April 3rd 2019 meeting of the City Council is called to order this meeting has been properly noticed and posted in compliance with the Open Meeting Law the mayor has been excused for the part of this meeting and will be joining us later and then directing the meeting herself in the meantime I will try and take her place these proceedings are being video recorded as well as presented live on KC L V cable channel 2 and our closed caption for our hearing impaired viewers please note customers of CenturyLink and Cox Communications can view this program and high-definition on channel 1 0 0 2 you can also watch this meeting live on Apple TV Roku and amazon firetv on-the-go Vegas app the council meeting as well as all other KC LV programming can be viewed on the internal Internet at WWDC live the proceedings will be rebroadcast on KC LV and the web the wednesday of the meeting at 8 p.m. and also on friday at 4 a.m. saturday at 7 p.m. Sunday at 7 a.m. and the following Monday at 5 p.m. this 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whose will is good and gracious and the whole law is truth we beseech you to God and bless each member of our City Council assembled here today give each of them the spirit of wisdom and understanding that they may discern the truth in all that they undertake show them your purpose in all that they don't do as they exercise their duties as leaders in our city teach us all to seek you and fill our hearts with thankfulness as we strive to serve each other we ask this in your most holy name [Music] we're going to begin our ceremonial items with the recognition of a citizen of the month and the first item will be handled by councilman staris Anthony he has the honor of recognizing our citizen of the month Thank You mayor GoPro Tom well good morning everyone morning welcome to Las Vegas City Hall each month as the Mayor Pro Tem mentioned a member of the City Council has the honor and privilege to recognize a citizen in the city of Las Vegas who's made a positive impact in our community and we recognize that person and award them the Citizen of the month and today it is my honor and pleasure to recognize Kevin auric president of Summerlin for the Howard Hughes corporation as the April 2019 citizen a month for the city of Las Vegas Kevin would you please come down here give him a nice round of applause Kevin auric as I mentioned Kevin auric is president of Summerlin and is in charge of the Southern Nevada region of the Howard Hughes corporation kevin has been with the company for more than four decades he has a distinction of being one of the longest tenured employees of the Howard Hughes corporation having started his career with the company's accounting department in 1974 at the famed Desert Inn hotel the Howard Hughes corporation owns manages and develops commercial residential and mixed-use real estate throughout the city of Las Vegas they have been instrumental in transforming the western part of Las Vegas including my ward Ward 4 with exciting developments throughout the Summerlin community today Summerlin is home to more than 100,000 residents Summerlin Summerlin began nearly 30 years ago and has played an important role in helping make Las Vegas a place to live and raise a family just last year Summerlin ranked as a nation's third biggest selling master plan community in the country under Kevin's leadership Summerlin has opened several golf courses including to TPC golf courses if you know what that means that's a big deal and it's home of the Shriners PGA Open further developments include parks churches and schools libraries hotels a veteran community center and Summerlin hospital over the past few years kevin has led the 1.6 million square foot retail dining and entertainment project called downtown Summerlin this is also the home with a practice facility for the NHL franchise the Vegas Golden Knights the city's first professional sports team the two newest developments include the Las Vegas ballpark home of the Las Vegas aviators a city's professional triple-a baseball team of a Pacific Coast League and affiliate with the Oakland A's which will open next that Wednesday or Tuesday April 9th ok Tuesday then they have the Tuesday April 9th and Summerlin is building a Las Vegas metropolitan Police Department substation to be built at 215 and Far Hills and warto to provide public safety for the western part of the valley on behalf of the mayor and the entire City Council I want to thank you Kevin your leadership and the Howard Hughes corporation for all the vision you've had in developing Las Vegas and I would like to name you the Citizen of the month for the city of Las Vegas congratulations and I have a plaque here for you that says Kevin Warrick citizen of a month city of Las Vegas for April and if you go out to the corner over here there's a digital sign and your mug is gonna be on there for the entire month of April so you can go by and bring your family and anybody you want and take pictures out there how's that all right now a couple of words from Kevin auric well thank you councilman Anthony and greetings mayor pro-tem city council members of the City Council look I've been here for 40 years I'm kind of a low-profile guy I don't like publicity but this is I'm humbled by this honor look there's a lot of things going on in Summerlin as the councilman just pointed out he actually stole my speech here but you know in six days we're going to open up the Las Vegas ballpark I mean it's a state of the art it's best-in-class in terms of the facility it's best-in-class I think we could get some pictures on the monitor right yeah there's some few pictures that we have of it the food experience is going to be wonderful it's a family oriented venue it's great for Southern Nevada it's going to be something that it's not only baseball but it also will include charity community events will have concerts out there so we're going to activate that facility as much as you can you can you can see this is a better shot of it and it gets better every day as I said six days it'll yeah everyone will be able to see it we hope everybody takes time out to come out to the ballpark it's it's all about family and that's what the master plan someone is about but really it's it's about Southern Nevada and we're very proud to deliver this project to the community so it's it's very special to us it has amenities from berm seating to luxury suites to you can sit in a pool have a drink you know whatever you'd like to do there's there's something for everybody price range for everybody so we're we're very proud of this project for the for the for the entire community that's not the only thing that's going on in Summerlin but it kind of overshadows everything else as the councilman said we've got a metro police station opening up in at the end of this year which is at four hills under 215 and we're excited about that we've got apartments opening up in a couple months the apartments right across from downtown Summerlin office building that we just completed that's a hundred percent occupied now and just a lot of things going on so this is a rendition of the rendering of the metro police station again that'll be great for the community the next slide is this is just one of the parks this is Fox Hills Park probably the most popular park in Summerlin it's crowded on weekends you too sorry to find a place to park but it it's got climbing apparatuses it's a little different than most of the parks that are programmed for baseball and basketball this is really climbing apparatus is it's got bungee not bungee but zip lines first big off things like that so it's a very popular Park but it's interesting I said like I said I've been with for ownership groups of Summerlin and actually we started in the city and the very first project in someone was a middle school the mirrors in here but she was back she was very much part of that process 30 years ago in starting the school and it looks like we're gonna end in the city the next slide of this is really this is the undeveloped area of someone we still have five thousand acres remaining to be developed it all happens to be most of it happens to be in the city so we've got another 15 to 20 years we've had a wonderful relationship with the city over the 30 years we've still got another 15 20 years of that relationship to go and we've been very pleased with the response that we've gotten from the city and the staff through throughout all these years so I want to thank everybody for this opportunity and again thank you very much for the for the honor I really appreciate it thank you very much thank you Kevin but I think the most important thing is on behalf of the the residents that live in Ward 4 and war 2 and the city of Las Vegas that have decided to make Summerlin their home I know they love to live up there because it's a great place to raise a family and walk your dogs and take your kids to the park and it's just it's just a world-known place to live and work and take care of your family so thanks for developing a community that allows people to do that so thank you very much gratulations Kevin ORAC [Applause] and next on the agenda is the recognition of the 2020 census and it's my pleasure to invite arlene alvarez a partnership specialist with the u.s. census bureau to join us every 10 years americans are asked to participate in the census and i cannot overstate the importance of this it truly is a chance to shape our future as a city because many federal funding opportunities are tied directly to census information so i would urge all las vegas to participate in the 2020 census and arlene where are you would you come up here please i want to ask you to tell us a little bit about how we can participate but first i want to present to you this proclamation making April 3rd 2019 census day in the city of Las Vegas and then I'm going to ask where is my Proclamation here and this is for you to have and it's from our council declaring today census day it sounds a little you know staid it isn't very exciting or sexy census day but I'll tell you it means a lot it means a lot as far as the monies from the federal government are concerned and even eventually as far as the breaking up of art its distribution of the wards within our city so please everybody anybody listening and watching this and everybody here be sure to make sure everybody you know gets down on the census thank you mayor pro-tem Tarkanian and for the council thank you so much for your commitment to the census and for our community that's really what this commitment is about historically the decennial census is the largest peacetime mobilization of the entire con tree and the 2020 census will be no different in preparation and in my role as partnership specialist with with a community partnership and engagement program I have been working really closely with community leaders and the city of Las Vegas particularly with your planning department to establish the Southern Nevada complete count committee of stakeholders that are involved in our community to ensure a complete count additionally one of the Census Bureau's primary goals is to recruit for the many hundreds of jobs that will be available in our state it'll be close to 2,000 jobs and most of those jobs will be in Southern Nevada because our state will only have two area census offices and both of them will be in Southern Nevada one will be in North Las Vegas and one in the city of Las Vegas so these are all great opportunities to get involved and make a difference in the community both are scheduled to open this summer the greatest impact of the 2020 census however is long term the census will depending but will determine funding as Councilwoman tarkanian mentioned programs like title one schools transportation projects hospitals schools Medicaid especially chip for children among so many other billions of dollars of federal funding is distributed to our state based on this funding for our state it specifically over six billion a year and the census determines that funding for ten years so so we can't go back once the count is done that's it and so that will you know that was stuck with our numbers and with our funding the sentences also determines the apportionment in the House of Representatives Nevada gained one congressional seat in the 2010 census and while we're not at risk of losing our seat or gaining one our state's legislative school and ward districts will be realigned as Councilwoman Tarkanian previously mentioned there are many other benefits to an accurate and complete census count the phrase data is gold comes to mind the data that the Census releases into the public is accessible to businesses government officials nonprofits for them to do market research policy proposals and grant proposals in cases of emergency census data is also consulted by emergency response teams once again the benefits of an accurate and complete count are essential and an on behalf of the US Census Bureau I thank you very much for this Proclamation and my information is up here so if you'd like to reach out to me ask me how you can get involved more than happy to tell you and direct you to however it is that we can work together I'm especially looking for community community leaders or businesses that also want to get involved because you know everything is interrelated really I'm in our community so thank you very much once again try and get its where people see it so that they will do this yeah a lot of the things that we get that are extras in the city we're able to do because of federal funds okay good luck to you