease. As we know, the Chamber of Commerce represents businesses. Businesses are the lifeblood of our community and it's great to have our neighbor across the street in Civic Plaza building 2 with the Las Vegas Chamber representing I think right now it's over 6,000 businesses. Couple months later we had a really big item here. I spent a lot of hours working with Councilwoman Pollinsky on this particular project. This is the Sky Summit development agreement with Olympia Homes. I'll talk a little bit more about this project in an upcoming slide, but the key points are 3,500 new homes are going to be coming to about 500 acres in an area of Ward 4 that has very significant infrastructure challenges. Um, this project at buildout is going to have an impact on our community of about $3 billion. Another significant moment in time for us was bringing forward a two-year CEA contract representing our largest bargaining unit, 1,211 employees. That contract was ratified. Few months later, our next largest uh contract came before you. That's a two-year contract with Las Vegas Fire and Rescue representing 711 of our employees. Maybe the biggest moment in time for the city this past year happened on the 19th of March, and that is when the Badlands litigation was officially over and done with. And with that completion of that litigation was a redevelopment of the old golf course by LAR. that'll be bringing,480 homes to that redevelop course with that master plan's economic impact at buildout exceeding over a billion dollars. And I'm going to talk a little bit more about this in an upcoming slide. Again, I want to take a moment just to recognize this project. Um, I was lucky enough to be under RFP to uh consider proposals for this piece of land. And in that RFP, Elaine Wyn came in and explained to our team her vision for this project. And I can only tell you the team was stunned and just so appreciative of the work that her and her team did to bring this project to us. It's going to be something else. I mentioned the Choice Neighborhood Grant and on our agenda today was a supporting item where we are participating in this project with some green space. That's the green space you see right here. This is looking at the redeveloped Marble Manor concept approximately at J Street in Washington. The city has a very important piece of this project. Again, a great partnership. It's going to be just overall a tremendous project for our community. Talk a little bit about that Sky Canyon project. And as you see, this is at the most western edge of the city. It's way up along essentially right up against Red Rock National Conservation Area. And uh what these developers are going to do is they're going to spend an awful lot of money to bring infrastructure to make this project a reality. But it's going to be a really nice project with a 20 acre park with some supportive commercial and some really nice housing units that are going to continue to meet the needs of our community. This next one here, the Badlands litigation, um you know, the closure of that, but the the flip side of it is this project by LAR. And what I want to point out here is 250 acres of land that really did nothing for us for a really long time is now going to have an economic impact of over a billion dollars. This project has no commercial associated with it. And what that means is all of the commercial developments that are on the other side of the street in what's known as Bokeh Park, they are going to have thousands of new customers. and how wonderful that is for new neighbors in the neighborhood having great uh services across the street where they can um help them out. Couple more milestones to point out. Uh March 19th we had an auction that secured a 36 million bid from LAR for Cashman Field to bring what we believe will be somewhere around 1500 units of workforce housing. Um and their master plan at that level is going to have an impact exceeding $650 million and point out uh this would be for redevelopment field as well as the adjacent Grant Sawyer State Office complex. Lenar also has an option to buy that property with the state and I know Lenar has been working diligently trying to get a plan that uh meets the needs of the city, addresses counciloman Summers Armstrongs. I know you guys had a good meeting and um they are on target to have a plan that they'll bring back that we want to try to get them on the October planning commission because the uh closure of this property is dependent really on uh the entitlements that would go with both sites. I have to point out April 30th um I think it's fair to say Mayor Berkeley's first state of the city address held in Reynolds Hall was a rousing success. We had not had an off-site um state of the city uh as long as I can remember. And uh uh kudos to our communications team, our special events team, and the entire Smith Center team. Uh it was a really enjoyable night. Uh in May, we had a three-year franchise agreement that came before you with AMR, and uh that had significant changes to help us see improved response times, including the addition of BLS units. And I know we had a lot of dialogue on these BLS uh units, but the most important part of that is these units are in addition to and not in lie of the ILS and ALS units. Uh they're focused on those lower acuity calls. The call I like to share is where fire department gets a call and there's an individual in a handicap chair and the battery went out. That is a call for lower acuity needs. Um uh and as Chief Gray has been keeping you, uh notified month-to-month, we've had some very uh solid improvements on from AMR as it relates to response times. 521 Workforce Connections. Uh if you've met Haime Cruz, he's uh he's your friend for life from when you meet him. Uh Haime is a terrific leader for Workforce Connections. They will be our neighbor across the street also in a long-term lease, bringing another great tenant to Civic Plaza. June 3rd is an an important day for our state. uh signed die at the 83rd legislative session. It ended with the city having what I would say was a very successful session with most issues of primary importance having a good outcome. Not all of them, but most of them. And a couple of the big ones were a way for us to support more redevelopment on transit oriented corridors. Uh a lot of the discussion we talked about on Medicaid reimbursement for our recuperative care center funding related to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department as well as uh our transportation funding. July 16th, we were here with uh Nevada State University's team. Another big day for us to move the downtown campus lease agreement forward to bring a juvenile allied health education center and clinic to the medical district. On that same agenda, another really big project for our city, one we've been working on for a while, one that was definitely tricky. Desert Pines's redevelopment moves forward with the developer MBS bringing 1,500 affordable and market rate homes to a redeveloped golf course. That master plan is going to have an economic impact that build out over $600 million. I'll talk a little bit about that on an upcoming slide. And here is that slide. So, we're all familiar with the old Desert Pines golf course. Uh this project is going to meet so many needs for the community. Uh and up in the upper right corner, you'll see that not a part. I'll point out what that not a part is is our next uh education and training center partnership with CSN. That is going to be the East Las Vegas Education and Training Center. And I'm extremely happy to announce that just yesterday we were notified that we're getting a $5 million grant uh from the EDA and uh again that's uh the whole team just got behind that project and another great win. But bottom line is this is going to be a terrific project for the city, a terrific project for Ward 3. Continuing down through the year on what's been happening, um July 28th, a really big day for the city. That's when S&P affirmed our bond rating A+ signifying the city's strong financial health and proactive financial management. Without that bond rating, when we issue a bond for parks, for sewers, for roads, you name it, we'd be paying a whole lot more in interest. And so that was a really important day for our team and kudos to our CFO and our entire finance team for showing S&P how well we work to ensure that our finances are where they need to be. Just uh not too long ago, July 30th, we had a groundbreaking for a 500 space arts district garage. Without that garage, continued development can't happen. It's a huge piece of the puzzle. Uh I'll say a few words about that on an upcoming slide. On August 6th, uh, another really big day for us, a project we've been working on for many, many years. The purchase and sale agreement was approved to move the Upper Las Vegas Wash project with Olympia forward. That project would bring 6,000 new homes with a master plan economic impact at buildout, exceeding $5 billion. On August 12th, we uh went live with a $10 million bio health innovation challenge that's been launched to establish and operate a biosciences incubator lab in the medical district. Very exciting moment for us to make that commitment from our redevelopment agency. Uh uh put that awareness out there to country um u businesses across the world that are in this space as a way to um see that expansion into the medical district on August 14th. It's another really big day for the city. What's known as zone 2 of Area 15 opens at what I call the entertainment campus of Area 15. Um the Fiser family has referred to that site. Similarly, over 15 million visitors have arrived in less than 5 years since it opened. And if you remember all the land or area 15 was, I got to tell you, there wasn't much happening over there. This has been a really significant project for the city. On the 18th, another project we collectively worked with the state on, and that is our recuperative care center expansion project. It broke ground. It's going to bring 76 beds and will also provide for a second floor mental health unit space. August 27th was a really special day for the city, a project we started four years ago. Um, I have to mention two names, John Edmonds and Dr. Sarra Goza. um four years ago it was just a line in the sand, a concept, an idea and we opened it up and this facility for many, many years to come will be training and educating so many of our citizens. September 4th was another big day for us this year, a project that's been also been in the works for many, many years. That's when Civic Center Plaza was officially open, completing our city hall campus. And uh as we discussed that day, um that is a campus that took many many years to realize, but we got it done. This one here is a kind of a a capture of 9424 through 9425, $41.4 million in federal grant awards in that period, including a 19 million SNIPMA grant. As we've seen over the years, when a new administration comes in at the federal level, that first year of their administration is not necessarily the best year for getting grants because it takes a while for all the new leadership to get into their roles and start rolling out the opportunities for federal grants. I think year two, year three of that administration, we'll have a whole lot more chances to try to bring that federal fund up. I'll I'll mention a little bit on this uh Snoopa Mcgrant in a few uh 98 something that is really important for us. Uh it's an investment in our employees. We brought on board our behavioral health clinician. This is a pilot position. This is a position that we heard from Sheriff McMahill how well these clinicians have been able to help his staff deal with various things in life that happens on jobs that uh certainly have their share of trauma. Um, this behavioral health clinician is going to join our existing three behavioral health administrators and it's just really furthering our wellness program investments for all of our city staff. I mentioned that arts district garage. I will tell you when we do a garage, there's a lot of ways to do a garage. This was one where we work closely with the community with the artists. This is going to have space for artists. It's going to have all kinds of murals and art features that really makes it fit in well to the arts district. But what it's really going to do is it's going to allow some of those lots today that are paved to go vertical. And so again, it's a it's a it's a it's a partnership with the community. I mentioned the Upper Las Vegas Wash project. Not an easy project in any way, shape, or form, but uh again uh with a long-term partnership with Olympia, this is going to be a great project. Build out economic impact of $5 billion. A quick shot of the recuperative care center. We always talk about how we work with the homeless at every level. Some of our homeless, they get serviced at a hospital for a wound, for a cut, for a broken leg. They get released onto the street and they don't have a chance to heal and they're right back in that emergency room. What our recuperative care center does, it allows them to have an extended day period so that they can heal and get back into the community. The success of our initial facility led us to this larger one that we just broke ground on. And I mentioned the SNIPMA grant. U we have secured since Snipema was allocated back in 2002 over $300 million for our parks and recreation facilities. This particular round we got this 19.3 million grant. We talk all all the time about how how our soccer fields are so heavily used by our community. This project's going to add four more to Betty Wilson Park, which by far is probably one of the busiest parks we have. And it's going to be a great addition to the community. I attached to the presentation that I handed out to all you guys yesterday just some key statistics that I won't be able to hit them all today, but I wanted you to see in front of you some of the things that our departments do. They're so diverse in their roles and responsibilities, but really they're the engine that uh runs our city with just what happens day-to-day. So, today I'm just going to hit on a couple of them. I really want to talk a moment about the fire and rescue statistics. You'll see here that the unit responses to calls for service was very consistent with FY24. But the real important piece behind that data set is because we implemented the contract ambulance service, our units, our Las Vegas fire and rescue units who are truly the most trained of all of our uh options for dealing with these calls. They were able to respond to those higher acuity calls, those P1s and P2s with the cast system and our AMR franchise taking care of the lower acutity ones. As you see here, CAST significantly growed this year, 28% more than what did last year. Really important part of the fire department's uh uh team is how we deal with those crisis response calls. And as you'll see here, the CAST team uh embedded into that effort is almost 6,000 calls that were crisis response related directly related to mental health. What's important to note here is we've recently integrated licensed clinical social worker into our dispatch center and that social worker is able to take a call and determine is this a call that we should send to CRT? Is this a call we could send to AMR to kind of determine what that need is and so again that resource allocation is improved by adding that resource into the overall ecosystem. On the public safety side, uh Chief Pototts has had uh tremendous success with his team working citywide to keep our parks safe, to keep all of our public spaces safe. You'll see here close to 60,000 responses in calls for service. That's a 31% increase over last year. Um they made a significant number of arrests. Uh no surprise we have 25 million people a year on Fremont Street and sometimes uh someone gets out of hand and uh the marshals do a great job trying to deal with some of those folks but overwhelmingly Fremont Street is a safe place because our marshalss in our partnership with Sheriff McMahill have done a great job to keep it that way. Uh there are those uh incidents that require citations. You'll see a significant increase on the citation side. On our animal protection services side, there was a slight dip in the responses. And what I'll tell you is last year's budget, we approved some vehicles for these officers and there was a real delay in getting them. So, we had some downtime on vehicles for our officers to hit the street. I anticipate this number will be significantly higher next year. And I have to mention all the work that's done by the sheriff's team and our team. Sometimes it ends up with uh detention center is seeing an increased population. You'll see here our jail team had over 507 inmates a day on average. That was 24% more than the prior year. I want to catch a few things that I know uh we talk about a lot about our homeless programs. And I will tell you, I don't know what we would do without the courtyard. You'll see this first statistic at the top. The courtyard provided shelter and services to over 14,000 unduplicated people, near a 10% increase from the prior year. Right adjacent to it, the health and wellness center that we built, 84% increase over the prior year on unduplicated folks taking advantage of those medical services. I mentioned the recuperative care center earlier. It's covering that niche for those extended care periods of time. A piece that's so important to the overall ecosystem is our arrow shuttle. Close to 5,000 people have used that service to help them get stabilized for a variety of services. Significant increase over the prior year. and our more teams we we capture encounters because what we found is for most people that they meet on the street. Um they need about six, seven encounters before that individual sort of feels the trust and is willing to take that help. Again, an important part of what we do. We have talked as a community about how it is so hard for people to afford a house right now in anywhere in Southern Nevada. And I want to just really put out some kudos to Arcelia and her team for moving the needle forward on so many affordable housing projects. They've come to all of you with these projects to gain your support. And as you see here just in a snapshot, it's 1,739 units that our team has played a role in moving affordable housing projects affordable uh and moving them forward. Our youth development social initiatives team, educating and workforce development. I pulled a few of these out of here. I really want to just mention today the safety program. It's our 40th anniversary of providing before and after school services. And you'll see it's over 8,000 kids at 70 elementary schools that have been able to take advantage of that. And on the workforce training side, I want to head down to where you see EDA funded mobile culinary academy. That program with the support from Jeff's chef, Chef Jeff, and a whole bunch of others is training our kids how to get a job in the food industry, maybe one day to have a food truck of their own. And it's just so important to give folks a chance to learn a trade. And certainly on the culinary side, a lot of opportunities there. On the park side, this should this shouldn't come as a surprise. Folks love our parks. Our citizen survey showed it. You'll see the growth continues to happen at our parks. The the key indicator on this is we use a tool called Placer AI that's able to track anonymously how many people are in a park through their phones. Uh we don't have that tool at all of our parks, but we compared 60 of them this year and last, and you'll see we're over 14 million people using our parks. Similar at our facilities, all of our rec centers, we use ID scans when uh members come in, near half a million, and that continues to grow. We keep uh growing our festival attendance, and I have to point out something near and dear to all of you. Um special events for your wards, 507 events this year. Uh kudos to the entire special events team. And on the technology side, our parks team on the maintenance, they rolled out a new system to better manage their work orders. Close to 16,000 work orders were done. And what you'll see there is mostly graffiti related and irrigation system repairs. We don't exist without our HR team. You'll see here in the past year, over 800 new employees they helped us bring to the city along with over 300 promotions. We also focus a lot on the wellness of our existing employees as you see there with that data. On our EUD side, we talked about a number of the projects, but this is really the big one. When they come to you as the RDA board, they bring you a variety of incentive agreements, DDAs, PSAs, and leases. At the end of the day, it's all about what did we leverage our assets, whether it's our programs, land we own to get private investment dollars. And in the last year, what's come before you, $362 million came from that side of the house. And uh again, what they do on the parking side is is really impressive. strategic services. This is something that I think not everyone realizes what happens at the city on a daily basis. Our customer call center gets an incredible amount of calls from citizens looking for help and they take that call and they get them to the right folks at the city. Over a 100,000 calls were handled in the last fiscal year. They also taking payments and um again another key feature of this team is our smart lab. Many of our employees want to learn how they can do their job better and our process improvement training is helping them do that. Uh Hans was here earlier today with the item related to the critical fill position. Um just wanted you to see just what the level of uh visitation is to the MUN court. Um it's it's significant. As we uh get to the end of the last few slides, uh uh Lann and her team do great jobs for all of our public meetings. But what you may not realize is they also have a huge portion of our records. And you'll see here just the effort from our records and public records request. You'll see thousands of them come through. Sometimes that's not always remembered. That's task that also come into Luan shop. We had a really extended briefing not too long ago on all things community development. So none of these items are surprising to you. But the one that stands out to me is when we talk about as a city 25,000 permits with a valuation over $2.3 billion. That's not easy to run that role, but that's a good problem to have. There's a lot of cities that don't have anything like that. We have some serious investment happening. And Mayor Prom, we talk a lot about how important code enforcement is. