thank you foreign [Music] [Music] she was here Oh Derek you ready oh give me [Music] I'm just waiting on confirmation from Madame Clark confirmation from Madame clerk that she's ready as well I think that that was the first time I'd heard anything from chambers are we starting the video did you get that going to start that I think so Hillary where were you going Arizona Derek just to confirm you will make sure that you've started the live feed for YouTube so you'll need to start the video if you haven't done that just make sure that at the same time right all right all right good afternoon I used to say Madison but Mr clerk thank you madam clerk is available and we'll be conducting the majority of this meeting remotely on Zoom is she okay yes and just to start out to let everyone know we don't have a full body in person but we do have them remotely uh so they're still there so let me know that is correct we'll save that at roll call and Derek just can you confirm that you have started the recording on YouTube for me before we call the meeting to order we are doing that right now thank you for the reminder um start out with uh the pledge allegiance of the flag I want to I do want to start for the record Friday November 18 2022 uh city council meeting for the City of Reno and we will start out with the pledge allegiance and I would love to send that to Mr Willie Butchart where are you where'd he go oh he's he's absent judge hash Jeff I would love for you to lead us in the pledge because you're no stranger to these Quarters here flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all right um Mr clerk I'm gonna Mister he's gonna be confusing with two clerks Madam clerk will be running the majority of the meeting I'll be handling in-person public comment uh yes yeah okay great all right Madam clerk please uh call the roll thank you madam mayor we're calling to order the um the Reno city council meeting for 11 18 council member breckis I'm here door here Weber absent this time Martinez here Taylor here Reese here Chevy here can anybody else hear her Mickey we can hear you but can you hear us you just cut out oh okay Madame mayor you do have a quorum of the Arena city council okay thank you so much I'm gonna send you right back into item A3 public comment thank you it should be noted for those in the audience that comments are to be addressed to the mayor and Council as a whole comments heard under this item will be limited to three minutes per person and may pertain to matters both on and off the council's agenda please note that Council may not take action upon any matter not agendized on today's agenda when you are called on for public comment please state your name for the record and begin speaking the timer will begin when you say your name and you will be afforded three minutes if you're an attendee in the zoom meeting and would like to make public comment please raise your hand at this time lastly while in Chambers please be respectful warnings will be issued by the presiding officer there's disruptive behavior and you will be asked to leave Chambers if the behavior continues all right Madam clerk is it all right if I continue with the in-person public comment okay first up we have Mr Terry Brooks followed by Mr Peter Lobster good afternoon it's me Terry Brooks again and today I'd like to address following the good example to food in the case of homelessness last time I spoke of a really good man who long ago pursued teaching people to be good to others and doing so includes giving food if someone asks for food to eat would you give them Stones instead or if they asked for fish to eat would you give them a snake instead everyone needs food to eat they need food to live some people just don't have any food and some people are willing to give long ago this really good man was followed by thousands of people he knew that they were all hungry so he helped to feed all those people and later on he was followed by thousands of more people so again he and his friends helped to feed all of those people some say those people already had food and they were all willing to share some don't know what really happened but they know that food came from somewhere some people are willing to share so everyone has food to eat some people are not willing to share because of their own conceit that really good man said to some people I was hungry and you gave food to me I was thirsty and you gave something to drink to me those people asked him when did we give food to you when were we when were you hungry or thirsty when did we do this for you and the good man answered them don't you really see when you have done it for others you have done it for me but he said to those who didn't give to others you must also really see that if you did not do so for others you did not do so for me these things were said and done way back in the day and these things are still said and done today I would like to thank you all for listening to me you not only listen to others you even listen to me this is chapter 43. and just so you know I've only got three more chapters to go wow great job thank you so much Terry he's publishing a book of all his poems great job Madam mayor I apologize it seems that we're having some technical issues with the stream on YouTube and so if you don't mind I'm actually going to call a brief recess while we have some of our Tech Team come down and double check what the issues are that we're experiencing foreign yes madam and we call a 10 minute recess please yes okay we will go into a 10 minute recess thank you oh this is two more foreign foreign for those of you in Chambers it sounds like we are back up and running and ready to go all right we're gonna be ready to go in just a moment right isn't it yeah all right looks like everyone is heading back to their positions okay Adam clerk can you hear us Madam clerk is saying there's some issues with audio cutting out Madam Clark can you hear us we can hear you thank you okay so we'll go ahead and call the meeting back to order it is 3 27. and it appears that all um the same members are present so thank you for that um just to note for the record we are still experiencing some technology issues however um we are streaming on the YouTube channel and the Charter channel it's just