thank you so much you in any way let us know of course I'll be in touch I wanted to have my word moved a little I I kept trying to get some of those Summerlin parks into my ward but we didn't quite get enough people in the older Ward one and I saw councilman coffin looking at this beautiful summer than parks and I knew what he was thinking I knew what you were thinking yes okay and then you know we'd like to have today and you know I don't know how we do it at you and LV and here in the city we're always winning these national awards just shows the enthusiasm that's in Las Vegas so today we're going to recognize the UNLV cheer team and the rebel girls and company Councilwoman Fiore will recognize these two groups of athletes these groups remember have won national championships each of them Councilwoman this is so exciting look at our beautiful rebel girls yes well they're gorgeous too yep just come all the way yeah this is beautiful you guys so today we have some very amazing people in the audience and now they're up here with us and I'm excited to be recognizing the UNLV cheer team and rebel girls and company for their recent national championships at the start of this year the UNLV cheer team traveled to the 2019 UCA College cheer leading championships and earned their first division 1a team national championship UNLV cheer beat out Mississippi Bowling Green California Minnesota San Diego State and New Mexico taking home the gold for UNLV along with the cheer team success the rebel girls and company earned two national titles at the division 1a hip-hop and gameday categories at the 2019 college dance team national championships also held in Orlando Florida not only did they win this year this is the second year in a row that they have earned a national championship yes and leading these teams is Desiree Reid Frances Savannah Sibley and Marsha takács de Verde can I have the the coaches are they here where are they here they are I would like for you guys to say a few words about your teams hi my name is Brandi Slade and I coach the UNLV rebel girls and company these student athletes are just dedicated and hardworking and we are so proud to represent the city of Las Vegas year after year nationally and we thank you guys all for your support and thank you for this recognition my name is Savannah I coach the UNLV cheer team Thank You Council for this recognition it's such an honor I'm so excited for the girls I'm so proud of them the hard work the dedication that they've put into our program I can't thank my coaching staff enough for backing me up and you know having the support of my decisions and of course representing our University so thank you again so thank you and each and every one of our girls and boys have their own certificate from the city signed by our mayor and all of our council so each and every one of you have your own certificate and we just thank you guys for being so beautiful so great and bringing home the gold [Applause] [Laughter] very interesting story I tried to meet with all the candidates who were running in Ward one to take my place and one of them I met who was a very fine candidate I thought anyway he told me he was a cheerleader at UNLV during the time my husband was coaching there and I I said oh you like cheerleading he said oh yeah he said there was a really nice girl on the team and I wanted anyway that's how far you go girls I just want you to know lots of guys out there [Laughter] [Applause] yeah we want to thank all these ladies for winning the championships yeah it's on that was dice a nice intervention of pulchritude I used that word the other day and I had to explain to my grandson a college graduate that it met beauty so thank you for all the beauty that you brought here today and thank you for your great work for the teams and now for the final ceremonial item I want to discuss a very important issue I don't know if you've watched TV recently where you've seen the ad of a mother that shows her little boy swimming in the pool with his two sisters is obviously adore him and he adores them he's got his little wings on and they're in the pool these are family films and you can feel the love and the strength of that love between each family member the movie goes on to show however that one day the mother thought the child was upstairs the father thought the child was someplace else she couldn't find the child and then they realize the child had gone through the doggie door through the doggie door to the pool outside was still alive but after 2-3 days passed away these little tiny things we who are parents know that one second that two seconds children just loved to explore and why not go through the doggie door if you're a two-year-old why not because you saw the doggy do it that's what children do they imitate and so even though the child was so well protected when the parents knew the child was in the pool it's when the child is not I hope you get to see that because it gets you right in the heart and makes you realize how very very important the issue of childhood drowning is it continues to be the leading cause of accidental death for children in Southern Nevada and yet it's preventable it's not cancer it's not something else like that that you know we can't help if we get it's preventable so each year we designate April first as April Fool's Day in the City to bring awareness to the dangers of drowning I'd like to call Tim Szymanski the public education and information office for Las Vegas Fire and Rescue to come up Tim and Tim has worked long and hard on this subject 14 years I've been on the council and Tim you've been there all the time and so as mayor pro-tem she was right up there on the frontlines I'm bringing up members of the Southern Nevada drowning child drowning prevention coalition and I just want to talk a little bit about the history of April pools day it started about 30 years ago on Las Vegas Fire and Rescue we went out in the community and was trying to push the ABC DS of drowning prevention a for adult supervision B for barriers around the pool itself C for classes if children learn how to swim they can't drown in most cases and also that adults should learn CPR in case you have a drowning accident and then D for devices and most important is the life preserver the lifejacket the child should never go in or near water and Lester swimming with an adult without a life jacket on if you're going to the lake and you're going out on a boat it should be as normal as putting your seat belt on him when you into a car it should be a standard procedure so if something happens that child has that life preserver on about ten years ago the coalition was formed the Southern Nevada drought and child drowning prevention coalition by Greg Blackburn and I'm gonna bring bring him up here and instead of just doing it into one community we went Southern Nevada white on average eight children die each year in Southern Nevada due to drowning that doesn't seem like a lot of children but anything over zero is too many there was actually 51 water related incidents where children had to be taken to the hospital and that's children 14 and under because they had some sort of an incident with water and unfortunately it was eight of those that didn't make it so this is why we do April pools day every year while you're up here I want to mention mayor pro-tem has been so involved with this she is actually on the board of directors with the southern of a Southern Nevada child drowning prevention coalition each entity has one elected official on it she's been there she's always participated in all of our events the other one which is not a part of today is float like a duck and that's every Memorial Day weekend and this lady has been there every year at that event since its beginning and we're there from 12:00 to 4:00 some of those summers have been ruthless it was like a hundred and fifteen degrees and she is out there walking around getting pledged cards from adults pledging that they'll watch their children and not leave them unattended she got door prizes and it was just fascinating to see her that she didn't just show up and shake hands she stayed there the entire time and promoted drowning prevention so she is really dedicated to the program of drowning prevention here in the city and also in Southern Nevada he's giving me too much credit basically he and the others that are there are the ones every single time they're there and it's held at the heinrich ymca i want to mention that and it's on Memorial Day it's all day and there are people there that if the child doesn't know how to swim they will help them learn how to swim and you can't use the big slide unless you do get past that swimming test so I just want you to know that it's a whole lot of people that work on that they're nice Tim but everybody it's a tell you it's the Saturday before Memorial Day I can't remember this year but it's the Saturday before Memorial Day it's a free swim from 12:00 to 4:00 and there's all kinds of door prizes and stuff like that and they also teach the children if nothing else if they don't know how to swim if they fall in the water they at least know how to float to stay above the water so but I'd like to bring up Greg who is the chairperson he form the coalition ten years ago ironically and it was to bring everybody in Southern Nevada all the forces together all the entities national state local entities we come together once a month and meet at the Clark County Government Center and we discuss how we can combat child drowning in Southern Nevada thank you very much Tim I appreciate that Mayor Pro temp if you would come back here we're not done with you again it's been mentioned before drowning prevention apartment child drowning is preventable they'd mentioned the ABCs and deeds of drowning prevention the simple thing is adult supervision we do have the cure of the leading killer of children in our community we have parents new parents every year it's not like we trained and the task is over every single day it continues some of the things we led the nation in population for drowning we want win awards from art from UNLV from our community leaders we don't want to be leading the community leading the nation on drowning incidents so with that I would like to timid mention that I helped create it was a team effort hundred percent team effort with all the communities in Southern Nevada the city of Henderson city of Las Vegas city of North Las Vegas in Clark County got together say what can we do to help cure the causes solve this problem we realized what each department had done for drowning prevention and we wanted to get together and complement each person's efforts I have to give a credit to mayor pro-tem council Marin council city management the departments that do this work on a continual basis building safety Parks and Recreation Fire Department and Metro they're out in the community don't hesitate to share the message that drowning can be prevented teaching teenagers to what to look out for to watch for children don't assume someone else is watching your child if you're hosting a party a swimming party be a responsible host hire a lifeguard to watch the children and again I know we could go on all day but my message is to begin to give mayor pro-tem Tarkanian a recognition a certificate for her efforts and support against support is is volume speaks volumes and an award to remind you of of what you've done for us and what you've done for your communities so thank you very much I really don't feel I deserve this I will tell you I see some of you out there and I don't know if we're breaking through into past the psychological barriers we all have in our minds but these people work so hard and just think of a little child you know and that you love and just think of one minute 10 seconds and that child is gone and that's what the difference is and that's why we emphasize we can prevent this what we can prevent let's prevent I thank you so much and with that I'd like to introduce Christabel Rader presented the check she represents the southern of that chapter the International Code Council they have been the leading financial sponsor of drowning prevention valley-wide and all with that I'll turn it over to Krista and Kevin hi my name is Krista Bilbrey and I represent the Southern Nevada chapter of the International Code Council this year the building officials have dedicated $28,000 towards this cause to the local jurisdictions and programs and we're really proud and honored to be a part of this thank you thank you Krista I also want to mention that over the past 11 years the Southern Nevada chapter of the International Code Council has been involved with the child drowning prevention program and has donated over a hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars to toddler swim grant programs and shout drowning prevention and we aim to continue this process for as long as we can possibly afford to to keep doing it and we will continue to do it as long as we can but it's very important you know I from speaking for myself my parent my kids grew up here in Las Vegas and when they were toddlers I took them to the city of Las Vegas parks department at Garr site pool and they got swim lessons here so I encourage all the parents out there do the same and have a very happy and safe summer thank you [Applause] we're going to take a photo here and I was just looking at some of this on the proclamation which is yours and I haven't handed it to you yet don't go away with the taste this is your probation to make today April Fool's Day yes it's all good