I'll call the regular meeting to order. To make it easier for residents to voice their comments, there will be two public comment periods. There will be one at the beginning of the meeting designated for comments related to items on the agenda and one at the end of the meeting for general public comment. Public comment for designated public hearing items will be heard when the item is called. Speakers will be limited to three minutes to state their comments. This meeting is being video recorded and streamed live on the internet. Mr. Valdez, please confirm posting and roll call. Mayor, this meeting has been posted in accordance with the Nevada Open Meeting Law. All members of the Council are present, and you have a quorum. Thank you. I would like to invite Reverend Adrienne Dahl of the Green Valley Presbyterian Church to the podium to give the invocation, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. We thank you for the gift of rain this day. Thank you for the reminder that you are indeed the giver of every good and perfect gift. Lord, you have blessed our city with many gifts, and just as you pour out your blessings upon us, we pray that we would always strive to be a community that shares our resources and gifts with others. As we approach the end of another school year, we pray for our teachers and students. Watch over them. Protect them. And may they be filled with joy as they celebrate the achievements of this past year. Would you be with the members of this body, our mayor, our city council, and all in public office as they undertake the responsibility of caring for the welfare of this city, planning for its future, and providing for its citizens. May they know the gratitude of their constituents for their work, their labor, and devotion. Guide them in their decisions this day. guide them in their deliberations. And may we who have been blessed with an ability to share, find it within ourselves to give to those in need so that all may prosper and thrive in this beautiful community we call home. Amen. Would you join me in the Pledge of Allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Now is the time for our first public comment. Before we begin, the City Clerk will make an announcement. All email, text, and social media messages to the City Council and City staff is subject to the Nevada Public Records Act and the Nevada Open Meeting Law. please do not sit, stand, or block the aisles, walkways, or doorways. And as a reminder, the vestibule at the back of the chambers is reserved for working city staff and public safety personnel only. During the meeting, there are three opportunities for public comment. First public comment period at the beginning of the meeting is for items that are on the agenda but are not designated public hearing items. The second public comment period is for designated public hearing items. During this period, Public comments are limited to designated public hearing items only. The third public comment period at the end of the meeting is for general public comment. During this period, comments may be offered on topics that are not on the agenda, but comments should be limited to matters within the jurisdiction, authority, or control of the city. Please note the City Council cannot take action or deliberate on matters that are not on the agenda. Therefore, issues raised during the final public comment period will be referred to the appropriate City Department for response through a contact Henderson case created by the City Clerk's Office. Persons who would like to speak during any of the three public comment periods should sign up with the Deputy City Clerk managing the public comment queue in the vestibule at the entrance of the chambers. When your name is called by the City Clerk, please walk to the front of the podium, speak directly into the microphone, and state your name, your first and last name, and your zip code for the record. You will have three minutes to speak, and Mayor, there is no one in the first public comment queue. Thank you. I'll close public comment. Ms. Garcia-Vos, are there any changes to the agenda? No, Mayor Romero. There are no changes. Thank you. We have a motion to accept the agenda as presented. Please vote. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilwoman Larson and it carries. Section seven of your agenda is proclamations, commendations, and presentations. Our first item is a grant award for the Toddler Swim Lesson Grant Program with a check presentation by the Southern Nevada Chapter of the International Code Council. The Southern Nevada Chapter of the ICC established the Toddler Swim Lesson Grants Program in 2009 to provide local parks and recreation departments with $2,500 grants to offer free swimming lessons for toddlers. Tragically, drowning accidents are one of the leading causes of death for children under the age of five. The City of Henderson Parks and Recreation The Recreation Department is committed to drowning prevention and recognize that teaching toddlers to swim is one of the best ways to reduce child drowning deaths. Grant award funds will be used by the city to provide free swim lessons to toddlers, four years and younger, and other drowning prevention activities. We are joined today by President Nathan Ball and