to get up 50 times for this delicious breakfast did the city of Las Vegas provide the delicious breakfast Mr Adams was this our breakfast that we have provided yes on behalf of the city of Las Vegas and watching every tax dollar there there are no um fancy dinners so here anyway uh we welcome you all to our special City Council meeting of the 26th of February it's 8:00 a.m. we like to be on time and so I'm going to ask you to please turn off or put on airplane mode your cell phones and are we in compliance where is the hello are we in compliance with the open meeting law we are thank you thank you very much uh could I call upon you to take attendance or no we're not doing that are we then we are doing the pledge of allegiance correct absolutely thank you is there a flag yes right there oh I pledge aliance 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 would anybody like to volunteer to sing the national an welcome back okay so we will start with our first public comment uh public comment for anyone who wishes please the microphone I guess is way back there oh right here right up front anyone who wishes to comment uh please come forward state your name for the record and seeing none we we'll move on now to discussion possible action regarding identifying and developing new strategic priorities for the city of Las Vegas and revising current priorities and I would thank Mr Adams please good morning mam mayor members of city council Scott Adams city manager uh this is uh we're looking forward to this morning where uh you acting as city council uh will work on establishing a new set of priorities for the city to pursue over the next few years uh I'm going to go back to uh the last couple of weeks we've spent some time uh Puna Mather and I have meeting with each of you individually uh to talk about uh the workshop and at the last city council meeting I made a presentation where I went back and reiterated what the uh priorities have been over the last couple times we've gone through this process so you'd have a framework of thinking going forward for uh expectations today but as we've done in the past we've always had somebody help us through this process and today is no different and at this point I would like to introduce our facilitator to for today's activities uh Puna Mather uh is culminating a 25-year career as a senior executive in the gaming industry uh currently serving as executive director of The Elaine pwin and Family Foundation and operates her own business as a speaker uh within a lengthy list of volunteer and service roles uh Punam has received appointments to Statewide leadership positions by the last four governors uh she is a champion and advocate for children and public education despite numerous Awards and recognition the role of which she is proudest as as mom to her three remarkable sons and one spectacular daughter so it is my pleasure at this time to introduce our facilitator for today Puna ma thank you good morning um okay truths they're not always remarkable and spectacular just to clarify that I've asked all of you on the folded note card to draw a picture of your favorite hobby and your favorite food so while we are continuing go for it we've got lots of colors so you can express it's not a Turnin assignment you're going to just hold it up um there we've got lots of colors you can express it well um good morning good morning good morning good morning so happy today is the 26th of February um happy one of those um I want to begin by expressing profound gratitude on behalf of 2 million of us all of you uh have done what the rest of us are unwilling to do and that is to get to a level of self-sacrifice to choose to serve against a very long list of reasons not to do that and yet you chose to do it anyway um you were here because citizens in award selected you as theirs and now you come together as a group of seven who collectively have an opportunity to be the stewards to define the future for two million of us so I want to honor the RO role um and I want to thank you for doing it because there are only seven of you there's a couple things and I'm going to kick it off to turn it over to Jeremy um I'm going to do a quick lightning round so this is for all of you as well U before we get going let's just get some aspirational juice flowing so I'm going to ask first the seven of you and then every other person in this room to give give me one word just a single word no hyphens no paragraphs no explanation just one word expressing your hope for today that's it Scott I'm going to ask you to start uh Vision Vision uh plans plans collaboration collaboration um neighborhoods neighborhoods Unity Unity Solutions Solutions informed informed Legacy Legacy progress progress productivity productivity achievable achievable Integrity Integrity you sir sustainability sustainability suain sustainability you Ma peace peace beautiful okay we're going to do it quick Trier brevity goity Equity Clarity Clarity Clarity Clarity opportunity opportunity strategy strategy success Clarity future future teamwork preparedness road map prioritization prioritization direction Clarity Vision knowledge knowledge Clarity Clarity connection connection communication love thank you you ma'am Rebecca one word that would we to come back to you you get the theme it's about your hope for today motivation safety safety inspiration coming back to you transformative Enlighten Enlightenment inspir inspiration transparency suain sustainability planning dire Direction prog progress honesty honesty alignment alignment strategy strategy teamw teamwork trust trust you sir responsib responsibility we got yours success success plan empowerment empowerment Vision Vision responsibility Innovation Community Integrity recogition recognition partnership partnership we heard from you yes uh coming you can't just stand at the door and hope we don't find you um your word my word hope for today oh happiness happiness gratefulness gratefulness bravery bravery the others have actually run into the parking lot so I can't get them um and the nice man who is behind the camera your word is peace peace okay wow that was cool we're we're you're all in the right place we've got some really high and awesome hopes for the day and let's always begin every day with hopes that are high and positive and that's what we just did so that was awesome thank you and for those of you that got called on first sorry um so one thing about strategic planning I just want to observe that you are really good at this now I recognize that there are four of you new to the council since the last time that we went through this process in 2017 there are couple of you that were here when undertook the process in 2013 um you may have been the only one that was here when we undertook it in 2011 this city is really good at this that is not what most municipalities can claim all of us talk about the importance of being strategic and having plans that align to that strategy very few are willing to do what it takes to get there so this is an exercise where we're building on a significant track record of success and I I'm going give you one example just to sort of make the point it is not common that municipalities around the country education is a priority it is not our lane it belongs to the school district there's a laundry list of very good reasons why municipality ought not to declare education except in this group a decade ago people sitting in seats that you now occupy there was this pacious conclusion that it mattered so much that you were going to declare it as a strategic initiative fast forward you are setting a gold standard for what it looks like to make improvements in education by using the levers that are uniquely available to you would you agree yeah you are setting a gold standard that's not by accident it wasn't the simple Act of saying it out loud it took that it took leaders to say it out loud first then it takes a city manager who is 100% committed to delivering on whatever you say he then takes it to 20 department heads and 3,600 employees and that's where it the work gets done to deliver on your vision so the chain of events is pretty simple leaders got to declare it once leaders declare it you've got a very committed city manager who knows he's got and basically is the conductor of a band of 3600 and he will make sure that with the song sheet that you declare he's going to make that he's going to make it happen that is the Pledge that's the pinky promise do you still doing pinky promises sort of sort of sort of he's not do I was I supposed to say that out loud sorry he doesn't want you to know that Pinky Promise is really a thing um so that's the hope and the goal and the intention for today is it four of you are new does seven of you are together I don't feel new in this this moment not withstanding the warranties that inevitably Inspire expire as we get older I feel your pain sir um and so what we've done is our level best to provide you input right it's important for leaders to know what has happened before and so at the last city council meeting Scott alluded to he talked to you through the Strategic priorities four of them that were articulated in 2013 that literally drove the work of the city he talked you through the six priorities that were collectively articulated by the council in 2017 four of you are new so it could be that we get through the day and you affirm what others have previously said it's an option but what will be different is that it will be now true of the seven of you that's the key right here's what we need from leaders Clarity cuz it can come from no other place and so what we have are seven well 6 + 1 7even who six who ran in Wards so today the thing I'm going to ask you to do is to look up cuz you are selected by your ward and what is also true is you are 17th of the Collective that will Steward us to our future so that's the I want you to look up right it's the wavelength that is higher in terms of one of the Strategic priorities that the city should focus on and in the implementation trust that your staff will come back with the differences in implementation for each of those priorities relative to WS does that make sense okay so you had input so he has given you and talked to you through you've also got um your master plan 2050 there's a master plan so it's another source of input you've spoken over the months and years to I don't even know how many people neighbors citizens who have elected you some who may not have elected you but you've spoken to them so you bring all of that life experience and then I want you to bring every second of every life experience that you've ever had because there are only seven of you and so we don't want to leave any of that wisdom but behind because it's super useful to Ste the future for our entire community so that's sort of my plea yeah okay so to just warm us up a teeny bit I asked you to draw your favorite hobby and your favorite food so who would proudly like to show us their so we can try to guess let's see yours okay favorite hobby guess what her favorite hobby is spending time with family uh take care of the family there's a whole I don't know if you can see this it's a whole bunch of stick figures a whole bunch of anatomically correct really well drawn stick figures and do we have a guest family was one is it yes yeah being with them I couldn't come up with the basic hobby cuz I really don't have one there that's the hobby okay and then the favorite food that symbol is this is a oh it's a symbol so here's what the mayor did she's like I don't know how to draw that but I know the drive-thru from which I buy it so let me do the golden arches because she's all about getting it done it doesn't matter how we get it done we get it so the favorite food now in the bottom right hand corner says Big Mac Elegance elegant classy lady right who else who else here we go Council woman s oh this is great look used colors can we just observe that what is the favorite hobby I think it's this one bicycle riding oh she's a biker huh bike riding a tricycle though I I was going to say please don't say tricycle it looks it is a beautiful bike that is a blue bike with a purple basket yes yep and so bike riding is your hobby and then your favorite food is this what is that that noodles you're going to guess is it noodles it's spaghetti with caviar this for all of you is spaghetti with caviar in case you're going to draw that later thank you who else thank you get everybody soon right here we go Council draw draw Anthony this is so cute he is a very organized man so on one side above the picture he's a little nervous that you may not recognize that it's a picture so above that he wrote the word hobby so we know so this is the hobby what is the hobby pickle is it pickle ball yeah golf no golf golf golf ho in one babyl it is a hobby and his fantasy right here one baby two the L any of you forget that two hols in one and his favorite food GRE food asked me what is it Greek food is it Greek food oh it does look like a Euro me is it a Euro meat is it Greek food Euro said that down here very good very good um this is a it's he actually has chronicled the process of getting to the euro so here's your leg of lamb shavings fall on a plate transferred to his meal so he is all about process as well that was awesome and when you're that specific who needs color like seriously who else here we go beautiful um so I love that every square inch of her sheet is used up um I'm glad you're working through the shyness and the timidity it's a good thing so favorite food well that's not fair cuz you wrote it across the top oh okay meatballs and SP spaghetti and meatballs and if you were it is a um a pink spaghetti and meatballs dish and in case you're not sure it says spaghetti meatballs across the top and then here is her Hobby family yeah it is oh your family looks better than mine so the mayor is nervous that uh the council woman's family is better looking than herti figures um and they've got names on them as well that's beautiful thank you thank you and I know councilman kudon was so excited about this that he actually folded his pictures on the inside cuz he's so proud um he said to me I don't draw and I don't have a hobby I am now fre out um but you know what you did a beautiful job which Hobby and and food pizza family and pizza it's a very simple and Powerful image could be like a Petroglyph almost yeah here is here is the family we know the family so we actually recognize these two superhuman short people and this is pizza cuz when you're raising two super short Heroes you eat pizza a lot cuz they deliver it to your door I remember those days ready oh oh nice and she's a teacher if you weren't sure that she was a teacher teachers she has given herself a star yeah yeah te I was covering the name of my dish and frankly if you don't wag your own tail that's one side puppy so this is good um favorite hobby favorite food turkey no turkey close come see come I can eat it with turkey is that a chicken it's a chicken it's a chicken turkey dish but it's called Mo M okay and then the hobby [Music] is is it travel travel with my family Trav with family beautiful so look at this anatomically correct Samsonite and apparently her family rides on top of their luggage when they go places it's awesome and then um lots of detail beautiful you deserve the star but actually yeah was cuz she wrote moay on there and then councilman career is hoping I've forgotten him and welome back but it ain't going to happen my friends so here we are we have travel just travel the hobby it is that's a plane that's a plane that's more like a scaled fish right then they then they tail the tail number is lvw 5 for Las Vegas Ward 5 oh got it got it and then what's the favorite food pizza piz you think it's pizza pizza pizza yeah so if you would like to see the Branded line art plane branded with lvw 5 it's up here and then this is um Pizza which is pretty good thank you well you're welcome all right so get work done right talked about different sources of input so you had a review of here's what your predecessors collectively declared as strategic priorities in 2013 and then you had another review of here's what your predecessors collectively declared in 2017 you have your Las Vegas master plan 2050 that's been a source of input you're going to bring every moment of your life experience to this and we're also now going to focus on one addition specific source of uh of input which was the survey done by the fellow that's going to come up next so as he makes his way up where there he is I it's hard to know how to introduce this man because I'm I'm not sure he needs an introduction but I'm going to do it anyways it helps to be a third generation naden because that gives you an indication of why he cares so deeply about the things that he works on um he's a principal analyst with applied analysis um and beyond that he's the founder it's been since 1997 that applied analysis has been bringing really smart thinking to solve Nevada's biggest challenges um when you roll by the stadium the thinking underneath that gave rise to the stadium was Jeremy as we look at the struggle Lisa Morris hibler knows firsthand as we are now attempting to stand up a funding formula for K12 education in the state that had been touched in a half century Jeremy was the the brains that we needed to go to to get it done he's got a long list of clients a long list of accomplishments a long list of awards but today we've asked him to talk you through the survey that he just recently conducted uh late last year so without any more Jeremy AG see you you should clap for him in s of sort of what we do thank good morning mayor members of the city council thank you uh for the opportunity to be here today um just a quick question do I have a clicker here guys that I can advance oh it's right there thank you I have your clicker thanks should start by expressing just a little bit of thanks both to Punam for that wonderful introduction um she's always so kind and um our community is very lucky to have her as is the city um I'd also like to express my thanks to the city council for the opportunity to be here today um has asked to answer a few questions and so I'll try to provide a bit of a backdrop for your conversation today and I'd also like to express my thanks uh to your staff um who are instrumental throughout this process