clothes we're all joining together that's what I mean you know we're all part of the puzzle the puzzle is getting this to be the best secure safest city in the country and we all contribute to it every single person here anybody in junior high school college senior homes whatever we all contribute there are 100 and 1000 backyard swimming pools in Southern Nevada and most of them were constructed prior to 2003 when a code was changed that then required secondary barriers that would further prohibit young children getting into the pools but those are the ones we have to watch so be very very careful and now we're going to take a picture and give a thank you and here's your from this I just want to tell you this is from the mayor and from all of the councilmembers who greatly support what you're doing and want to help in any way they can thank you thank you from the bottom of our hearts okay oops there's one there say that that's our final ceremonial item and now we will begin the regular schedule of items on the agenda I believe we have to give our people a little bit of time in order to change over tapes or whatever it is technology does nowadays okay okay we're on to agenda item number nine public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters on the agenda for action the amount of time any single speakers allowed may be limited all comments made will be cross-reference to those specific items if anyone submitted a speaker card 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'll set the time if we could madam clerk but one minute the major rush again nothing so we will now move on to agenda item 10 business items for possible action any items from the 9 a.m. session that the council staff and/or applicant wish to be stricken table withdrawn or held in advance to a future meeting may be brought forward and acted upon at this time are there any other items that the council wishes to bring forward or just have stricken table or held in abeyance it's about here madam mayor I just wanted to tell you that for our session we have item number 43 which is a discussion item regarding the approval of a tavern license for a change of ownership from HR Holdings LLC to Fat Tuesday nee annapolis LLC doing businesses Fat Tuesday at 450 Freemont Street Suite number 101 the request by the applicant is to obey 2 May 1st of this year and that's your motion that's my motion I moved I saw you that is the motion please vote and please post then that motion carries thank you very much move on to agenda item 11 for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the February 20th 2019 regular City Council meeting Mayor Pro Tem may have a motion to approve those minutes madam mayor I moved to approve the minutes thank you very much there's a motion to approve the minutes please vote and please post notion carries agenda items 12 through 33 on the consent agenda are considered to be routine recommended for pool by the departments and may be enacted in one motion are there any items that council wishes to bring forward okay Mayor Pro Tem we have a motion on I move to approve items number 12 13 and 14 a 12 through 33 what did I say it's alright we love you numbers donors excuse me what's the whole thing at one time okay then all the way 12 through 33 okay please vote and please post motion carries thank you very much and we're on to agenda item number 34 the administrative report by Tom Perrigo executive director of the Community Development representatives from Nevada energy tan ASCAP our services concerning the provision of renewable electric retail power to the city and discussion for possible action regarding the options for the city's City Council's selection regarding energy perficient's all wards madam mayor I would be standing in for Tom this morning scott adams city manager i am informing you that as of 9:00 a.m. this morning to nazca submitted in writing a withdrawal of their proposal to provide energy services to the city of las vegas [Applause] so we're going to highly recommend you strike this item but before you do both representatives of to Nazca and NV energy would like to address the City Council but let me indicate I think as we've indicated you all long this was the intent was to create a competitive process and that would result in our ending up with one of the providers giving us a better deal on our energy cost so it is our intent based on the action that you took at the last meeting to continue to work with NV energy through the PUC end process on their new program which we've applied for to achieve that to achieve that objective so with that we recommend a striking of the item but I would defer to representatives of both companies at your pleasure to make a few comments thank you I see mr. David Brown there and appreciate your efforts on behalf of this competition if you call it that but you know anytime there is competition it's good for everybody and we appreciate your interest and I'm sure it's not the end of ten Aska in the West but please go ahead and then we'll hear from Nevada energy sure Thank You Mara good morning mayor and council Dave Brown 9910 with cheyenne here on behalf of Tonasket power services first off congratulations mayor and Councilman career on your victories last night well deserved and we look forward to you guys being here for another term congratulations second I would really want to thank staff accounts our city manager Scott and Tom going all their staff including your representatives your consultants did a fabulous job working with Nazca and and vetting out the information a proposal that we provided to you is very much competitive and we it became evident yesterday it's it's a Nazca that there that they would be better served to pull their application today and so that's what we're doing but we again very much thank you for your time and listening to us and thank your staff thank you very very much for flying and we're grateful thank you good morning mayor members of the council Doug cannon president and CEO of env energy and I'm honored to be here today with each of you and appreciate just a few of your minutes to visit with you first mayor want to congratulate you and of course councilman career on your fantastic election victories last night we at NV energy very much look forward to working with you and the council through another term as we continue to to move Las Vegas forward on so many fronts and that that's something we're very much looking forward to as you see behind me there's a sea of blue and green shirts and I want to thank all of our colleagues who are here today and our partners that are here the individuals behind me represent labor they represent trade they look they represent local businesses they represent Las Vegas residents I myself am honored to call Las Vegas home to be raising my five children in this community through their in the public schools and we we very much love being a part of Las Vegas I know just as each of these individuals behind me do as well they understand the importance of energy issues and the role that energy issues play in our economy and in moving our vision of Las Vegas your vision of Las Vegas forward and we very much look forward to being a partner in moving that energy vision forward we've shown the ability to do that in the past we were challenged by your city staff by Tom Peugeot and others to find a solution to make Las Vegas the biggest 100% renewable city in the country and through the leadership of staff and unique ideas of envy energy we were able to deliver on that but that was the first step in what is a much broader journey in a much broader partnership and we very much look forward to engaging with the city as we move that partnership forward envy energy brings to the table competitive prices we bring certainty we bring simplicity and we bring transparency I'm here today because I want to commit to the city of Las Vegas that we will continue to work with your staff on delivering lower-cost energy solutions to the city it's important for us we know it's important for the city so that you can manage your fiscal affairs in ways that bring the most benefit to the residents of this city so we are here to tell you that in 2020 we will be filing a general rate case in front of the Public Utilities Commission and we will be requesting that the Public Utilities Commission cut our rates by over a hundred million dollars and we're committing to that I'm also here to tell you that we are committed to working with the city to deliver the benefits of the optional pricing program that we've already started to work with your staff on we will continue to work on that and we will deliver those benefits for the city in addition we will deliver a solution to the city that allows the city to be 100 percent renewable and continue to be a leader in the environmental and sustainability field in this country we are committed to being a partner with the city we appreciate the partnership that we've had for more than a hundred years and we look forward to what the next hundred years will bring for the city of Las Vegas and all of its residents so I appreciate your time today mayor and council members [Applause] and I think I think what we have all felt over these years is that your family we know this is home home for us but as we pull together all the time and do the best we can do it will only make us stronger and make us more reputable in building a world-class City and I really want to thank Tom Perrigo and our team here for everything that they've worked so hard on to make sure that we are able to deliver the hundred percent renewable energy for the city so your family and we just are so grateful and I don't know if council would like to make some comment here okay yes I'm just very pleased and I figured you should get a thank you too for all the information you gave us and great great Nevada energy and great for our labor and just pleased that we got this set up quickly thank you thank you very much yes so grateful go in the energy [Applause] Hey now it's time to go back to work this is not a pleasure day just cuz we're here work work work anyway thank you thank you all it's just it's great yes please I think I need a motion to strike oh yes wait we need don't go so fast we need a motion to strike go for it okay before before I do that Scott so so we are clear that we're going down this OPP funnel with end of the energy we are doing that absolutely we we've submitted application it was a an intense process to get it in okay we will see that we you know the interesting part of this we now have a team in place to work with us to work with NV energy all the way through the PUC in process and and our hope would be they get their new program on and that we can we can save in our cost through that new program working with NV energy okay great that's where I wanted to hear so with that mayor I will make a motion to strike item number 34 thank you very much as motion to strike 34 please vote and please post [Applause] thank you thanks councilman and you know Mirai I think we should thank all the people who came today from unions and other places and they've called us on the phone because it showed your interest in having things go well in the city it's nice you took the time thank you all right we're gonna move on to agenda item number 35 report by lorna james cervantes school associate superintendent clark county school district to provide a status update on various matters in the clark county school district this is in reference to all wards and so dr. Marrs Hibbler I think you're somewhere here do you see Lisa well I would say miss James servantes let's go ahead oh here she comes here she I don't think she could hear you she was overwhelmed by Nevada energy and the energy that's why she couldn't get in that's right she couldn't get through the crowd good morning mayor and members of the council dr. Lisa Moore a similar director of the department of youth development and social innovation we are here today as a requirement of Assembly Bill 469 for the quarterly report from the Clark County School District since the December quarterly report superintendent dr. hey-zeus jarrah has published the focus 2020 for strategic plan and also we structured his leadership which you'll hear more about today with me this morning is Lorna James Cervantes the school associate superintendent and Derek Baca woods the principal of the lead STEM Academy it's one of our newest magnet schools good morning mayor Goodman and members of the council I am Lorna James Cervantes school associate superintendent in the Clark County School District and with me today I would like to introduce and they'll stand up in the back a regent superintendent Debbie Brackett and also our newest school associate superintendent dr. Sam C Cabella who has joined the region 2 team in the Clark County School District as part of the reorganization of history welcome so just to give just to give a little bit of information as to where we are right now within the district and where we have and where we have come currently in the legislative session we're about half way through one of the big topics has been at the funding for schools in Nevada as you all know a currently Nevada's per pupil funding level is one the lowest in the nation and it's important to remember that our funding formula was created in 1967 and I won't tell you who was born that year but it's somebody here probably maybe even a few other people in the audience and so if we make a little comparison or in an analogy in our mind think about at that time it was like