other representatives of the Southern Nevada Chapter of the International Code Council, the one and only Rad Tad, and Danielle Norris, Manager with the City's Park and Recreation Department. I'd like to invite Mayor and Council to the gallery to accept the grant award and for a photo op. I want to thank the ICC of Southern Nevada for this amazing donation to our Parks and Recreation Department. All child drownings are preventable, and our Parks and Rec staff works very hard to make sure that they are providing classes to teach children how to swim. They provide programs. actually children and adults. They provide first aid training, they provide all kinds of helpful advice and training for all of the residents to make sure that they can prevent childhood drownings. And this will go a long way toward helping that effort. And we want to thank Rad Tad for being here today. It's not every day we get a mascot at City Council. So thank you for being here and for this incredible donation. Item number two is a proclamation declaring May 2025 as Mental Health Awareness Month, as celebrated nationally by Mental Health America, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness. In the United States, approximately one in five adults experience a mental health condition which can impact thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and daily life, and relationships. This proclamation reflects the city's unwavering support of those managing mental health conditions and our ongoing commitment to increasing awareness that mental health is health. Taking care of our mental health should be given the same attention we give to our physical health. This city is committed to safeguarding both our residents and our employees. We have invested in an employee mental health and wellness center dedicated to the overall well-being of our employees and the mobile crisis intervention team to assist with critical incidents and accessing support within the community for our residents. I would like to invite members from our mobile crisis intervention team and wellness mental health team to join mayor and council in the gallery to accept the proclamation. mental health is something that affects every single person in our community at one time or another, whether it's through a family member or through something that you're experiencing yourself. Individuals up here are incredible, incredible advocates for mental health for our city. They are out helping people every single day to get back to a place of health and wellness, and I cannot thank them enough. So on behalf of Mayor and Council, it is our honor to be able to make this proclamation declaring Mental Health Awareness Month for the month of May. Thank you for all you do for everyone in our community. Number three is a proclamation declaring May 4th through the 11th, 2025 as professional municipal clerks week. This proclamation recognizes the vital services performed by municipal and deputy clerks in serving the changing needs of their communities and expresses our appreciation for all these men and women do, for all that these men and women do in their important roles. We're joined today by Henderson City Clerk, Louis Valdez and members of his staff who will accept the proclamation celebrating the 56th annual professional municipal clerks week. We are so lucky in the city of Henderson to have this amazing group of people on our city council staff and they are city council, city clerk staff. They do everything from passports to records keeping to elections to city council meetings and they keep it all running smoothly. They got national awards for their Their children's vote that they held earlier this year, or actually at the end of last year, was an amazing event teaching our children the importance of voting in our community. They work so hard every day and they make us look good. They're often the first point of contact people have with the city and they do it with a smile and a friendly face and a willingness to help. Thank you for all you do and it is my honor on behalf of Mayor and City Council that we declare Professional Municipal Clerks Week. Well, Mayor and Council, I'm gonna have Kristen hold that. Mayor and Council, thank you very much. This is the team and Nick and a couple of more of our staff, team members are on their way down. This is a team that really makes it happen from making sure that our agendas get posted to getting passports to folks who need to travel to public records requested or submitted to all the information that people come to us and ask for every day at the front desk and on the phone. But we couldn't do it without you, Mayor and Council. You are the ones who really make it happen for us and without your support, we wouldn't be able to do anything that we do. We also wanna thank our city manager and our city attorney, Stephanie Garcia Vasa and Nick Vascoff. They are tremendous partners. along with all our colleagues across all the departments, thank you for everything you do for us. It is an honor, it is a privilege, and we are truly blessed to have these folks on our team. Thank you all for everything that you do, and thank you Mayor. Harmony. Harmony. Does somebody put that on the screen for me? Do they put that on the screen for me? It's