uh over the past year um and uh we're there to answer questions at every turn um I'm going to walk through a presentation here today that there's a much larger book that I understand that you've all been provided or had the opportunity to look at see Mr amling has one sitting there I wasn't going to try and go through the 200 Pages uh probably painful for you and for me to try and go through that level of detail however uh Mr Adams asked that I do is really highlight um some highlevel uh uh results uh and really sort of focus on the conclusions drawn uh from that analysis so there's three parts to my presentation today the first sort of hits on some high level results the second talks about what we did and how we got to where we are today part two talks about what constituents want the city to look like in the future and then number three is what citizens think the city's priority should be uh overall um when we started this process uh back in April of last year um the goal goal was to ask questions of citizens that would ultimately inform the development of the master plan uh and so that was really the primary focus there were lots of questions arguably too many questions that we had to ask but that's because um this city is very data driven uh and wants to understand what the citizens are looking for before it tries to craft things so we tried to include as much of that as we could um but then what we came what came back in in this late summer a really sort of August time frame was that we needed to dig deeper um that the city is not one thing and that its citizens are not one thing and that um the diversity of our community um provides strength uh and is really part of the tapestry that makes um city of Las Vegas great and they asked us to go back and do what we could to dig deeper uh at the individual Ward level uh to ask all many of the same questions not every one of the same questions but as many as we could at the ward level and so what you'll see is I I'll provide some of that as we go through um then a few month or so ago uh asked sort of okay we would like a presentation to hit some of the highlights on that and so we prepared that presentation and that presentation kind of morphed into what you see today those parts two and three um are are really trying to take a look at what the survey told us and try to glean as much as we could in terms of Direction and in terms of focus relative to the priorities of the city and what uh residents want to see on a go forward basis so with that I'll start with part one which is this general report and general approach to what we did in these highlevel results um overall there were over 1,700 surveys that were conducted of residents in the city of Las Vegas um those were conducted only uh for folks that are adults 18 years of age of older and they were conducted both in English and in Spanish um you'll see that they were done two different ways the initial survey is shown there in April of 2019 where awards were not identified 420 surveys were done then and then you see that the individual award surveys were done uh uh sometime after that through August September uh time frame uh for another about 1,300 surveys uh conducted overall the attempt was to have it be dispersed as a matter of fact the requirement was to have it be balanced for each one of the wards uh uh to reflect to attempt to reflect to the best of our ability uh attitudes opinions and uh beliefs um for each of those individual areas when we combine all that the margin of error is about 3% uh on the total a very low uh margin of error at the 95% confidence interval for each one of the wards it's a bit higher about 7% overall but we do believe that the responses uh and the results uh are both compelling uh and valid for purposes of our discussion today uh the analysis as as I mentioned earlier um uh is a couple hundred pages long and in includes a number of cross tabulations and a number of of more detailed um uh conclusions than what I'm going to provide for you today however these are the six sort of areas not sort of the six areas that we focused on and so they're the ones that I'm going to focus on for purposes of our conversation today they include General satisfaction how do people feel about the city that they live in and about the neighborhood that they live in I heard that word come up it came up a great deal in the surveys uh that we responded well while folks in this room refer to things often times as Wards um people refer to them as neighborhoods uh often times they view that in terms of uh their sphere or their bubble talked a lot about Public Safety came up a lot with your staff it also came up a lot uh among um uh respondents to the survey um Public Safety sometimes can can include many things oftentimes it's highly correlated with police protection but it also is Emergency Medical Response people wanting to know know uh that when they're in need that someone's going to be there uh to help them openness and inclusivity uh this was a part of what the uh staff included in almost all the conversations that we had the question was how inclusive was the city and in both in terms of it the provision of its government but also the services that are provided sense of community infrastructure and amenities which is a giant category we probably could have had five surveys just on infrastructure and amenities alone and we've certainly done some research relative to that overall and then goals and concerns probably the things that will ultimately inform your conversation here today while that yellow we I guess we attempted to use primary colors that's going to be a little bit difficult to see but we'll do our best overall relative to that which of the following closely matches your satisfaction with quality of life in the city of Las Vegas this is each one of the Ws that are outlined and what you'll see here in this survey and again I've just tried to pick out some of the key um questions that were asked if we go through it overall um uh many of my questions will be laid out uh in this format we can you can kind of get some idea of how the city's uh responses were laid out at the ward level and then for the city uh as a whole um often times we'll spend time uh looking at it in terms of uh satisfied versus dissatisfied or belief or disbelief in a question um there will always be respondents who don't want to give us an answer who are feel feel that they can't make a decision relative to a question and that's what you're seeing there in yellow neither satisfied or dissatisfied for the city as a whole you'll see that that number is approaching about 76% of folks that are saying they are satisfied with the city yes they are certainly going to be folks that have a lower number uh than that uh and we got a lot of commentary and when we had open-ended questions we found that people wanted uh to tell us a lot about their feelings with the city and I'll talk more about that as I go um but I think a theme that you're going to see throughout my presentation is there is a general satisfaction with what is being provided by the city um there's a lot of conversation about progress and I know that that's a lot about what this this discussion is about that's why we have priorities and master plans so perhaps we'll leave our community a little bit better for those that come with their neighborhoods they're very happy uh with the cities and the services that are provided and preservation of those services and preservation of that quality of life is relatively 20 years now um I would suggest you that that is a relatively strong response to the quality of life that people are have that have in the city we asked them for additional detail please tell us about the reasons that you live in the city of Las Vegas what is extremely important of the green that is a green color on the left hand side that's why it's got the little box and I've also highlighted the ones that are not important at all remarkable here is that you know you see some of them cost of living safety crime family employment are the things that are most important to the folks in the city of Las Vegas is the reason why they want to live here and many of the things that we talk about often right and when we ask folks we're going to get to it as we continue to go through this what are the things that are great about the city and what are the things that are not so great is it a great place to live is it a great place to work is it a great place to retire is it a great place to raise your children you know oftentimes we find and I don't think it's going to come as any surprise that there are concerns relative the the the concern that we get as much as any deals with education the quality of Education particularly among families uh that have children although we also are not one thing as a city you'll also see in the bar far right hand side that for a number of people we asked them what is the reason that you live here education was 20% of the people said no that's that's not important to me at all right because it's a differential in terms of what people's views are uh overall please tell us about the reasons that you live in the city I I have tried to find the best way to summarize these at the W level because I know the question is going to come up uh overall and I know there's a great deal of Interest so this is the way we were able to do it in the book and so I've tried to highlight it here as well in terms of the number one reason the number two reason and the number three reason that folks gave an every single category you'll see that cost of living crime employment and family were the four that came up over and over and over again as the most extremely important things that were there we allowed respondents to answer this question and to give us anything that they wanted to ultimately include and then categorize them but ultimately these are the responses what factors might cause you to consider relocating to another city we also asked the opposite side of the question there were a number of those that came up and you'll see that these were more unified in the responses number one for every single Ward was either safety and crime which was uh highest on the list or the cost of living which was what we got out of Ward one you'll see that those switched when we got to reason number two and then healthc care came in at number three and and it had a tendency uh to come up often uh in a lot of the analyses please select which most closely matches your satisfaction with the quality of life in the city of Las Vegas as a place to live a place to work a place to retire and place to raise children you'll notice here that this is where we had some of those changes that ultimately existed right the place to raise children is dramatically different than a place to live a place to work and a place to retire within the city of Las Vegas again we are not one thing when we ask that same question just to sort of put it at the ward level to get sort of an idea of how those play out you'll see that when we say ranking extremely satisfied or somewhat satisfied with the quality quality of life in the city of Las Vegas is a place to live people love living here our economy is doing better no longer do we have an unemployment rate of 14% we now have an unemployment rate below 4% right place to work is good right we are now among the nation's highest in terms of retire in migration a decade ago in 2008 when we looked at the data about 11% of the folks that uh surrendered a driver's license in southern Nevada was 60 years of age or older today that number is 18.5% we have now regained our position as among the heaviest in migration locations anywhere in the United States for retiree uh for retirees we expect that Trend to continue again you notice on the far right hand side that to raise uh children uh remains relatively low um obviously uh part of a place to live but something that is distinguished among the residents why would you not recommend out of an outof State friend or relative to move uh to the city and we asked this question again open-ended there are all types of responses that we ultimately got we wred a word cloud because it was the easiest for purposes of our conversation here today but these are some of the things that came up and crime has a tendency to to to rise to the top it is something that residents believe is extremely important and also a risk for their individual communities now we asked all kinds of questions would you would you recommend someone uh moving to the city you know why why not and we tried to dig into this I don't have time today to go into each one of those but putting in some of the ones that were the highest right the crime education crowds traffic some of those type of things resonated probably not much of a surprise to the people sitting in this room in terms of a sense of community now this was the second element of the question how often do you participate in community organizations nonprofits interest groups clubs Etc right participation is relatively low uh overall now I don't maybe relatively low is not the right way to say it because I doubt that you'd go to a whole lot of communities around the United States where this number would be very high overall but if we look at the city of Las Vegas those participating in some type of organization once a week multiple times a month once a year never you get kind of the sense of how that plays out right the Nevers on the far right hand side of our graph are relative are just low about half of people don't when we ask folks where is that point of connectivity for you overall there was one overwhelming answer came out and there were many answers again we are not one thing people find ways to participate in the community in their Community many many different ways which is shown here and I think is relatively compelling but Church groups come up overall more than any other uh in our community and I thought that was worth uh um uh showing how often do you talk with your neighbors never once per week are the Reds on the far right hand side daily four to six times per week you get the idea sort of shown from left to right right our connectivity with with our neighbors uh has a tendency to be uh somewhat low um but nonetheless and also somewhat differential uh between those individual Wars this was one that we came up along that same line of questioning that I thought uh was worth in including as part of our conversation when we asked 1,245 folks what is the one thing my neighborhood is missing right sense of community was number one uh overall uh in that response right and that's probably going to be you know Punam mentioned it I'm third generation I'm the parent of four excuse me three uh fourth generation uh children right um uh you know that sense of community isn't absent from me but I we also understand that my family is something of the exception to the rule right the state of Nevada and particularly Southern Nevada has the distinction of having the fewest people that live here actually being born here of any major metropolitan area in the United States and for some that is a that seems to be a negative that that promotes a sense of or lack of a sense of community a lack of sense of connection I sort of see it as the opposite to be honest to you this is the community that we have chosen many of us this is the community that people move to out of choice to find a better way of life but that sense of community has a tendency to be absent at least in terms of the responses that we got and so I don't think we want to be cautious at least I wanted to be cautious not to ignore that overall a little hard to see there in the yellow but the third of our major bubbles is Public Safety overall do you feel safe in the city of Las Vegas very safe is that dark green color moderately safe is shown there in that green that lighter green color and those ones that are moderately safe or moderately very unsafe are shown in the red and the dark red on the far right hand side right as you saw earlier Public Safety is Paramount to to Residents responses uh overall if we look at it you see that about 70% uh of folks indicate uh in the city of Las Vegas that they feel uh safe overall right this one resonates significantly and the differentials are worth your time and attention yeah I do want to just draw one distinction here as well this is do you feel safe in the city of Las Vegas this is how safe do you feel in your neighborhood overall right has guns and if we look at this and we see it what we what we get is that folks actually feel safer in their neighborhoods than they feel overall in the city of Las Vegas interestingly uh enough um is that is that a perception is it a reality I I don't know the answer to that question but with Public Safety I don't know that that distinction necessarily matters if people are actually safe if they don't feel safe these are obviously concerns that have resonated into the thing that again going back to what we saw earlier the thing that would make me consider leaving my community is Public Safety overall do you consider your neighborhood high medium or low uh crime area overall this is this is the city as a whole is shown on the left I consider it low at about 60% high at about 9% and a medium area about 34% of all responses you can also see by Ward the ones that believe that they live in a low crime area versus those that believe they live in a high crime area it varies relatively um significantly uh between those individual Wards and it's probably worthy of time and attention again as people individualize those neighborhoods and their um their view of them how confident are you in the capability of police to protect you uh from crime um again about 55% were were confident right about 30% were not confident overall and you can see how um members of each Ward residence of each Ward um distinguished between that that very confident and that not Confident by Ward uh overall in terms of those totals how confident are you uh in the police to respond quickly to a phone call for an emergency or a non-emergency again confident was about 57% and non-confident was about 31% not a whole lot of distinction between those two but here there was a distinction and I thought it was worth mentioning for purposes of our conversation today how confident are you in fire or other emergency services to respond