using the the payphones and kids today don't even know what a payphone is when you'd have to put a dime in to make a call and today the needs of our schools and the needs of students are like a smartphone so think about that shift in technology that's what's happening in the shifting in schools and the needs of students but not in the shifting of funding in Nevada schools the other concern is that in Nevada schools we're currently thinking of all students as starting in the same place however we know as superintendent Jarra shared with you in our last meeting then not all students start at home plate and are able to go around the basis that and even at an even rate just like we expect in a baseball game some start on first base some on second and some still in the dugout and we know that that means that there has to be a difference and a weight in the funding for those students so those are that is one of the important issues that we are speaking about in the legislative session currently now to the 2024 focus plan throughout this past fall superintendent Chara met with members of the leadership group within the school district along with holding several town hall meetings to create what is now the focus 24 2024 plan for the Clark County School District and you'll notice that student success is the center of this plan it has to be what we're all about it is our business surrounding students are the teachers the principal and the staff and the schools that serve them every single day and in order to support the teachers the students and the staff we have a coherent governance and leadership structure as well as sound fiscal fiscal management from the central office services and it's just as important to remember that in order for our students seed we need partnership with our parents and with our community and that's where all of you come in is that partnership that you are with us in the schools another piece of the focus 24 2024 plan was a reorganization of the district you may have heard that the district is now being divided into three regions each of those regions consists of one region superintendent and to school associate superintendents then they will also be joined by specific staff in different areas such as special education English language learners services other departments student services departments to help to support specifically students within that region of the school district another key focus is that by the time we start next school year all of the region offices will be located in what are the area service centers so they will be out in the community in the school so that we are much closer to the schools serving them very closely and also being very accessible to the community so those are some of the biggest shifts that have already taken place or are in the process of taking place right now also the goals that were set and approved by the school board are centered around four main areas there are for Student Success goals these are making sure that we are meeting the needs of our students in the schools every day increasing the achievement levels of all of our students in all of our schools no matter what Ward or what zip code they are in in the city making sure that we are closing the achievement gaps between the highest and the lowest performing students and giving all students often optimal opportunities to participate in Advanced Placement magnet school opportunities Career and Technical Education and all kinds of other advanced placement opportunities within the district as well as ensuring that all of our students are having the opportunity to be to graduate college and career-ready also looking at personnel be sure that we are hiring the best for every single one of our schools this has goals centered around making sure that we are attracting hiring and retaining the best teachers for every one of our schools in the district and then once we do have those teachers and those staff members in our schools making sure that we are recognizing them and that we are letting them know when they are doing an outstanding job and that we want them to remain here in Clark County as so many of us have I myself moved to Clark County twenty-eight years ago from Colorado and have been here since because it has given me such wonderful opportunities also we have several goals around sound fiscal fiscal management and making sure that we are using every single dollar that we have wisely within the districts and you also notice that there are three goals around parent and community engagement because we know that without the community and the parents involved in our schools that we will not succeed this is such an important piece of being successful as a district we have said some very very high goals for ourselves and for the community as a whole it is our goal that by 2024 there will be no more one or two star schools we know this is a lofty goal but it's a goal we are ready to work toward and we know that if we don't set high goals we won't meet high goals if we set low goals then that's the highest we're going to get we also have a goal of a 90% graduation rate for the district as a whole and a 100% increase in college and career-ready diplomas for our students across the district further we also would like to see a 100 percent increase in the participation and performance in Advanced Placement International Baccalaureate dual enrollment and Career and Technical Education for students across the Clark County School District these are big goals they're important goals and I think these are goals that are in line with the the goals and the vision of the city of Las Vegas and with your partnership we can reach these goals I know that you're all tuned in all of the time but for anyone who would like to see bills that are coming through the legislative session that are specific to the Clark County School District you can always track those through CCSD net spotlight and there will always be updates on what's happening that directly affects the Clark County School District and your children or grandchildren or nieces and nephews who are living in Nevada and are in school still so those are just a few of the highlights that I had to offer but I know you would like to hear from an outstanding principal who lives in works here in Las Vegas so I would at this time like to introduce mr. Derek Falco age from lead STEM Academy and he's here with his one of his assistant principals so I will turn it over to them thank you very much this is my assistant principal and partner Christie Ford we work hand-in-hand and I want to thank mayor mayor pro-tem and the council members for allowing us this opportunity to talk about our absolutely amazing school that we are creating and I say we're creating because a year and a half ago we learned that we were becoming a magnet school through a federal grant through the magnet school assistance program and once we got that information we saw this as an opportunity to completely rebrand our school it was lead middle school and the first thing we did was change our name to lead STEM Academy we also decided that our three focus areas were going to be robotics architecture and computer science at that point with help from our community we expanded those to robotics and manufacturing computer science and IT and cybersecurity and architecture and construction management because what we realized in what we decided at that time was we want to help our children get skills that they are going to need for their futures and we also want to show them that they do not have to leave Southern Nevada to be successful that there are opportunities here in Southern Nevada for all of our students in Clark County so the three areas of focus that we chose are also areas of need of employment in Southern Nevada and it was absolutely amazing the outpour of support from our community we have an advisory board that helps us with our long-range planning on our advisory board we have members from Nevada Energy Southwest gas the Nevada Contractors Association fanatic's UNLV Northwest Korea techno Academy advanced technical Academy RTC so with all of those they're helping us build our programs so that again our students get the skills that they need to be successful my phone shut down so one of the other things that we started doing at lead stem academy is project an inquiry based learning so basically our students no longer do they need to memorize facts we have Siri for that we have Alexa for that so we are teaching our students how to actually use those facts and how to incorporate those facts into what they're doing on a daily basis and they are incorporating all different subject areas at the same time with our project-based learning we also started doing something called stem tank where our students are doing a project a large-scale school-wide project with a main focus where all of their content areas come together and work towards solving a problem in the community our first semester our students designed and built a toy for its children with cerebral palsy this semester our students are designing a development a housing development with green energy in mind we are inviting you and all of our community partners to come and watch our students actually present we call it stem tank because they do a shark tank pitch to whoever comes and watches and I'm gonna tell you right now because we did it first semester and we're gonna do it again in May our students will amaze you you will be floored at the fact that we have 11 12 13 14 year old children who will stand in front of adults they don't know dignitary's not blink an eye and tell you about their project in their proposal can you make sure that we get that invitation because yes I was not happy them for you absolutely absolutely and so our stem tank is one of the culminating projects that our students perform during the school year so one of the things that we're very proud of is the fact that again our community has rallied around us so when we first became a magnet school there were naysayers in the community because we were lead middle school that said well you're never gonna be able to recruit students you're gonna have a hard time recruiting students to come to your school that first year we were selling a dream because nothing was in place yet and we had over a thousand applicants which we raised our incoming sixth graders from 500 acceptances to 600 because we had so many applicants this year with only one year under our belt not even a year we now have over 2,000 applicants we have the most applicants of any magnet school in the Clark County School District so what we are doing the community is embracing and they want their children to come to our school we are working with our community partners to redesign our classrooms the Nevada Contractors Association has donated labor and materials to redesign our classrooms into collaborative spaces so no longer are students sitting in rows they're now sitting on sometimes floors tables in groups but they're collaborating with each other which is exactly what they're going to have to do in the future we are teaching also the soft skills that go along with the content that they're learning in their regular classes so we feel as though we are redefining and redesigning education in the Clark County School District and we hope to be a model for other middle schools high schools and elementary schools as we move forward thank you I am here if there are any other questions or we're both here if there are any other questions but we want to thank you all and I know that Councilwoman Fiore you really specifically have reached out and supported lead stem academy so we want to thank you for that yes thank you very much for your support if I could just say something thank you very much for your presentation the in the early in the presentation you talked about the Nevada plan for education in 1967 yeah it's old but it is defensible in the courts that is unassailable in terms of discrimination against district to district so it's important to remember that some states have lost billions because they didn't care for their small counties so we have to remember that we should never neglect the small counties the small school districts or we pay on the other hand everybody needs more money and every district needs more money and an efficient use of the money so I wish you well I was up in Carson City last week I think you have a good chance but at the same time remember be very careful to not let people tamper too much with that that plan it's long it's complicated but it works yeah it's it's definitely hard to understand sometimes and I don't know I wasn't there at the time but I can tell you that they had in mind discrimination at that point thank you you're welcome and thank you for that advice we appreciate it councilman now you are a magnet school just like the other magnet schools in the district I mean you're part of the district right you're not a private school correct I think that's tremendous what you've done do you follow the same rules as far as the admittance is concerned do the children that live within two miles are they allowed to come so we because they have you know more points to get in then children who live further away right so we are in a 100% wall-to-wall magnet so every student who comes to lead STEM Academy has to apply to get him but we do have a preference for students who live within what used to be our attendance zone yes I'm a I'm a fortunate person in that I was able to start the first magnet school at Clark that's number one and also