our reno.gov meeting portal is having issues with taking the live stream at this moment so we will proceed without the reno.gov platform and we will upload that for the record here once we close the meeting out okay thank you so I will send it right back to you for next up we have Peter labscher followed by Wendy Firestone my last name is familiar to you or not but your father and mine were Partners in Sierra Nevada Laboratories a long time ago your last name was familiar anyway uh I'm a journeyman electrician here in Reno have been for quite a while I've held a journeyman's license uh in the City of Reno since 1995 I think um and I went to renew mine this year submitted all my paperwork on August 12th via email to the new company down in Las Vegas that is handling our our licensure renewals and testing and so forth for the city uh and I have not gotten my new license back they were saying that I on the day I submitted it I also called down there and checked to make sure they had everything that they needed and I spoke with the lady by the name of Marianne who said that they did I've you've got to have a certain number of continuing education credits and been practicing up you know a certain amount of time and whatnot I exceed all those things anyway like I said uh it's been we're working on going on a little over four months now and these people have I've contacted them several times about the fourth or fifth time I've been told that oh it's going to be out this Thursday I was told that again this last Monday and I still haven't gotten word from these people on anything and I just wanted to make the city leadership aware of that because I don't know what's going on with these folks I know they're new I know we switched over from the International Code Council who used to be doing it they used to take about yeah about a month and a half to renew but these new folks just aren't getting it done for one reason or another and what I was hoping was that somebody from City leadership could call down there and maybe uh motivate them a little bit to see what's going on and that's about all I have thank you all right thank you so much and I know our assistant city manager Jackie will get back to you and look into it because we have your contact through our clerk okay thank you yeah next up we have Wendy Firestone and while she's approaching if there's anyone in the zoom call who wishes to speak please raise your hand at this time foreign Wendy Firestone and I'm representing notable Music Therapy Services I'm here with some of our participants from our dance class to thank the City of Reno for their support in bringing music singing and dancing to diverse populations both through their um Reno arts and culture commissions arts and culture grants and also mayor shivi who recognized us when she received the Stanford Arts award and um also recognized notable music therapy services and I'd like to use the rest of my time to give you some of the joy that you have given us good love it hello people I love you [Music] dare to be [Music] yeah so today I wish upon a star behind me [Music] the chimney tops [Music] [Music] [Music] okay nice that one's a tough one I just wanted it to be in range I just want to say that music is for everybody and you know I think I just really want to appreciate that all of that you do to support us and to make all of this possible well we're really excited that you received that um it was Ovations TV and they came to me and they said we would love to be able to honor an Arts organization and um I was just so thrilled to choose notables so and they gave them ten thousand dollars so give them a big round great job all right with that Madam mayor there's no one else wishing to speak in Chambers and I don't see anyone wishing to speak on Zoom okay then I'm gonna send it right back to you for item A4 approval of the agenda before we do that I do think we need to talk briefly about emails Madam clerk would you like to do that uh Derek go ahead and just do it sincere sure all right you're with me here for the record we've received four comments which are General in nature are not directedly associated with an agenda item prior to 4 pm on November 17 2022. these comments were written correspondence received via our reno.gov online public comment form or by email to our office copies of these comments have been distributed to the Reno city council and are available to the public on the reno.gov meeting portal one was in favor one was in opposition and two expressed concern additionally two voicemails were received one of which we will not play because it was vulgarity in it there will be a redacted transcript of that as part of the record and we will now play the second voicemail my name is Steve vansi I am a property owner and resident in Ward 5. my comments today are regarding the city's nine Landscape Maintenance districts or lmds and specifically the Northgate 19 Heights Landscape Maintenance District I'm directing these comments to the full city council partly because there's been no nav 5 meeting since September 13th over a period of three weeks during Late July and early August the department of Parks and Recreation steamrolled through the system a request for proposal for landscape Services even though that RFP had material errors that were brought to the city's attention during the RFP process on September 14th the city council approved a landscape maintenance contract based on the one bid received and based on verbal testimony and assurances of vpr's parks manager overall all the parts manager indicated that the new contract would provide a significantly higher level of service landscape maintenance contract became effective seven weeks ago on September 30th keep in mind contrary to the requirements of Reno Municipal Code no landscape Services were provided from January through September and I want to draw your attention to the distinction between the contract requirements and the assurances given by DPR during the September 14th council meeting versus the reality of where we stand today November 18th the contract requires that several tasks be performed weekly or as needed on a year-round basis during the September 14th city council meeting the park manager stated that DPR holds the contractor accountable