quickly to an emergency phone call there is something that is distinguished between a crime and and and the response to a crime versus the response to an emergency eight out of every 10 almost 20% more of respondents indicated that when they pick up the phone and they dial 911 because they're having an emergency that that someone is going to show up there uh and respond in a reasonable amount of time something that is working in the city the the fourth uh uh portion of our of our uh survey that I wanted to just hit on a few of the highlights was infrastructure and amenities there are many uh things to mention here please uh assess the quality of the following in the city of Las Vegas we asked a lot of questions around this I'm just going to highlight a few of them Parks and Recreation housing utility Transportation health care and education again education is going to be at the bottom that is completely consistent with what we saw overall these are Citywide responses of 1700 city of Las Vegas respondents Parks and Recreation services were extremely high overall in terms of um the quality uh that folks are receiving um housing has become obviously an increasing uh concern I know there's been a lot of conversation around that the city with only 60% of folks believing that the the the quality of and accessibility to housing uh is significant that's 40% of folks that have concern there um worth not noting utilities transportation we talked about that there were some differentials overall I was surprised to see health care as low as it was uh relative to this even though we have made some degree of progress it Still Remains relatively low with only about 46% of respondents indicating that it is either excellent or good in the city and fewer than 30% of respondents indicating education is good or excellent in the city if we look at it on a w byward level here please assess the quality of the following in the city of Las Vegas this is just good or excellent right you can see where everything fall s and it is it's not uniform but it is very similar uh overall in terms of good or excellent uh quality with Parks and Recreation almost all excuse me always being number one housing always being number two and then some mixing of things in transportation utilities and health care but education always being last on the list please tell us if you have ever used any of the following Parks amenities other than Sports Fields during the past year in the broader survey there's a great deal of detail of what people are using and what people are not using I have not even attempted to try and go through all of that but those walking trails uh in particular Open Spaces picnics and playgrounds you can see the level of use that people are getting out of those amenities significant overall overall how would you rate the condition of city parks is excellent good average or Fair again you get the idea I I think for purposes of this just pointing out those that are poor or terrible on the far right hand side are very small percentages overall and they're all pretty close to that margin of error at the ward level versus the city of Las Vegas um which is um uh in excess of 70% overall how safe do you feel in the city of Las Vegas is Parks overall again you see that those numbers on the far right hand side grow a little bit in terms of having some increased concern for safety but at the Citywide level again we're talking about over 70% 70% to folks that feel safe in the Parks openness and and inclusivity um uh was again a big element of the survey uh overall so I'd like to just walk through each one of these uh briefly and again we didn't do all of them uh but I wanted to make sure that that we pointed out a few of these in the last 12 months did you or a member of your immediate household experienc discrimination or were you or a member of your immediate family refus refuses refused excuse me services or treated unfairly because of race or color age credit history uh or gender um uh when we looked at at each one of these I I I put up the 61 uh overall that said none of these and respondents were allowed uh to have multiple respondents which is why we had 2100 almost 2100 responses overall right I've had a number of questions this not only in terms of this uh survey but in other surveys that have been provided uh that we've worked on or other presentations that we've given and this question continues to come up about uh discrimination and lack of um inclusion overall particularly on an economic standpoint within our community which may just be the questions that relate more to the I get as opposed to overall but definitely still uh some of that in our community that is worthy of our attention if you said yes to any of those individual questions if that was the question that was answered where did that discrimination uh take place employment in a private business and law enforcement um getting credit or some type getting a loan something along those lines or in some type of consumer activity you see where those and again we allowed for multiple responses that were here uh but 177% of those respondents that indicated that they did have some type of they face some type of discrimination was um more in that economic range in terms of employment overall still within our community today how would you rate the city of Las Vegas as as an as an open and inclusive place for people of different race ethnicity sexual orientation gender or gender identity um city of Las Vegas 77% of respondents indicated that it was either extremely good or somewhat good with only a fair a very small portion rounded to zero indicating that it was bad or extremely bad and it doesn't mean it's the same in each and every location you can see that there are notable differences that are outside of the margin of error relative to this on a ward by W basis still work to be done um but uh this is the Baseline for purposes of our analysis here today finally relative uh to the questions that were asked of survey respondents there were goals and concerns what were your goals and concerns please rank the issues the city of Las Vegas should prioritize over the next 30 Years number one was Public Safety as the highest priority um by a fairly healthy margin number two was healthc Care number three was education and Youth Development and you see the balance housing going all the way down to Community Affairs we did it by Ward I tried to find an easy way to do this to get them all on one page I was afraid the fonts would be too small um so I put it on two pages for purposes of our discussion but you get the idea they are not always uniform either the city of Las Vegas and its residents are not one thing they do not share one concern they do not have one view of the future overall but common themes health care education Public Safety housing Youth Development are all included there finally relative to this sort of line of questioning we asked the question if I could change just one thing about my city and I will tell you we tried to G give the same instructions that uh Punam gave to all of you I just want one word I just want one thing you'd be amazed how many people wanted to talk for 20 minutes when we asked them to give us one word about the thing that they wanted to change nonetheless if I could change one thing about the city it would be better education homelessness affordability less crime were the ones that came up and there was a lot we tried to organize them here but you see the things that the community continues to be concerned about today I was particularly imp impressed by the people that wanted to say they would can change one thing they would change the climate good luck with that one here today if you can do that I will be very impressed overall although I kind of like it um the the the uh part two what constituents want the city of Las Vegas to look like in the future um this sort of required us to go through the entire analysis again and try to not only the tidbits Mr Adams requested but try to draw that into conclusions about what uh folks were trying to tell us about the future that they wanted and so these are the eight uh that we came up with in going through that process number one it is less about progress and more about preservation as much as I'd love to sit here and tell you that the residents of the city of Las Vegas um can see into the future and really want that better future for everyone they do want that future but they want to make sure that they don't do it at the expense of the future that they're going to have tomorrow in the city preserving the quality of life that the city of Las Vegas is offers the city of Las Vegas offers and they value to me is Paramount in their responses across the board the future is tomorrow it is not 30 years from now for residents it is about what's going to happen tomorrow it's about the congestion that I face when I get on the streets it's whether I feel safe tomorrow it's whether that new park is in in in my community or or whether I have clean bathrooms in the communities that I'm in which people did spend a fair amount of time talking to us about there's a certain degree of cognitive distence which I imagine is a real challenge for purposes of this city council everybody wants there to be all kinds of improvements but paying for them or who gets the value of those improvements is important right often times we hear we're all about fixing the schools in our the schools we we're willing to do that but we want that to be the schools in our community not the schools in a different Community because it is so neighborhood oriented overall this is the community we have chosen remembering why comes up right we heard we often get times Well I moved to Las Vegas because the taxes are low or I moved to Las Vegas because the cost of living was lower I moved to Las Vegas because the traffic ingestion wasn't like what it was in Los Angeles we moved here because of the quality of life my family moved here in 1905 to be able to have a better job my father's family immigrated from Cuba in the late 1950s and moved here in the late 1960s because my grandfather believed that he would his kids would have a better life that I would have a better life and you know what he was right I have a much better life here than I would have had otherwise but for this community overall remembering why is what I think residents are asking need to justify the benefits of growth more and more there's no doubt and in the survey other detailed portions of it Community has indicated that growth has generally been good for them overall that is progress they associate growth with progress however they are also now associating growth with the challenges that come with it stresses on our infrastructure overcrowding in our schools and is that growth being pain or progress Community is going to have to continue to justify why it's growing how it's growing and then it's growing in a way that does not diminish the quality of life for the residents they excuse me here already a sense of community and a sense of Pride often times what we found is that people are very proud of living in this community uh sometimes particularly from folks outside of this community they think that we have things to apologize for our way of life or the economy and how it's developed or something along those lines I didn't get that sense from respondents at all I think they want more of a sense of community because they love the community that they have chosen they want it uh to be everything uh that it is today and to the extent that it could be more they have a sense of pride in that overall our community has nothing uh to apologize for as we continue to do the best we can for the greatest number of people they expect to have a city that is both opportunistic and strategic overall when opportunities present themselves new businesses new up development things that could happen in the city the ability to make progress they expect the city to be ready willing and able to do that but at the same time to be thinking strategic about how to fix longer term challenges uh overall it's very difficult thing to do I think your residents expect that you can do both and number eight uh I would say is the theme that I had from sort of the beginning to the end of my presentation is the city and the residents are not one thing painting them all with a single brush I think is a very dangerous game and that came through very much uh in the responses that we had overall finally in trying to assess what the citizens think the priorities should be overall these are the ones I would offer to you preserve quality of life and hold the line where you can there's a there's a real fear that increased uh uh cost of living the increased Social Challenges that we have in our community is going to become increasingly problematic create opportunities for all residents to thrive that that we that we need to find ways when we looked at this previously and we've done these analyses um education and jobs have a tendency to flip-flop back and forth right right now our unemployment rate is low but there is an expectation that we'll be able to keep our economy strong and keep it going forward and we'll be able to create opportunities for the folks that live here not necessarily newcomers to be able to have uh those opportunities when they enter the workforce or when they retire make Las Vegas among the safest cities in America right that is a bold challenge to have but we heard it over and over I know the sheriff and all the the the police officers that that put their life on the line every single day do it with exactly that intention that challenge is a difficult one I believe that your residents uh want that to be a priority increase access to Quality Health Care um I I this is one that came up overall it probably is self-explanatory it have an expectation of equality inclusion and acceptance right for so long um this was an initiative we want to get to this point um what we heard I think more than anything else from respondents is this should now be the expectation there shouldn't be tolerance for things that where we don't have equality we don't have inclusion or where there isn't exception this should be what we do not what we aspire to do um number six sort of maybe a bit of hyperbole here and I'll take that but uh take on a war on poverty go after it right often times what we hear from residents is the things that they see in our community that are sympt to the challenges that we have I think more and more people are recognizing that the the virus that we are dealing with is poverty it manifests itself in so many different ways in our community homelessness hunger uh those type of things we have got to combat it at its source overall and I believe that's the priority that the respon the residents are indicating maintain financial responsibility and assure asset maximization this seemed to come up a lot before we build the next thing let's make sure we're getting everything out of the amenities that we have right we need to make sure that we are letting citizens know about all of the things that are available um uh in the city all the things that they can take advantage of sometimes if they don't know they can't utilize that and then we want to go develop the next thing at a higher cost which came up somewhat in some of the responses and number eight is that I think the priority is that they want the city to be a partner in all ways a can do will do City that is looking for ways looking for opportunities to continue um frankly the prosperity uh that this city has had on a go forward basis with that Madam mayor me members of the city council um again thank you very much for the opportunity to be here um I don't know if I'm supposed to take questions I'm happy to do it if that's appropriate to do what I know you're you're on a schedule so whatever is easiest I'm happy to do first of all thank you Jeremy I mean we've watched you grow and develop and everything you're doing in your company and we're so proud as you've integrated yourself and the work that you all do into so many facets of what is positive in this community your parents and your grandparents may they know how much we appreciate you so thank you I don't know are there any I think only because we have a very full agenda um certainly I know we all have your number and we have the data information which we appreciate uh to me it is a resounding echo of what I have come to believe over all these years and knowing that councilman Anthony has Ser more years than I with my nine years I mean I think it's pretty much online to what we've been looking at through these pasts but are there any questions that someone's burning to yes please it's more of a observation but I'm just curious about your thoughts uh and this would be maybe for for the city manager Adams to comment on as well is how does how does this is perception data this is how people feel about the community and I'm just curious about the reality of healthcare for example because that's something I spent a lot of time on now and I've spent a lot of time on education the reality of what Healthcare is in Las Vegas the reality of what education is how does reality compare to the perceptions of residents mayor with your permission Mr Adams would you like me to take that one first um we've done a fair amount of study relative to healthcare um councilman and I would tell you that I think we have some of the best Health Care Professionals in the entire United States in this community we just don't have enough of them um we tend to think about Healthcare in terms of access quality uh and cost of care um in terms of accessibility um I think we still have very legitimate challenges in being at or near the lowest in the nation relative to having particularly among certain Specialties within our community we just don't have them right we still uh there are acute areas gaps within our community that continue to exist uh today in terms of um there are many reasons why we are doing things better uh today than we did about a decade ago not the least of those is a result of things like the Affordable Care Act which is great which has created greater accessibility than it had before but when you ask me whether or not there is a disconnect between the responses that we got from the 1700 people that we talk to and the reality in the community