not? I can't. Can you all see the screen? Okay. Okay. Good evening, Mayor and Council. The next item is the City Manager's Report. Okay. In May, we recognize the critical work of our Building, Fire Safety, and Development Services Center. The city is offering a residential amnesty program for unpermitted building projects, allowing homeowners to bring their properties into compliance without penalties. By working together and spreading awareness of building codes and the role they play in ensuring our community's safety, we can protect the spaces where we live, learn, work, and play. Congratulations to our Building and Fire Safety Departments and our Development Services Center. also honoring the brave men and women of police and corrections. We recognize your dedication and selfless service. Your hard work keeps Henderson as one of the safest cities in America. Thank you for the valuable job you do protecting our community's safety. May 4th through 10th is Small Business Week. We pride ourselves on being a pro-business city and know that small businesses are at the heart of our economy here in Henderson. Shop small and support our local businesses. It's now my honor to announce the retirement of Cynthia Yarnell from Parks and Recreation. Thank you for your dedicated service to our city. We wish you the very best. Thank you, Mayor and Council. That concludes this evening's City Manager Report. Next on your agenda is the Consent Agenda, consisting of Items 5 through 36. Action on all Consent Agenda items is with one motion. May I have a motion for the Consent Agenda? Please vote. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilwoman Cox and it carries. The next item on your agenda or next section are public hearings. Item 37 is a public hearing for CPA-2025016566 Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Henderson-Strong Comprehensive Plan, Transportation and Mobility Plan. The recommendation is to approve and I'd like to invite Alejandra Fazekas, a principal planner in our Community Development and Services Department, and Jacob Snow with Atkins Realis to do a brief presentation. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. My name is Alejandra Fazekas. I am a principal planner, Division of Long Range Planning in the Community Development and Services Department. I am here with Jacob Snow. who is representing the consultant team of Atkins Realis that worked on this project. Do we have the PowerPoint? Thank you. Okay. We are here today to present the Henderson-Strong transportation, I'm sorry, the Henderson Transportation and Mobility Plan. This is a citywide long-term multimodal plan that analyzes the current transportation network. The most recent crash data reviews best practices and national standards for multimodal infrastructure improvements, outlines performance metrics, and proposes projects and policies for the next 25 years. The vision of the plan is to have our neighborhoods and destinations seamlessly connected through a safe, accessible, multimodal transportation network. Mobility options contribute to the quality of life for all people in Henderson through economic opportunity, environmental stewardship, healthy communities, and fiscal responsibility. Through community and stakeholder input, these overarching goals were developed, network connectivity, access and equity, safety, built to natural environment, transportation options, fiscal responsibility, and street design. These goals reflect distinct parts of the vision statement that I read before, created to guide decision-making processes and to ensure that incremental actions contribute to achieving multi-model connectivity. The plan was developed in three planning phases. Each phase involved community outreach, stakeholder engagement, research, and analysis while leveraging other local and regional plans. The plan was developed following an engagement plan that we developed for the community and stakeholder engagement. We organized and participated in multiple outreach events to get the community's input through three different phases. Three different surveys were developed for each phase. We did 10 focus group interviews, four technical and stakeholder advisory committee meetings. We went to bus stops with the highest ridership. We also went to community events and sent various community partners e-blast. From these outreach results, we learned that the number one priority is safety at 42%, aiming to zero fatalities and serious injuries, followed by the built and natural environment at 26% to better integrate land use planning with transportation investments that we make citywide. And having transportation options at 22% as the top third priority. Now, I'd like to hand it over to Jacob Snow to walk us through a few key highlights from the plan. Thank you. Good afternoon. For the record, Jacob Snow with Atkins Realis. Several members of staff came up to me before the presentation and said, you know, we got a hockey game tonight at 630, so you better make your remarks short. So if I'm a little incoherent tonight or the things don't go well, it's because I'm under duress. Henderson's a safe city. You all know that. If you look at the traffic fatality rates, the crash rates compared to other jurisdictions in Clark County, you