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention 9,000 cases by our code enforcement team. Um it's a significant quality of life piece that our team does. David is all over. Uh we had a really significant anniversary this year, 25 years with our TV station going from KCLV, the city of Las Vegas TV. But you might also not realize a lot of the work that their team does is how can they get the city's message out to the world and we are amongst one of the most known cities in the world because of our social media team. We also use their skills to try to drive more people to some of our programs, particularly our senior citizen related programs. Um and they also help us on trying to boost recruitments for various public safety. Mayor Promi asked about the quiver for Hans and his team. This is part of it is using social media to try to reach folks that are interested in public safety jobs. As Hans noted, we did not have to use that tool today for the last two years, but it's an option. But strategies like this are helping us fill some of those vacancies. You all know uh that I have a little bit of a bias for public works. Uh spent just a few days in that group. um their numbers are off the charts. Over a billion dollars in uh CIP projects this past fiscal year. Again, a billion dollars. Uh it's a massive, massive load. But it's all the other stuff that is most uh important to your citizens in your ward. It's changing the uh over 8,000 street lights that needed to be repaired or replaced. It's doing work orders for our facilities, for our employees to work in. It's the work that our sewer treatment plant does to make sure more water goes back to Lake Meade. It's all over the place. Um, and they have such a huge part of the quality of life of our community. I mentioned earlier our double A rating from our finance team. Uh, again, the stuff that our finance team is incredible, but that top one's the most important. Successfully resolve badland settlement without any workforce reductions. And, uh, I'll leave the rest to you all on that. Our government affairs was uh really active uh during this session. Uh and we talked earlier about just those things that uh were wins for us this year. Our team is up in DC this week trying to grow those relationships with the new leadership with some of the new staff at the various agencies so that they get to know what the city does. So hopefully when we apply for a grant they'll remember us and I'm confident that the team we have up there is going to grow those relationships. Emergency management I talked about last year about how important they are to us for those bad days. For those days we don't want something bad to happen, but this is the team that preps us for it. You may not know they work with the businesses downtown to coordinate how we can recover together in the event of an incident. I can only tell you their work again preps us for those days we hope don't happen. On our IT side, all of you have a computer at the city. All of your staff do. You might not realize they get over 50,000 calls saying, "I need help. My uh something isn't working." And they do a great job resolving those, but they do so many other other things that you may not be aware of. Look at the upgrade they did on Wi-Fi at all of our fire stations. Fire department has to make a decision, and if the network is slow, that means their response time is going to be slower. That is an upgrade that's going to pay us a whole lot of dividends. And the last one at the bottom, Cclick Fix is a tool that our citizens use. It's going to allow citizens to much more easily report if they see a homeless encampment so that we can go out there and help those citizens get the services they need. Last slide that I have is really just to talk to you about what's coming up in the next couple of months that I'm pretty excited about. Saturday, we have our employee picnic in the civic plaza. We have over 1,400 folks already registered. I think it's going to be probably one of the biggest employee picnics we've ever had. We have that special council meeting, mayor, that you noted earlier. Uh really important day for us as a city uh in October. Very important day. We're going to be opening up a new substation in partnership with Sheriff McMahill for the growing Sky Canyon Providence neighborhood. Um Mayor Proen, you asked about this last budget cycle. You asked Chief Pototts, Chief, we need to get a volunteer program. Well, we have a volunteer program that's going to be going live in November. It'll be up and running. And the source of many of those volunteers are from the Citizens Police Academy. something that I'm really excited to bring to you at council. That'll be in December, the CIP award for the veterans memorial at Thunderbird Park. Our fire training center is going to see a huge investment in January. I believe in the fourth quarter of this year, we'll probably be issuing the first permit to the Boring Company. That permit will be linking the LVCVA campus to the Strat. That's permit number one. We'll complete the campus of the Ninth Bridger School in quarter 1. Um, we will be in partnership with the library district opening an incredible new library, uh, the West Las Vegas library. And what I will tell you, mayor and council, is that project would not have happened without the city. We provided the land, we providing new market tax credits, and we also purchased the old library so that we can quadruple the size of our West Las Vegas Arts Center. A serious partnership project that's going to be great for the community. Something that was just on the planning commission the other night. Uh, it's All right, wrapping up the last couple of months for the CFO uh Rich Hogan for Metro District uh is this 911 joint center and it's going to be a great addition to this the community, but certainly it's going to be in Ward 4. Um and our bio health challenge grant, we want to see that awarded around the second quarter of 2026. So with that, mayor and council, I' I think we've shared this before. This is what that um uh new substation is going to look like. uh that's so important to our high growth areas of the city. And I'm going to end with this. The uh veterans memorial, this is a special project. Um and it's something that uh it could have ended up in different places, but it's staying in the city and it's go to it's going to be at a place that uh I think um we'll uh we'll really enjoy having it. And so, mayor and council, with that, I can only tell you um I appreciate your support throughout the year. Um, it's been a very enjoyable process getting to know you, Mayor Berkeley, and uh, Councilwoman Summers Armstrong I've known for 25 plus years. And so, um, we've been having some great convos in her new role. So, again, um, happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you so much, um, Mr. Jansen. And now, I I will entertain any questions or comments from our city council members. Comment. Go right ahead. It seems like Mr. Jansen wants to really document and support why he's worth every penny we pay him in the city. Um, but uh I just want to say Mike that it has been amazing to have you at the helm as our city manager. You are one of our very few key employees and the all of us lean on you to make sure that there's no balls that are dropped, that emergency crises are addressed and that we are always looking forward but making sure that everything in the present is the best. um moving forward into that future that we're all trying to be prepared for. Um you're responsive, you are communicative, um respectful, uh diligent. I can't give you more adjectives to say that I'm super pleased uh with how you have been managing the business. You're very entrenched and very knowledgeable about everything city of Las Vegas. And so I hope that we're going to get many more years out of you. um because this is your annual eval, but I'm optimistic that you'll want to stay on board with us um leading the charge uh with all of these amazing exciting projects that are just getting underway. Thank you so much and um looking forward to continuing to do the good work for our city. Thank you, council. Would anybody else care to comment? Minsky. Thank you, Madame Mayor. Uh, Mike, you have been a great steward of the city of Las Vegas in your two years as city manager. I'm proud of you. I'm proud of the work we've done together. I'm proud of this council uh for so wisely choosing you. Uh, moving forward, I would support whatever you're asking for in um, uh, reasonably asking for in monetary remuneration. As you know, our budget constraints better than anybody else. Uh, but thank you for your service and I look forward to continuing to serving with you, Miss Brunie. Thank you, Mayor. I would also echo the comments of my colleagues, particularly Councilman Diaz, because I do feel like you you're so fair and fair across the different wards in terms of balancing our projects and have been incredibly responsive. I also think that you I also say about the city that the city's a great place to work and the city's so innovative and everybody on the team when we ask them to do things they always try to find a way to say yes or find a way to make it work and I believe that starts with our leader and you have set a tone for being thorough and trying to find a way to say yes um to help the city to respond to us. So, thank you for that. And like Councilman Leah said, I hope we have many more years with you. Thank you so much, Miss Summers Armstrong. I just want to say thank you. Um, we have known each other a long time. I was at the RTC for 26 years and I tell people all the time, you don't stay in a job that you don't like if you have a choice. um and I had choices and it was a great experience and I think that when we see people here at the city staying and they have longevity um it's a reflection of leadership and corporate culture and the culture here for people to be smart and kind and committed um has to be supported from us first and then you trickled that down and I'm I'm just happy to see that um that is happening um and I hope to work with you well over the next uh several years, as long as you want to do this. Um to continue to ensure that the voices of our employees are heard. Um the people who are rendering service to our community is heard at the very beginning of all that we do so that we can be assured that our citizens are getting the service that they need. that the kind, committed and and caring uh is surely exemplified to them um through our employees with your support. So, thank you. And before we entertain the motion, um uh Mr. city manager. I did not know you until I became or before I became mayor of the fabulous city of Las Vegas, but I can say without fear of contradiction, it has been not only my great pleasure to get to know you, but an even greater pleasure to work with you. I cannot imagine any other trait um that I would be looking for that you don't already possess. Um, and I look forward to working with you for many years into the future. And with that, Mayor Prom, I will entertain a motion. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I have a few comments. The first one is is you started off with 3,562 employees. On behalf of those employees, your PowerPoint presentations are too long. Just wanted to put it out there. You said you said 25 bullet points. I lost count at 50. uh you you've been a great partner and I I come up with some wild ideas and I know I'm creating a lot of drama at least for the medical district and I am just very very proud of the fact that you're right next to me cuz I think you'll keep me in line. You won't let me go out of line and I think you've done that for this council. Um but for those 3500 35 3,562 employees, he represents you well. Um and he he's always supportive of you, every single one of you. And it's down to the people who are cleaning up our parks to the to the directors that are sitting over here. He is the most supportive city manager and he is an advocate for every single one of you. He's an advocate for the city and it is a real honor and privilege just to to work with you. I I very very much appreciate the fact that you took the the ideas of this council and you're working really hard to make them come to fruition and you have your own ideas and you're working really hard to make those come to fruition. You make the city a better place and this city for me feels like a family. Um but we are the 19th largest city in the country and that is a that is a big city. So, congratulations on being the city manager of the 19th largest city in the country. And I would make a motion. Uh we're going to mirror the what we did for the city attorney if that's okay. Um although your PowerPoint presentation was much longer. Uh what we did for the city attorney was a 4% merit, a 3.3% cola, and 3 weeks of administrative leave. if you're okay with that. Mayor and council, uh I I've uh so enjoyed uh my career at the city and uh this was not a job was on my radar and uh it's turned into just a really wonderful time for me. Uh we have a great team. Um I would have loved to have kept that PowerPoint at 20 minutes, but I felt how important it was to recognize all of our departments because they do so much. Some of it much more noticeable than others. and um I appreciate the support you've given me in the last two years and uh look forward to continuing to work with you. Thank you so much. Shall we vote? Please post. Motion carries unanimously. [Applause] Before we move to agenda item number 41, we're going to take a five minute break. Just like the shakes me taking my hand up my dreams away. [Music] I feel about where I would be without. Oh, she puts that beat in my chest, pounds like a drum, shakes me like thunder, taking my hand, pulling me up when I [Music] Look in her eyes. She brings me back to life. Oh, [Music] [Applause] not back to life. [Music] [Music] We could leave the Christmas lights up till January. [Music] This is our place. We make the rules. And there's a dazzling haze. A mysterious way about you, dear. 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Thinking I want more than just one night out here with you alone. [Music] We will now hear related items 41 and 45 together. 