that I have a background of special education first I want to say that's tremendous what you're doing secondly I want to say I know how hard you're working to try and straighten everything out I do want to say a couple of things however rather strongly and this I want to say is every time someone's come from this CCSD to talk to us I've asked questions about special ed I've been told I'd get information I never got the information I want to tell you that I know that you are teetering teetering very closely on getting a very huge federal lawsuit because a state in the City CCSD is breaking the law as far as special education students is concerned I know this because I was a former member and probably will be a member again after June of an advocacy group that works to help special ed students and yet we hire people to direct these departments at special ed who have no training no experience and special ed we take schools where people have worked for years to build up a good working relationship of including some of these special ed children you have the whole regular faculty and the special ed faculty working together and then all of a sudden somebody decides no you have to move to a school that's about two and a half miles away which breaks up the whole thing even though the school wanted to keep it the parents wanted to keep it and no good reasons are given now that's not breaking the law you can do that if you want to but sure does it make good sense because it takes a long time to build up those skills of working together to help these children with special needs and right now I'm telling you a lawyers being sought out to represent these families and I'm I I don't know if anybody listens to what I say up here but I have a lot of experience in their education I have a lot of contact still with people with special ed and I want I hope I hope somebody well look at where we are and what's happening and really listen to the people who teach special ed and to directly supervise and the other hand I want to say good luck to you because I know how hard it is but in the special ed I'm saying that again because it's going to come soon if some changes aren't made thank you thank you thank you and Mayor Pro Tem I appreciate that comment Lorna James Cervantes for the record and I will take your concerns directly back we will the three of us today and part of the reorganization as well put dr. deanna Geist Kolski in charge of the special education division as well and we will ensure that she has the information that you brought forward and take your request back as well because listen to the people oh I'm as saying is listen to the people who know special ed who are absolutely successful already in special ed rather than perhaps a new administrator who looks at at paper on paper thank you so much I know you will I know you're working hard and I wish you lots of success and I want to come out to your school to maybe I'll go when she comes out but I want to come out that's wonderful very exciting car magnet schools in the district to a great job I like the inquiry oriented curriculum I just think it's magnificent I used it sometimes when I was a director and so good luck to all of you thank you so much thinking I would like to extend an invitation just not to the stem tank but anytime you want to come to our campus it is open thank you your honor a really I'm glad Councilwoman Tarkanian brought that up you know I did not hear about this when I was in Carson City last week and it was on other business but the point is if this is true then it shows it puts a spotlight on what the federal government did in 94-142 and the idea Act provided federal funding in the beginning and made it slip slipped slipped where it's what two three four percent now of the education budget so special edie honorably started was never backed by the federal government to assist the local school districts so if it is true that we are slipping behind and subject to lawsuit then we should be prepared for a tax increase to pay for this because it will be required the state all the legislators have done their very best but there's only so much money to go around so if it is true we have a lawsuit going it could theoretically be successful that ought to name the federal government as a defendant because they started this with great promises and then did not deliver the money that they forced us to spend so make sure because it's worth it it really is worth it anyway I just want to pass that on to you from my own experience if we're gonna get sued we're gonna get a tax increase Thank You councilman career congratulations to you thanks again blessed to have you um as you know I represent Ward 5 and the city under dr. Moore's Hitler's leadership we have our reinvent school program 13 reinvent schools eight of them are located within Ward 5 so as you go through your goals and I would like to meet with you specifically and to understand specifically what is a strategy and a plan to bring our schools within war five up to up to standards we can talk about broad-based goals all day long but I want to know specifically exactly what is being done for the schools in my ward I was not I was somewhat opposed to the breakup of the school district because of the fact that I really believed that there would become a case of haves and have-nots in historically schools even my my old schools that I went to school with have been left behind and so I like for you to make an appointment with me if you would mind to discuss specifically where we are and we're getting our schools up they're up to par we'd be happy to do that and I'll work with Lisa and make sure that happened thank you all right well thank you for your time dad does conclude our report here we should just say publicly hungry did you help you've done these stuff really really good working so well with the district and working so well to keep us informed and we want to back you all the way did a great job I'll let you know publicly thank you and thank you all for your support thank you thank you 36 and 46 together so I'll read both into the record now item 36 report by Robert our Ulmer Dean of the UNLV Greenspun College of urban affairs and Tom Perrigo executive director of community development regarding a partnership between the University of Nevada Las Vegas City and Las Vegas to develop a community resilience framework and item number 46 our - 1 2 - 2 1 9 discussion for possible action to approve a resolution for a partnership between the universe in Nevada Las Vegas Greenspun College of urban affairs city of Las Vegas to develop a community resilience framework misses and reference to all wards and I hope you will describe what you mean by a community resilience framework thank you your honor for the record Tampere ago exec Director of Community Development and yes we will do our best to to explain that and I appreciate being able to present this item because it really is an important part of our overall sustainability initiative Las Vegas is in many ways a leader in resilient communities while we're constantly evolving our infrastructure public services to respond to changing conditions and changing needs in our community Public Safety and emergency management have been put to the test and have proven their resilience in response to extreme events we have proven that we are a resilient community we've proven that we are Vegas strong the world has taken notice of that investors and bond rating agencies are increasingly looking at community resilience when making decisions on where to invest and looking at establishing a city's bond ratings they want to know that we as a city are looking at adapting constantly our systems our infrastructure so that we can respond to any shock that comes our way and more importantly that we're able to respond and recover and that's what this being a resilient community is all about I'm sure dr. Elmer will be able to articulate that much better than me but resilience is vital to our economy but resilience requires vigilance and so what this partnership does what the resolution that you is before you today with UNLV will we will review the city shocks stresses and capacities consider current planning and economic development strategies gain perspectives from public private and nonprofit sectors and identify actionable initiatives to address resilience needs we as a city although we are each Department and all of the work the work we're doing is helping to build community to make life better but build a resilient community we don't have the resources to take this deep dive look at our systems our infrastructure but UNLV does and so I'm very happy to introduce Robert Ulmer the Dean of the Queensland College of urban affairs and he will present his commitment and what this means to his university and I've been working with this group for a number of years and what they're doing at the at the Greenspun college is truly amazing and they're completely retooling their entire College around this idea of building a resilient community I like Dean Ulmer talked about that thank you very much Rob Wilmer from the Dean of the Greenspun College of urban affairs and I'm here with Chris stream director of school of public policy and leadership in the college and Joe Lieberman chair the department of criminal justice and yeah we're excited about the opportunity to work with the city we are excited about the opportunity to engage our faculty and our students in resilience opportunities within the community I think when Tom mentioned the idea of cities being able to take charge of the shocks and stresses that they may experience moving forward this is an opportunity for the college to work with the city to have students and faculty use their expertise to take get a sense of what the city and what community members feel our potential shocks and stresses and then consider those and develop a plan for resilience moving forward so if you look around the world cities are going through all different kinds of transformations are experiencing things from terrorism to environmental stresses to things like homelessness and social issues that are chronic stresses and a lot of cities are looking elsewhere to figure out for those answers and and what we believe las vegas is is a leader in the world when it comes to social activities when it comes to tourism when it comes to tourism safety and so we'd like to work with the city engage with the city engage our students and faculty and those activities and so in the college we have the school of social work we have the school of criminal justice school of public policy and leadership the School of Journalism and Media Studies and the Department of Communication Studies so we have academic disciplines in which we are ready to promote resilience ready to develop pilot programs around these issues find ways to create the most resilient community we possibly can in Las Vegas thank you thank you dr. Elmer and so and so mayor just for a couple of examples and I and I think we've sort of given you the very high-level framework of what community resilience is all about but a couple of examples that are fairly recent when we had extensive droughts that dried out the forests up in the mountains and then we have a weather event that creates a forest fire and then we have unprecedented rains washing all that debris and all that flooding into our city that's our flood control how do we respond to these changing weather conditions are more extreme weather conditions extreme drought extreme storms and we know that they are getting more extreme over time we see that in terms of if it's very easy to look up the insurance money that's spent and the the government money that's spent to recover from these major events and just the city we have all these stories about how we are constantly evolving and developing our infrastructure to be able to handle those kind of situations but they were able to recover and when businesses are looking where to invest and move their business they want to know what cities prepare for these kinds of things and it's thinking about them working on it and they're not going to get hit with a huge property tax bill down the road because all shoot we didn't think about flood control well we've been taking care of that for years and we continue to look at that how does all of this fit together as a community and how do we set back and look at it and take a big-picture broad look at this and that's what the university brings with the researchers with the professors and what the students are very engaged in this and want to participate in helped the city just to take a broader look and make sure that we are addressing our vulnerabilities that we understand them and then we're continually adapting we we have done some of this work in the past and the energy has been a good partner they're constantly looking at their systems as we have extreme high heat days the transformers and other equipment might start to fail so they're constantly looking at ways that they can continually upgrade that equipment to withstand these kind of shocks as well it all fits together it's all interdependent and we need them more of a systems approach to look at this and are we doing anything assist in grant applications or is it all that's a great question your honor this the beauty of this particular program if you if you approve this resolution and we formalize this partnership is it will not cost the city anything there there are no additional resources that we will expend on this effort in fact we will now be gaining the expertise of