do much better. But still, people make mistakes. Safety is at the foundation of this plan. The first thing we did when we found out safety was the top priority is we went out and we mapped where the traffic crashes are taking place in the city of Henderson with the previous five years of available data. That has helped us identify a roadmap, if you will, of areas where we need to focus on with some improvements. I love this slide. And I think you'll recognize this is Paseo Verde Parkway. When Alejandra said that the second priority was built a natural environment, what the stakeholders are really saying is don't make it ugly. Make it nice. And you've done a great job making it nice. And they want you to keep doing that and not mess that up. And the third priority was to give residents more and better options besides driving in a car. And take a look at this. You made it nice, and you have a lot of infrastructure that makes it very welcoming and comfortable for people to take alternative modes. The people are saying, give us more. And that's what this plan is built upon. I'm going to go through the various modes of transportation. I'm going to share with you information about where the traffic accidents have taken place from the years 2018 to 2022. That's what we have available to us. That's the most current data. Now, the light blue-colored areas are where the concentrations of pedestrian and automobile crashes have been mapped. And the top three intersections for Those concentration of crashes are at Boulder Highway and Lake Mead Parkway is number one. Stephanie Street and Sunset Road, number two. Green Valley Parkway and the Beltway is number three. Now, two of those areas you're already making active improvements on, so kudos to you. But there are gaps in our network. One of the first things we did was we identified where we had gaps in our sidewalk network. And our recommendations to you are to, now that we've identified the gaps, to fill them in as soon as practicable. You have some great places to walk in the city of Henderson. And your residents know that. And what the stakeholders are telling us is that we would like to have wider and more enhanced sidewalks. And where would we like those? Well, we think it would make sense at those intersections and locations where we're seeing the most pedestrian, automobile crashes. Good recommendation. One of the recommendations is to perform walk audits around schools. Safe routes to schools, safe routes from schools is a foundation for a great education city which Henderson is and is improving on and this is a great way for the planning and public work staffs to work together and coordinate the timeline for improvements to roadways with what we find out on these walk audits. We've done two so far. We'll do more in the future. The bicycle plan, where are the crashes between automobiles and bicycles occurring in this community? Notice the concentration of the bright pink or magenta areas. Intersections with the highest concentration of crashes, Sunset Road and Stephanie Street, number one. I-215 and Stephanie Street, number two. Eastern Avenue and St. Rose Parkway, number three. There are some fabulous places to ride a bike in this town. There are even some premier places to ride a bike in this town. Multi-use path. Great separation over which street? Stephanie Street. It's a fabulous facility. We have some facilities for biking in the city where most cyclists would not feel comfortable riding a bike. And comfort is what it's all about. If you ask them what it's going to take to get you to ride a bike or to take transit or to walk, and they're going to say, I want to feel safe and I want to feel comfortable. Facilities like this, where you put a road on a road diet and you carve out space for a dedicated cycle track, once you add that six-foot raised concrete barrier, the comfort level for a cyclist to operate in that high-speed, high-volume traffic goes up significantly. Now, we don't have the right-of-way to do this on most of our streets. where we do have the opportunity and it will be few and far between it's something we ought to take advantage of to improve that comfort level for cyclists the transit plan really needs to be focused on improving transit stops this stop here just north of water street on boulder highway that's what that traffic that's what that transit stop has looked like for the past 30 years if you are a disabled transit rider and you need to get around with a walker or a scooter or a wheelchair The only way to access that transit stop is to go out into the street. Now, I know for a fact from my previous experience that this particular site has been the site of fatalities and serious injuries. What do we recommend we do to deal with that? Well, this is just a few miles up the road. Look at this. You've got a very nice, highly amenitized transit stop, and behind it, you've got a shared use path that provides excellent first and last mile connections for people who want to take transit. And that's what they need, that's what they're telling us they want if we expect them to use these services. It's a great example of what we can do to be successful. And this is a fantastic example of a safe systems approach being implemented for every mode of