41 regarding the fair market value of the city of Las Vegas owned vacant real property based on the May 19th, 2025 appraisal report by Southwest Property Consultants in anticipation of the sale and development of 1.21 21 acres located at 1611 West Lake me Boulevard and 1600 Mount uh Mariah Drive. Uh item number 45 R-69-2025 discussion for possible action regarding the resolution finding the disposition and development agreement between the city of Las Vegas and RW Advance LLC concerning the proposed sale of 1611 West Lake me Boulevard and 1600 uh Mount Mariah Drive is in the best interest of the public and to be in compliance with an in furtherance of the goals and objectives of the city. These items are in ward five. Item 41 is a public hearing which I now declare open. Miss Babski. Good morning, mayor. Good morning, city council members. Yes, it's still morning. Um, thank you very much, Dina Babsky, director of uh EU for the city. And before I move on with my presentation, I'd like to welcome our uh guests and partners. Mr. Raphael West, the CEO uh and also Mr. Dean Slo, he is the chief operating officer for RW Advance. Welcome. As you mentioned, mayor, this is a public hearing uh for the disposition of a city-owned parcel at uh 1611 Westlake Meat Boulevard, which appraised at $1.2 million. Um with that said, I'd like to go over a little bit about the neighborhood. Um we all know this is a very busy intersection. There is um a lot of uh fast food types of restaurants. There is some combination of single family detach housing. So, a lot of activity happening. And we as the city have been uh working on redevelopment of the enterprise park for a while now. Um the parcel is currently uh it is vacant land. Uh so it is uh ready for for development. Uh and I know that our partners will will start as soon as possible if we all get your approval today. Um so the concept for this development is a uh casual sit-down restaurant and uh as I mentioned earlier in the presentation this uh this area you know has quite a few drive-thrus. So uh the community uh you know has long has expressed desire for a familyfriendly uh you know casual sitdown restaurant for a while now. So very we're very excited to be able to bring that for your consideration today. The parcel is 1.21 acres uh and it is being uh sold at a below market price uh at $400,000. And the point I'd like to make is uh mayor and city council members, when we sell cityowned assets at a discounted land uh price, it's not because we undervalue the the value of the land, but rather because we're making a strategic investment in the long-term success of the community. As I mentioned, uh, because this concept has been long overdue in this community, we really put an effort in to try to attract our partners. And with that comes, you know, a public participation component. And so this is, uh, where we're, you know, bringing forward for consideration the art undermarket uh, purchase price and hoping that you would um, agree and support. The project will consist of a minimum of 3,500 square ft uh, of a sit-down restaurant. and I'll let our partners talk more about what they envision. The um construction will commence at the end of uh Q 20 quarter 4 of 2026. Um and hopefully we will all get to come to the uh ribbon cutting and have a nice meal in Q3 of 2027. Um very exciting for the community. it will generate 40 to 50 permanent jobs. And I know that our partners are very committed to working with uh with the community specifically on the job creation in the area um and overall economic impact at 8.1 million. With that, I'd like to uh pass the mic over to Mr. West and Mr. Slo and let us know about the project. Hi, Mayor Berkeley. Hi, I'm Raphael Weise and hello council. Uh this is my partner Dean Sloves and uh for the record we are representing RW Advance LLC. Uh first off I'd like to thank everybody for allowing us the honor of being able to partner with the city of Las Vegas and potentially putting a casual dining restaurant in a portion of the city that in my opinion desperately needs it. There are many reasons for that and we may get into that during this uh presentation here. Uh, I'd also like to thank Councilwoman Summers Armstrong. She was fantastic to work with and uh taught us a lot about what was going on within Ward 5 and why specifically casual dining was needed in this portion of your lovely city. Uh, I would also like to thank uh Jonathan King, the EU department, Director Babsky for their assistance throughout this entire process. Uh typically uh I am not used to the DDA process. Normally we just do regular PSAs. So this was a little different for me. It was a nice learning experience. And now that uh I understand the process, I look forward to doing many more projects and partnering with the city on much more. So uh with all that being said, we look forward to creating and uh uh developing a fantastic uh casual dining restaurant for this part of the city. And uh once again, thank you for the opportunity. You're welcome. Is there anyone else wishing to speak on this agenda item? Seeing nobody, is there any member of the city council that would like to um make a comment, Miss Rooney. Thank you, Mayor. Uh congratulations. I will say it's not just Ward 5 that is in dire need of casual dining experiences. That's the number one thing I hear from my residents. So, once you're finished successfully opening your doors in W 5, please come to W six. My pleasure. Miss Oh, uh, Francis Finski. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Um, general question. I own and operate a uh a brickandmortar food establishment myself, and I wondered I don't know anything about Applebee's or their brand. I looked up here on the internet and they're owned by Dine Brands Global which operates as a franchiseor and and owns corporateowned restaurants. This specific unit is it going to be corporate owned or a franchise? So it would actually be a franchise. Uh the franchisee uh is would potentially be Flynn Group. Uh they are one of the largest uh I think the largest uh franchisee uh in the United States. They own many different brands including Applebees. Okay. Thank you. Okay, Miss Summers Armstrong. Thank you, Madame Mayor. And thank you, gentlemen, for being here today and also for meeting with me um and listening to an old lady uh bend your ear about a community that I love to the bottom of my feet um that has um really been in need of this type of an establishment. Um, we talked about training and you talk about jobs and I let you all know that we've got um, you know, the Nevada partners uh, over on Lake Me even though they're in North Las Vegas. We are family and they can help you prepare your clients, your workers to really know how to serve in a culturally competent uh, manner. You've got built-in business. um we go to church and so uh Sundays are going to be a hot day for you all and um I think that'll help you get established um and the opportunity which makes me so excited um two things um opportunities for small businesses to be able to participate um in in this. It's not so huge uh and so we can we will be able to break this up and help our small businesses participate um in this. But also uh Wetsy just opened as uh the city manager uh mentioned earlier and we are working with CSN um hand inand we had a beautiful principal out u principles roundt last week and talking about the opportunities for us to train folks to be able to do work in this community and so I'm looking forward to the partnership a year from now we will probably have people who are going to be ready to work um and I'm looking forward to whatever whatever else you're doing in town that you all will look at us in W five and Wetsy as a place to get skilled workers. Um, and I'm excited. I'm just really excited that we're going to have a place to sit down and eat and enjoy our community. So, thank you. All right. Thank you so much. We do not need a motion on item 41, but we I would entertain a motion on related item 45. Councilwoman, so moved. Shall we vote? Please post. Motion carries. Congratulations, gentlemen. Very excited for you. Thank you very much for that. Thank you. [Applause] Okay. Agenda item 44 has been held in obeyance until the November 5th council meeting. Agenda item 46, boards and commissions. Discussion for possible action regarding the appointment of Rosa Cortez to the board of directors of City Parkway 5 Inc., Las Vegas Medical District Corporation, and Las Vegas Economic Recovery Corporation. Directors hold office until a successor is appointed unless an earlier termination by death, resignation removal disqualification or good cause. Procedure for the boards is appointment by the city council which will fill the vacancies created by the resignation of Steve Ford. The economic and urban development department recommends approval. I move to approve this appointment. Shall we vote? Please post. Motion passes. Agenda item 47. Discussion for possible action regarding the appointment of the youth members of the youth leadership advisory council from the following nominees and city clerk. May I uh invite you to uh state these names for the record? Absolutely. Thank you, Mayor. Eleanor Ray Gumary, the mayor. Khalil Buer, mayor. Cara Mcanen, mayor. Emilia Sai, mayor appointment. Ayana Castro, mayor. Alina Johnson, Ward One. Luca Bennett, Ward One. Aaliyah Burton, Ward One. Jolie Ta Newwin. And I believe we're going to have a statement about Oh, not that one. Um, war two, Ethan Cohen. Ward two. Grayson Gurnie. Ward two. Uh, the next one, Jericho Cruz. Ward three. I believe the director will make a statement. Ganna Kim, w three. Corey Hall. Ward three. Anara Manz. Ward four. Avery Mezerv. Ward four. Jana King. Ward four. Manuela Ruez. Ward five. Khloe Camaria. W six. Timothy Ler. W six. And Aaron McCrainy. W six. Thank you so much. The Youth Leadership Advisory Council was established by the city council action on April 2nd, 2025. Members of the advisory council will serve staggered terms of two academic years. 9th grade members will be appointed for initial terms uh for of four academic years. Members may be reappointed to a consecutive two-year term as long as they are enrolled in high school at the time of appointment. Um, Miss Malage, did you care to comment? Yes. Thank you, madam. Thank you, Madame Mayor, City Council, Dr. Tammy Malage, director of youth development and social initiatives. For the record, I would ask your consideration in this item that Jericho Cruz, an appointee from W three, be excluded from the list. I received uh communication from Jericho's parent last night. That due to his schedule, he does not want to overextend himself. He's on our WAP board and 15 other things, and he doesn't want to make a commitment and let W three down. So, I would ask that you would consider this list without his name. All right. Thank you so much. Okay. With that amendment, I move to approve the appointments. Shall we vote? Please post. Motion carries. [Applause] Agenda item 48. Recommending committee bills eligible for adoption at this meeting. Bill number 2025-34. Councilman Kenudson, would you like to have the bill read? Yes, mayor. Bill number 2025-34, an ordinance to amend LVMC section 9.1630 to adjust the hours during which construction noise is deemed to be a prohibited noise disturbance and to provide further related matters. Move to approve. Please vote. Post. Motion carries. Agenda item 49, new bills. Item 49, bill 2025-35 will be heard at the recommending committee meeting on Monday, October 13, 2025. City attorney, would you read the new bill? Yes, ma'am. Bill number 2025-35, an ordinance to amend various provisions of LVMC Title 7 pertaining to the regulation of pet shops to amend various provisions of LVMC Title 7 to revise and establish penalties for violations of various provisions of title 7 to amend LVMC title 7 chapter 42 by adding a new chapter therein designated as section 35 to prohibit newly licensed pet shops from selling dogs, cats, rabbits, potbellied pigs or guinea pigs and to provide further related matters. Okay. New bill 2025-35 is assigned to the October 13, 2025 recommending committee members, Councilman Kudson and Councilwoman Diaz and Palinski. If if any so designated are unable to attend, the clerk's office will coordinate finding substitutes as necessary at my direction. And I thank you. Agenda item 50. Items 50 through 50B are on the consent agenda, are considered to be routine, and are recommended for approval by the Department of Community Development. Mayor Prom, may I have a motion to approve on the consent agenda? Move to approve the consent agenda. Please vote. Post. Motion carries. [Applause] Items number 51- 56B appear on the one motion, one vote agenda and may be considered in one motion, one vote as they are routine items with no condition changes. any person representing an application or a member of the public or member of the council not in agreement with the conditions and all standard conditions for the applications recommended by staff should request to have that item removed from this portion of the agenda. Item 51 25-0101 uh VR1 applicant University Medical Center of Southern Nevada owner County of Clark at L on a land use entitlement project request to allow the suffix way on a straight north south street where street is required on Willow Street south of wellness way one Mr. Canudson 52 25-0101 SNC1 obeyance item applicant University Medical Center of Southern Nevada owner Clark County at all on a land use entitlement project request from Willow Street to Iare Way extending south of Wellness Way approximately 300 ft again ward 1 Mr. Canudson. Item 53 25-0144- SDR1 applicant Panther Acquisitions LLC owner City Parkway uh five inc land use entitlement project request for a proposed fourthstory 103,200 square feet medical office building including 1500 square feet of commercial space with waiverss of the Symphony Park design standards. on 1.39 acres at the southeast corner of Robin Leech Lane and Prominade Place PD plan development zone ward 5 Miss Summers Armstrong item 54 25-0225 applicant owner International Church of Las Vegas Inc. at all on the following land use entitlement project requests on a 9.69 69 acres on the south side of Cliff Shadows Parkway of Reverends Parkway PD planned development and U under developed PCD planned community development general plan designation zones ward 4 Miss Alan Pollinski item 54A 25-0225-1 from U under develop PCD planned community development general plan designation to PD plan development item 54B 25-0225-VAC1 petition to vacate US government patent easements generally located south of Cliff Shadows Parkway and west of Reverends Parkway and public right of way within the Cheyenne Avenue alignment west of Clark County 215 item 55 25-0277 applicant um Platinum Management Group 6 LLC owner My Charleston Plaza LLC on the following land use entitlement project requests on 0.87 acres at 5100 and 5104 West Charleston Boulevard C1 Limited Commercial Zone Ward 1 Mr. Canudson 55A 25-0277 uh-sup1 for a proposed gaming establishment restricted use one to five machines 55B 25-277-up 2 for a proposed 2800 square foot alcohol offremise full use 56 25- 0278 applicant owner GMD Properties LLC for possible action on the following land use entitlement project request on 0.69 69 acres on the west side of 10th Street, approximately 205 uh 205 ft north of Stewart Avenue. Uh T5-N T5 neighborhood zone ward 5, Miss Summers Armstrong, 56A 25-0278-VAC1, petition to vacate a portion of a public alley south of Mosquite Avenue between 9th Street and 10th Street. And finally 56B 25-0278 SDR1 for a proposed fourstory 36 unit multif family residential development with waiverss of title 19.09 formbbased code development standards. The planning commission and staff recommend approval of all of these items. These are public hearings that I now declare open. Is there anyone wishing to be heard on items 51- 56B? Seeing and hearing none, I now close the public hearing. Mayor Prom, may I have a motion? Move to approve. Shall we vote? Post. Motion passes. Thank you so much. [Applause] Item 57. This item uh is held in obeyance to the October 15th, 2025 city council meeting. Item 58 25-0176. It's a bayance item on the following land use entitlement project request on 4.50 acres at the northeast corner of Harris Avenue and Bruce Street C1 Limited commercial zone. Item 58A 25-0176-V1 obeyance item item to allow a 75- ft residential adjacency setback where 111 ft is required. 50 58B 25-0176-VR2 obeyance item to allow 242 parking spaces where 340 are required. 58 C 25-0176-UP1 Abeayance item for a residential multifamily use item 58D25-0176 SDR1 obeyance item for a proposed threestory 204 unit multifamily residential development with waiverss of the perimeter landscape buffer and building orientation requirements. The applicant owner is for him for life inc. The planning commission recommends approval on the entire land use entitlement project. Staff recommends denial on the entire land use entitlement project. These are in ward three, Miss Diaz and our public hearings which I now declare open. Is the applicant present? Yes, madame mayor. Ricky Barlo for the record. LV access. Um, I'm here standing on behalf of my team and I, uh, looking forward to building a beautiful development in Ward 3, 2222 West Bonanza Road is my address. As I stated, good afternoon, mayor and council, members, thank you for the opportunity to speak today on behalf of the proposed 800 North Bruce Street development. This is a carefully designed 190 unit multif family community looking to be built on 4.5 acres. Thoughtfully planned to balance the neighborhood compatibility with the urgent housing needs of Las Vegas residents. As you know, on June 10th, the planning commission approved this application with the full entitlements. Um, however, working with the council woman's office because she heard the needs um and the responses from neighbors who unfortunately were unable to attend the two neighborhood meetings that we held over the years. This has been a two-year development in the making. um she called my team and I in to address her concerns on behalf of her constituency and I believe we've done that. The planning commission um approved it unanimously and the councilwoman asked that we make some adjustments in order to satisfy her needs. Um, one area would be the residential adjacency setback. We requested 75 ft where your title um 19 requests 111 ft. As far as the setback, if we can go to the next slide, the the site plan, please. If you look at the site plan, mayor and council, when we spoke with the neighbors on several occasions, um they asked that we push the development as close to Bruce as possible to provide that layer of setback from the north property line as well as the eastern property line. And the councilwoman also requested that we also push the south property line back as well, which we've done that. This site plan um that you're looking at is a plan that has um been expanded and contracted without taking away the integrity and the aesthetic look of the overall development. Our design incorporates significant landscape buffers, perimeter uh treatments, and building orientation strategies to ensure compatibility with the adjacent single family homes at only three stories and a maximum of 35 ft where we have the ability to go 55 ft by your code, mayor and council. However, we wanted to be um great neighbors and keep the height at a level that would be well under the 55 ft and we're currently at 35 ft. The parking reduction was a sticking point for the council woman and her constituency as well. And so originally we asked for a specific uh number of parking spaces and she asked that we increase that which we have done that just the same. I would note our market data also indicates to support the council woman's concerns, the neighbors concerns, as well as what we've been able to identify within our market research is that there's a shifting household trend, which basically states higher demand for one-bedroom units, increased ride share use in this area, and lower household car ownership. So, taking all of those scenarios into consideration, I truly believe that we have met the requested requirement in the adjustment within the parking variance that we've requested. We have also provided covered parking, ADA spaces, and bicycle accommodations within this development. the special use permit. No one has argued um but I'll make mention that the general plan supports multif family residential at this location and zoning allows the use with a special use permit which we have applied. The project advances the city housing policies by diversifying the housing stock providing attainable rental opportunities while supporting economic development within Ward three. the site plan review before you. The project includes six residential buildings, plus a leasing, clubhouse facility, playground, sports court, and landscape courtyards. The fake treatments, varying roof lines, and high quality materials prevent a monolithic look to this development. This development provides workforce housing near major employment centers, reducing commute times and supporting economic vitality. This represents uh this development represents investments, a major investment within the East Las Vegas community, aligning with the city's goal of revitalizing and reinvesting in existing neighborhoods. This this development will create jobs during the construction and ongoing property management full-time 247 on-site property management as far as employment is concerned. This will enhance neighbor this will enhance the neighborhood safety and vibrancy by redeveloping currently an underutilized commercial parcel into a productive residential use. I would like to, if we may go to the overhead, I would like to share with you that originally, as of June 10th, the planning commission approved us for 204 units. After working with the councilwoman's office in addressing her constituents concerns, we now have 190 units versus 204 units, which is 14 units fewer. In addition to that, she requested on the east property line, in order to create even more of a security site view for her residents on the east property line, we've reduced the third story. If we may go back to the overhead, please on the east property line, we've reduced her east property line structures from three stories to two stories, which the site view now has increased even more so based on the distance from u the eastern property line site as far as the backyards. all the way through our development which basically now no one on the third floor will have an opportunity to look down uh inside of the residence on the east properties line uh backyard. So that was an adjustment that the council woman uh had required and we've basically have made that adjustment as well. The unit mix has been adjusted from 52% onebedroom and 48% two-bedroom now to 57% onebedroom and 43% two bedrooms. The parking waiver reduction of 28% which were 95 spaces short. Now, um, we've reduced we've reduced that to 15% which now we're only requesting 47 spaces where we were asking for 95 previously. From a neighborhood compatibility standpoint, the original buffers and setbacks have been adjusted accordingly and the reduced mass of the overall development. Uh the buffers have been maintained that will be fully um landscaped with buffers in the appropriate setbacks. In closing, this project is welldesigned, neighborhood conscious, and responsive to both community needs and city policies. With the planning commission's unanimous approval, I respectfully request um that this council supports the um the council woman in her effort to um bring in a much needed development into her area by also having addressed many of the concerns from her constituency which I believe she's created a a very delicate balance between development and the needs of her constituency. So with that, I am prepared to answer any questions at this time that you all may have. Thank you so much. I think at this time we'll have a staff report. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Peter Loanstein for the record. While additional residential units are needed and encouraged within East Las Vegas, the proposed development is too intense for the area as evidenced by the requested residential adjacency and parking variances as stuff such staff has recommended in a proposal. Thank you. Okay. Thank you so much. Is there anyone else wishing to be heard on these items? Please state your name again for the record. Uh Joseph Weber and thank you for the uh additional time. Uh and um I appreciate that um that you have uh adjusted the project um in an attempt to make it smaller. Our our position is still is too big for that little piece of property. And uh we think that the parking space required parking space code would take that that development down to around 140 units. So they've agreed to drop it from 204 to 190. That's still 50 units more than what should be put on that piece of property in our estimation. Um and um before I forget, I would like to enter these uh petitions that we collected into the record uh from people who didn't know about any meetings or uh didn't even know the project was was being considered or that any of these variances were being considered. We understand we would like something on that plot of land and we understand that a smaller project might not make financial sense to the people. Uh but that shouldn't be a reason that you ignore the the the the safety that codes provide to the surrounding neighborhood. Okay. Financial reason shouldn't be that. maybe shouldn't be. I know as as a group you have the power to just ignore those codes, right? But I'm asking that you don't. You're going to vote and move on. the people in that neighborhood of which a lot of them are opposed to the size of this thing, they're going to be left there for years having this imposition u on them and and lowering their quality of life. So really anything more than 150 units, most of the people who signed those petitions don't want anything to do with it and don't think it should be there at at a size bigger than 150 units. Um, and then lastly, and I don't know if the new plans include the perimeter wall that is supposed to be required by code that's not in the plans, weren't in the previous plans anyway, that if you approve this thing, please give us the perimeter wall that is supposed to be there. And I thank you for your time and your attention. And thank you so much. Is there anybody else wishing to be heard on this item? Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing. Mr. Barlo, is there any last minute comments you'd like to make? Yes, Mayor. Thank you so very much. I appreciate the gentleman coming up and speaking. Um, number one, we are looking forward to addressing uh the perimeter wall. We have every um desire to make sure that our development is fully protected. Um, and we're looking forward to bringing forth a beautiful decorative block wall with trees that will um, be adjacent on the east property line as well as the north property lines with the appropriate setbacks as required by your planning commission. And so there's no way that we're going to spend the amount of money that we're going to spend, which is approximately anywhere between 50 and $60 million to do this development, to build this development, not for this property to be secured and making sure that the residents on the east and the north property lines are well protected. Now, having sat in your seat, um I understand the needs and the concerns from constituents. And so, I take that uh to heart specifically when I'm working with my team, making sure that we do all that we can to make sure that the residents concerns are addressed and that we're bringing something into the community that we would want to live in ourself, right? But one thing I also recognize is the nimi and that's something that um we can't control because we know that there's a need in this community and we're trying to fill a gap uh that needs to be filled and we're trying to do it in a prudent way that is um hopefully in a manner in which we can be great community partners and making sure that our development is something that this community will be very proud of in in a property that we would live in ourself if in fact we had to. And so those are the elements that I bring to the table as it relates to sitting down with my team, making sure that we're doing all that we can, working with your staff, the council woman's office, as well as the neighbors um to address all that we can up to the point of where we have to agree to disagree. And so having said that, mayor, um I'm open to any suggestions, recommendations that you all have um as it relates to making sure that this development um will be a beautiful development, which I'm standing before you committing to and um and any other suggestions or recommendations that you all may have at this time. Are there any members of the city council that wish to comment on this agenda item? Let uh Mr. Barlo, let me ask you something. Um, from what I'm hearing um the neighbors aren't opposed to building, um, uh, and having an apartment building, but they are concerned about, uh, theund now 190, uh, units, which I appreciate that you worked with the council woman to bring the number down. Correct. um they seem to be very concerned about the density and and putting that many units into that particular area. Is there any way that the number can go down even further? Maybe not to the 150 that they would like to see, but somewhere between 190 and 150. Mayor and council, you all know when it comes to multif family in in this state that it's very difficult to build a multif family development um from the start and there reaches a point where there there's a bottom line as to whether or not you you've heard the term penciling and we've reached that point, mayor. I mean, we're at our wits end trying to figure out how we were going to make the adjustment as far as just taking away the 14. And so at this point, um, I would have to admit honestly that I believe based on our financing and everyone that we've spoken to and the architects, the engineers, uh, the ownership, the ownership team, um, this is we're literally at at our base. Okay. Thank you, Miss Summers Armstrong. Thank you, Madame Mayor. U, Mr. Barlo has this is a neighborhood very near the border of Ward 5 and we need not just housing but affordable housing. Has your management team or your ownership team which according to the records that I've read is not part of Nevada. They've got a office in Nevada but it's owned by someone out of state. um have they talked with our um our folks here in the city to maybe get some assistance with this project? I don't know what would be available to really look at financing that would allow some of these units to be um affordable as opposed to just built. um because my understanding just from what I've read is that this is still an option and might be able to help meet the request of the community to lower the amount of units but also be able to help your clients with some financing options. Well, let me address something in regards to um your statement as far as someone being out of state. Everyone in this development is from Nevada. Um, so I just want to make sure. Could you speak up a little bit? I said everyone in this development is from Nevada. Um, the So I'm not quite I don't quite understand the the statement in regards to an out ofstate individual, but everyone in this development is from Nevada and has been in Nevada for as long as I've been alive. Um, so from a financing standpoint, the financing will start to come together and the collection of of finance will be a a part of that will be our ability to apply for Councilwoman Armstrong apply for grants monies for whether it be through the state, the city, and the county to basically help adjust from an affordability standpoint. We can't do that until we have something tangible such as a fully entitled development that we could take to the banks and the financiers to basically say that this is what we have and these are the parameters of what we have from a development standpoint and those funding sources will then assist us in dictating what percentage of these units will have an opportunity to be affordable whether it be 20% or 30%. And we're looking forward to doing just that. But we have to cross the hurdle of getting the entitlements. And Councilwoman, I'm not sure if that answered your question, but um Okay. Thank you. Um Miss Diaz. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Um and I want to say, Mr. Barlo, obviously you being a former member of this body knows more than anyone that we do take our neighbors voices and concerns very seriously. Absolutely. I'm not hearing from my neighbors that they don't want anything in their backyard. they're being pretty reasonable compared to other neighbors that I've dealt with in other areas within Phil projects and they're saying this is too intense and I can't disagree with them just based on my knowledge of that neighborhood. Um my siblings went to Halley Huittson Elementary School. I was too old when we moved into the neighborhood to go there. So I have seen the neighborhood mature over years and parking is a premium in that community. And as much as we want to downplay that we don't need it and that people are going to use public transit, um I don't see that trending in my neighborhoods for the next 10 years or so. Um so I think we have to make the decisions today that we are going to be proud of tomorrow. Absolutely. And in our office, we did have this meeting and I appreciate you and your team and your engineers and everyone coming. But I did make a very pointed question and I asked you are all adjacency setbacks being met per code and you said very confidently in the meeting that yes that was the case but the variance is still here where 111 ft of separation should happen between you and the neighbors. You're asking for that to be less. So there are still some unresolved matters. I feel um I'm hearing loud and clear from the um 123 neighbors per the petitions, 96 of them being homeowners, a lot of them being second language speakers. Um their first language is Spanish. They aren't really privileged to be in tune with our processes, know what that postcard when they receive it, what it means, what it is. I feel like we haven't done our due diligence in even educating everyone around you about what you're seeking to bring and they're just saying can it conform to code and so many times what I've seen in my ward anyways in the past is that we don't conform to code and then we pay the premium price down the road when we don't have adequate parking when we don't have enough landscaping when we forsake things that should be part of a master plan community we just say no, we don't need it. And actually, I feel very strongly that in this situation, we do need it. Um there's more development coming across the way into Cashman Center um as articulated by other folks. So, I'm going to leave it up to you, Mr. Barlo, and and you kind of let me know, is there room to continue to work on whittling down the intensity and abiding by the setbacks that our code is saying? because I also vetted the plan to augment parking down the road and that's not even a given and I can't even in good conscience make a decision based on the facts now that something in the future may happen decades later after I may no longer be in the seat. So I want to make sure that I'm making the decisions in the moment knowing full well what I do know about that neighborhood. And um so I'm going to ask, is there a way that you think we can still work something that's a happy medium? Um from the responses I'm getting from my neighbors and your ownership, is there a way to whittle? And if so, then I would be u more than happy to hold the matter in obeyance as we figure out the common ground. Councilwoman, when we met in your office, the um concern in regards to the setback um and meeting with the uh city staff when we first started this when I was meeting with the planner, the distance that we had agreed to that they could live with um was the number that we set. And so I communicated that to you in that sense it if the setback were 111 feet from a residential from a residential adjacency standpoint, this development would basically be a postage stamp. So there are waiverss that are required and your code allows for for us to request a waiver in order to make a development a true development. And with that, uh, your staff work with me on that. These, these are not arbitrary numbers. This is a conversation and a meeting that has been taking place for more than 24 months now with the city of Las Vegas, meeting with multiple staff members at the planning level, meeting with the planning commissioners to include your office when we met last week. And so we've basically have, you know, done our very best to get to this point. Um, and anything smaller than this, I mean, it's just you're just basically erasing the development overall. In my opinion, I'm going to lean in on my expert planners to kind of settle the score. Um, do we advise what the maximum minimum setback requirements beneficial to or is that kind of developer um is the developer leading that conversation and then just kind of saying would this stick or do we actually bless it? I think there's a confusion between wanting something and needing something through you madam mayor Peter Lawrence for the record. So um from the community development side, our planners enforce the city's policies and that's the base code and so that would be the requirement of the residential agency or the parking standard. Uh we are reactive to whatever the developers are going to propose and we'll give our opinions on uh if the plans can be improved but at at the core of it the base standard at code is our requirement. So what I'm hearing from you Mr. Loenstein is that the setback at 111 would be what the planner would be articulating back that that is what the city's preference would be for that development moving forward. Correct. And and that the complete parking picture based on the unit count is what the city prefers to then bless the project. Right. The the setback requirements based upon the height that's being proposed. So that would be the requirement and 111 and then the associated parking variance is based upon the number of units and the variety of unit types that are in and that is what we would So Mr. Barlo we have a situation here where we need to be real acknowledge I know that we're put in the role as council members to figure out this happy medium. I know you want the stars in the sky and the moon, but then yet the neighbors want something a little bit not as extravagant. Can we work towards making this something that can be a win-win for everyone? Because in the situation you're putting me in right now, I'm inclined to side with my planning staff's reasons to deny your project. But if you're willing to continue to work a reasonable middle ground with the input of the neighbors, we'll move forward. So, I'm I'm really kind of leaving it up to you. Do you want to continue to work this development to where it's palatable to the adjacency and it conforms to our codes or not? Councilwoman, let me address something to planning staff and planning staff knows this to be true. The reason why we have title 19 is because this city sets policy. But the reason we have also waiverss, special use permits, and variances is for developments that cannot meet the standards of the city of Las Vegas. Planning staff understands that and they know that and they should be communicating articulating articulating that to you all as council members. They know that. And so when you have a development before you and and we are directed by code to work with staff to basically make those adjustments and at the request of your planning team we they provide us Mr. We're not going to have this we're not going to have this debate cuz it's going into a he said she said. We're going to deal with the facts. And I request that we hold this item um Councilwoman so that we can have this discussion behind closed doors. Thank you. I think that would be appreciated from everyone on council because our time is at a premium and it's my birthday. I do want to spend some lively moment of the day to celebrate my birthday, but um so we're going to go ahead and motion to for a month. I think it's going to take us about a month between renderings and my staff vetting it and getting all in lock step. And I would like to have the opportunity to invite my neighbors to hear from us first before we bring it to council what we've come up with if we're ready to unveil something. Do you agree with those terms? I agree with those terms, council. Okay. So I'm going to hold motion is my motion madame mayor is to hold agenda item 58 A through D for 1 month and that would be till the October 15th meeting. Correct? All right. That's my motion. All right. Shall we vote? Please post. [Applause] Motion to obey carries. Thank you. Agenda item number 59 25-0206-UP1 obeyance item appeal item special use permit applicant progressive living owner 1821 East Oaki Trust for possible action on an appeal of the denial by the planning commission on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed community residents including family community residents and transitional community residence use at 1821 East Oaki Boulevard R1 single family residential zone ward 3 Miss Diaz the planning commission um uh recommendation and uh recommends approval and staff recommends denial. This is a public hearing. I now declare it open. Is the applicant present? Yes, ma'am. We are. And would you please state your name for the record? Good morning, Mayor B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B Berkeley Esteemed Council. My name is Tammy