again I think for some people um there is tremendous access to Quality Care within our community it's just not for enough of them yet thank you very much I think of looking and hearing from our Council I think we're okay and again to thank you so much we're so proud of what youed US of thank you for this the presentation that Jeremy just made the city managers confirmed will be posted somewhere yeah we'll make that available each to the council members a point of reference if I could um who do we need to accept the report formally with a vote no thank you very much will it be available to the public yes same yeah same place okay cuz I saw you taking pictures you'll have the whole thing um and I hope that you all had a chance to that was an extraordinary work product and so for leaders to have that kind of input that was so stem to stern through all citizens in the city was a wonderful input um backing up just a minute I just want to draw the lines of the overall process that is the Strategic process strategic planning process for the city of Las Vegas in 2020 we are here today and the leaders will give us Clarity coming out of this your city manager is going to convene department heads there's about 20 of them plus whomever else is in that conversation they will then listen to what direction you've given them and then contemplate What specifically could happen under each of those priority areas to then bring it back to you for your ratification so at some point he will come back after having sort of spoken with directors about it play back what they've heard and then offer you some ideas in terms of what actions could be taken right so you're still going to control the process but the job today is not to figure out the how to do it they will figure out the how to do it yours just to be clear about the where you want them to go Fair okay [Music] um okay I'm going to completely change gears because it is important to be able to toggle back and forth when you are leaders so I'll get three questions for you one what is the thing in your life in your entire life of which you're the proudest what is the thing in your entire life of what you're the proudest that's question number one question number two what is your highest native gift what is the thing that you just can't help but being excellent at and let me Define that a little bit better native gifts are the things that we're born to express in the world to make the world a better place that's how I Define them so here is what is true if I am expressing a native gift it is effortless I am excellent and when I am given the opportunity to share that gift I go to sleep at night with a profound reminder of why I was born so that's what I mean by native gift as human beings we're all really good at a lot of things we can Master many others but that's very different than the few things that represent our native gifts those things that are effortless where we are excellent and every time we express it we're reminded of why we're born so share a native gift second question third question what word phrase do you want to earn as part of your Epitaph or engraved on your Tombstone what is it is a word or phrase that you want to earn as part of your Epitaph or engraved on your Tombstone so those are three questions right what am I proudest of in my entire life two what is my most brilliant native gift three what do I strive to claim to or know my what do I want to claim as an adjective on my Tombstone or epito and whoever wants to go first can go first I'm not going to force you there is no order when you are ready to express you will go what's the abbreviation for council member do I CW thank you so much easier thank you what are you proud of serving your entire life my family your family tell us about sorry my family we are so dysfunctional I'm so proud so you're proud that you actually made it yes yeah we're still alive we're still loving each other it ain't always pretty no but we are there but I love it awesome what is your highest native gift speaking the truth and keeping it real whether you like it or [Music] not it's a native gift okay so just speak it is effortless yes you are excellent you are excellent you are excellent and the days that you get to do that you go to sleep at night with a reminder of why you were born that's what I'm talking about freedom fighter that would be it on the third one yeah well and then your third question yes is what do you want to earn as an adjective in your epap or your Tombstone so uh Freedom Fighter for all for everything between your medicine you choose the people you kiss and government out of your business a true Freedom Fighter she was a freedom fighter yeah that would be nice okay thank you who wants to go next I will I'll go next go so I'm the thing I'm most proud of is raising my daughter um she's a great kid and how old is your daughter she's 27 and it was just the two of you yes for a long time and so the pride is because she is an awesome human being she is and she is your awesome human being and there were times that you weren't sure that she was going to be an awesome human being or that you were doing it right so the fact that I wasn't doing it right but I always knew she'd be awesome okay so that's the source of pride that's the source of Pride we get it what is your highest native gift I think negotiation and communication negotiation and communication so when you do it it is effortless you are excellent and when you the days that you get to do that you are go to sleep with a reminder why you were born it's a beautiful gift to have on a team and what would you like to earn on your epap work to make the world a better place than leave the better leave the world a better place than when it came so um can I just claim it for you made the world a better place can I just declare it that's it okay let's do that made the world better beautiful thank you who would like to go [Music] next I can go um so my proudest uh accomplishment is family I think there's a theme Here what do you know and it's actually not they're all different families so the theme is not the same family yeah yeah so we're not all proud of Michelle's family we're proud of each yeah um and tell us about your family uh so we're a blended family I married my husband I have two older stepsons and my oldest is an attorney and my middle child is going to medical school and I joke that my youngest will become an artist he's nine so and I'm surrounded outnumbered by boys so they're all boys all boys his ours ours and my bonus kids yes Party of Three all together mhm and somehow you've made it all work yep and I have grandbaby that's uh three and uh one on the way so wow and they're they're both going to be boys someone do you want to rent a girl or maybe someone girl thank you what is your highest native gift um I think that I strive to be fair and I treat others the way I seek to be treated so it's a fundamental sense of fairness that is your perspective and it is your native gift so it is effortless you are excellent and when you get to express that gift you're reminded at the end of that day that why you're born MH okay beautiful and what would you like to earn on your claim for your rep time great words of muhamad Gandhi I I would wish to put be the change you wish to see in the world so how about let's claim it was the change can we claim it yeah good so she lived it right mhm was the change um she wanted in the world okay we're in Las Vegas and Las Vegas well Las Vegas would part of the world mhm yeah like the epicenter right um thank you who would like to go next go oh uh coming back to you pardon me sorry no we're just is it me I am ready what are you proudest of in your entire life uh the fact that uh family but I've been married for 25 years uh my wife still likes me that is great that I rais that we're raising two strong and confident young ladies that's vitally important huge Diaz may want to borrow them in a while for your game if for that I also had a female dog who passed but we I was surrounded by all females but I still am it's all good it wouldn't change it yeah I can feel your pride so thank you for that what is your highest native gift um I think I'm welcoming to All U I guess like good good vibe for all walks of people very welcoming I'd like to think you can I gu just play with that for a minute welcoming just that in terms of how you show up is it about equal curiosity about all people like is that no so one way equal equal curiosity but I think that uh you know the ability to to deal with a a a mult multi uh faceted of people right so you've got just cuz you have a lot of money doesn't mean that you shouldn't have have have the ability to say hello or access or answer questions and if you have no money or if you if you no matter where you live if you live uh if you got a trailer if you got a house The Ridges it shouldn't make a difference that so is your native gift your ability to relationship with people um I have the ability to go to the to the White House or the out house yeah so you can build relationships well I don't know if it's relationships but I think it you know everybody doesn't have the ability to to to to change like that right some a lot of times people who who haven't had access to a lot of things I've been blessed to have access to a lot of things which is I think uh makes you a uh a well-rounded person I think that's it very well-rounded good so again just to do the reality check it is effortless well I am excellent see yeah when you when you said that I kind of it's kind of a a misnomer I don't think anything is effortless I don't know what that means by effortless natural As Natural but yeah I guess right um well for example I don't I don't you don't necessarily say I'm going into a room that's got X and you know when I walk when you go into a room with my peers or you go into a room with you know my crazy uncle um you walk in and it's and you just you're just who you are I think if you caught me on a Tuesday if you caught me on a Saturday I can only be me and this is it okay well Randa can I I guess that is effortless that can only be me yeah that's so a very tangible example cuz it's sometimes easier to have a tangible example every virtuoso pianist has a native gift right now it is effortless because they can't they were born to do it and so that's the part that's effortless combined with a ton of work right to evolve the gift to its highest level so this is not about oh I never exerts that's not the same thing as a native gift there are certain things that we're each born to do yeah I think a lot of us here as elected in public servant in some way shape or form we are born to do what we do we've been drawn to this you know God has a plan for all of us and uh we are walking down that path and um and so we have we have recognized that in some way shape or form and are following the path that God has for all of us whether we believe in God or not it is a path that is predestined for us and we're walking down that path you're not a born leader well a born leader [Music] yeah I follow my wife but everybody else Bor leader who married really well yeah what what what are you going to claim on your epap um I think a man of action instead of a person that sort of talked about it I did about it oh wow that's great um Man of Action he did about it thank you thank you Council cond you want to go next You' raise your hand before you beta so on most proud it would definitely being a dad I think the adult relationships are easier uh parenting is the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my entire life and nothing compares to it not even close so I would be most proud if my children don't end up in prison that will be that will be what I'm most proud of we're rooting for you we're rooting for you what what you know what and even if they do you just go during visiting hours every time you can that's how it shows up um what is your highest native gift H and you can probably help me with the language of this one we spent a lot of time with a mutual friend guard Jameson um it's that that strategic ability to plant seeds and I've done that in multiple times in multiple places and things have flourished because I planted a seed the implementation it's not the strength it's not the follow through it's starting it out and helping it to succeed you all know him so help him I would with him I would say subliminal greatness he shares subliminal greatness with folks great ideasal subliminal is a good word but if you're on the other side it's not great it's awful so it depends on which side you're on anyone else want to help him great by observing his gift great um ideas that he implements I think he's pragmatic in his approach very pragmatic very straightforward very logical in his reasoning well thought out so if I said that he's got a native gift around finding the Simplicity amidst the complexity would that resonate with your experience with [Music] him he has a way about him that's um very loving right but yet articulate yeah [Music] so I'm just going to start capturing it in there isn't one phrase clear thinking did you say that well he thinks a lot I don't know if it's clear all the time bordering on overthinking yeah um you are strategic that was one word that came up for sure right um with uh Vision great IDE is Vision he has a vision will you accept that vision starting to feel like you I don't think it's enough okay keep going his gift when he's with you and he wants to give you greatness but he doesn't want you to know he's given you greatness it's quite subliminal uh I don't know how he does that do you want to call it subtle subtle I also don't like people talking about me at all I know I'm very I know I know um subtle yet Direct so now I'm getting uncomfortable um will you accept subtle yet direct I I'll take it all just to get just to get Beyond this on okay L whoop SLE yet direct do we know what this means now I know who I am yeah yeah and this Brian describes the manual all work with Okay strategic with vision subtle yet Direct and the seed planter you said that so I'm going to put that down here so you plant the seeds Okay um what are you going to claim and then we're almost done I am going to follow suit with councilwoman SEMA and make the world a better place that's the phrase I ask everybody who's coming in that wants something from me I say how are you going to make this world better with that so that's my what I wanted enough be known for so I'm going to claim it for you made the world a better place great um take a deep breath you are now done you're welcome it and go mayor never what are you Prest of in your entire life go last oops I'll go next mayor has to go last what are you proudest of in your entire life sir uh my parents um they came here from Cypress with absolutely nothing and uh Liv the American dream and everything came from them so very proud of them and were you a little boy or were you born here I was born here so they made the trip yeah they came here no money no education didn't know each other got married and everything just the American Dream came from that so if it wasn't for them I wouldn't be here so wow we feel your pride we actually share your pride I feel them proud for you um what is your highest strongest most brilliant native gift um you know I think it's from uh I probably develop it from uh being a police officer or a captain or On The Board of Regents or on the city council it's it's basically um I do not make decisions unless I've listened to everybody job so I I really take the time cuz when it comes to when you're making a decision in law enforcement or when you're making a decision in public policy uh it's a big deal so I just always take the time to listen to everybody study it investigate it and then I make a decision I think I've I've gotten pretty good at doing that so if I captured it by saying listens SL hears different to listen and hear all perspectives and then combined that with thoughtful and making a decision thoughtful decision making that feels right so the thing about our native gifts is that this was the same behavior that was true of us when we were five because we're only born once given native gifts once so it's what we're born into every experience that we have becomes like a stone on which we can sharpen that gift right we learn about how that gift is going to honor the world um and we get better and better at using it so the chances are you are this guy at age five right on the playground you were like wait before youall start fighting let's listen to each other fight what's that then you get into the fight and then you get into the fight well you were five so you got to you got to check everything out before you get into the fight so one just the as um it is surprising to me that the question name and claim your native gifts is a difficult one for all of us to answer and yet if I said please tell me the ways in which you suck we would have no trouble right we're like would you like that list alphabetically can I give you that list based on order of magnitude we refine that list the ways in which we fall short the ways in which we're not quite good enough but I have to say that it's I don't know about everybody else but you know uh it's it's tough to go through an exercise like this in a very public meeting sure right I'm sure maybe people watching on TV we got the cameras we got everybody's recording everything and you're asking those to you know say what your attributes are what you think and in a very public meeting I've never been in a setting like this where I've had questions asked like this yeah welcome to city council yeah I mean you normally if you're if you're in a a training session or something like that and everybody puts their knees together and looks each other in the eyes and you start doing some kumaya but that's not public right and so so courage this is a very interesting the notion of Courage um here's been my experience is when I witness courage what I'm actually seeing is a person who is willing to trust me with terrifying vulnerability but as elected officials more than that I know right well and it's and things are I'm just saying I don't know what the the outcome of the exercise is going to be but as as elected officials it makes it it's it's a little bit more than just courage it's vulnerable there we're very vulnerable and vulnerability