transportation in the Boulder Highway corridor, whether you're driving a car, whether you're riding a bike, whether you're a pedestrian, whether you're taking transit, the infrastructure and the design of this facility have all been for you to make it safer and to make it better and to look, to make it nice. So kudos to you. One of the best things that you have done, this design with elimination of travel lanes, narrowing of travel lanes, widening of sidewalks, provision of dedicated transit lanes and dedicated cycling, really works best with a lower speed limit. The top two causes of traffic fatalities in Clark County, impaired drivers and excessive speed. So implementing these principles is going to save lives, protect property, and improve the safety for all Henderson residents. We also need New, faster and better transit services, not just in Boulder Highway. We're working with the RTC staff on Eastern Avenue and on a route in West Henderson. We look forward to that. The vehicle plan, intersections with the highest concentration of crashes, Sunset Road and Stephanie Street has been in the top three for all of the modes. So we know we need to focus on both of those corridors, Stephanie Street and Sunset Road and on that intersection in particular. Eastern Avenue and St. Rose Parkway was number two. There's Sunset and Stephanie, Eastern Avenue and St. Rose Parkway, and four other intersections tied for third. You have been the recipient of previous decades worth of design in your transportation corridors. Boulder Highway is just one example and you're fixing that. Lake Mead Parkway is another NDOT right of way. I'm not casting any shade at NDOT. Their job, Back then when they designed these was to move as many cars as fast as possible. Lake Mead Parkway, close to Boulder Highway now here, is your highest concentration of pedestrian crashes. When you have these legacy roads that have long blocks and not enough places for people who are getting on and off the bus to cross the street, you're going to end up with people doing things like this. And so one of the recommendations is we'd like you to look at your network connectivity standards for your roadways. Where possible, take advantage of the opportunity to shorten the blocks, improve the safety and add to the crossings, and look for opportunities to develop multimodal connections on those streets. This is the final slide, and this is basically our map for safety and multimodal going forward. Everywhere on that map that you see a square, bright blue square, that is an intersection that we're recommending for further study of safety and capacity and multimodal improvements. Take a look. It's hard to see Stephanie Street because there's so many blue boxes on the intersections, but there's also a solid blue line there. And Sunset Road has a number of boxes on it, and there's a solid blue line as well. Wherever you see a solid blue line, that's where we're recommending a corridor study. You've got one just underway for Lake Mead Parkway. As your funding allows, we would encourage you to go forward with this plan to focus on these streets and on these intersections to make needed safety and capacity and multimodal improvements. If you do that, we're confident you will save lives, you will protect property, and you will increase the safety for all the residents of Henderson. And I'll turn it back over to Alejandro now. for the last slide. Thank you, Jacob. And as presented, this plan lays the foundation for meaningful transportation and mobility improvements across the city. And we wanted to present this plan as a guide, as a roadmap for the next 25 years. It presents a list of policy recommendations and impactful projects that will help improve our overall transportation and mobility network citywide. That concludes our presentation and we're happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you. This item is a public hearing which I will now open. If there's anybody wishing to speak on this item, please come forward, speak directly into the mic and you will have three minutes to speak. Mayor, for item number 37, there is no one in the public comment queue. I'll close the public hearing. Council, any questions? Very nice job. Thank you very much. This gives us a nice roadmap to follow. Question? Mayor, if that's all right. So obviously it always comes down to dollars, right? When the money is available, we will jump on these things because it's so important. Thank you, Jacob, for working with our staff and Alejandra for doing such a good job on this. This is quite important. At this point, what would be our next step? in this process. So we got a great report. We see where we need to make some improvements. Where do we go from here? Sure. So we have already been implementing the plan even before adoption. As Jacob mentioned, we have already started doing walk audits around the schools. We did our first one around basic high school in December and January. We just did one last week around David Cox Elementary School. We are trying to align our planning efforts with the work that Public Works Department is doing, identifying areas where there are plans to do roadway rehabilitation improvements to tie these efforts to add enhance sidewalks for our kids to safely walk