Bass. I'm from the best ward in the city, and that's represented by Alan Pollinsky. Ward 4, 2971 North Gateway Road. Close second is Ward 5, of course, my childhood ward. Uh and I am here as the representative for Dr. a keen and progressive psychiatric services as we come to try to convince you that this is something that's worthy of your support. We uh this is Dr. Aen and he's the owner of Progressive Psychiatric Services and Progressive Living. So we are in the behavior and mental health industry and one thing that we know is that we are woefully deficient of bed space and services when it comes to what we do. We are SACTA certified. The state approved us overwhelmingly. And one of the reasons they approved us is because not only did we have a residence, but we have a clinic that is top tier that is staffed with the top some of the top doctors in this field. And so we were approved overwhelmingly. And one of the things that we've learned from again, happy birthday. We met with Councilwoman Diaz yesterday and her wonderful staff. And one of the things we know now is that we kind of put the cart before the horse and we accept that and that's a hard lesson to learn. However, Mr. Aeen, Dr. Aeen has expended so much money on this house and to look at the house, it would just be a beautiful house. you would know that transitional living was happening there because we've worked really hard to keep the aesthetic community appropriate as well as making sure that our residents are vetted, including extensive and intensive assessing and evaluations. Our demographic is 50 and over. And sure, these these residents have issues. they have issues with substances and they are at a point in their lives where they're trying to get help so that they can then go back out into the community. It is not a permanent program. We give 90-day increments in how we address and help our residents and we are at the point where we understand what the planning commission put forth. We also understand what Councilwoman Diaz her concerns are and it's because as a former member of the Nevada State Board of Parole appointed by Governor Gwyn, one of the things I learned as a commissioner is that in Nevada or in especially in southern Nevada, we don't do a good job of addressing how people are going to be housed who also come with deficits. And so our homeless population, everything goes back to mental health. And so we're trying to do something about that. I only get involved with projects that benefit my city. And I call this my city because I've been here all of my life. I only went away to college and law school. And the moment I got my degree, my jurist doctor, I knew that I was coming home. This is the place that nurtured me, molded me, formed me. I'm a product of the Clark County School District. Go El Dorado. We're no longer I can't say Sunund Devils cuz something happened with our name, but go El Dorado. Okay. And so I always knew that I'd be back here. And I knew that I wanted to leave my mark. I believe in a place being better because I lived versus worse. And so everything that I do is to make sure that this city remains the city that are that's on people's list to come and see. And when my friends come from all over the world, they want to see my city. So, I want to make sure anything that I get involved with is going to benefit my city. And one of the things that I know about this gentleman and progressive psychiatric services is that we offer a benefit to the citizens of this city, particularly in Councilman Diaz's ward. We understand the concerns. There is a group home which is different than a transitional living home which is what we offer is not too far from where we are. That's putting the cart before the horse because had we done had he done his research we probably wouldn't be here and we are undaunted by a denial to be perfectly honest with you. We'd prefer an approval. This was never our permanent home. Ultimately, his dream is to open a transitional living facility so that there would be more beds and more services offered on a larger scale, but we are undaunted. We will complete our mission when it comes to offering this type of a service, whether it be in Councilman Diaz's ward or elsewhere. And so, we'd like for you though to consider it's not permanent. We expect 3 to 5 years here so that we can purchase property or purchase a facility that we can then rehab and renovate to become that transitional living facility on a larger scale. In the event you can't find it plausible to support us, we would ask some time to get the current residents resituated and not just do like an immediate dismissal eviction or whatever it would be. So those are our those are our points and Dr. Aen is going to now address you. Thank you very much um council Mayor and the council woman. Um I'm so um happy and honored to be in front of you. This is my second time being here. I've not done this before but I have uh good dreams for the community. I wish um I'll have the support and um first of all before I start I have some of my resident I would like you guys to know them that when we started this project I didn't know we need um conditional permit or special use permit was the state that actually asked after they have approved our um substant use uh as a SAP certified clinic and the housing as well. So I have the uh the few if you can permit me to introduce you to the resident that just to show you the demographic and how who are the people that we dream of helping in the community. Can I have uh Kimberly um Smith Larry to come forward to just introduce yourself and your experience in the house so far? Welcome. Hi. Welcome. Would you mind stating your name for the record? Kimberly. You got to give me my Could we have a last name? Oh Brown. Thank you. My name is Larry Smith. Thank you. You want to say want to tell them about your experience in the house? Oh, my experiences in the house is has helped me. Welcome. Okay, let us move. The experience in the house is it has helped me. Uh almost died six months ago from a serious alcohol problem. Being in that house and getting the help from Progressive has helped me a lot. I've learned a lot and uh I'm thankful to Progressive in the IOP program that I'm in now. It's it's helped me a lot and I've been clean for over 90 days when I didn't think that was possible and uh it's because of the support from uh uh Nicole her boyfriend and progressive has helped me a lot. You know, I don't think uh I would be clean for this long if it wasn't for them. and uh they let me know that I could do stay clean for the rest of my life off alcohol. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Smith. Yeah. uh through the LEMA program I was introduced to recovery and it didn't take then but seed was planted so I knew where to come when I needed help and I came through this this house and uh the coal and the doctor they helped me out a lot. The house has helped me a lot. They have rules which help keep me grounded and focused on my recovery. Without them, I wouldn't be able to have this recovery and that's all I have. Thank you so much. Okay, Kimberly Brown. Um, Progressive Psychiatric Service and Progressive Living has really helped me. I've been clean for almost 3 months now. No more cravings. I go to IOP three times a week and it's helped me a lot. I used to live on top of a bridge on Boulder Highway and all I was doing was getting sick. And I've come to progressive living and they've really kept me on straight and narrow. I go to AA meetings. I go to my IOP and the place is decent. I mean, everybody has their tabs. We all have curfews, which is good. We don't bother the neighbors. We don't play loud music. We don't have parties and we basically stay to ourselves. Thank you. And we clean up everything, you know, try to keep everything nice. Thank you so much. I would like to introduce the manager of the house. Introduce. Hi, my name is Nicole Warner. Hi Nicole. No, not you know, I just want to say um it makes me emotional because like I'm a product of sober living. Um I um was an addict for 30 years and um and I have over three years sober because of this type of um home. And um I just hope that you guys can you know see what we see and and want to help our community and do what we do. You know what I mean? Like today I work for Crossroads of Southern Nevada. I'm a behavioral health technician and I've fully changed my life, you know? Um and and where I started was sober living. So thank you for Thank you so much for sharing. Terrific. Um I can just get a few minutes of your time please. I just want to show you our clinic is satisfied with um uh opioid treatment center also co-occurring disorders for our clinic and also um opioid treatment as well. And um the housing itself is also certified by the state government uh body and they are hoping to come to the house by uh October 10 to make sure that we are doing the right thing and we are putting uh resident in the program and how we are helping the program out and we also report this every month to the state. So, I just like to show how the the structure of the house. Um, the house itself is about 7,000 ft². The building itself the lot the lot the lot is 7,000. The building is 245. This is a room. It's a cohead housing. Um, this is one of the room and this is another room. Um this is their uh bathroom that they use. And this is their um dining area and living section, their walkway. Um we provide them with transportation to come to our clinic every three day uh three days in a week to make sure they don't have any transportation problem. And um they have they have surrounding um like to um like a swimming pool to keep the house cool. Um they have um little area where they can sit around and discuss outside the building so it's not congested. Um this is another big room that we have in the house. Thank you so much. [Applause] Thank you so much for your time. We appreciate what you have to do and we it's not lost on us. Just know that we are a group of people trying to do a good service for our city and we hope that we can get your support. Thank you so much again. Happy birthday. Thank Diaz. Thank you so much. May I have a staff report, please? Thank you, Madam Mayor. Uh this is an appeal of the planning commissioner's denial of the requested application based upon failure to meet the minimum distance separation and potential for saturation of similar use due to an existing community residence approximately 555 ft away or 660 ft is required. Staff is unable to support the requested special use permit and recommends denial. Thank you. Thank you so much. Is there this is an open hearing. Is there anyone else wishing to be heard on this item? Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing. Um, are there any questions or comments from members of the city council? In that case, is there a motion? Councilwoman Diaz. Um, yes, Madame Mayor. But before I give my motion, this has been a really hard one for me. My heart is with the work that um, Dr. Bass and Dr. Aen and Nicole are doing on a daily basis. And I don't want them to think that I'm not a supporter. I'm I'm your biggest cheerleader. I think we need more of these types of services. However, um as you know, when I talked to Dr. uh Keen and Dr. Bass in my office yesterday, my area is kind of very delicate. Um I don't want to overwhelm it. A lot of the neighbors adjacent your proposed um transitional living house have voiced um very strong opposition. And so I I can't not heed and hear the voices of those that are most close to to you. And so um again, I hope that we can find a suitable neighborhood where this work can continue um because it's sorely needed in our community. But um I I have to do what my neighbors are telling me that they want and they say they have less than a block away the other group home. and uh this would be a bit much for them um given the current situation of that neighborhood. So, I'm going to go ahead and uphold I'm going to deny the appeal and uphold the planning commission's denial as well as staff's uh recommendation to deny. All right. Shall we vote? Please post. Okay. Motion passes. Thank you. And I I truly urge you to work with the um council woman uh to come up with a solution that would be helpful to you. Okay. Agenda item 60 24-0185 on the following land use entitlement project requests on 0.17 acres at 200 North Lamb Boulevard 6824-0185-1 from R1 single family residential to PO professional office 60B 24-018 85-V1 to allow five parking spaces where six are required. 60C 24- uh 0185- SDR1 for the proposed conversion of an existing single family dwelling into a 1584 square foot office development with waiverss of uh perimeter landscaping uh landscape buffer requirements. The applicant is Fresh General Services LLC and the owner is Satray Properties Group LLC. The planning commission recommends approval on the entire land use entitlement project. SAF recommends denial on the entire land use entitlement project. These are in ward three, Miss Diaz, in a public hearings which I now declare open. Is the applicant present? Yes, my name is GMO Satar. We represent Fresh General Services and uh along with Satarai Properties. Uh I'd also like to point out that uh I'm here for 60 and 61 is basically the same. We're asking for the same reszoning for R1 residential to a PO professional office. Uh I'd like to see if we can uh you know just tackle both of those at the same time. Um uh the reason for the uh zone uh zone changing um Dr. Hustto Sataray which owns a large uh uh uh you know various properties in in this north side of land. Um what basically he wants to do is trend this into a professional uh office just because uh that uh that strip of land uh most of those are already being turned into commercial. most of those professional offices. Uh he owns some medical clinics and I believe uh some uh tax services along those corners of uh Stewart and Lamb. Uh so his plan is basically just to uh turn these into professional offices uh so that they can uh not only um it would look a little bit nicer just to have all professional offices along lamb as opposed to having maybe a few residential or vacant lots and then a few nicel looking offices. So, we believe that um with the reconstruction, the remodeling, this will not only uh bring uh a better uh look uh to the property, but it's also going to benefit uh those around it. We already have uh uh they already have tax um tax offices there um many medical services and I believe that this will only add and benefit uh to the communities surrounding that. Also, I'd like to say happy birthday to Councilwoman Diaz and uh that's basically what we're trying to get done. Thank you so much. Um may we have a staff report, please? Uh thank you, Madame Mayor. Fred Solis for the record. Um due to the requested variance for insufficient parking, waiverss to not install required landscape buffers, and exceptions to not install required parking lot landscaping, staff has determined that the proposed development will not be harmonious and compatible with the surrounding properties. As such, staff recommends denial of the request. Thank you. Okay. Is there anyone else wishing to be heard on this item? Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing. Uh there are any questions or comments from the city council members? Yes. Um I I used to live this is where I first moved to Las Vegas. I lived right off of Steuart between Stewart and Bonanza. And um I understand that we are seeing transitioning in some of these neighborhoods on the major thorough affairs. The thing but I looked at the street while you were talking and it's one thing to convert to commercial. I'm concerned about the lack of of landscape. I think that makes a huge difference. Um the east side as well as west Las Vegas are suffering greatly from heat. Um when we don't have any landscaping, no trees. I mean we're just um you know going over yards, what used to be a yard with asphalt it is increasing the heat in the community. And I just want to know would you all you know is there a particular reason that you don't believe you can add landscaping? Um the reason why we're asking just for the variance landscaping is because um the way that our parking uh was first designed um they we were told that they didn't want anyone backing onto lamb. Um, also one of the things that was um uh that was an obstacle was when you're turning out onto land, they didn't want any big trees or any big obstacles uh you know any landscaping that would obstruct the the uh right right turnway. Um the reason why we're asking for the variance is just because uh the parking uh we redesigned it I believe it was three times and uh due to the redesign um uh you know we came to um basically a decision to uh ask for that variance of landscaping because uh if we were to provide more landscaping we would also need to take away more of that parking that way providing less parking uh for any client that does uh visit that office. Okay. Um Miss Diaz, thank you, Madam Mayor. Thank you for the birthday wishes. I was telling I I'm usually not the um the naysayer on a lot of these votes, but um I have to agree with staff's report. Um we want to see things coming into the city that are going to help us elevate and lift our neighborhoods. and when we have to do away with the parking and give you a variance and when we have to basically bless it without any landscaping as um articulated by my council uh member from W 5, it's just not elevating us where we need to be and if anything it may be creating some future issues that come of it. And so um also in the back of my h mind I'm analyzing where we have blessed professional office use and it used to be residential and a lot of those places are not they need a lot of help and assistant. They need a lot of investment. They need a lot they're they're just not keeping and staying a professional office use. And so as things are evolving and changing and people are shifting and we hear constantly as a council that like over 40% of professional office is vacant in our city, that's something a statistic that's also in my head saying I rather this still be a home and provide the ability to family to live in it. And I want to be respectful also to residents that still have their homes that are adjacent. So for these reasons, I'm going to move to deny this reszoning. Um, agenda item 6A to 60C. Okay. Shall we vote? Please post. Motion passes. All right. Thank you'all. Thank you. We do. We need to do it for 61 as well. Yes, we do. Um, I'll do an abbreviated vote. Okay. Um item 61 24-0186 on the following land use entitlement project requests on 0.17 acres at 212 North Lamb Boulevard 61A24-0186-1 from R1 Single Family Residential to PO Professional Office 61B 24-0186-V1 1 to allow far five parking spaces where six are required. Uh 61C 24-0186- SDR1 for the proposed conversion of an existing single family dwelling into a 1,736 square foot office development with waiverss of perimeter landscape buffer requirements. The uh the applicant is Fresh General Services LLC. The owner is Saturday Properties Group LLC. Planning Commission recommends approval on the entire land use entitlement project. Staff recommends denial. Uh these are in ward 3. Miss Diaz. They are public hearings which I now declare open. We've already heard from the applicant. Um and I understand the staff has recommended a no vote. Is there anybody else wishing to be heard on this item? Seeing nobody, I will close the public hearing and turn it over to Miss Das. Madame Mayor, I move to deny agenda item 61A to 61C. Okay. Shall we vote? Please post. Motion carries. Agenda item 62 24-0527-V1 variance. applicant owner Maria Hernandez for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to