the university to work with us on this and as a partnership we will have opportunities for grant money there's an organization called 100 resilient cities which is membership of the largest cities around the world and they have reached out to us and they have said if we form a partnership they would like us to be involved that will instantly put Las Vegas on the map as a global leader in resilient communities and that effort is backed by the Rockefeller Foundation and they are looking to bring some of those resources to our city to help us with this effort I think we did get notification in the mayor's office we died probably passed on to you but it's a very exciting time and certainly the partnership looks great as I understand number 36 is just the report but agenda item 46 would require emotion yes yes yes your honor okay is there any further presentation I'm down to fifth Street School at an office in 5th Street School are pretty little 5th Street school yeah what was the question it was a question because we have the Graduate School of Architecture our fifth street school and of course we've had UNLV down here in City Hall as well yes I was just wondering if we're gonna have a physical presence here and we can yes your honor we and Jorge's been lead on this but we are constantly in conversation with the university looking at all kinds of opportunities to bring you know parts of some of their the university downtown to give students direct access to to the courts to the engineering firms to the local governments to you know work and intern downtown as well as learn downtown Thank You councilman Anthony had a question or comment please yeah thank you I think this is gonna be a great partnership I appreciate you coming to the city and doing this I just want to mention one thing though I have my PhD from UNLV so I love getting involved in these academic high level discussions with my professors back then and those are a lot of fun but we just have to remember though those have to turn into something that goes into a neighborhood and makes people's lives better so I just want to emphasize that we're doing those sorts of things we're not just having academic discussions just to do it so if you could just comment on that and just encourage me that those things are going to happen and that you're going to be doing some great things and my ward and the rest of the wards in the entire city yeah the college is really focused on solutions and so we're working on things like youth homelessness with Nevada partnership for homeless youth and we're developing practical solutions around these issues so you're exactly right we want to make a difference in the city and the goal is not to have necessarily academic discussions about these but to develop practic actionable solutions that work and that's really what resilience is all about right is creating networks and conversations but also developing actionable solutions that will work in communities good morning mayor and council Edgar Patino with NV Energy 6226 West ihara like Tom mentioned that NV Energy we actually are very interested in resiliency and redundancy we actually incorporate that into everything that we do at the company it's built into our DNA we have actually participated in these types of exercises before and so to the extent that the council or staff is interested we'll be happy to lend our expertise and time into this effort because we believe it's important because everything that we do I think is as it's tied into energy and into all of the other systems in the community we'll be happy to help out so we fully support thank you so I would entertain a motion on agenda item 46 Mayor Pro Tem I'd like to move to approve the partnership between you and LV and the city thank you this motion please vote please post in mayor could I see a word or two since you know I only have two more months left so I'm making all these comments three months whatever whatever I just want to say that when I was relatively new on the council and your husband was mayor a gentleman would walk past every once in a while and Oscar would say who's that who's that and they did say do you work for us do you work for us and it would turn out to be Tom and and he would say oh is that what you do and I just want to tell you that in the intervening years I've found that you do an awful lot for us you have put us at the top and sustainability and things like that so I want to be sure that the mayor emphasizes that tonight at dinner with the mayor that I remember who's that as you would walk by I didn't know him I don't even know what's that but what are green chips for everything yes yes so in any case I just want to tell you Tom you certainly have done a fantastic job and this is just one example of what you do thank you okay thank you so much for kind words Mayor Pro Tem I really appreciate it thank you and we're just very grateful thank you thanks okay let's go on to report by John and smegger general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority Tom Perrigo executive director of Community Development concerning water conservation efforts within the city and across the region all Awards mr. Perrigo we have another thank you your honor hello mayor and I invite you back because I think the venue Mr Riggleman is just to get the information out to the people you know that's let your water run all day long while you're brushing your teeth and whatever you're doing so it's it's very fitting after having a presentation on community resilience that now we're going to talk about our most precious resource in our desert community and that is clearly water there's a lot of work to do here so really excited to have mr. enstminger general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority in Las Vegas Valley Water District here to give us an update and then following his comments I just have a few slides to share some of the activities that the city's doing to support the water conservation efforts so with that I'll turn over to mr. hands finger is that Lake Mead water it is absolutely Lake Mead Walker I know every time my family goes out and they ask do you want Perrier or do you want sparkling so do we say just give us late me well I I can tell you exactly what's in Lake Mead water no nobody can tell you exactly what's in the bottle of water you buy it's not destined to nearly the same standards I'd like to add my congratulations to Mary Goodman councilman career on your re-elections we certainly look forward to continuing to work with you guys and as Tom said I think it's completely appropriate to talk about our water system and our water supply following a discussion about community resilience because I think two councilmen Anthony's point we haven't just been sitting around studying this problem our community has taken on the ground action over the last 20 years that frankly has resulted in Southern Nevada being the most water secure city in the southwestern part of the United States so how did we get there the water authorities sometimes people sort of forget what the water authority is nobody gets a bill from from the water authority we provide water to the city of Las Vegas unincorporated Clark County Henderson North Las Vegas and Boulder City we oversee coordinating regional conservation we're not a regulatory agency but through our coordination those plans then get translated into the county code the city code Water District Service rules so that there's a level playing field for the rules of the road for conservation throughout our community water supply planning we do a 50-year a resource plan every single year so that our community always has a five decade outlook on what our water supply situation looks like water quality we operate two world-class water treatment facilities at Lake Mead infrastructure by the by April of next year when we bring our new pump station on line we will have constructed 3.7 billion dollars in water delivery and treatment infrastructure since 1995 and then stewardship we've overseen restoration of the Las Vegas wash our partners in operating the Las Vegas Springs preserve the Warm Springs Natural Area so we're very conscious of taking care of our natural environment so we do have an important job we supply water to seven out of every ten people that live in the state of Nevada 24 hours a day at 365 days a year and people think of Las Vegas as using a lot of water right they stroll the boulevard they look at the The Fountains at the Bellagio they think we're kind of a profligate water user but the fact is Clark County as a whole with 73 percent of the state's population 76 percent of the state's economic output uses less than 5% of the water available in the state of Nevada we are blessed with a highly efficient base economy our tourism industry so we actually use very little water to generate the amount of economic output that our community is blessed with could you just say that again that last sentence I in terms of the amount of water so Clark County as a whole with 2.2 million people has 73 percent of the state's population 76 percent of the state's GDP and uses less than five percent of the water available in the state of Nevada so next time somebody criticizes us for you know the Bellagio fountains or anything else you tell them we'll take the Pepsi challenge against any other economic use of water in the western United States matter mere question miss meager out that's his amazing statistic and if I hadn't heard it from you today I probably would know that and my wife works for the water district she works for the authority I think when you put in our perspective it really is amazing how that is and is that more through our conservation conservation efforts is that just we just don't use as much water we then as a combination of the rest of the state and really is amazing right well there's a couple of things that go into it probably the biggest one is we have essentially a hundred percent indoor recycling if it hits a drain in Southern Nevada we treat it and not we you treat it because we don't do waste water but the city does you treat it put it back down the Las Vegas wash which Kiba oversees we get a return flow credit for that so everything that hits a drain goes back into the lake we get to take it back out so the only way we lose water out of our system is through outdoor irrigation and evaporative cooling so we have a very tight system to start with you know if you like that statistic in terms of our base economy the resort industry in Southern Nevada so the whole strip all of downtown Las Vegas all of our outline neighborhood casinos is less than 1/10 of 1% of all the water available in the state of Nevada in return for 22 percent of the jobs in the entire state so that is why we're so efficient which is of course our agriculture which uses an enormous amount of water in the rest of the state and think that's the thing it's the same thing we have a battle within two Imperial Irrigation District in California right certainly agriculture uses a lot of water out of the Colorado River there's 40 million Americans that take water from the Colorado River there's 5.5 million acres of agricultural land agriculture uses 75 to 80 percent of the water from the river but you know the people I provide water to you also like to eat food so I'm not anti Ag I'm just putting out the very efficient and there are always to make agriculture more efficient it's just going to take investments so but all that water 90% of our water comes from the Colorado River and that is a river system as you can see from the picture anybody's been to Lake Mead over the last you know decade can see is imperiled the lake is down about a hundred and thirty feet since the turn of the century this just graphically shows so the the left-hand vertical column is feet above sea level so we turn the century at over 1,200 feet above sea level the surface of Lake Mead and today we sit at 1088 so a rather rapid decline and one that we need to be prepared to continue this is a graphic from the US Bureau of Reclamation this shows because of the wet winter we've had not only locally but up in the Colorado Rockies and in Utah we're probably gonna stay about the same for the next year but if we get another couple of dry years the lake could very quickly go down 30 40 50 feet again so we need to be prepared for that to continue whether it does or not because this is what life looks like if we drop another 88 feet Lake Mead will only have 17 percent of its capacity left Hoover dam will stop generating electrical power and the ability to deliver water downstream to California Arizona and the Republic of Mexico would be imperiled so what are we doing locally I'm going to go through each four actions that we've taken locally beginning with water banking so you see the two hundred forty four thousand eight foot number that's how much water we consumptively used from the Colorado River last year if you stacked up what we have in banked resources and we've been banking water injecting water into our aquifer here in the valley bank you know with our partners in Arizona California banking it in Lake Mead since the mid 90s and we now have 1.8 million acre feet of water in reserves so you add that up that's seven to eight years of our current usage that we have in reserves there's no other municipal area in the southwestern United States does anything close to this infrastructure I mentioned the 3.7 billion that we've been building between our third intake and our low light level pumping station by next year we will have spent 1.5 billion