to contract terms by conducting monthly inspections of all nine lnds but instead the reality in the Northgate 19 LaSalle Heights lnd is this the contractor has visited the lmd just one time on October 26th on that date the contractor performed some work in an area that comprises no more than 25 percent of the entire lmd that's it in the seven weeks that the contract has been in place in fact for the entire year of 2022 75 of the lmd has received no service whatsoever yet on November 4th DPR recorded inspection results showing a rating of three on a 105 scale for the entire lmd I would love for someone to justify lmd can be rated average three out of five when 75 of the lmd hasn't been touched during the September 14th council meeting it was brought out that our own lmd has lost about a third of its original trees and roughly a half of his shrubs under dpr's watch there was some discussion regarding the cost of replacing those trees and shrubs however however since the city has already collected fees from property owners of all 2012 and provided virtually nothing in return it would seem the city already has the money to replace those trees and shrubs foreign that should be all the voicemails as well moved I have a motion second I have a second all those in favor say aye aye all is opposed I motion carries unanimously all right Madam clerk sending it right back to you thank you Madame Aaron so just to be clear because I guess on my end maybe I'm just having some technology things are we on item B1 Mr Clark yes we are thank you okay so for today's item on item B1 we are just um reviewing and preparing ourselves to certify the results from the November 8th 2022 general election at this time if there are any questions I'd be happy to answer them all right any questions from the body above no are you looking for a motion I am looking for a motion to certify the votes all right thank you madam mayor I would be happy to move to certify the votes for the 2022 election all right I have a motion from councilman Reese a second from councilwoman doer all those in favor aye say aye aye aye aye opposed motion carries unanimously all right thank you everyone how exciting all right we're going to go ahead and move on to our next item today which is the oath of offices and swearing-in of newly elected officials okay so I'm going to go ahead and call those individuals up and we do have some special guests that are going to be doing some of the swearing-ins with us today and then um additionally my city clerk who is inside Chambers with us will go ahead and conduct um those other Oaths on my behalf so our first um member being sworn in today is Mr Carl Hall as this Reno City attorney oh Carl you get to go first the infamous Carl Hall I like to say hey great are you ready for this ready all right I'm gonna have oh excellent laughs I love it okay doing well your honor raise your right hand state your name please Carlos Hall a new solemnly swear I do solemnly swear seven six because I will support protect and defend the Constitution the government of the United States the Constitution and government of the United States Constitution the Constitution and government of the state of Nevada and the charter ordinances of Arena government of the state of Nevada and the charter and ordinances of the state of the City of Reno against all enemies whether domestic or foreign against all enemies whether domestic or foreign and then I will bear true faith that will bear true Faith Allegiance and loyalty Allegiance and loyalty to the same to the same okay um indirect obligation vote for in direct obligation vote for appoint or elect appoint or elect any person to any office any person to any office physician or employment position or employment and the City of renal government the City of Reno government and that I will well and faithfully and are well and Faithfully perform all the duties of the office of perform all the duties of the office of Reno City attorney Reno City attorney on which I'm about to enter which I'm about to enter so help me God so help me God you're sworn thank you ah congratulations where did Ann go oh all right [Music] [Music] and I feel like I should read yours because we had to do your swearing in over Zoom remember that in the pandemic yes yes it's called the plus one all right okay state your name I Hillary Chevy do solemnly swear do you solemnly swear that I will support protect and defend I will support protect and defend the constitution of government of the United States the Constitution and government of the United States the Constitution of government the Constitution and government of the state of Nevada of the state of Nevada and the charter and ordinances of Reno from the city Bruno ordinances of the City of Reno I'll shorten it up against him I forgot we've only done this three times but against all enemies against all enemies whether domestic or foreign whether domestic or foreign and that I will bear true faiths that I will bear truth faith and Allegiance and loyalty to the same Allegiance and loyalty did the same any ordinance resolution or law any ordinance resolution or law of any state notwithstanding of any state notwithstanding and that I am not under any direct and that I am not under any direct or indirect obligation or indirect obligation to vote for to vote for appoint or elect any person to any office any person to any office physician or employment position or employment in the City of Reno in the City of Reno government government and that I will well and faithfully and that I will well and Faithfully perform all the duties perform all the duties of the office of mayors of Mayor of which of my belt tenor in which I'm about to enter so he'll be gone so help me God you're sworn all right next up is going to be Ward 2 city council member Naomi door I guess I am yeah thank you thanks for being here all right please state your name aye Naomi Dewar do you solemnly swear that I will support protect and defend the Constitution and government of the United States Constitution and government of the state of Nevada Charter and ordinances of the city and the charter and ordinances of the city against all enemies whether domestic or foreign that I will bear true faith and loyalty and Allegiance to the same