so I think you should I don't know if you take that into consideration U not the right right or wrong but as elected it's a much different ball game than just asking people who work at a company what you think is your biggest strength so um you're absolutely right and however if we give ourselves permission this is arguably one of the most important leadership teams any of you will ever participate on and so yes the political considerations are significant because that's what brings you to the seat and the leadership opportunity is so much bigger than the political consideration and so at some point it is okay to Grant permission like I've done this with other eled officials it is not easy which is why people don't do it it is not easy to say I am real and I am authentic and I am not perfect right because politically there's no upside to saying that but I got to tell you think about the people that you will follow anywhere they're not the people who are the best um put together they're the people who are the most authentic and so what is leadership about right and so we can simply declare conditions that say Hey around this squad this team we are seven people brought together in some inexplicable Act of destiny that in this moment we are responsible collectively for defining the future of this community so that is a big deal and I'm willing then to trust you and listen to you and bring all of our native gifts to the table because the opportunity compels me to want to do it and it is the whole public meeting thing is wackadoodle and I mean that's not a legal term so I'm not giving a legal interpretation but it really makes it so much more difficult right you've worked hard you get here you may or may not know anyone around the table and now boom you're subject to open meeting as we're supposed to be imagining what the future is going to look like those are conversations that only can happen if we have trust willing to be a little bit vulnerable willing to go there together and the experience that I've had is when elected leaders are willing to do it you become so compelling to Citizens that are looking and craving that leadership so that's the argument I would make okay okay um what are you going to lay claim to on your as part of your epap for your or your Tombstone he's giggling well I'll be dead so I don't know who's put it on there somebody else will probably decide we're going to do that we'll do that um I I guess it's the same theme as some other people what whatever I can influence I just want to make it better so he made my sphere of influence I mean it it's I'm I'm not going to make the world a better place but whatever I have control over or influence over I just try to make it a little bit better so you made things better agree you you I've worked with you for a long time we look back on a lot of things that you literally have in truthfully you're a good well the facts are the facts thanks so um thank you Mary you want to bring us home the only thing I want to add is I think these a remarkable group of people with whom I have had the good opportunity and the fun to work with over these past couple of years or six months since or seven months since they've been elected and the essence of who they are um what's missing is the real Tru truth about their hearts and why they want to do it and I find it um this is not my ball game trust me I'm I live with the biggest ego next to Donald Trump in the whole world we have very high doors very wide so he can get in every day of his life I love him to death he's been my partner he I am much like um councilman Anthony here are very much connected to my parents even though they're not here they are who I am we never I never would have done anything on toured I wouldn't use any dirty language because I never wanted to embarrass them I always always thought first of how can I make them proud and I think everything in my whole life's been Guided by that and then to find someone who's got the greater sense of humor pushes the envelope every day but a heart of gold um the same sense of integrity and honesty about everything that he does in life um and we view life as one which means we're put on this Earth we both believe whether it's for Faith or whatever um to try to be participatory make life better he is the Mei my I am the we our for us in our household um and it's been a remarkable Journey as we age now both of us um learned a heck of a lot know what's important is to be truthful to make good choices teach others to make good choices and get rid of the ego um you know it's been so much all my life thinking about again how do I make my parents proud and can continuing to live under that egis and I tell you these people who are your council members um and my colleagues are a remarkable group of people each with their own stories their own agenda uh but learning and changing and understanding there's a lot of history in this community you've been here since 1964 coming in with $87 and so I don't want to give you I think you have enough from these people it's it's not about me it's about us as a group it's about all of us with different heartbeats and different hands and different everything we're each unique and my greatest joy is working for the people here cuz I love Las Vegas and uh the one thing I would tell you I am most proud of um as you know we have four adopted children eight different genetic pools of adults created those four children which we took home at 3 days of age and they are the most remarkable human beings um wash their clothes in the same detergents and they smell differently um the oldest one um basically saved my life in cancer with um he's an mdphd born and raised obviously here fully Public School educated remarkable getting referrals from from the world world because he's specializes in prostate cancer that's our oldest son the next one's a very very aggressive CRI criminal defense attorney very different very um focused on also Public School educated all four children hating Las Vegas will never come back all four are here um and loving life and doing something for others um the third ones an attorney as well but a judge and then our daughter who um did undergraduate and graduate school at Stanford took a second Master's at uh the University of Phoenix to get into the field that she loves which is um family therapy and she works in the burn unit and Trauma 1 um working with people who really are really um at a very tough time in life and um nobody could have just the hug each one of them is the most important thing for me and so nothing written down here it's just it's such a good time to live in this community and everything Jeremy spoke to to understand the people who are part of our community and individually their needs and then to be totally honest and it's not about me and it's not about anything other but than our community to make it as strong and as pliable for everybody and so I just uh don't put anything up it really I I mean I find it offensive that it's about me it's not about me it is about us and we are building there is no better place to be than in the city of Las Vegas and with our team of people it's not we care about the county and we care about the state but our our area is the city and we are doing a great job to make it as strong and as good as it can be and so I took that license from you Punam I hope you don't mind I just no that's not me I I it I can't do that so here's what I did I'm going to be cremated anyway so forget the epit on a stone is that modlin sorry I think there's a lot of words I mean you've you've been claiming them um we heard tremendous Pride I felt it all around family the parents the mate the NextGen and then all of those that you mom that you serve as a mom to in the entire city of Las Vegas that's one um Native gift let me observe what I saw was and you use the words in our house I am we ours us mhm and that if I observe that as a native gift would you claim it yeah I mean it's who I have grown to be all these years yeah and I think you were born that way within my observation and in every experience you've had every role that you've occupied it gives you another opportunity to learn more about how to express that to make the world a better place right and you've been doing that including in this moment right here um what would you like on your as part of the epito there's not going to be one we're grain of sand and and we are in a Continuum of Life on this planet and do you remember somebody who was born in 1600 or 1400 that's been our predecessors and on Whose shoulders were here so nothing okay really nothing thank you I'm going to honor that and we will write it ourselves cuz it give us a lot to work with Okay I acknowledge that was uncomfortable I want to honor that you chose to stay in it um because it's easy to cut and run it doesn't help the relationship right and so when we stay in it even when it's a little bit awkward we strengthen it and the fact that you've shared as publicly as you've chosen to share sends a powerful permission to all of us because at the end of the day we're all human beings doing the best we can we're a wonderful collection of hopes and joys and dreams and aspirations and fears and anxieties and traumas like that's sort of we all have stories that are unbelievable and the thing that sets you all apart is that in this moment in this journey in this community the seven of you are together could be any of us it is not it is a seven of you right which is the oh this one's not sticky back doesn't have the sticky back can I give it to you hand to din dena's going to solve it dena's got that solved okay think now about 2030 or 2050 sorry now when we look that far in the future we're not going to see it with Precision but look over the Bowers ship and what would you like to be true about the city of Las Vegas in 2050 that's one way to think about it what would I like to be true in 2050 another way to look at it is what seeds that I'm will to plant now do I want to see harvested by 2050 it's another way to look at it what seeds do want to plant today that have well have Harvest and what will the Harvest look like in 2050 a third way to look at it is what promise do I want to deliver to this community in 2050 doesn't matter how you look at it I just want you to contemplate this community in 2050 and describe it I would like to add in that that we based on the results of that um survey that we will work to make each today preparing for tomorrow as we get to our plans for 205 Oh I thought that was so telling to hear CU that's what we all live every day we live today we hope to live tomorrow and we want tomorrow equal to or better than today equal to or better than and so as we build for I don't know anybody's age in here but that's a ways off it's a long way that's 30 years off so add 30 years to your age to get there I want to make sure that we're caring for our people all all somebody's going to be 80 who's 80 in 30 years yeah I'm going to be 50 this summer I'm going to be 80 yep you're going to be old welcome to the world 80 is the new 60 okay but the reality is that we listen to that cuz all these people all of us are here today and we want to make sure tomorrow's equal today and don't plan the jump to get to 2050 and leaving us with the rotted roads or whatever so that we take this carefully to that so yeah yes absolutely that was a powerful I to cut that in the presentation this is about imagining 2050 right without the nothing in between yet right so don't need to worry about whether we're going to forget today or forget that there's lots to be done between now and 2050 all of that is real and true right now the curiosity is to you as seven leaders who are together in this moment what is your Collective vision for this city in 2050 so not our not our particular warts you're saying no not our you are 17th of the stewards of this entire community so make could I ask a question is Mike Sherwood in this room yes of course he would where are you I'm very nervous because I see planes with no Pilots I mean when we're look at what you're going to be doing to us how do we include that or do we eliminate it except to say cuz we don't know what tomorrow is going to hold in technology [Music] yep what what do we do do we eliminate I mean how can you envision what's in technology the sky it's Pie in the Sky visioning we don't have answers are you talking more about Humanity for the community you are 17th of a leadership team in in this entire Community or City to a future but based on Jeremy that's one of the inputs right you've got tons of inputs including every second of your life experience bring it all right goodam I would want to point out that I would hope by 2050 we have a stronger sense of community stronger sense of community okay so we have a strong sense of community that will be true okay and Punam I I would kind of echo the sentiment that Mr Aguero talked about of within Southern Nevada right now as we know it we have pockets of Excellence there's pocket pockets of excellence in education pockets of excellence in healthc care my aspiration would be that in 2050 we're not pockets of Excellence were excellent and everybody in our community has access to housing and transportation and health care and education and those things are accessible to every segment of our community so excellence in every sector right and accessible for everyone okay not Pockets right in every sector and accessible to everyone that's awesome so I have one word um be like our mayor I have to tell you when I first started this Vision I saw you know uh building up in the city and and skyscrapers and and attached to those skyscrapers were exterior um kind of like Hilo ports but not helicopters cuz the rotors are too big but the little flying car so we'll just fly our car in our little port and then go in so all of our nice skycrapers like the Jetson exactly like the jet talking was Jetson but um in the the next 30 years we really in my opinion um as a city leader we really have to uh exemplify tolerance for all so you know when we look at um everything from from religion to race uh to Creed to politics the tolerance for all um is really uh it is really something I saw something yesterday which was which was which was um you know not my favorite uh to see some folks behaving um and literally being in Zero Tolerance with each other and um and there's room for everyone's thought process and uh you know different things we had a group of uh Jesus this people walking around with you know do this are you going to go to hell and then we had a group of very flamboyant LGBT stopping the Jesus people doing like a strip dance masturbating with a cross you know and so someone looked at me and said well what would you do and I said I would if I were the Jesus people walk around the um artist people and uh just continue like there's space for all of us do you understand what I mean like if you want to do that great don't block another from doing his thing vice versa whether you whatever side of the coin you're on but the tolerance level um that I saw was sad because you know one of the groups was giving the other group like the middle finger and really provoking them and the other group just stood there and just took it and there's absolutely no reason for it like we should be tolerant to everyone so look at here right so declaration around the sense of community would it be reasonable to say that one dimension of that Community Spirit would be around tolerance and inclusion is that yeah you know but it's not even so much a strong sense of community because I wouldn't Force upon the Jesus people to be part of you know things that they don't want to be part of right I don't want to force the other group to be part of a religious group that they're not that they don't want to be part of I just want Mutual tolerance and respect for all whatever it is um whatever that may be so I don't think forcing or creating a strong sense of community for these two it's just really tolerance for for for each group like there's space for your Jesus stuff and their space for your dancing stuff like so if I capture it here is it Spirit of Tolerance and respect for all is going to be absolutely true in thank you what else go I missed what we were oh sorry in 2050 what will be true what will be true what will be true will be true what I have to say encompasses excellence in every sector because I would love to see long before 2050 that we have tackled mental illness in this City along with having a great children's hospital and different medical that we don't have to send our children out of the state okay so kind of encompasses sector in accessible but yeah okay is it Encompass or should you want to declare Healthcare or something deare healthare yeah okay and what do you want to declare about it that we will have facilities to care for our mentally ill and have facilities for our children where we don't have to send them out of state okay so we'll have facilities that we do not have now in 2030 there will be healthc care facilities in Las Vegas in the city of Las Vegas does that capture it yes yes um so by 2050 uh we have mitigated homelessness uh by 90% uh our health care uh has gone from being 48th and 49th ranked in the country to a top uh 20 healthc care City and Community great that our education uh has gone from 48th to 49th rank to a top 10 healthc Care Facility I mean excuse me educ Education City uh that the city has gone from 43 million annual visitors is 65 million annual visitors uh that say that again that our visitors visitors have gone from 402 43 million visitors to upwards of 65 million visitors a year um that the historic west side is been redeveloped and uh is the thriving community that we know it to be um and that we are considered a city of excellence in the nation in the state in the region in the world all over the world let's do it if you're going to say it people come to our city to find out how do how do how do we duplicate what they're doing okay how about safety and Parks keep going safety and Parks unemploy I mean uh safety is going down I mean excuse me crime is going [Music] down okay let me see if I got it all that was a lot of cool stuff Healthcare you had a metric for health Healthcare that I didn't catch um I said that healthc care we go from being ranked I I'll say from the lower tier to the upper tier so from