dollars not making our water system resilient making our water system immune to the drought cycle and that makes us able if you look at that 1075 I'm sorry at the 1095 elevation if we're unfortunate enough to ever see the lake drop that low that's the point where the Bureau of Reclamation cannot physically release water through Hoover Dam downstream to California Arizona and the Republic of Mexico our pumps and our pipe will still have 20 feet of water over it so this is what puts us in a fantastic position we may have gotten the short end of the stick in the river negotiations in 1922 we have something nobody else has that's the ability to be upstream on the side of gravity I do want to talk a little bit we have a drought contingency plan that the seven Basin States transmitted to Congress on march 19th we all testified back in DC last week and I'm happy to report that as of today the US Senate is moving that plan through onion animus consent which means if you've ever can imagine this in this day and age all 100 US senators have signaled yes that they will move that through without going through committee directly to the floor of the US Senate and that is critical because without that plan what you see here is through 2026 without the plan we have about a 50% probability of getting down to elevation 1020 with that plan in place we reduce that risk to about 5% so it's a critical regional seven states plus the Republic of Mexico all agreeing to take less water and bolster this river system so what a shortage really mean shortage often sounds like people assume you have to use less than you're currently using but for us our community's been so successful in our conservation efforts we've already conserved what we would be forced to pay so right now when the lake is above 1075 we're allowed to take our full entitlement as the lake goes down we drop from 300 down to 270 right in terms of what we're legally allowed to take out of the lake well last year we use 244 so for us shortage is purely a legal definition and what it really translates into for Southern Nevada is we have less extra water so we're gonna have less extra water to put into our banks over the next several years but a shortage in no way means we don't have enough water so I talked a little bit about return flows already so I won't go through it again the main point being the focus of our conservation plans is on limiting outdoor use because limiting indoor use doesn't actually and our supplies we're a world leader in urban water conservation we have a lot of fun numbers you can take your pick of my favorite is we could take an 18 inch piece of salt and lay it 96 of the way around the circumference of the earth that's how much grass we've taken out of this valley and the city of Las Vegas and I know Tom's gonna show some slides the city of Las Vegas not just your residents has played a direct role in that you've implemented enough projects since 2002 to annually save I believe it's about three hundred and forty five million gallons of water so tip of the hat to the city and this is the results of that that populate or of the conservation efforts since 2002 while our population has grown by 43 percent our per capita water usage has declined by 36 percent and our consumptive use of water is down 26 percent however we've taken our foot off the gas and we can't continue to do that well we've been a world leader over the last 20 years since 2015 while our population has grown or water usage per capita and our consumptive uses ticked up so we need to reinvigorate our conservation efforts our entire community is going to need to come together and take additional steps to control our demand for water because if we control our demand there's not a situation where we're gonna have a water supply problem in this community so why why did that happen certainly economic growth has something to do with it warmer drier climate is driving additional usage drought fatigue the Water Authority has been pounding the drought message for almost 20 years if you think about it since the drought began in 2002 if you were a high school senior the graduated last year you haven't been alive when we haven't in a drought so that's a situation that we have to address but we have to get off of our complacency so we started that we have tremendous community outreach we've already touched you know hundreds of thousands of our customers through social media bill inserts direct mailings I feel like the number one thing we have to do is get control of our non-functional turf and a lot of people have different definitions for what non-functional turf is mine's pretty simple if the only people or person that ever walks on the grass is the person who's mowing it then that's a luxury our community can no longer afford we have about five thousand acres of turf in this community that we view as non-functional we have 7,000 acres that we have absolutely no problem with right I'm not trying to pick fights with soccer moms you know schools parks things that our kids and grandkids play on that's absolutely fine but this sort of ornamental turf for a child is never going to walk on in the middle of the median or traffic circle is the kind of thing that we're going to have to address and it's across our community this pie chart shows that 5,000 acres of turf and it's in residential multifamily commercial industrial it's all over the valley so we've increased the rebate ceiling on our water smart landscape program from $300,000 per project to $500,000 per project to start incentivizing that turf to come out and our board has also directed us to increase valley-wide enforcement and that has a lot of public support these numbers come from our customer satisfaction surveys that show that 63% of our customers strongly support wastewater enforcement but only 31% think we're doing a very good job at it so our community supports enforcing our wastewater codes that are already in effect again through city and county codes but we're going to to do a better job with enforcement so we're going to track this at every one of our board meetings going forward to order in order to keep the community apprised of those enforcement efforts we're also taking off the okay so so you talk about enforcement so when I think of enforcement I'm thinking about putting a hank of some people throwing them in jail so what what is enforcement what you're enforcement when it comes to getting people to use less water or get rid of these you know that I like your comment about if you're just mowing the grass it's probably a way so what what is the enforcement mechanism that you have to do something like that okay so when we talk about enforcement that is really the Las Vegas Valley Water District staff will be enforcing within the city of Las Vegas and unincorporated Clark County see if Henderson's staff within their jurisdiction in North Las Vegas within their jurisdiction right now and they all have pretty similar rules so for example as of March 1st you're only supposed to be watering three days a week and everybody across the valley has has a watering schedule we can see through our meter data or we can see when our meter guys are out in the neighborhoods if you're watering on the wrong day of the week that's a violation if you have a leak that's running out into the street that's a violation so the the first thing anybody ever gets is usually a door hanger if it's physical or a courtesy notice if we see it through electronic data and then if those offenses continue to be repeated then you'll be fine starting a very small fine probably twenty dollars and then going up gradually from there in order to get the behavior corrected and if they what happens if they don't pay the fine well eventually your accounts delinquent so that that would be part of your water bill right dose directly on to your water bill and your water bill okay and okay all right thanks could I ask along that same line that means your water would probably be turned off right Linkwood well we tried very very hard not to turn about his water off I mean we can lien the property and this goes for anyone who doesn't pay their water bill right not just anybody you know I'm sure we have almost identical procedures to the city you know providing sewer service you know any municipal service if you don't pay your bill long enough I think you do a really good job in informing people I got a notice not that I was doing anything wrong but just saying to me it appears that your water was on on Sunday and it wasn't supposed to be out and I didn't know if I have a gardener who does that so I was able to tell the gardener and I didn't get another notice so I guess maybe he had made a mistake but it's a nice notice I mean it's not you know threatening in any way it's just telling you and if you have a regular flow I don't know I don't know for example if you have a pond with koi in it if you have its water running all the time for the koi they have sent me a notice telling me that it seems I have something that's consistently running would that be it like if you even - even a koi pond or a pool only fills intermittently it only fills enough to make up for the evaporation if you have a running toilet or if you have a leak in your irrigation system your meter spinning 24 hours a day and we can see that so we send those courtesy notice though those we call them ticklers in terms the delete notifications because of a leak in of itself you know we want you know you can have a big leak on your property and have no idea if that's just the water bill your use tonight I just wanted to let you know I think you do a good job and I think the way you do it is very friendly we're trying very hard to work with the community to achieve these goals but I do want to point out by our estimates if everyone would just follow the existing rules without any new regulations or anything else have everybody follow the existing rules our community would save about 37,000 acre feet of water a year I know you guys don't think an acre feet like I do but the maximum shortage we face under federal law is 30,000 acre feet a year so we can save 150 percent of any shortage the federal government can impose on us simply by following the existing rules in terms of water usage so we've taken off the ceiling on our water efficient landscapes to be able to apply it to parks like I said we don't have any problem with parks but we think there's an opportunity with some of the older parks in our community to make them look a little bit like the newer parks right where they still have plenty of playable turf areas but also have a lot of new amenities we we have millions of dollars in our budget to look at playgrounds and sports courts and different areas to replace some of that turf with more water efficient landscape and amenities in order to help save water so that symptom will want to work closely with your staff on we do want to work across jurisdictional lines on looking at prohibiting the installation of more non-functional turf right now some of the existing development agreements right now some of the existing codes within the local jurisdictions require a certain amount of you know they call it open space but by the time you slice it up they're not all parks they're they're medians they're pocket parks they're functional areas and as we're paying we've paid 230 million dollars to take turf out of our community over here and over here our cities and counties are forcing people to install more and that is a part of of what we would like to address so that we stop incentivizing or even requiring the installation of non-functional turf so this just shows overall our population growth and our water usage so you can still see we're in a very healthy place we're not standing up here sounding alarm bells what we're saying is the uptick we've seen in the last couple of years won't be sustainable for the next 10 or 20 years we're gonna have to reverse that trend line and start bringing our per capita and our aggregate usage back down in order to continue the kind of robust economic development we've been seeing in this valley so just a couple slides I know I've gone on for a while these are directly from our resource plan and what this shows is the red line is population growth through 2069 those are the Center for Business and Economic Research population projections from you know the combined with our conservation goals to show what our water demands will be by 2060 9 this shows a twenty thousand acre shortage on the river every single year between now and 2016 EIN and shows that we have absolutely no problem this one shows if we double the rate of population growth and double the amount of shortage that we would take every single year that we could have to bring new resources on by the mid 20 40 s but if we take those same fairly dire circumstances and reduce our water usage by 8 gallons a day more by 2035 we push the need for new resources out into the mid to late 2050 s so conservation demand management is within our control and really does give us the key to controlling our own future so with that I'd be happy to answer any more questions that the council has thank you Stram's maker absolutely great report have a question madam a comment dart thank you I just want to say you know when you sit in presentation form in perspective really puts it more in line to exactly what is going on and in all the work that you guys are doing and I want to apply to you and your team for continually keeping the foot on the pedal in terms of our conservation efforts we know I don't think many