any ordinance resolution resolution or law of any state notwithstanding that I am not under any direct direct obligation or indirect obligation to vote for appoint or elect any person to any office physician or employment in the city and Reno government in the City of Reno government and that I will well Faithfully perform all the duties in office in my office in the city which I'm about to enter in which I'm about to enter so help me God thank you okay thank you all right our incoming Ward four council member Ms Megan Ebert Megan is not here in person but correct if you give me just a moment I will go ahead and do it with her via Zoom no and just to let everyone know when she's feeling better we're gonna do another ceremony so we can really celebrate this great occasion yeah definitely we want her to be able to share it with all of you all right it would raise your right hand but um have we brought her over though Mickey we don't see her on under our end okay it can you please pin Megan as the main display here we go [Music] all right Miss Ebert if you'd raise your right hand and repeat after me state your name I'm Megan Ebert do solemnly swear do solemnly swear okay that I will support protect and defend that I will support protect and defend the Constitution and government the Constitution and government of the United States of the United States the Constitution and government of the state of Nevada the Constitution and government of the state of Nevada and the charter and ordinances and the charter and ordinances of the City of Reno for the City of Reno against all enemies against all enemies whether domestic or foreign whether domestic or foreign and that I will bear true faith that I will bear true Faith Allegiance and loyalty to the same Allegiance and loyalty to the same any ordinance resolution or law any ordinance resolution or law of any state notwithstanding of any state notwithstanding and that I am not under and that I am not under any direct or indirect obligation any direct or indirect direct obligation to vote for a point or elect to vote for appoint or elect any person to any office any person to any office position or employment position or employment in the City of Reno government in the City of Reno government and that I will and that I will well and Faithfully perform well and Faithfully perform all the duties of the office all the duties of the office of city council member Ward 4 of city council member Ward 4 on which I am about to enter so help me God on which I'm about to enter so help me God congratulations congratulations and we hope you feel better councilwoman Ebert thank you we're all sending you get well wishes thank you I need it and we'll do it again and you have a whole row of people sitting here I don't know if you can see them probably not in the audience but wave so she can see Willie's here and your families here and they're very they're very proud thank you congratulations thanks get well we're moving on to Reno Municipal Court Judge Department two Shelly O'Neill who cannot be present tonight but will be sworn in next week moving on to Reno Municipal Court Judge Department 3 Justin champagne to be sworn in by judge Peter Breen always here good afternoon ladies and gentlemen senior district court judge in my 49th year wow yay and you don't need any introduction by the way we all know who you are I understate your name aye Justin champagne you solemnly swear do solemnly swear that as municipal court judge for Reno Nevada that has municipal court judge for Reno Nevada we'll support will support protect and defend the Constitution the United States the Constitution of the United States the constitution of the state of Nevada Charter in the municipal ordinances of the City of Reno and I will support and defend to the best of my ability I will support and defend to the best of my ability upon as as of the municipal court judge of Reno Nevada as the municipal court judge of Reno Nevada to truth to the same I will bear truth truth true faith and allegiance to the same to the best of my ability so help me God congratulations all right judges take note he knew that by heart impressive [Laughter] all right and finally today Reno Municipal Court Judge Department four Chris haslit Stevens to be sworn in by judge just for memory this time judge laughs that's why I'll do that all right state your name I Christopher Hazlett Stevens do solemnly swear that I will support protect and defense that I will support protect and defend the Constitution and government of the United States the Constitution and government of the United States the Constitution and government of the state of the battle of the Constitution and government of the state of Nevada the charter and ordinances of City of Reno and the charter and ordinances of the City of Reno against all enemies against all enemies whether domestic or foreign whether domestic or foreign then I will bear true faith and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and allegiance to the same any ordinance resolution or law any ordinance resolution or law of any state not was of any state notwithstanding that I am not under any direct or indirect obligation and that I am not under any direct or indirect obligation to vote for to vote for protector protect or elect any person to any office any person to any office position or employment physician or employment in the city of in the City of Reno government and then I will I will and that I will well and Faithfully perform and Faithfully perform all the duty all the duties of the office of Department four Reno municipal court judge on which I'm about to enter on which I am about to enter so help me God you're sworn congratulations Judge forward to seeing all the work that you're going to continue to do with Community Court great job great job no additional Oaths to be completed today however it has been indicated that council member Reese would like to make a comment please do councilman vice mayor Reese go ahead thank you madam mayor and I apologize profusely for not being here what a special day especially for you madam mayor for my colleague councilmember duer and for one of our new colleagues council member uh Ebert I wanted to take the opportunity to say two things one was that of course