so top tier okay top tier and then that will you want to go from where we healthare facilities but he's saying like let's if we're going to declare it let's declare it we're doing top tier that's the Declaration yeah I mean that goes back into research it goes back to number of Physicians per population nurses per population the medical school is built out there's a lot don't worry about to our graduate medical education is we're putting out more more of our of our residents are staying within the city of Las Vegas and contributing back to our community okay um homelessness down by 90% now down what it would be less than 90% right no it be mitigated by 90% oh mitigated by okay so we're like driving it to zero right correct so we're driving to zero we're driving to zero got in education we're top 10 in the country we are top 10 in the country yeah and that's K through 16 ah okay prek prek through 16 PR okay great prek through 16 you're absolutely right through 16 visitors were 65 million greater than 65 million well yeah we're at 40 now so we're going to keep growing I think Orlando's at 60 65 so we got to beat down we got to be you know we got to we got to keep on bringing people to the to the community we're we had a thriving West Side yes okay crime is crime is down pluming really low yeah we've got some of the most unique and Innovative Park systems Trail systems um our climate is not climate as in heat mitigation but climate as in uh we have found ways to conserve water hence with the water district uh that we have found ways to uh you know continue our Parks our Trail systems our national parks uh Lake be is on the rise again okay career I don't know how we make that happen yeah we only got 30 years and have about Transportation yeah transportation is a big one yeah you know you have to in order to to manage if we're going to go from 2 million residents in the area to in 30 years 2 and A5 million perago what's a good number 3 million 4 million 3 million 3 million so here's what I'm hearing um this is a bold aspiration so I just want to check in to make sure it is absolutely authentically true for all seven of you because this is the this is the thing right that we need to hear Clarity from leaders on there is not an aspiration that says let's go middle of the pack is the aspiration for 2050 I did not hear that no from any of you right I didn't hear our journey together as a group of seven making decisions today is like a lazy river ride that not what I heard what I'm hearing is throw down we are going to throw down we're going to declare as an aspiration right that in 2050 the seven of us in the moment that we were called together to be stewards of this city we said we're going to be a premier City globally and that's going to be true in every sector of everything we do right I mean is that what I'm hearing yeah I want to add something if I can please I want us to be the Envy of every city in the nation that we are the most business friendly okay so you know that this is going to be really inappropriate but I'm going to say it and I know we're in a public meeting but I think you'll all relate do you remember the who movie When Harry Met Sally yeah remember that one scene in the restaurant yeah you want to be the table that the entire world looks at and says I'll have what they're having is that right yes I'm glad you went there I was I did go there I did go there I'm not running so I can say things like that um most business friendly okay so we can so regardless of the dimensions right what you've said and I just want to play it back to make sure that I'm hearing it because if I'm hearing it then so are the people behind me them by extension the tens of thousands behind them right the aspiration for 20 the vision that seems to be shared and a consensus among the seven of you is that we will be top tier in pick the measure I I think we need to add one more thing too is that uh we have a very Diversified business in robust business economy um and if you it we have multiple Industries okay in business friendly we had here well business friendly is one thing but I think that uh you know yeah the the the you know you can have a lot of businesses but Diversified econom not not a lot of Industry right so Diversified economic base yes captures it okay okay so can you can I just make an observation please cuz I I I think everything on there is is awesome and amazing and it's I always come back to my time working at the city is talking about what the city can control and what the city can't control and I think everything on that list are things that the city can influence and I think our ability and our question of influence is is the heart of the argument and I I believe this Council and this city can influence a whole lot of those things and how we leverage influence within our within our city our community our state is is the question is how we're able to leverage influence on Healthcare leverage influence on education we've practiced on a lot of those things and I see by 2050 uh practice makes perfect we get it we get it really well how we influence those sectors right um great reminder anything else you want to see up here um one thing that I was troubled by was that um when people took the survey place to raise children was one of the thumbs down we got as a city and I definitely want to see that this is a place where you do want to raise your child and you want to bring them and so I want to change that narrative and I want to make sure that we're doing everything we can to to make people feel safe comfortable and that we are offering the best for our kids so a place for families now do you want to declare best place for families top tier yeah you're not doing mediocre like I don't want of you said go in the middle it has to go with that list that's right yeah okay so number one mhm go big or go home so what you're saying okay yep um for families especially because if you look at all of us we all have so much pride in our family that we want to make sure that that resonates as well ni nice crosswalk yes exactly anything else you want to see up here the they want to keep going um do you need a break for a few minutes am can keep going but councilman Kon cannot so let's why don't we take 10 yeah and then come back do we need to adjourn or 100 so it is 9:57 right now may it's 9:57 what time do you want to bring us back okay we have to formally formally we have to take a 10-minute recess okay thank you so we're back at 10 time I could wait okay so this we can move yeah you should add a increased neighborhood quality of life let's do it oh sorry about that I realized that you got it back like 30 seconds later so I'm like always no you have like 42 lbs of paper I want to highlight you could I did when I started you may have noticed e e e I e e e you for e e e e e all e than e better okay everyone time to get your last minute popcorns or whatever Mike Janson waiting youing congratulations I fire you time I know I don't know what you guys commun PA Roger by the building yeah no but he he SP to stuff going on so that's when ni and so where's Mike if he do get here he's fired they laugh good no it's got to go got fire like three times left okay well now we got to find our leader pun we haven't seen Puna she's still on break she's still on break waiting for us to all get settled so phone's back off if you wouldn't mind please as we build a new world and we can have a conversation with Mike Sherwood at this point while we're waiting for Punam so tell us in 2050 or tell us where we're going to be next year with technology what things do you see coming in the future that we have to pay for that's our biggest expense um Mr Adams what is our budget for technology in 2050 please I think that's a Michael Sherwood question the entire budget will probably be consumed by technology that is true no seriously while we're waiting for Punam to come back um could you tell us really where where could we possibly dream that this city might be in a leadership role by 2050 in technology go as high out there as you can good morning mayor council members U my Sherwood uh director of Information Technology um it I would say you're what you've talked about already this morning are the building blocks education the ability to train people for the things that are coming um I think you already have visions in Las Vegas of what's actually available in technology so there's automated bartenders um at Planet Hollywood you use an iPad type device and you can order drinks uh you'll see all does drink get delivered um by a robot not yet not yet so you go up to the bar and you you just pull it off of a of a countertop and it just pours it for you I think the the biggest things that I look at from a technology perspective go back to what you can do today as Leaders which is education Workforce Development promoting Las Vegas as a business-friendly community and city as technology evolves the ability for us as a community to actually have the knowledge to repair these system systems design them help engage them becomes extremely important I think you'll see a lot of if you're looking at Pie in the Sky what could happen the George Jetson car that was mentioned I'm not sure where or who mentioned it but that that's a a true possibility that's probably sooner rather than later um I think sustainability um of your home um and things that we can do as a community already and we have great Partnerships with world countries around the world but water conservation obviously very important here water technology um having your house that's completely sustainable um extremely important so solar water conservation uh the ability to take your solid waste from your home and re-energize whether it be into fertilizers or other types of means those types of things will be there but all of it centers around having a strong education base and a strong leadership base from government to help ensure that we're able to as new technologies come out embrace them look at them decide what's good for our community and what may not be good for the community um but I think the best way to look at Technologies look at George Jetson and it was brought up again today a lot of those things are already either here or coming you have food machines that process food and give it to you you'll have cars that are able to maneuver in different ways um you will have work will change um the way that we work today is already changing more and more people work from home or work with laptop remotely we're more connected um but I think the things that you had around being what what one one thing that will be it's not a technology necessarily issue but I think it's an issue for cities in general is how do you bring and build Society to have connectivity how do you talk in personto person versus behind a screen and behind a uh a phone or some other mobile device so it's the things that you bring as a unifying force as government technology will come technology will go main things that communities need and citizens want safety Recreation um leadership and thought processes so there are jobs and there are Community those are the most important components and if one last thing and I'm sorry put them while you're writing if um you took Gary amings at cfo's pie of dollars to divide them up we know almost in every pie in every business the lion share the funds go into the employee as as we move into a technological world uh when you look at a pi of 100% what amount will be that portion of the budget the employee ratio as we go forward will most likely dip down a little bit so I would say probably your labor if it was 80% today might dip down to probably maybe the 50s um maybe the 60 range um but the amount of skills that you will need as that employee base will rise okay thank you so just wanting to prepare Gary in his 30 years coming that he has to find the money for you thank you thank you very much REM is expensive oh my God we have so much going towards it sorry Punam it was just we were just moving along and I had to find out about the budget um thank you I am trying to synthesize onto a sing page so that you've got it for reference to the next section um what your Declaration was so here's CU I processed it what I heard but I need to check it because it's your reality right Las Vegas 2050 essentially what you're saying is we will be this world's number one Community yes right so that's tolerance all of it right so from whether so sort of top tier aspiration safety healthc care business climate visit visitors visitation Recreation Leisure Transportation education in all sectors right and one thing that was mentioned a lot in the survey that I don't think we we captured and I think it's important to maintain is the affordability affordability um just affordable to continue to be affordable to live in our [Music] city so affordable and I'm going to add accessible because that came up as well um and so that's all of the so of the dimensions on which we're going to be able to legitimately claim top tier you're declaring and then there's also a set of themes around sense of community family friendly Pride inclusion tolerance that whole set of themes right I'm going to call those the less tangible but super important okay so that's pretty audacious good for you good for you okay um who has ever cleaned a closet that was really messy or embarked on that spring cleaning of the garage or even had the guts to go take on the drawer that we all have in our kitchen that's got all the stuff in it you've all had that experience right think back to that experience I've made a choice I'm going to tackle the garage the closet or that drawer my kitchen and when I first the first few moments of that process I'm like what did I just do because part of that is you got to unload and take out everything so in a short term you've got a bigger mess than you had when you started and if we plow through that phase we get to a clean garage clean closet or clean drawer so this process can sometimes be a little like that so as we go to the next step which is now contemplating the what are the things that we need to do in the next 5 years that will allow us to maintain a Glide path to your vision for 2050 it may feel a little like that in between stage in that massive cleanup project so I would just say to you just trust it stay with it and we'll get the closet clean um so here's the next question so this is the vision I don't mean a vision statement but it is meant to reflect a shared depiction of your Collective Vision so I'm going to ask you each if this is true for you then just tell us all by saying yes this the TR where's tolerance oh it's there it's there okay I'm blind yeah so I don't want you a word Smith it because I've just been catching words it's to make sure that conceptually I am reflecting your truth right where's culture and art didn't have it but we're going to put it education's not on there either education is on here so it is on there yeah yeah yeah arts and culture you're blind too great neighborhoods that's on their sens um I've got Pride so neighborhoods I got to add and the key here is the aspiration is about being the number one in the world that's the aspiration right and so we could enumerate many pages worth of the ways in which we will do that but uh sort of the line that you've now given as the leadership vision is a really bold one and that's a cool thing CU that's what we look to leaders to do is tell us what you want tell us what you're aiming for so this is an aim high right so if this is reflective of your vision for this city in 2050 important to just tell us by saying yes it is I'm just going to ask you is it it is um yeah I'm you know when you say neighborhoods on there I I think it's important to stress all all neighborhoods good I'm going to put that in not just some neighborhoods why not just my neighborhood yeah all neighborhoods good you and is it reflective of your vision for us I don't see homelessness on there you know it it ties into everything that's on there 2050 there ain't going to be no homelessness well yeah but I think you need to to call it up it has to be it has to be a subject matter cor it is now do you have environment on there I do not I do now all right yes yes thank you in award yes thank you yeah thank you very much looking for a yes yes thank you I would like to add if we're consistent with the citizens um priorities for us um something around good governance that we use our assets to the fullest abilities maximize assets okay that being financially financially responsible and asset maximization is the words that Jeremy Aguero mentioned and that was the priorities the citizens set for us so financially responsible maximizing assets and then yes thank you I was going to wear a skirt today I'm really glad I didn't I probably shouldn't have said that out loud but I can't help it you know it is Vegas the Show is is appreciate it is not when you're the performer um Council Diaz yes this is true great thank you um so that's a big deal is this useful to you m Adams great cuz he's your conductor He's Got to Now make this music sing with an orchestra of 3,600 people so getting a yes out of him is just as important getting a yes out of all of you um and the reason that it's so important to get that kind of clarity is we've all been kids right if I saw any white space between the clarity shared by two parents I'd find the Run room in the middle right and part of what is true is all of you are the boss to 3,600 people and so anything you say given the power of your position anything you say feels like a complete directive and so if there's even a degree separation in what you are saying it makes it very difficult to then Cascade that down through 20 departments 3600 employees and hundreds of thousands of residents so thank you for that that's really important so this is useful got good all right so the next question is now let's dump our drawer right if we're in the kitchen drawer we're going to dump our drawer so now the question becomes towards that and somewhere where we can see it readily where can you see it do you want to put it up here how about we put it up here on there so I want you to look at it because this is the vision right the aspiration but that's a 2050 34 years away so that's the trajectory now the question becomes what in the next 3 to 5 years must we do with Excellence to get