people sometimes realize how important this is you know without water waters life and if we don't maintain it then we're just shooting ourselves in the in the foot so thank you guys very much and also is there something the city could be doing a war or something things that I know you guys might have private conversations mister peres go but is this something that you know initiatives that that we are implementing that we could be doing better on or where we could go maybe that's a deeper longer conversation but I would love to try to understand that make a presentation on what you've already done and and by all I think the city deserves you know an a you know on your report card for what you've done in conservation already here your you know input into you know what the Water Authority has done the actions you've been willing to take I don't have a negative thing to say about what the city has done what I would say about moving forward what I'm asking every city every County live in Swan County but every unit of local government my request to them is that we take a hard look at our development codes and we take a hard look at previously entered into development agreements that perversely incentivize people to put in grass that's simply going to waste water so that's number one and then number two be able to work with your staff on city facilities you know parks and other areas to see if there water savings opportunities we will invest the money but hopefully it can result in better facilities for your citizens at the same time saving water for the entire community so those are my two asks of you thank you sir well and I would definitely ask the plea to go to the county with the explosive growth in the southwest with all the sports that are coming in and hundreds and hundreds of knowing the fields were putting in the effort really has to go to the county to understand and get the message out to anybody who's new to our community that these are things that you can do the app that conservation yes so in our ward in Ward six we worked diligently with you guys with our Providence area I'm getting turf out with the Knickerbocker Park so with the Southern Nevada water we did they you guys did amazing things together thank you I hope I'm being clear everybody's been tremendous everybody's done a great job it's just not a time to rest on our laurels we have more work to do that's my main point for everyone and we're gonna do nothing but grow populations gonna do nothing but grow and it's up to each new person to take on the responsibility in this area and so it's to get the word out to them to do your part absolutely thank you in America could I ask you what she showed us today you gave us a copy of it didn't uh Scott did we receive a copy of his presentation yesterday at our CMO briefing yes yes I mayor for time I handed those out because I didn't get a chance to read through all of it and it is very good and I want you to know I think what we did in our medians was a brilliant idea I want you to know that came from Ward one very Walker's tremendously talented people but it has worked and the people are very happy and I think it helped conserve some water - councilman coffin thank you your honor so my times almost up here at the city but for eight years I have really enjoyed serving on the Water Authority as the city's representative and I'm sure whoever is appointed to take my place will be equally diligent because I'm an old-timer 1951 arrival we did not have any Lake Mead water then I think Henderson the defense plants got a little bit of it in a small pipe it was like the mid 50s when we started to get water from the lake if I'm not mistaken I'm I am I very far off on that 1971 so we got some into 50s he just said yes expand the the BMI line came in during World War two and then the the main city lines came in in 1971 the point was as a child growing up here I was used to now the population was used to living off that we now call 10% I'm not sure that's the well water I'm not sure really using you know that number but I I think we were used to the water police we were used to the people driving around and the little motor scooters watching to see if your water was running out of the street and everybody was conscious of that everybody pulled together and everybody had bermudagrass literally you let it go Brown in the winter and you didn't worry about it and the city parks did too we just played on them as they were it was no harm at all people got hotels they got the new grass seat for the hotels called a hotel mix and then everybody wanted green grass all year long and so by then the demand grew so we have now got to stay on top of it as I like what was said about the pedal to the middle by it my colleague career it's not no question we got to stay on it the thing is is we've converted some money some land at our house and we're gonna do more and there's nothing like shade trees really for this climate anyway you know new turf doesn't help you as far as that goes but shade contributes to a lower power bill contributes to so much with a little bit so I really encourage people to try to pay attention to this and drink Lake Mead like the mayor does I always ask for Lake Mead with a lemon to soften it just a little bit but it's perfectly fine and thanks to our city sanitation efforts you could darn your drink the water after we process it and put it into the wash we're only one step away from being able to drink our own water but the perverse problem is we lose I heard some boos and as our people we're only one step away but we lose credit if we use our own water it's a darkness thing so that part of the treaty is perverse because there's no encouragement to go further in the treatment process we would lose a whole bunch of our water credit so someday we're gonna have to have asked for or find a way to renegotiate all that am I wrong on that I basically it's a push if we treat it put it down the las vegas wash and take it back out we get a gallon back yeah if we treat it put it into a purple pipe in the city of Las Vegas uses that to irrigate a park or a golf course we get a gallon back so reclaim reclaim doing all the way to direct potable reuse wouldn't actually be any different than our return flow product wouldn't it if it was I'm talking about consumable water not about use on grass I'm talking about where humans can go ahead and drink it it's perfectly fine you can almost drink the water we process right now anyway okay I stand corrected thank you sure thank you your honor just real quickly I think it's always important to do a quick reminder of all the things that we're doing at the city so and it's been in partnership with the Southern Nevada Water Authority in the Water District and all of their experts that have really helped us be very strategic in this 3.2 million square feet of turf reductions and like mr. Hanson was talking about we're very aggressive at reducing passive turf that is only there to be mowed and spend money on that's saved us 60 million gallons annually reduction in sport field turf not sports fields but converting to artificial turf saving another 140 million gallons of water annually and of course through a drought tolerant landscaping and the median landscape things the mayor pro-tem talked about another 100 million gallons annually there's some of these efforts and then the operational improvements and you know you talk to the folks that worked for Jerry Walker and operations and maintenance these people have a PhD in water conservation and maintaining our facilities because we have the most beautiful landscapes the most beautiful shrubbery and flowers and everything else and we're constantly saving water so tip to the folks at operations maintenance for sure and you can see then over time the impact this kind of shows the city's water consumption for city facilities now you see this uptick in 17 and 18 and that's because we took the boma plant offline which used to provide water for Freedom Park and so that increased the amount of water we're getting from the water district but what this doesn't show is in nineteen we're seeing that trend back down because of the contribution efforts and everything else so we're getting that back on track every one so while there will be a blip as we do some of these improvements and of course we are fully implementing when we develop and build a new facility like mr. Huntsman was talking about we're really conscientious about the turf we put in so we try to put in artificial turf or play fields where we can we use for some of the buffer areas a drought tolerant landscaping and limits the turf we do put into just turf that's functional that's going to be used it's gonna be played on that's gonna provide an opportunity for picnics or whatever and so we're very careful about how we design those those parks we've also been very involved in all of the regulatory framework that's developed and again this is unbelievable leadership from the water over the years to help all of the organization's community as mr. enstminger said come together to implement regulations that have made a huge difference so through this we did a quick kind of back to the envelope estimate but 40 2.7 million square feet of turf has been avoided because these regulations just in the city of Las Vegas and residential development that's 2,000 acre feet of irrigation use avoided which again extends our growth profile and those charts that mr. Ennis Miller showed at the end that pushes off that need for some of those drastic measures into into future years also the city has adopted regulations you know we all have limits on when we can water we have limits on using fountains and all this other stuff those are regulations that the city's adopted and so next steps and this is very important we are already working with the Water District miss rents being or everything he talked about are things that we're working on really going after that non-functional common area turf prohibitions on median slopes neighborhood entryways and so on and it's interesting as we're going through the 2015 master plan effort right now the feedback that we're starting to get from stakeholders and from the community we're seeing that drought and and water conservation are rising to the top as concerns and and on the minds of all of our citizens so some of the comments we've heard about we have to keep it at the forefront it's there people who live in this community understand how important this is for our future and so that's sort of just some of the the highlights of the things we're doing at the city the successes we've had but absolutely echo mr. hands fingers comments that now is the time to be vigilant we have to keep this at the forefront on everybody's mind and we have to continue taking action to protect our future thank you mister Perrigo comments questions I would like to ask on that last slide that you had or the next to the last one where you talked about what you're going to read it would the next one it's the next slide well yeah Freedom Park woofster Park what when you say conservation upgrades could you give me some idea of what you'd be doing at Worcester since we were just reorganizing that one renovating it sure so I can't speak specifically to the actions because I don't know specifically but those were put forward as examples where in in all of these older parts were looking at updated irrigation systems that are more efficient and reduce leaks looking at opportunities to replace again those non-functional turf areas which consumed a lot of water with with things like shrubs and flowers and plants things that don't use as much water drought tolerant but create a lot of beauty in those parks so those are the kinds of things so it might be a grading an irrigation system and that roof do we need the grass for the dog park areas you do have grass and your dog park areas right yes and I conversation with mr. Walker I think because there are options that but it gets a little controversial but there are certain types of but we are redoing the irrigation systems so maybe that will balance it out thank you I just wanted you to alternatives my family uses the alternatives for their dogs and their pets very successfully yes and Mayor Pro Tem I'll make sure to follow up with mr. Walker and mr. Jannsen to to give you the information on water parks specifically exactly what we're doing thank you very much this is a report only and requires no action and again thank you so much and what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna be turning the meeting over to Mayor Pro Tem again but I'm gonna pull forward addenda addendum item one and I would like the city clerk to read that into the record please madam Eric I said one moment before we move forward to the next item I just want to recognize some individuals here in the audience we have a group of students are here from South academic center and led by their teacher Miss Janet herd and they're down here just you know looking at civic engagement and I wanted to welcome you guys guys stand up the other ones from Southwest Army from South Academic Center welcome to City Hall we love having you guys and we look forward to seeing you guys at a future city hall meeting you don't have to come with your teacher to come down to City Hall by the way thank you unfortunately because of technology we have to take a five minute break here in order to bring this forward so as soon as we're ready our clerk will read it into the record and we'll go from there and Councilwoman these are all yours and this goes to