the schools, to protect the back lanes for community purposes and not just recreational purposes. So we are trying to get our work aligned in that regard. We are also pursuing grant opportunities. We have one that we submitted last year, Safe Streets for All grant, to develop a Vision Zero plan for the city, Unfortunately, we didn't get it, but we are planning to resubmit again this year. Actually, the deadline is next month. We also just submitted a grant, again, in partnership with Public Works from NDOT call for projects related to safety. So we submitted a grant application for a traffic signal on the across the street of one of our charter schools with we have experienced crashes. It's exactly the Pinecrest Sloan Academy. So we submitted that project. So we are constantly trying to coordinate efforts and pursue grand opportunities to implement our plan. And there's more, of course. We also have currently an RFP process for a corridor study for Lake Mead Parkway. which is a key intersection with Boulder Highway, aligning efforts with other of our local plans that we have. We have Henderson-Strawn. We identified Boulder Highway, Lake Mead Corridor, Downtown Henderson as our key priority areas. And focusing on those areas, again, to include transportation, mobility options for all our residents. Okay, good. So we just... always looking for opportunities to implement the things that was pointed out. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate that. Actually, a couple things you brought up. So having this plan obviously gives us the opportunity to apply for some grants or to assist with that and try to get those awarded to us, correct? Okay. And then you mentioned, because this is tremendous work and it is really well done. You mentioned Lake Mead is sort of the next corridor study. What is the timeline on that? I get asked that quite often of what are we doing on Lake Mead? What's that look like? So where are we at with that corridor study? So we haven't started that corridor study yet. We just received, we had our first meeting actually today with RTC. in partnership with the RTC. It's a unified planning work program funded project. It's going to be a planning project, and we just had our pre-evaluation meeting with them, and we're in the process of reviewing proposals from applicants. So it's going to be, I would say, approximately about two years process when it comes to planning. selecting a consultant team that's going to work on the project, and then developing the actual plan. OK. Thanks. All of my questions were answered in the presentation and the briefings. I just want to thank you and thank Jacob and your company. all of the information and the help working together to come up with a great plan. And I know how hard you worked and I know how hard your team worked. So thank you. I appreciate it. I just have one final comment. Now that we have, once we adopt this plan, when we are, and this might be a Lance question also, but as we adopt this plan and we have it in place and we have priorities outlined and we can see which intersections are the most in need of improvements, does this help us when we go to NDOT and RTC, when we request funding to add emphasis to the projects and maybe put us up a little bit in line? As far as the RTC money, our funding is our funding, but if, like the grants we get, those, they rank those based on importance, but as far as like Fry dollars and stuff, we get what we get. But some of the planning grants and the safety grants, yes, we can rank higher to get that money for those projects. Thank you so much. And with that, may I have a motion? Please vote. Members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilwoman Larson and it carries. Thank you. Thank you. Mayor and Council, your next item is item number 38, accompanying resolution to item number 37, CPA-2025-016566, Henderson-Strong, Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Transportation and Mobility Plan. The recommendation is to adopt. We have a motion. Please vote. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilwoman Cox and it carries. Your next item is item number 39, a public hearing, the seventh substantial amendment to the 2019-2020 annual action plan. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD, funding source is the Community Development Block Grant, Coronavirus, CDBG-CV. The recommendation is to approve and I see Claudia Young here who is going to be presenting the item. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. The City of Henderson is an entitlement to our community development block grant funds. In this case, we're talking about COVID block grant funds. In 2020, the city received approximately $2.3 million. This was to address the impacts of the public health crisis. These funds were used for homeless prevention, delivering meals to senior sheltering, and also cleaning for the Boys and Girls Club healthcare training and street outreach teams. From 2020 through 2025, there was six substantial amendments to be able to add these activities. So today, I have before you the seventh substantial amendment. This will allocate $160,000, which is the remaining CDBG-CV funds, to expend 100% of the CARES Act funding that is set to expire June of 2026. The funding