allow two existing patio covers that do not conform to Title 19.06 development standards for setbacks and aesthetic compatibility and to allow an existing front yard wall that exceeds maximum height standards on 0.13 acres at 1415 Crestwood Avenue. R1 single family residential um zone ward three. Miss Diaz uh planning commission voted for approval. Staff recommends denial. This is a public hearing that I now declare open. Is the applicant present? Yes, madame mayor. If I can. Emma for the record for the department of neighborhood services. I will be translating for the applicant. Thank you and welcome. Uh please state your name. Maria Martinez. Hello. Good. Good afternoon. My name is Hornita Martinez. Um, my I'm Maria's daughter. The for my address is 1415 Crestford Avenue. Um, okay. I want to keep this patio because my father made it. He passed away. And um we want to keep it for something uh um sentimental. I don't know how to say the word but it's for emotional for to keep it because he made it. Um I know planning commissioner he approved it but we had to make like a adjustment. I have a pictures over here. I can um show you. Um and we agree for them like to make the the adjustment. Nice. Okay. Since you are with our neighborhood services, can you kind of educate us about how we how they are here before us today? I'm sure maybe um one of your departments were in the work with these neighbors. Yes. So, they received the code notice for an unpermitted structure. So, it is the front patio. Speak into the mic, please. So, they received the code notice for unpermitted structures. Originally, they had built it without any uh permits in place. So, it is regarding the front uh patio and the backyard patio. Um, originally planning commissioners had asked that we um get with an engineer to be able to come up with the plan to make it compatible with the rest of the dwelling and make it aesthetically pleasing to the neighborhood. So, the items that she was showing previously were the renderings of that set. So, it's going to be all matched in Stuckco. It goes a little bit more in detail in this photo here, but it will be all painted and matched accordingly to the home if approved. Thank you. I think it's important that we know the road that they've traveled and why they're now before us. And I don't know, Madame Mayor, do you want to hear this? Well, I'd like to hear the staff report. Thank you, Madam Mayor. At the planning commission, the applicant presented updated patio cover elevations as depicted on the overhead uh that resulted in the elimination of a portion of the variance application that addressed their incompatible patio cover aesthetics with that of the primary dwelling. Staff finds the entire request to be self-imposed hardship as the patio covers and the fence were constructed without permits and staff recommends denial of the request. Thank you. Okay, this is a public hearing. Does anybody wish to address the city council on this item? Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing and ask if there's any members of the city council that wishes to comment on this item. Seeing nobody, Miss Summers Armstrong, I just have a question. Uh, are they adding the patio cover in the back in a or is it already there as well? I think Planning Commission's main concern was the aesthetics and compatibility of the front one. The back one will be remaining the same. Okay. It will all just the home will all be painted so that it all matches. So I guess just for council's education information, the planning commission approved them to keep the back patio since it's not visible from the street. Um and then they would have to change their front patio to the rendition that we're seeing here. That has to be built out. Okay. And are they um can you ask if they're capable and willing to do that? Okay. Um [Music] Okay, they're saying yes. Okay. So, there will be they would build this patio that we're seeing on our screen out. Okay. In that case, um are there any other questions or comments? In that case, we we will entertain a motion. Well, I was telling them I told them in Spanish that my planning commissioner is not fond of patio structures, but he was actually a fan of this one because it does harmonize with the house and he thought it was aesthetically pleasing. So, if Trinity Schlottman is on board, um that is a big deal for Ward Three because he's not a fan of these front patio structures. So, um I'm going to move to approve agenda item 62. Is there any are there any conditions planning staff that I need to be aware of or put on the record through you, Madam Mayor? No. The existing uh requirements for matching the aesthetic that's shown there is uh handled through the planning commissioner's condition that's Okay. And your motion is My motion is to approve agenda item 62. Please vote. Post. Motion carries. You're welcome. Agenda item 63 is um uh oh 63A through 63C held in obeyance to the October 15th city council meeting. Agenda item 64 25-0107- SDR1 site development plan review applicant owner uh NYC development LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed twostory 4unit multifamily residential development on 0.17 acres at 213 Harrison Avenue T4 T4-N T4 neighborhood zone ward 5 Miss Summers Armstrong. The planning commission voted uh to approve and the staff recommends approval. This is a public hearing that I now declare open. Is the applicant present? Yes. Good afternoon. My name is Adrien Plat with Plat Design and uh here is the o owner and contractor Juan Sanchez. Would you like to tell us about your project? I can do that. Um, so we have a two-story um, forplex. Um, we worked uh, quite a bit with some planners cuz this is a very unique zone, the T4N zone. Um, and we were able to meet all of the um, zoning requirements with the um, porch in the front, the parking in the rear, um, two dumpsters back here, and a two units on the first floor, two units on the second floor. Each unit is about, uh, 1,50 square ft. They are um Oh, and I can Oh, while I'm here, you can see that we have landscaping and some um hardscape common area in the front. And then let's get to an enlarged. Oh, this was it. So, here's uh just the first floor plan uh of the building. Um, you will see that there's two bedrooms, a master bath and then a shared bath and then a living kitchen area. And each one has a patio. And since it's a two-story forplex, they are basically all the same. Um, and then here are some renders. And if you have any questions, we're both happy to hear to answer them. Thank you so much. Um, could I have uh a report by staff, please? Uh, thank you, Madame Mayor. Staff finds the proposed multifamily development is compatible with the adjacent development and redevelopment vision within the surrounding area of the subject site. Therefore, staff recommends approval subject to conditions. Thank you. Thank you so much. This is a public hearing. Does anybody else wish to speak on this item? Seeing nobody, I will close the public hearing. Does the anybody on the city council uh have any questions or comments? Seeing none, Miss Summers Armstrong. Um thank you, Madame Mayor. Um I did meet with the applicant uh his representative. Um, and although this project does meet all of the requirements, I have concerns about the escalation um that this project would u bring to uh current density uh right there in between uh current uh single family homes. And um I I just think at at this point uh that density escalation is is of of concern to me and I wouldn't move for denial. Move for denial. All right. Shall we vote? Please post. Motion passes. Thank you so much. Thank you. Agenda item 65 25-0169-V1 variance applicant owner Jorge Luis Yan Janes Jimenez for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to allow two proposed residential accessory structures a cassita and storage that do not conform with title 19.06 06 development standards for size coverage and separation on a 0.14 acres at 505 Holland Avenue. Uh R1 single family residential zone ward 5, Miss Summers Armstrong. The planning commission recommends approval. Uh subject to conditions, staff recommends denial. Uh this is a public hearing which I now declare open. Is the applicant present? Uh yes. Uh good afternoon. My name is Haime Dega. I represent the owner and the applicant. Hi. And yeah, good afternoon, uh, madame mayor. Good afternoon, city council. And yes, uh, this is a project and, uh, believe me, uh, we try to educate especially Latin people about, you know, uh, construction without permits. And, um, this is the structure that we're talking about. It's all together is 624 square ft. Um, this is the floor plan. This is like a little cassita apartment with a little uh living area, a bathroom, a little wet bar sink in a bedroom. And it's going to be a door that connect directly with the storage. So, basically, it's just one whole building, but uh like a two different um uses, storage and living quarters. And um I would like to remark that the exist the the new cas if if it's going to be approved is going to look like this and it's going to be 100% compatible with the existing residence. you know, one story stack uh shingles, windows, doors, everything is going to be is going to match the existing and um uh I think uh that's it. you know, uh they unfortunately they start building without permits and code enforcement show up and stop them and then they contact us and uh we try to to help you know to uh to be back on track and uh pull the permits and do the right thing. Thank you so much. May I have a staff report please? Uh thank you, Madam Mayor. Uh the variance request is a result of a code enforcement action that was processed on April 17th, 2024 for a non-permitted patio cover, exterior house additions, and three accessory structures at the rear of the property. They were being used as dwelling units. The submitted plans indicate that the three structures will be removed and replaced with a single 624t square foot residential accessory structure. The planning commission approved the request with amended conditions requiring internal access between the living and storage sections of the new accessory structure. Staff finds that no evidence of a unique or extraordinary circumstance has been presented in that the applicant has created a self-imposed hardship by proposing to develop an accessory structure that does not conform with title 1906 development standards. Uh as such, staff is recommending denial of the request. Thank you. All right. This is a public hearing. Is there anybody wishing to be heard on this item? Seeing no one, I'll close the public hearing. Are there any questions and comments from members of the city council? Yes, Miss Armstrong, would you please put up the the uh drawing of the structure from the top that shows the this one? Yes. You had another one that showed uh where the storage unit would have a door going into it. Yes. Well, yeah. Uh I'm sorry. Uh this is the structure that we're talking about and this patio cover also was built without permits but in this one we already submit uh plans and structural calculation to building department. So I believe uh this patio cover is going to be approved because uh comply with all uh building codes. So, if I'm understanding correctly, you're going to turn the patio cover that is 578 square ft into a resident's living quarters as well as this proposed um 624 ft. Uh yes, what happened? This patio cover is um the original is kind of close with the uh proposed structure and we're going to remove just the e you know to have the exactly sixt separation that is a call required. Okay. So concerns, you had another um drawing that showed Yes. that view these. Yes. All right. So even with the door and you have that uh area considered to the left or right a storage um that is large enough to be another apartment. And then you want to add a patio cover that you want to convert to living space as well. So this would have one, two, three, four living quarters on this very small lot. You have no landscaping in the front. It's all um covered with concrete. Um it is not harmonious in the front of the residence with the neighbors on either side who have left their grass in the front um have trees in the front and bushes. And this residence has none of that. And it's it's changing the um what is a residential area now into something different. Um, these are old neighborhoods that in my opinion, we have to really work hard um to ensure that our communities remain livable um residential neighborhoods. And I know that we need um additional housing, but no, I don't I don't I'm just struggling that we're telling people that the only way that they can be able to afford housing is to live on top of a concrete pad that has nothing to offer it. There's no place for a kid to run. There's no grass for a dog. Nothing. It's all concrete. And I'm really concerned about Yeah. this I'm I'm not pleased. C can I uh can I make another comment? Um we planning because uh uh in this area uh we already plant some trees and uh I suggest that from here to there all this part is going to be uh artificial grass except just a little wallake right here. But all this, you know, with maybe we can plant a minimum three trees, three kind of large trees and at least two on this side. Yeah, we we we we planning to do that and and I'm sorry this site plan is basically it's just the the very very first idea, but yeah, we thinking on on putting more uh trees. Now the patio is completely open on on these three sides. So the the patio basically is it's going to be part of the backyard, you know, like open open space. So you're calling it a patio now, but earlier you said it was going to be converted into living space. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I'm sorry. No, no, no. The patio is going to be patio patio cover. No, no, no living area. No. The only thing that is a living quarter is this part and the storage stays as a storage, but the patio is going to stay as a patio. planning staff, can you comment as to whether or not we can condition landscaping as he has sketched? Um, madam chair, through you, councilwoman, uh, first off, for clarification, he is correct. The elevations do show a patio cover only. So, there are columns and it's open the way he's describing. And second, yes, we can add a condition. Um, I'll take a second to craft it up, but we can add it add a condition to place it in that dirt portion along the front property line. Thank you. So, if I'm hearing properly, the existing demi half circle at the front will be landscaped. Yes. And that you will add um landscaping on the sides on both sides. Yes. And there will not be any living quarters added in the back. The storage will remain storage. Yes. Yes. And the patio remain as patio. And uh we're going to plant at least five large trees. Okay. Well, smaller trees do better in the heat. If you do 15 or 24, not too big or they'll die from shock. Anyway, that's the the wannabe arborist in me. um thank you um for making these adjustments. We want these neighborhoods to remain beautiful and and even be improved um if we just all work together to recognize that these are residential communities. Um and considering uh the reduction in the size of the patio cover, the assurance that the proposed addition remains of just a single as you've drawn it, no additional living in the back, and the addition of um landscape. Um I move to approve. All right. Shall we vote? They have to say the condition. One motion. One moment. Uh through you, Madame Mayor P Loing for the record. So I'm just crafting the conditions so that you have the landscaping being adhering to your direction. A revised uh landscape plan shall be submitted to the Department of Community Development prior to or at the same time as submitting for a building permit depicting the installation of landscaping within the front and sideyards consistent what with what was depicted at the uh September 17, 2025 city council meeting. Is that your motion? Thank you, Mr. Loenstein. I always get I'm learning, but I I get ahead. Thank you, sir, for your uh input there. And yes, ma'am, that is my motion. Thank you. And do you agree to all the conditions that have just been set forth? Yes, we agree. We agree. All right. Thank you very much. Shall we vote? Post. Motion carries. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Thank you. Happy birthday Mrs. Agenda item 66 25-0182- SDR1. Site development plan review. applicant Peterson Management LLC owner Madison Church LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed parking facility concurrent with an approved mixeduse development with waiverss of param perimeter uh landscape buffer requirements on point on 0.80 80 acres at 300 South 7th Street C1 limited commercial zone ward 3 Miss Zaz. Uh the planning commission vote recommended approval subject to condition. Staff recommends denial. This is a public hearing that I now declare open. Is the applicant present? Good afternoon. Liz Olsen, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive here on behalf of the applicant and stepping in for Miss Lazovich. She sends her apologies. See, she's stuck at the county today. Um, this site is located on 7th Street and Bridger. We're just across the street from the Las Vegas Academy here. The site had been operating and owned by a church for over a decade. Uh, during the days that they were not having service, they were operating the parking lot as a paid parking lot. Um, unfortunately, they did not have the appropriate entitlements to do so. Um, our client and new property owner has now purchased the site. he would like to continue operating uh that parking lot until a future use is either moved in or developed on the site. Um so we are before you for those entitlements. Um we did agree at the planning commission that we would add landscaping to the empty uh landscape planters that you see along the street there. Um and we would also be restriping the parking lot so for some better circulation and access to the site. So appreciate planning commission's recommendation and here to answer any questions. Thank you so much. May we have a staff report please? Thank you, Madam Mayor. Peter Lonstein for the record. The landowner currently holds an approved unexpired entitlement to construct a mixeduse development on this.8 acres at the southwest corner of Bridger and Seventh Street. The applicant with the permission of the land owner is intending to continue the operation of existing parking facility on a portion of the site in the interim period between approval and permanent development of the mixeduse development. There are no special development standards for temporary parking lots in this area. Therefore, the proposed lot would be considered as a parking facility by title 19. Staff supports efforts to meet the demanding for additional parking in the downtown area. However, in this particular area, development and standards do not encourage temporary parking lots. As such, staff supports providing perimeter and interior landscaping as required by title 19 and therefore recommends denial of the site development plan review. Thank you. This is a public hearing. Does anybody wish to address the city council? Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing. Are there any questions from members of the city council? Okay. In that case, um, Miss Diaz, thank you, Madame Mayor. Um, this has been operating as a parking lot. We're grateful that you're coming to actually be acknowledged and get the permissions to operate as such. Um my staff and I did go back and Google Earth uh takes on this lot back to 2007 and we couldn't see why the planters had been put in to begin with, but we're happy you're putting three new trees because we'll take as many trees as we can get as a city and you help us further that goal um with bringing uh hopefully some more shade and coolness to our valley. So um I don't really see a problem. We usually do a lot of this of making things a parking lot while we figure out the funding and the next foot forward for the space um what the needs of the community may be. And so I'm going to go I'm going to agree with the planning commission's recommendation for approval and move to approve agenda item 66. Okay. Shall we vote? Please post. Motion carries. Congratulations. Agenda item 67 25-0262-v1 variance applicant owner Dwayne Glenn Martinsson for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to allow existing residential accessory structures a shed and stables a proposed residential accessory structure detached garage and an existing front yard wall that do not conform to title Title 19.06 development standards for setback separation and solid wall height on 0.47 acres at 5471 Florine Street rea zone ward 5 Miss Summers Armstrong planning commission recommends approval. Um staff recommends denial. This is a public hearing that I now declare open. Is the applicant present? Since Since the applicant is not present, we will postpone this for a later meeting. We'll need a motion for an obeyance. May I have a motion? I'm a move for obeyance uh to October 15th, please. Okay. Please vote. top of October post. Motion passes if we post. Post. Is anybody not voting? Sorry. Oh, okay. Are you voting now? She voted. All right. Motion passes. Now, is somebody going to contact the applicant? Thank you. Okay. Agenda item 68. This item was held in obeyance to the November 5th, 2025 city council meeting. Agenda item 69. This item has been tabled. [Applause] Agenda item 70, reports and presentations. Report by Reese Oswalt, region 2 superintendent on the current educational operations in schools within the Clark County School District in the city of Las Vegas. This impacts all wards. Dr. Malich. Thank you, Madame Mayor, City Council. Dr. Tammy Malich, director of youth development and social initiatives. for the record. Um, without further ado, um, since he has been waiting patiently, I will turn it over as required under statute for the quarter 2 report from Clark County, um, deput Clark County School Associate Superintendent, Dr. Reese Oswalt. Welcome. Thank you. Uh, good morning, Mayor Berkeley and council members. My name is Reese Oswalt and I'm the proud region 2 superintendent of the Clark County School District. In regards to compliance status, on November 25th, 2024, the district received a notice of non-compliance related to the district's ability to provide accurate, complete, and timely information necessary for the development and implementation of school plans of operation. The district has worked with the non-compliance monitor appointed by the Nevada Department of Education to further progress on the process improvement plan for which the final report was provided to the board of trustees on August 14th, 2025. Um this morning or afternoon, uh I'll be reviewing disagregated data that was presented to our board of trustees during the second quarter of 2025 covering April through June. Topics include perceptions of student safety, chronic absenteeism, and student behavior. In my last municipality report, you shared that you wanted data broken down by ward. I apologize that we were unable to provide that today. We had some changes in our assessment, accountability, research, and school improvement division that hindered that outcome. Uh please know that I'll continue to work with our team and plan to work with Dr. Malich on the next report to provide that data. Regarding student safety, uh the percentage of students reporting positive responses is stable. Elementary students report the highest percentage of positive responses with 86.9%. Middle school students report an increase of 2% to 76.7% and high school students show the largest improvement with increases in all student groups. In regards to chronic absenteeism, moving on from student safety, I'm pleased to report on our pro progress with chronic absenteeism. For the third consecutive year, we're seeing a significant drop in chronic absenteeism rates across the district. All student populations showed improvement with the largest improvement in the populations of students eligible for special education and students who are English language learners. In regards to student discipline, my final key area uh sees a positive trend with the decrease in removals from instruction. There are increases in removals from instruction for students eligible for special education. And uh to finish up in celebration, uh region 2 is celebrating significant increases in our Nevada school performance framework ratings. Specifically, we had 35 schools increase by one star. We had five schools increase by two stars, and we had one school go from one to four stars in a single year. Lastly, we now have 17 five-star schools, which is up from 10 five-star schools the year prior. Thank you. Thank you so much. Are there any questions from members of the city council? Yes, Miss Brunie. Thank you, mayor. I have a question. We had heard that uh a lot of the score a significant number of schools actually did increase their scar their star rating. Has the the district done some analysis to determine what's driving that? Is it reduction in chronic absenteeism rates? Is it higher proficiency on, you know, the standardized test scores? because we also saw a headline last week saying that um the proficiency levels are actually lower than they were prior to the pandemic. And so can you have you done any analysis to figure out why our star our schools have improved their star ratings? Sure. I I think it's all the above. I think you know approximately three years ago we began to implement uh tier one instructional materials consistent across the district. That was very helpful. We implemented math. Um we added core 95 as a as a phonics component which is a significant benefit to elementary schools. Um we have ELA tier one materials that are consistent across the district as well elementary, middle and high. And then I think also uh three years ago we started to implement a professional learning community process where teachers um plan together, they develop assessments together, they analyze and respond to instruction together based upon how students are performing. um essentially, for lack of a better, trying to make quality contagious from room to room within buildings and get teachers working together and learning from one another. But I also think chronic absenteeism is part of it, right? As that goes down and we see kids sitting in seats more, that's certainly beneficial. Um and our staffing rates are better, right? Our vacancy rates have improved significantly as well. And so we're getting uh in a better position in terms of having a licensed teacher in every classroom um more so than we have probably in my 26 years in the district. So, I think there's a lot of things involved in that. Um, some of which being those, but probably some others as well. Thank you so much. Yes. Uh, Miss Diaz. So, this your response kind of triggered a question um for me is where are we with teacher vacancy rates and where are we struggling to fill those vacancies? Yeah. So I I think I wouldn't want to misspeak on the numbers exactly not being in HR, but I know that we're less than 500 vacancies, which is a very low number historically in our district again since I came here in 1999. Um we still have some vacancies in special education positions. Um but in terms of the other positions, uh those rates have went down significantly. And again, I wouldn't want to misspeak on the exact number, but I know it's much lower than it's been in many, many years in terms of vacancies that we currently have. It's very encouraging. Would anybody else like to ask Dr. Oswalt a question? Yes, Mayor Prom. Thank you very much, mayor, and thanks for the presentation. I think last time we kind of it was your first meeting here, so now it's the second. So, I'm going to ask Miss Malish to set up a meeting between you, me, and anybody else you want from the school district to talk about Wazdon as a magnet school. And the reasoning is is because we're going to have a number of universities coming into the medical district uh with a pronounced uh focus on educating the medical community and I think Watson has a lot to gain from that conversation. I would like to work with Miss Malage on setting that up. Yeah, that'd be great. I I did share that uh request, but I think having a meeting to sit down and kind of talk about the details and opportunities with you would be fantastic. So, thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Yes, Miss Armstrong. Hi. Thank you for being here. Um we had a nice conversation not long ago uh with um u Miss Eert um and they talked about the efforts that you all are making but I I just want to say that it's almost the end of 2025 and there in my opinion is no excuse why you all cannot pro provide information by ward and so um I would hate to have you come to the next meeting and have the similar excuse um that's important to us. It's critical for us so that we can talk to our internal staff and our YDSI folks so we can figure out where we uh put our resources that we have that as we're trying to support educational excellence. It helps us to figure out where we need to be talking to our principles and um and building relationships. So, um, I think you all can do that and I I think that it's a matter of will and I I would hope that you all would find the will to figure out how to report this data out to us on a ward level. I appreciate that and I intend to and and I own the fact that I came here today without it and and very much um accept that and we'll do everything I can to come to the next one with that information. So, I understand completely. Thank you, Dr. Oswell. Thank you so much for the presentation. Uh this is a report only and so no action is required from the city council. Thank you so much. Agenda item 71 uh setting a date set date on appeals filed or required public hearings. I would instruct the city clerk to set the public hearing dates and appeals from the city planning commission meetings and dangerous buildings and nuisance litter abatements. We'll do. Thank you. Thank you very much. Agenda item 72, citizens participation. Public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the city council. No subject may be acted upon by the city council unless that subject is on the agenda and is scheduled for action. If you wish to be heard, please come to the podium. Give your name for the record. The amount of discussion on any single subject as well as the amount of time any single speaker is allowed may be limited. It will be limited to two minutes. This is your opportunity to address the council, but the council is not able to respond or engage in dialogue. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak under this portion of the agenda? Would you mind reintroducing yourself, sir? Steve Small 8565 South War Bonnet uh retired architect. I spoke earlier on the public comment area of which it was held to only two minutes. I would hope in this period I would have a little bit longer time to explain my position in trying to represent public and the public. you want to stay on the 970 acres that the city is purchasing direct against constitutional items. Number one, it's a public trust item, the the federal lands. Therefore, the check is made directly to the Treasury Department. The check that you're going to issue if you do goes doesn't go to BLM goes directly to Treasury Department. They have separate funding from the Congress for their operations. They manage the department. They manage the lands for us the public. They do not own it. Neither does the Democratic Party. Number two, if you do purchase it and it does go through that any recommendation to the IG of the Department of Interior would be uh sent by me. Number three, seen as how it's against the law for diversion and conversion under the law. That's $10,000 fine and a minimum or a maximum of $250,000. That's like the Navy selling a ship for scrap and keeping the money. Doesn't work that way. Number two, see as how this is a public private partnership that's been recommended that the housing is at 6,000 square ft. I mean, 6,000 units. Uh, there must be a master plan already in works. They're calling for a 29 lot subdivision which would patent directly over the top of the issuance of the land use. I don't know whether that master plan has even gone through. If the city purchases the land and turns it over to a developer direct, I'll give you another 30 seconds to wrap up. Oh, you're going to hold me up for the time. I'm going to give you an additional 30 seconds. Thank you very much. I said my piece. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Is there anybody else wishing to address the council? Welcome. And please state your name for the record. Good afternoon, you mayor, and to the council members. My name is Brenda Thomas, and I'm here on behalf of Dittle Active Adult Center where we are very active group. I'm a participant and a very uh qualified volunteer there where we give back to the Fiser House, the cancer center, and a lot of community schools. We do partner with Victory Baptist Church, Abundant Life 7day Adventist Church, and West Las Vegas Art Center, just to name a few people that participate with us. We do have some concerns today. And our concerns today uh consist of Saturday closing. And the problem with our Saturday closing, it it it kind of locks us down to not being able to use the center for a lot of our uh community that use that center for repasses, birthday parties, um milestone celebrations, and then community outreach. We cannot um some of them still have to work, so they're not able to come any other time. Some of our seniors are visually impaired, so they only can come in the daylight. Some of them don't have transportation to go farther out of the community to any other locations that would possibly be provided for any of these other celebrations that we mentioned. Also, we would like to look at just having the staff. It it took a minute for us to get some qualified staff once the previous staff left and we kind of felt like we was being overlooked and so we would like to keep a staff that maintain maintain an integrity that was there before and also just look at the culture that you're coming into and just kind of remember that we're there. Also that we now have we are one of the few um senior active adult centers that have a gym and now we're required to pay for it. Well, you we're talking about people that live on a budget limited income to begin with and so it's kind of hard to try to keep yourself together or keep up with the dues and everything else. I'm sorry and thank you for your time. Thank you very much. Welcome and please state your name for the record. Hi, my name is Jade Payne and I want to touch up on um the dood uh active center. We have class on Saturday. Um, and as she stated, we have people um that work during the week and this is a way for them to come in and get some physical activity, the camaraderie that we have. Um, and it's just really important that we um have this type of interaction with one another. Um right now we are um have been moved to the Dittle Community Center and it's a lot going on over there. Uh we kind of value our space. Um it's very important that um we get together with people of our own age and um so we're just hoping that we can get that moved back to the um active community center. Um, and we also wanted to reiterate our time. Our time has been cut for two hours um or cut to two hours and we already want to go back to 3 hours. Um, the space is just valuable space. We have so many activities that go on there. Um, so many things that are happening and we just want to reiterate that we would like to go back to the uh active adult community center. Right. Thank you so much. Oh, we do have a petition of u over a hundred people that have signed um that are also um very involved and um they want to make sure that they sign that petition. So, do you have the petition with you? I do. Would you hand it? Well, um the city clerk will get it from you. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you. And Miss Summers Armstrong, do little is in your ward, is it not? It is the jewel part of our um education area um right adjacent to um the the West Las Vegas library and the soon to be expanded um um art center. Um and so we've had a lot of conversations and we're still working with parks and recreation to see um how we can um continue to serve to the highest level. So, I'm I'm hearing these things, mayor, and and promise you, ma'am, that I will be working with staff to do the best we can. I appreciate that very much, Mr. Nimrod. Morning. Hey, good afternoon. Yes, it is. Happy birthday, Council Councilwoman Olivia. You are still a child. You know that. [Applause] In Genesis the 5th chapter, the 27th verse, Methuselah lived to be 969 years young. Anything less than 500 is a baby to me. That's right. Believe that. I believe the Bible. Oh, good morning, beloved Mayor Shel and all of you mighty council members. My name is Eric Melzdc. Eric Melzdc, Christ Nimrod. You can find my victorious twin brother Jesus Christ defeating death, the Roman cross and poverty in the gospels and revelation the first chapter the 18th verse and revelation the 3rd chapter the 23rd verse the 21st verse by the way that uh school report was prophetic um correct nimrod means valiant strong in the Hebrew language you can fact fact check that in Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible, page 696. In Genesis the 10th chapter, the 6 to the 12th verse, King Nimrod builds eight cities for the people in the King James version. In Genesis the 11th chapter, the 1st to the 9th verse, the tower of Babel was never built. And King Nimrod is never mentioned in the 11th chapter, the 1st to the 9th verse. The people who did try to build the Tower of Babel was scattered all over the earth. Therefore, there are many languages and much babble in the world, especially babble in religion. Agenda uh 19, the lowest response responsive and responsible bidder is usually chosen. Agenda 32 is about extension of expiration dates. There are always expiration dates. So the person who evidently is the lowest and responsible bidder winds up not being the lowest responsible bidder and not responsible with our money. I'll put in a low bid then I got extended. There's always extensions. Thank you. Thank you so much. Agenda item 73 council emerging issues. There's a discussion regarding potential items for future city council agendas or awards. Any discussion must be limited to whether or not such proposed item shall be placed on a future agenda and no discussion regarding the substance of any proposed topic shall occur. No action shall be taken. Do any members of the council have any topics that they would like to bring forward under this item? Okay, then we will move to agenda item 74. Council members recognition. Comments made by individual city council members during this portion of the agenda will not be acted upon by the city council unless that subject is on the agenda and scheduled for action. Yes please. I'll be quick. Uh because Oh, no. We could stay here forever. No, because it's Councilwoman Diaz's birthday and we want to let her go and have some time. We had a big She doesn't mind staying. She doesn't mind. I'm not trying to get messed up in here. Um on the 20 on uh September 11th, uh we were