with every election there are opportunities for new faces and I also wanted to acknowledge some of our past faces uh judge Dorothy Nash Holmes who is the front row yeah what what an absolute uh just an icon of our Reno community and I um am blessed to have followed her life from a very young age and so I really again am sorry that I'm not there in person uh as I'm in Kansas City today with the national league of cities uh but I just do think it is worth saying thank you especially for me uh a young man followed her career at a very young age and and really was uh blessed to be in her presence many times over the years and to watch some of the transformative work she did not only as a district attorney but as a judge and so I just wanted to make sure that I did not miss the opportunity to say thank you uh from me and I know that my sentiments are shared by all who know her and know her well the second is I wanted to also say thank you to council member Bonnie Weber and I know she was not in attendance today but I've had the privilege of serving her with her for the last three years and know that she has also had a very long and distinguished career in public service versus the County Commission and then on our body for four years and so I am excited for the opportunity to work with new colleagues we have a number on our body now uh that are well at least their junior to me and then that's saying something because I haven't been on the council quite as long as the rest of you on the Dias have today uh but I know that Bonnie had a true heart for uh the work that she did she worked very hard in the service of the community and I know that uh she will and Mike will enjoy uh hopefully um some different days ahead so that's all I wanted to say Madam mayor and thank you so much for giving me the opportunity all right thank you so much and I do want to recognize judge Bree impressive impressive so all of you other judges will have to step it up um and so thank you for being here it's it's rare that we get to see all you guys because you're doing so much work in the community and it's nice to see Dorothy um judge always be judged and those of you don't know she did a tremendous job implementing train um some really incredible work with mental health and addiction so I really want to recognize that so thank you for all of you and all you do in our community to give back so very special so what's the first thing you're going to do Mr champagne judge champagne how I wanted to be able to do is to follow when judge Holmes's footsteps they had to improve and expand the Cod court that she helped to to perfect yeah fantastic I've got huge just hope to be able to do it all right and I'm sure she'll pay attention she'll be watching all right thank you everyone and congratulations again all right Madam clerk I think we are um we're moving right into closing public comment and it's my understanding that you have a special proclamation to read I do I have a special Proclamation and I wanted to give this um to a wonderful human being who has done a lot of public service and I actually called on you to do the pledge but you had stepped out of the room I would love it if you would read um this special Proclamation for election hero day in the City of Reno and we want to give it to you Willie so come on up and read the pledge or read the proclamation for us so we can close out the meeting and it's all yours yes for not being here you want me to read it okay all right how are you whereas it missed I missed a midterm election cycle under unprecedented scrutiny and amiss the scrutiny election administrators and poll workers including many with experience and many stepping up for the first time are playing a critical role in helping voters safely and securely across their ballots and whereas to conduct an accessible and secure election requires dedicated work of government election staff and hundreds of poll workers in every neighborhood and community in Reno and throughout Washoe County and in order to make adjustments to election Administration and to educate the public and to recruit and train additional poll workers has required long hours and creativities by these election staff and whereas to these heroic efforts our elections can run smoothly and all eligible voters May cast their ballots in the 2022 midterm election and in order whereas in order to recognize the heroic efforts made by election administrators and poll workers the City of Reno urges voters businesses organizations and public officials and all candidates for public office across the state in celebrating and thanking these individuals now therefore I Hillary Chevy mayor of Reno of Reno Nevada do hereby declare Nova November 18 2022 as election hero day we forget that we got to thank them we all wouldn't be here with that we all wouldn't be here without our incredible poll workers and what they do and now more than ever we need to recognize them so um and you this is yours oh thank you and if I may say they are the true heroes I do have friends who are election workers some of them have been threatened some of them have come in to work despite threats um and they're the ones that really run our democracy so I'm honored to accept this on behalf of them and they all deserve to have this award I do not no no thank you great job thank [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you thank you all right Madam mayor with that we have no additional public comment registered in Chambers No Hands have been raised in zoom and I have no correspondence to announce at this time so we are moving into our final item of the day which is item e a motion for adjournment all right um I don't know if councilwoman Ebert still on yes I always like to give this motion to our newest member councilwoman Ebert would you like to give us a motion to adjourn it's going to be your favorite motion of all time but you but you have to unmute you have to there you go okay just say motion to address I sure do all right good job a second from councilman door all those in favor say aye aye opposed I've never once heard anyone oppose that motion all those in favor say aye aye aye okay motion carries unanimously thank you everyone thank you for being here today give everyone a round of applause [Applause]