onto a Glide path that feels aligned with our vision for 2050 right no and at this point it is not about picking the best ideas it is about capturing all of the ideas and then we'll go through a process to if and sort so you can decide the ones that matter to you so at this point it's a brainstorming activity what are all the potential answers to the question what strategic priorities do we need to be excellent in implementing over the next 3 to 5 years in order to put us on a glad path to 2050 but so so my question to you is the challenge is you know there's no Silver Bullet to any of these correct right I mean this is each each one of those is going to take a lot of Deep thought and deep collaboration correct and moving forward so you know to sit to say we're going to give you sit back can give you one answer of something we need to do in order to make the safe is kind of tough right we we have more cops on the street where we have the ratios from um uh that are in place there isn't one so to be clear there is no expectation that there's going to be one single action that we can take it would be extraordinary if life were that simple we know that simply to not be the case the challenge is yes there's a Litany of things that will need to be done with Fidelity and Excellence to get us to this to lay to lay legitimately incredibly lay claim to the number one community in the world along all of these Dimensions it's not an easy like that ain't easy and in the next 5 years what are the few things that if we did with Excellence would help us to get there I don't I just find it not to be that simplistic it isn't to ask us now yeah just my personal opinion is not as simplistic to say if we did these three things then that's going to make us 2050 going to be the city of Excellence it it isn't to suggest that um at all because that is that would be a I'm trying to understand I mean each and I'm not trying to be difficult I'm not I just think that you know each one of those each and every one of those bullet points takes extensive thought research collaboration amongst not only city of Las Vegas amongst jurisdictions amongst other our our peers which is precisely why it is important to get to some Clarity because it is not possible to do every sing with Excellence simultaneously so let me just let's start just just capture ideas I hear the sensitivity I'm hoping at the back end that we will have mitigated some of that or you'll feel better as we go trust us yeah so are you are you looking for steps steps that we're going to do to get no no strategic priorities what are the priorities that if we could focus and get things done with excellence in the next three different 5 years would put us on a Glide path to 2050 so so so so they's say the courtyard is open and operating is that is that something that you're saying would that be useful to you so if there was leadership direction that said that's moving forward it's a little bit yeah I was going to say if so taking that but moving it to the right wavelength that we're looking for here it's very tactical so you could say give us an examples cuz let me give I want to be on the same p with I'm just trying to understand you could say we or one of the things that we could stbe to be excellent at with focus in the next 3 five years would be tackling homelessness you say that that's the kind of clarity that your conductor needs because now he's going to turn to 20 department heads and say come up with your best idea so these is these are the three things that we top priorities strategic priorities okay now I got you all right sorry I led you like I can sometimes do that I will lead you in a little family process I got a process in my brain many don't quite get you got no no no we got you we got you do you want to add that so let me just ask you now do you want to add homelessness well me yeah well yeah so well yeah if you're asking me you know I asked I asked my staff and we sort of got together and and you know what do we think are sort of three top priorities of three things and uh we have a list of things and and and and you know one of them that always Rose to the top for us and what we think is homelessness and in housing so WR it down you know and and if you look at you know homelessness in uh in LA county has grown 16% in the last year and they spent over $600 million on hom assip they also got 21% they got 21,000 people into homes and transitioning homes yet it still went up so it's not just one one putting a lot of money towards something it's not just to a lot of people who say that the only solution is for is to provide housing right I think that's one but La shown us that we've putting 21,000 people into homes and homelessness is still grown by 16% and so when I say homelessness I mean a strategic well thought out plan yeah we need leaders to tell us where to put our Focus you've got worldclass staff that will bring back to you suggestions of how we do that yeah and I think ties into safety it's quality of life back to healthare it ties back to so many other factors could could I just add one thing it's much like watching the Democratic candidates talk about the issues FR of our country and every human being that comes into the office of the mayor uh I shouldn't say every probably 99% is I need this or I have this great idea not what can I help the city with they don't come in with buckets of money what we all say as we're watching the debates is where's the money so as we come to the end of your list that you think we're in an appropriate spot I would love to hear from the council how they think we're going to fund it cuz we could have the greatest ideas in the world but when it comes to safety unless it changes cuz population and demographics just the LV MPD the county takes care of 60% we take care of 40% so no matter and that's what I'm looking at is what piece of the budget and what amount do we want to do it and I can attest to everything that councilman Creer has said because we are very good friends with um mayor Garcetti and um the issues with what they're they're close to epidemic emergency issues and so where when you get your list of 5 610 how much of the budget are we able to allocate that will make a difference I'm not even saying get us on the road to so budgeting and how we can pay for it is critical to all of these things as they take part priority do you want to address how you would well Madame mayor I would just weigh here by saying that when you get this done when you said these three to six things are the most important things to us as city council and then we drill down to the next several levels below those a little bit more strategically and tactically you're helping instruct us on priorities in the budget okay because then we're putting when we put the budget together it should be responsive to these PR that's right so all things being equal if you say homelessness is important and something else isn't as important then when we're trying to squeeze things into the budget the homeless item would be included very instructed to the budget process because in keeping with councilman career's initial comments and inquiry um I see um operations in maintenance is needs a big chunk of money to do more when homeless won't come in and we keep the homeless out there and wherever they're moving cuz we are concentrating in the city I do recall the days with councilman coffen who specifically asked I want more Marshals in the Parks and then you start these new um classes of Marshals so is that what this is going to translate to because I agree with councilman this is so far reaching each one of these and the costs are astronomical yes and that will be something that he will bring back so the point is there are certain basic obligations that you all have period you don't get to choose you know there're just obligations that are inherent in your job that is different than what are we going to really focus on with Excellence it's a different thing they're in addition to they're not exclusive of right what but and what is true is once you declare the few things that you want to really focus on then part of what's going to be really helpful to your 3600 staff members is to then have those be the Focus right what makes it really difficult is to have sort of fuzziness in the focus because then every time any one of you open their say something even if it's a suggestion or an idea the way that it gets heard by staff is I just got directed to do that right now with 3600 people there's few ways to be sloppier in efficiency than to have people trying to read between lines what's unsa to figure out what they should be doing much cleaner if you can say here are the three things go after them come back show us how you will we're going to Green Light you through the process and then he can asset allocate in such a way that the asset Investments are aligned with the priorities that me sense yeah yeah um so homelessness add in cuz some of you and all we're going to do at this stage is just put every idea down not don't worry about whether you love it the most or the least just put every idea down healthare I think is so important and I think that we can work with our Community Partners so in the next 3 to 5 years with the healthare healthcare and anyone that wants to embellish on any of these feel free to embellish I want to capture them all so there's a a few points that I wanted to make um in response to some of the comments that have been made so and I'll I'll I'll need some help with the language this ma because you're better at it than I am um but as an example I was on the the lvgea board and Mr Aguero did a great presentation about the Gap in healthc care for sports medicine it's a it's a booming sports are booming in southern Nevada Nevada in general and Healthcare is lagging and that Gap is evident he demonstrated it with data um so the question that I raised which was echoed by other members of that board was what is the environment where Healthcare will Thrive here and that is a question that is still unanswered by that board um and so getting back to what we talked about earlier what I talked about was access to healthare access to education understanding the environment where Education and healthc Care can Thrive is really important and so is it's representing the Medical District we can talk all we want about Healthcare when I I tried to recruit a Healthcare Company into town to expand and their response was we will absolutely not expand in southern Nevada there's a variety of reasons related to payment options for Medicaid which the mayor talks about often there's a variety of reasons related to education but I think defining that environment where they can expand is the first step so I think it's an underlying theme for me um when we're talking about priorities is understanding what the environment is for something to thrive our environment is not conducive to Excellence for all pockets of our community right now for healthcare it's cond uve for small pockets for certain segments of our population to have access to healthare so that that's one them um on when it comes to um expanding access to healthcare which I do think is a is a critical for me especially within the Medical District and I know the Medical District can expand in other Wards as well um I think one defining the environment but also understanding that if we expand on Healthcare if we if we grow the healthcare industry that gives us more Economic Opportunity to resolve some of the other issues that's how you pay for things as you grow the economic base and when we talk about diversifying our economy the medical community is a great way to diversify our economy and we have a population that is demanding it at this point they're demanding access to healthcare so it's incumbent upon us to understand the environment and which Healthcare can grow and then work within the parameters of what that environment is that's true of Education that's true of Transportation that's true of all of those things if we understand the environment where they will Thrive and start chipping away at making that environment conducive to growth and opportunity I think it changes our economic base and can pay for some of those things that we have to do yeah if you can put that in like four words you're yeah I can't um yes and leaders if there are conditions that get in the way of aggressively making progress on a specific priority I would want your staff to come back to to you and say yes it was one of your top 3 four 5 six and as we've explored the current conditions the current environment the current momentum we think this is not the one where our highest return is going to be correct right um so am I would that would be a place that you'd be comfortable yes okay so if that's the case then that will that's to come right in a sequencing if I just sequence it starts with what do the leaders want also I mean it somehow some way we have to be able to incorporate that we're data driven we're informed so instead of saying we're going to have excellent Healthcare when the healthcare is saying we will not expand there we have to understand why they will not expand there and create conditions where they will expand but what you could say so the O opportunity now is to say for the next 3 to 5 years one of the things that we want center stage in his M of focus is this notion of healthcare and what we mean by that is expanding access as quickly as possible for current folks what we mean is to get figuring out how we can maximize and use our leverage to improve conditions to make more of it happen um right so this is a priority yes okay and then so that's one there may be a Litany of others and we'll come back and we'll prioritize them then the next step is he's going to sit with directors they will talk through what they've heard from you and then go sort of Next Level right bring it back to you to sort of ratify and then they'll go back and take it to deeper action plan level implementation level um so some of these kinds of questions are going to be the things that will come later in the process but none of it goes unless it matters a lot to you that any sense I I understand okay just wanted to ask the question uh and going back here because I know with Ward one that's where the UMC and our whole medical districts Focus because of the work he's doing in Ward one which is part of the county when and I don't know what councilman Creer was he talking regionally about homelessness or in the city cuz we're Focus here now I thought on the city priorities that we control what piece of this um councilman canuteson of what punam's put up there for us do you see is that specifically the city can control I mean obviously Nationwide we see this so where what's the focus specifically of our body to focus on what aspect of that or or is it it too Global no I I think there's some very specific action items if we understand from my perspective if we understand the environment of healthcare and the future being Healthcare being a very competitive person a competitive City we want the future of healthcare to be in the heart of Las Vegas in all of our Wards we know we need to have land in order for that to happen because Healthcare is going to grow it's it's going to happen because our population is going to grow so we need to make sure there's land available if the conditions for payment are not appropriate then we know we need to focus down a government Affairs strategy to start looking at what are the conditions that will make that company grow in southern Nevada it's it doesn't make sense for me to always talk about access to healthcare when we don't have anywhere to grow in the medical district and the payment options aren't going to be supportive of that anyway so we need to start chipping away at those things and although we are not in control of healthcare we are a city that can influence a lot and we need to practice our level of influence with the county who owns the most amount of land in the Medical District with the university who owns quite a bit of land and has a pretty significant footprint and with the state who has expanded access and interest in making sure that we have a mental health care system so that we work on homelessness so if we're able to articulate what is the environment for healthcare and education to be successful and start chipping away at those pieces and parts I think there's a greater opportunity than not our FOC in between because there's going to be more to fill in I'm adding this is Dina by the way who is going to be she is the Le of the five who will own the strategic planning process so um yeah it's awesome that she's helping out um yes to everything you just everything you just said right those are the things that will get that we'll reveal over time but none of that's possible until leaders say go after it right that's whatever I declare is what I'm looking for opportunities to advance um whatever I believe in the most strongly is where I am going to check in and be the most engaged and so we can solve anything because we're super capable that begins with is this the thing that we want to declare or one of the things that we want to declare as an area for him to go after so Healthcare education I've heard if you want to add any to that or come back to homelessness so we're going to just bounce around and try to capture of the ideas we add to something new of course Okay so there's two things so because what councilman canuteson had just said about running out of space literally our city if we think of it in another way is we have a ton of space if we build up right if we build up and what I mean when we we build up we look at the city of Las Vegas and we look at um all of the buildings and I'll give a one one for instance we have a Starbucks right across the street from City Hall it's a great piece of Real Estate it's one story that should be 10 stories our mayor has visions of 15 17 40 story buildings downtown I mean this is where we have to go to make sure that space doesn't limit us is to build up is to grow up and then as we do that to create more space for the city we have to look at diversifying the economy with new companies with jobs period jobs jobs jobs jobs jobs so when we look at recruiting um other big Fortune 500 companies to come here um I know the councilwoman and I took a trip to China and recruited