invited and truly honored to join Councilwoman uh Francis um Alan Pinsky uh with the um at a September 11th remembrance uh with the Las Vegas Fire and Rescue um folks up at uh Policeman's Park. I'm stumbling because now I'm lost my place. It was beautiful. Um it was respectful and heartfelt and I'm really um glad that I was able to participate. You did a wonderful job my colleague and thank you. Um on the 12th of September we had a principal round table at the new Wetsie building. It was amazing. We got a great tour. We had principles participate from schools throughout Ward 5. We had presentations. I am super excited that this building is already being activated and good things are going to happen there and I encourage the community to learn more um and participate a lot. Um next on the September 12th uh I was invited downtown to the plaza to light the fireworks. It was so much fun. They closed the street. um res uh people who were down there filled the street and were so excited to participate in the fireworks. Um thank you so much um to the plaza leadership. Um I'm losing my mind here. The young man's name in the middle. Jonathan Josel was there. Sam Cherry was there. My hubby uh came with me. And of course the always present uh regulator uh Julius uh Lightfoot. We had a really wonderful day and um it was a great event. Just want to throw a couple things out here for upcoming events. Um we have the 11th annual Girls Aviation Day coming up on September the 20th. Um folks, if you've got a daughter or even a son who's interested in aviation, we ask you to please um check out the newsletter. It is there. It's an important opportunity for our young people to look at what kinds of careers are available and aviation is one and we want our young people to know that that is a possibility for their future. Uh coming up on October the 11th, we will have a community cleanup at Ethel Pearson Park 9:00 a.m. to 11:00. There's registration online if you'd like to join us. U we're going to go out there and do a great job and make that park look as beautiful as possible. Um and we are excited to have you join us. Uh we are still looking for folks to be in Americanore. Um in uh we need Americanore. They are helping us with all kinds of wonderful things throughout the city. Namely um are they're helping with um getting kids who are not showing up to school. They're going to their homes as part of trying to reduce our absenteeism and other important things in the community. So, please, if you're interested, uh, contact us about being in the Americanore program. And as always, we've got green ball tennis at Lorenzi Park. Come out, hit the ball, uh, get some exercise. It's uh, free on those some days during the uh, week for your kids. It's a great sport and it's a lifetime sport. Just ask our city manager, Mike. uh he is and I are of a certain age and we're still out there doing the darn thing on the tennis court. So, anytime you need uh help, oh, one more thing, help us make our streets safer. RTC is still uh has their survey out there. They want to hear from folks. We want to make our communities walkable, bikable, um and and able for our seniors also to get around on devices. So, please um make sure your voice is heard through their survey. And now I will say that you have a beautiful picture of my staff, Nora, Julius, and Aura. We can be reached at 702229-5443 or by email at ward 5 at loss Vegas nevada.gov. We are here to serve. Thank you. And I will agree with you, you have a very beautiful staff. Uh before we call on uh Councilwoman Finski, Mr. Small, may we be of assistance to you? Just wondering council members would like to speak to the meeting today. Can I make a suggestion? This has been a very long meeting. Would you mind putting your um uh presentation in some form of writing and sending it to us? I think that would be far more productive for us to understand exactly what you are um uh presenting. And of course, if anybody I think everybody has a place they need to be. Yeah. Yeah. My my phone is on the card. Your phone is on the card. Yeah. Oh, okay. Thank you very much. Yeah. I've because I've called and stopped in at the county all the time uh trying to talk to them at the sub floor on the same items about conversion and diversion. I think it would be very helpful if you put it in writing so perhaps we could understand it a little better. Well, it's there. All right. Thank you so much. Brun's district. Maybe she can, you know, call me and I could go through her. All right. Thank you very much. Sure. You're very welcome, Councilwoman Valinski. Thank you, Madame Mayor. September is National Preparedness Month, a time to highlight those who keep our community strong in the face of emergencies. On Monday, September 8th, I had the opportunity to give Brian Scrogggins a proclamation that I honored him for his leadership and dedication to emergency preparedness. Through the Emergency Management Foundation and his service as our very own Las Vegas Fire and Rescue Chaplain, Brian has supported first responders, advanced disaster preparedness, and provided care when it's needed most. It's a great way to honor him for his efforts. Next up, on Thursday, September 11th, the city of Las Vegas and the Las Vegas 1013 Club came together to host a 911 remembrance that Councilwoman Shandra Summers Armstrong was uh blessed to attend. Thank you for coming. Uh, as the ceremony ended, the 1013 club released a series of balloons in tribute to the lives lost. And Councilwoman Brun, I'll acknowledge this will be the last year for the balloon release. The blue balloons rose in honor of the officers who perished on 911, while the yellow balloons symbolized those who continue to suffer from the longlasting effects of that day. It was a reminder of the deep sacrifices made and a celebration of the courage and lives who we will never forget. Next up, Saturday, September 13th, was the National Day of Service. Volunteers came together at Centennial High School in Loveet Middle School in my own backyard to make ornaments for the Nevada tree on the US Capitol. Fleece blankets and movein kits for the unhoused. Volunteering is a great way to give back to our communities. It was inspiring to see individuals come together by making time to be present, to care, and to engage in a cause larger than themselves. Again, thank you to each and every young person and old person who is a part of this special day. Next up, join us on Friday, October 4th, for a movie in the park featuring a showing of Hocus Pocus at Huckleberry Park. There will be a trunk or treat in the parking lot, festival, festive Halloween music, food trucks for purchase, popcorn, and Hocus Pocus theme activities for kids. dressed to impress for our Sanderson Sisters costume contest. It will be a night you won't want to miss. On Tuesday, October 7th, downtown Summerland will be hosting a national night out. You can join the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for a familyfriendly free event and they usually have the impressive large apparatus out. I know I will be there and excited. Uh, next, please take a moment to look at the faces on this slide. 15 children are still missing from our community. If you recognize any of them or have any information that could help, please contact Las Vegas MPD missing person detail at 702828311. Please help us bring our kids home. And lastly, you can stay up to date with everything happening in Ward Forward by following me on Facebook, Instagram, X, all the things. We are constantly sharing updates, community news, and up upcoming events. If you ever need any assistance or have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us directly the oldfashioned way. 702292524. We are always here to provide any help that we can. Thank you. Thank you so much, Mayor Prom. Thank you, Madam Mayor. This is National Library Card Signup Month, and I'm in the library a couple times a week now with my children. Uh, so you can get access to books, movies, digital resources, homework, help, and more. And it's all for free. And card holders this month can enter to win amazing prizes from the library district. Scan the QR code to learn more. And I'm promoting family fun night at Mirabelli. You can join our community for night of fun for the whole family. This Friday at Marbelli Community Center is family bingo from 5:30 to 7:00. follow the QR code to register. Thank you, Mayor. No, thank you so much. U Miss Diaz, thank you, Madame Mayor. I just want to remind everyone watching that we won't have um a meeting in the first week of October. So, we will not be um doing the business of the city until October 15th. So, just wanted to put it out there because that was not calendared. Um, so just a gentle reminder to those who view us and tune in to our meetings. We'll see you on October 15th. Um, on September 4th, we had a great day here at our fabulous city. Um, Mayor Berkeley and my colleagues and myself, we all were able to cut the ribbon of um, the awesome Las Vegas Civic Center and Plaza. Um, also known as Carolyn G. Goodman Plaza. Um, obviously Mike went extensively into this endeavor earlier today, but it was just awesome to have uh three prior city managers there with us and uh both Mayor Goodman's also present for this just a momentous occasion for us as we um opened and recognized that greatness is in our future. So, thank you to all who joined us that day. On September 6th, we had a national cleanup day in the Mayfair neighborhood. A huge thank you to everyone who participated in that effort. Uh we had our incredible neighborhood services department taking the lead on this event and our volunteers including a team from Morgan and Morgan and students from UNLV. All of your time, energy, and commitment make a lasting impact especially for our neighbors and we are so grateful to you. So, thank you all. Um with the collective help, we were able to uh pick up 271 pounds of trash. Whoa. On September 8th, um the Economic Development Administration made a visit to Las Vegas. And it was a great pleasure to welcome Taret Collins and Britney McFarland who um unfortunately couldn't make it last minute, but uh we hope she'll come back to see what amazing efforts we continue to drive here with Workforce Connections, with CSN, with the city, with our awesome YDSI department. Um, but we basically had her here to talk to her about all the awesome workforce um, things that we're doing, including our historic Westside Education and Training Center and thank them for their 6.9 million investment to make this project a reality. And yesterday, we got the news that the 5 million EDA award to go to our east side education and training center is also a reality. So, can't wait for the east side to have their Etsy coming on board in a few years, too. Um, on September 15th, uh, this is for all the foodies. Um, if you love Thai food, we have a We're a Thai now closer to city hall campus. Um the we're a tide street food um had its grand opening on Monday and we were thrilled to have the mayor there celebrating this successful grand opening and it's the fifth restaurant for the owner for Sassi and um two the second location in city um boundaries. And so I feel like the luckiest council member to have Thai food offerings of high caliber in Ward 3. And I hope you guys will go out and support because they do amazing food there. We want to go right now. Yes. Right. Right. Ajourned. No, no, I'm kidding. I'm getting food invitations. All right. I want to let everyone know that tonight uh the Clark County Commissioners Tuk Sager Bloom and William McCertie have a special reception and art exhibition called My Immigrant Family. uh 5:30 to 7:30 at the Clark County Government Center. So, this is an open invitation for everyone to attend um as it's a joint celebration that we are all doing in light of Hispanic Heritage Month that launched on September 15th. I would also like to invite members of the Mayfair neighborhood tomorrow, Thursday, September 18th, for our Mayfair neighborhood meeting at Hollingsworth Elementary School Library with our downtown area command captain and staff. This meeting is a place to share all of their concerns um as of late for public safety in the neighborhood and that's why uh the Captain Celely and his um awesome officers and myself will being there taking note and addressing them. All right. Uh September 18th, 20th, and 27th are going to be a busy weekend for our special event staff. So, I just want to put these awesome events on your radar. We have a back-to-back weekend family-friendly events at our brand new Civic Plaza. And this is your opportunity to come and check out uh what we have across city hall. So we have an evening of country music with Paige and the Overtones on Thursday, September 18th at 5:30 and return on Saturday, September 20th from 11:00 a.m. to 400 p.m. for the official grand opening celebration. And this is where we invite all of the public to come and check out um the Goodman Plaza. The next weekend on September 27th, um the Nevada Latino Arts and Culture Association are hosting a free fiesta at the Plaza in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. And that one's from 4 to 900 p.m. It's a great opportunity to come and do some free entertainment with your family and friends. Next, I'd like to put upcoming events in October on your radar. I would like to invite you to participate in two events. Uh the B National Health Fair and the Las Vegas Book Festival. You're invited to the East Las Vegas Community Center on October 4th to a free health fair for everyone to receive important health services and resources, including vision screening, flu vaccines, general health screenings, and more. Save the date for our Las Vegas Book Festival, which is returning on October 18th at our historic Fifth Street School for a full day of free book signings, talks, workshops, panel discussions, and fun activities for residents of all ages. Again, we're just putting on your radar that we do have no school fundays. Um the staff development day on the 15th helped accommodate a lot of uh parents that had to go to work but their kids stayed at home or stayed with us. And this is an amazing opportunity for the upcoming no school days October 17th, 20th, and November 26th. Please check out your nearest community center for information. Wanted to bring to your attention that WEAP grant funds um are available now through October 30th. So, your youth neighborhood association partnership program is offering grants of up to 2,000 for youth ages 8 to 18 to design and lead projects that make a positive and lasting difference in their neighborhoods. There is a virtual workshop tonight and their workshops will walk the applicants or potential applicants and pro and um answer questions they may have about the entire process. The last day to apply for these funds is October 30th. So, uh, go ahead and Google WEAP grant, city of Las Vegas, and you'll get to the landing page. I'm getting there. I know. I want to go celebrate my birthday, too, but my staff didn't help me. Okay. Um, help shape the future of Charleston Boulevard. The future of Charleston belongs to you. Share your input on the future of Charleston Boulevard for a chance to win a $100 Visa gift card. Who can't use extra money for shopping? So, make sure you check that out at RTC and leave us your input. And that's it for me. You know how to get a hold of me and my fabulous staff. We're always here to hear your concerns and also uh heed the call um to serve you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Um Councilwoman Brun, last but not least again, Phis Complanos, to my colleague, Councilwoman Diaz, I hope your day is as special as you are. Second, congratulations again to Cara Kelly, our new war 2 council woman. We look forward to working with you. Um, next we can go to the next one since we already covered this. Service has been a big part of the month of September for team Brunie. Groups around the valley have been working to turn the pain of 911 into purpose. We've been pleased to partner with sever several groups to organize and participate in these service activities. Earlier this month, we partnered with Just Serve and Faith Leaders for a 911 community day of service. About 400 volunteers came together and we made a huge impact. We collected and sorted thousands of pounds of clothes equivalent to three moving vans um for unhoused and foster youth which were distributed to 11 charities around the valley. We painted over a 100 rocks to beautify Centennial Hills Park and we decorated 200 Christmas ornaments for the US Capital Christmas tree which is being provided by Nevada. Next up, last week we met with our neighbors for our monthly Bokeaditos with Brunie to talk about development, our school district, and education. Speaking of education, the Department of Education recently recently released the star ratings, which is the state's way of rating our schools. I'm very pleased to share that 25% of W 6 schools are five-star schools and 70% of schools in my district are either fourstar or five-star schools compared to 30% for Nevada as a whole. Next up, I was honored to be a speaker at the Jeremiah Program Las Vegas Voices Rising event, an evening celebrating the resilience of single moms and their children. As a board member, I'm proud to support a mission that transforms lives across generations by prioritizing education, recognizing that education is the single most important predictor of economic mobility. Last weekend, more than 250 volunteers joined us for our youthled 911 remembrance and community day of service event. After remembrance ceremony, where we planted 400 flags, we did a hands-on service event at Floyd Land Park. By the end of the day, we had collected more than 300 lb of trash, trimmed and weeded over 2,000 ft of water lined around the lake, decorated over 100 ornaments for the US Capital Christmas tree, and collected 30 pints of donated blood. Thank you to our incredible community partners, including Boy Scouts, Troop 129, Just Serve, Get Outdoors Nevada, Las Vegas Fire and Rescue, Jeremiah Program, Pink Box Donuts, Youth Services of America, and Republic Services. Later that evening, I partnered with our cultural affairs team to have a concert in the park at Centennial Hills Amphitheater. We welcome Fat Cat Swinger, a very high energy 11piece band, to the stage. A thousand people joined us to swing and dance, and we're hoping to have them back next year because they were so popular. Turning to events, this Friday, Team Brunie will be hosting our last Critters of the Night event at Floyd Land Park. will be gathering at 6:30 p.m. to begin our search for bats, owls, and scorpions. On Saturday, we're gathering for our third Tales and Mocktails book club event. Join us at 6:30 at the Centennial Hills Library, where we will be discussing We Are Called to Rise, which highlights the wonderful way many of us have arrived in Vegas, formed unlikely ties, and built a community. Rising to be better. As always, we want to hear from you. Call us at 7022295463 or ward 6 vegasnvada.gov. We are here to serve. Thank you. Thank you. And thank uh thank all of you. This has been a a long meeting but I believe a very productive one. Uh very happy to welcome Carara Kelly uh to the city council and uh congratulations city manager for an outstanding job and an outstanding review. And at this time, the uh September 17th meeting of the city council is adjourned. I want to be all that you see. But tomorrow can wait. Freezing time in this place. Till the sun is awake. Be like a magnet on me. I don't care what they say. We can do it our way. And if love's just a game, then come and play. 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