will support home-delivered groceries to seniors and homebound disabled individuals and will assist to support the Meals on Wheels wait list. And the nonprofit that has been selected is the Just One Project. So the action today, or the request, is to accept and receive comments and approve the submittal of the seventh substantial amendment to the 2019-2020 Annual Action Plan. Thank you. Thank you. This is a public hearing, which I'll now open. Mayor, we have one person in the queue for item number 39, Brooke Neubauer. Hi, good afternoon. Thank you so much for having us here today. My name is Brooke Neubauer. I'm the founder of the Just One Project. For those of you who are not familiar with the Just One Project, we have two pillars to solve food insecurity here in Southern Nevada. Food for All is our solution for today. That is our immediate access to groceries. And Community Connect is our social services program, and that is our solution to food insecurity tomorrow through Wraparound Services. We are an innovative organization. We do not believe that free food is always the answer to food insecurity. We have kicked off an amazing program called Groceries on the Go, which is a mobile grocery store on wheels that we are dying to bring to the city of Henderson and we will make that happen someday. We have seven locations across southern Nevada, one main headquarters where we have 23,000 square feet and six satellite locations with 73 operational staff. We are really good at taking initiatives from jurisdictions via contracts and our latest contract is to be the operators of the DHRC with in partnership with the city of North Las Vegas. It is a resource center where we bring together nonprofits under one roof. It is geared towards serving multi-generational families from children to parents to grandparents. It is an incredible space for collaboration with all nonprofits and a true partnership with elected officials. So it's really nice when an elected official can tell a person that is calling one of their constituents that, yes, we have a safe space for you to go to to get all of your services. Interesting? Really quick, my name is Tristan Hightower Skidmore. I'm the Senior Executive Director of Revenue of the Just One Project. It's a long title that means I write our grants and I also do the fiscal and programmatic compliance on the back end with our directors. So I'm here just to talk about how partnerships like this are so integral to us being able to do what we do and serve what we serve, strengthening partnerships in the city of Henderson through funding like this. And I know we also were recently approved for shared housing funds through CDBG, so we're very appreciative of that. And I just wanted to say that we have a fiscal team of five as well as outsourced CPAs. So we're really posed to take on funding like this and to grow and to make sure we can, you know, continue to build our partnership with the city of Henderson. And we brought some annual impact reports just so anybody who wants to get to know us a little more can dive deep in there. And of course, we would love to invite you all in for a tour of our headquarters. And we can't wait to have official roots in the city of Henderson because you guys are amazing. Thank you. Do we stay for the vote? OK, great. Thanks. Louie, is there anybody else in the queue? No one else in the queue, Mayor. I'll close the public hearing. and just want to say thank you to the Just One project. I have toured your facility and what they do is truly amazing for our community, so thank you for all that you do. Thank you, Claudia, for working on this and getting this. Any questions or comments? No, just a thank you also to both of you very much. Thank you. May I have a motion to approve? I move this. Please vote. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Seabock and it carries. The next section of your agenda is unfinished business. Item number 40 is a continued item, a resolution for the land sale of 4.78 acres northwest side of Saguaro Street and the recommendation is to adopt. Mayor and Council, this is a resolution and notice of intent to sell approximately 4.78 acres located along the northwest side of Saguaro Street and east of Grand Cadence Drive. through a public auction. So the minimum bid is $3,385,000. This is determined by the average of two independent bids, or appraisals, excuse me. The property will be advertised starting on May 9th, and then online bidding will begin on July 21st through July 23rd. The purchase and sale agreement for the highest bidder will come back to you and is scheduled to be heard on the August 5th City Council meeting. Thank you. Any questions or comments? Is it open bidding? I mean, you submit a bid and somebody outbid you, you can keep bidding up, right? That's using CREXI, correct? It is using CREXI, yes. I'm going to phone a friend here. Brian, is it sealed bids or is it they can bid up? Yes. You're correct, sir. It is using CREXI. Okay. May I have a motion? Please vote. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilwoman Larson, and it carries. Item number 41 is a continued item, property marketing agreement, commercial real estate exchange, Inc., land sale of 4.78 acres, the northwest side of Saguado Street, and the recommendation is to approve. Mayor and Council, this is the property management agreement for the auction mentioned in the previous agenda item on Sillowar Street. The property market agreement is with commercial real estate exchange, which is CREXI, It's an online real estate marketing and sales company that we've used in the past. Crexie will conduct the online auction. They'll advertise it, market it, and promote the sale of the property. In the end, the fee is 2.5% of the sales price, and that'll be paid from the proceeds at closing. Thank you. Any questions or comments? May I have a motion? No. Please vote. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Seabach, and it carries. The next section of your agenda is new business. Item number 42 is an appointment by Mayor Michelle Romero to the Citizens Transportation Advisory Board and the recommendation is to appoint John Day. May I have a motion? Please vote. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilwoman Larson and it carries. Item number 43 is the appointment by Mayor and Council to the Civil Service Board and the recommendation is to appoint Stacy Martini. We have a motion. I'll move. Please vote. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Sebach and it carries. Item number 44 is the appointment by Mayor and Council to the Development Services Center Advisory Committee and the recommendation is to appoint Neal Sansone. We have a motion. Please vote. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Stewart and it carries. Item number 45 is the appointment by Mayor and Council to the Southern Nevada Regional Planning Coalition Alternate. The recommendation is to appoint Councilwoman Monica Larson. May I have a motion? I move. Please vote. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Seabock, and it carries. Item number 46 is the appointment by Mayor and Council to the Regional Flood Control District Citizens Advisory Committee, and the recommendation is to appoint Jim Giordano. We have a motion. Please vote. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilwoman Larson, and it carries. Item number 47 is a resolution to delegate budget authority, augmentation authority, and execute award agreements for grants and philanthropic funds. And David Weiser, Assistant Director of Finance, is here to make a presentation. Item 47 is a resolution to delegate budget authority and to accept award agreements for grant and philanthropic funds. philanthropic funds to the city manager slash CEO or designee. This will help the city to align our processes for accepting and augmenting grant awards with national best practices and state law, as well as provide for timely access to grant funds and allow the city of Henderson to officially implement grant funds for programs for the benefit of our residents. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions or comments? Please vote. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Stewart and it carries. Item number 48 is a resolution ratifying charitable donation to Nevada Grant Lab for building nonprofit capacity in Southern Nevada and the funding sources the general fund and the recommendation is to adopt. Mr. Mayor and members of council, this item is a resolution to ratify a $50,000 charitable donation to Nevada Grant Lab for building nonprofit capacity in southern Nevada. Staff recommends approval. Thank you. Any questions or comments? We have a motion. Please vote. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilwoman Larson, and it carries. The next section of your agenda is bills to be read into title. Unless an item is pulled for discussion, Council will take action on all bills to be read in title with one motion. And item number 49 is bill number 3836, amending Henderson Municipal Code, Chapter 15.02, Development Services, Schedule of Fees. And the recommendation is to refer to the committee meeting of May 20th, 2025. We have a motion to refer. Please vote. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilwoman Cox, and it carries. Now is the time for Mayor and Council comments. Are there any comments? I do. I just want to bring up if City leadership could take a look at that Lake Mead study. The timeline she said about two years to try to identify contractors just to me seems way too long. I don't know how accurate that is. I would just ask that we just take a look at that because of the needs along Lake Mead that affects all of us out here on this side of town. RTC, it was like last month, a couple weeks ago, put out the RFP, so we selected a consultant to do the work. So that's what they're doing currently. That'll take a couple months here to get them underway. And then the actual planning of it will take a year to two years. But we'll do what we can do to expedite. Okay, understood. That makes me feel a lot better. So thank you. Next, I will set the Redevelopment Agency, City Council, Committee, and Regular Meeting for May 20th, 25. And now is the time for our final public comment. If you wish to make a public comment, please come to the podium, speak directly into the mic, and you all have three minutes to speak. Mayor, there is no one in the second public comment queue. I'll close public comment, and I will adjourn the regular meeting at this time.