five major multi-billion dollar companies to come to the city of Las Vegas this is what we're looking at is diversifying our economy to create jobs to where everything's not just dependent upon entertainment so diversifying the economy by having more companies come to our city and growing up diversify economy the other thing that you said was and taking a building from X number of floors to many more is very tactical but you have to plan that now because the only way so if I zoom out is that a general like I'm trying to get to the Strategic priority for the next 5 years that we can pursue with Excellence so is it about maximum izing existing space without a doubt like even our Courthouse that we're building we're only building it to five once priority FL we should have buil that to 10 or 15 floors so I would look at the city manager so something that says maximizing City assets real estate assets are existing real estate assets is that the Strategic because that's a strategic priority right he could he's going to sit down with 20 directors if that's what you give him on the top list right and they will then come back to you with we heard you hear ways that we think we can do that right is that useful okay that Starbucks is a perfect location for Starbucks with 10 more stories on top of it yes so that's maximized current real estate assets total waste of space okay I want to come back to homelessness CU you put it there and several have pined on it um just to flush out a bit more of what that might mean to you as a strategic priority for the next 3 to 5 years is it ask yeah well any of you cuz I can tell it matters to all of you well you know homelessness is in every single ward of this city that's right it's in every uh sector in the county North Las Vegas Henderson and it is it's something that evolves around revolves around Public Safety revolves around Health uh uh we Wes around public sanitation uh quality of life it uh it goes back into Community for the citizens of our community and so I think it has to be a and it is right I mean the city prior to me getting a board obviously has has dedicated resources towards the the goal of mitigating homelessness I think we need to work better with the county and uh with the state and our federal delegations in order to find resources you know it also goes back into um mental health in our community right which the federal federal government and the state need to play much much much greater role into uh working towards that with us um so if in the next 3 to 5 years you were articulated as a strategic priority it would sound something like and I need a reality check in terms of homelessness we've been doing a lot for a long time we're going to continue that but or and for the next four to five years really focus more to increase the mitigation right so we're doing what we're doing but drive harder I mean the city itself I I personally think the city is driving hard I I really do and and they the rubber me the road when they're putting $20 million toward towards the uh the courtyard right that's a big number for for for the city of Las Vegas whether it's via uh different grants funds general fund dollars uh philanthropic dollars it's a it's a major commitment and major lift so the question for you as Leaders is do you want for the next 5 years the city manager to focus even more so on it I don't think we have a choice okay it's not yeah I don't personally I don't think it's a matter of wish list I think that that is a it has to be you know if you we always go like guess I go back to the other places we' we've seen in you know in in LA County homelessness grew by like 60% in like four or five years I'm sure when they had 6,000 L been under 5500 Street homelesses in in La now they've got 30 they're probably saying you know yeah it's probably an issue right probably look at that and it hasn't really become a a a def content issue until the last couple years and so if we don't go to Def cont and dealing with it and working to do it then we're going to be 6 12 24 48 before you know it yeah okay I would like to just jump in because I I agree one of the considerations and what I try to say maybe not as articulately is that sness is a symptom of larger issues at the federal and state level so we don't have enough housing stock but we haven't defined how much housing we actually need we don't have an adequate Mental Health Care System but we haven't defined what a mental health care system is so we are suffering from a lack of planning at the state and federal level as are all other cities around the country so I think defining that environment where you don't have homelessness is an important First Step because those are things that you can start tackling we can start looking at the medic Medical District from a mental health perspective we need to build out the mental health care system and how as a city do we build that out right it it it also a revenue Source it all it all ties and works into it as you building out the health district obviously we can't be a great Community from a even though the univ medical schools coming which is you know vitally needed uh the expansion of gme vitally needed we we won't get there if we don't address the issues where the rubber Meats a road in terms of addressing those issues so that would be for you a useful strategic priority okay so that so I'm going to leave it on in the that we've and part of it is going to be if it is your priority then you got to declare it because that's what leaders do they say here's what we care about then staff bring it back and if conditions currently are not conducive to making progress we need you to tell us and then we may move that priority until the timing's better right or they may come back and say because of current conditions here's a little wave of opportunity that we can ride in which case leaders say good for you go ride it so that will be part of what they've got to do it shouldn't however change whether it for you is a significant priority for the next three to five years and and like I said the city is doing a lot I mean our numbers have gone down since our Point time count has happened which is great um and we need to continue that that uh trajectory but we the only way to do that is if we continue to put our foot on the pedal that's and that's and put the pedal on the ground this says to him so we're going to keep it up there so this is a strategic priority by itself and other cities have mitigated homelessness right it's not it's not impossible I don't think you can but it is it is possible we're all about what's possible here right just cuz La is going in an opposite direction doesn't mean that other cities are not going they don't have the seven of you I agree write that down um the I want to now go to education so homelessness you have an understanding of what is meant here by homelessness what I'm hearing is we're doing an awful lot of really solid things and this would say to the staff step harder on the accelerator there's always more to do that's different than step hard on the accelerator right I think yeah okay so that's what this suggests this is a declaration as leaders that healthc care let's in the next 3 to 5 years we want some excellence in progress in healthcare CU that'll put us on a Glide path to we want to be and in the short term the kinds of things that we're thinking about is expanding access to people who are here figuring out what environments and conditions allow us to be excellent at and then putting plans into place to go get that benefit for the community I'm looking at you okay and then that better all be data driven or Council m nson is going to be writing you is what we're saying to staff yes I think they know that they already know that I know that's stting the obvious um and then were you going to say something I'm just listening okay then I want to go to education and then we've had a couple of other things that I come up want to flush them out a little bit more and again where we are is as many ideas as we can think of strategic priorities on the homelessness because there's this silly little rule that we have to obey in the city where we can't caucus as the Assembly women and I used to be able to and Caron a lot of times we don't know what's happening because we're not all in the same meetings but on the homelessness issue I really have to give kudos to our staff and I understand step on the accelerator I'm like let's do it yesterday but some of the things that Mr perago and I and Scott Adams our manager that we've literally are looking at so our staff has full throttled on this homelessness thanks to our mayor we've got some great ordinances in place but we've looked at just just now I can say cuz we're we're all together but Tom perago is looking at BLM land looking at a big thing of space I'm just going to throw a name of a company out there not not meaning we're going to use this company but aarn rentals builds these modular little um container things that could be like hosed out and really housy and cute um and again as we look at this homelessness issue it's not even so much of providing a roof over someone's head because if they don't want to be there they're leaving there or if they want to start a fire in there they're leaving there so it's it's so much deeper but in in um in all reality I just want to thank Scott Adams Tom perago uh our staff cuz some of the conversations that I have in the ward 6 office I don't get to share with my peers because of the silly no caucus rule I think we should change that but anyway um so I wanted to just throw that out um Tom where are you in the audience just stand up please let us properly thank you please oh thank you that was really generous um education let's add to education we mean so in the next 3 to 5 years so so in education uh I have to commend uh the mayor and also um you know prior to to here with the development of the social Youth and Innovation Department which I think is extremely unique and uh something that cities do not do and how it is totally and completely making a difference in the education of lives of kids especially kids in my ward um who don't have access to our Smart Start buses uh excuse me that have access to our Smart Start buses uh have access to our raron services that have access to our reinvent schools um those things are amazing right and to be honest with you I wasn't as fully in tuned to to all of that prior to me getting on Council and uh and I think that it's wonderful and so the that is one way that the city and the mayor sort of tied back what can the city do right versus what everybody else can do that's one so the I would say the expansion of social Youth and Innovation uh uh Department um obviously the medical school coming into the city of Las Vegas I think it's greatly important the expansion of of of uh the health district and it ties back to education because anytime we can get more U professionals into the community I think also Linds lends a a higher rise and higher tide towards bringing education to the Forefront so you just that was um you got the prop right he gave you some love and and two I mean I I really it has been remarkable four years ago we started preschools preschools Head Starts used to be and we know birth to 10 but especially before kindergarten entry how important that is and that should probably expand as well as our youth Innovations because in addition we have safety which is around southern Nevada but big big proponents out of the city before and after school cuz we can't touch Clark County School District other than being of support to them and that's actually EXA the tutoring the summer programs those are that included uh all the programs we bringing kids into the community and getting taking kids who who have idle time and giving them something to actually put in the work so maybe expand supportive programs by the city that were allowed so good so expand existing so go step on the accelerator more of the busing into the communities that can't travel or get there to these preschools to say double down on the awesome progress that we've already made on education they'll come back with ideas and actually the the creation of the department right I don't know if there's another municipality in this country yeah I agree that has got a got a department yeah you did now it wasn't because there was any planning meeting where someone said you know we should start a department it wasn't that it was cuz seven leaders led by you it was seven leaders the need was there because we disingenuousness of challenge communities not getting the same type of help so rather than fight them and argue we said what can we do and we started to do something and it took leaders you were the probably the only one there maybe you were at that time it took seven leaders to say education matters to us right once you do that the staff will come back with amazing ideas and there's ideas we haven't even yet contemplated that are going to come into play but everything follows Focus right so it was the fact of declaring education which was like unheard of 10 years ago when you declared it everyone was like oh it's cuz she started The Meadows that's why we have education no it's cuz that's what the city needed and you knew it so you sort of evangelized seven of you said yes education is a strategic priority few municipalities declare it but you didn't in 14 it was in 14 again 17 it was there the last two you've declared and now there's a bunch of cool the buses the other part has been there the preschools we've got four and that goes back much further so expand to really double down right on these the one other thing though that I've heard a couple times that we still call that we're calling education but I think we may mean it differently there's education of little people prek right in North I've also heard Workforce education that a condition requisite for success in healthare care is about having to be business friendly so if I I just want to lift that up cuz you've said it and we'll put it up there again all we're trying to do is capture every idea I'd also like to add that councilman Creer mentioned K we added prek to 16 um but looking at from a Medical District perspective academic medicine and academic research all of that is more federal funds coming into Nevada that helps expand the economic diversification so as we think about education and diversifying our economy they are they are intertwined and thinking about it from an academic at a higher higher education level has everything to do with the economy so if I if I if we look at Workforce education the suggestion is that in the next four to five years the Strategic priority to could be go doggedly After figuring out right trying to solve for the trained Workforce that the healthcare industry would require so I'm thinking I don't know if our youth programs could take another path or or complement that Workforce component Punam because we do have programming with our youth and especially our middle schoolers and high schoolers if there could be like an internship concept developed where we are growing our own and we are motivating our youth to take a look at stem careers because we know Tech is going to go through the roof and if they they don't have those Tech skills for coding or whatnot they're going to be left behind the divide and in order for them to have that quality of life um it was very telling in the slides that a lot of folks didn't feel like the city was affording Economic Opportunity to go upward um so can we capitalize and share that and kind of be helpful and saying hey these are careers that are needed but we need to start planning for them now so that we're not slammed in 2050 with a shortfall of doctors of tech people and whatever the upand cominging careers are Caz if you don't mind um keep in mind that uh out of our W five works program uh something has come out of it which is going to benefit not only just the W but the entire Community with our W five works uh Workforce Center that we're doing focusing on on stem um focusing on manufacturing construction trades and also on the health care sectors right and so the city has planted a seed and it from the conversation we just had sort of reiterates the fact that there's a need of it and and and one of the reasons is is that the city is taken upon itself to create its own is you know in my ward hisor West Side there's a number of Workforce centers or our programs in place right but they aren't they're focused on what they're focused on foral whatever that may be that would be culinary which is great fine recidivism which is fine uh but we know that moving forward this is where this community is going and growing and we need to tackle that so we are moving forward with something that just similar to what un councilman Canon both have have have stated and it's going to benefit everybody and then did we write down prek on under education just to make sure that we don't lose it it did happen in our 30 I think we had it up here but not on here so we can put that I think to Echo the mayor's comments I mean that needs to continue to expand um I know that the city has stepped up uh in hopes that eventually the Clark County School District can get up to speed and service all of our children in in the schools because I think prek centers belong there um it's convenient for parents to drop off all of their children in one site or sometimes you have two and you're dropping one middle one Elementary and so I think you know just trying to see what we can do to move that forward um not just what we can do but I don't know be good stewards and just try to give the access that is so much needed and we know that that's a indicator early indicator of success is whether the child had access to prek or not and so if we're talking about Workforce and being College and Career ready that's at the Forefront of it all so we got to start early in order for us to build and have strong students so I just whispered with um your city manager so this Workforce education component um if you said in the next four to five years we want to really get some Excellence around our Workforce education strategy as it relates to enriching the pipeline for health care I said to him would that be useful as a strategic priority he said yes because that actually what he observed is that it actually Blends it's sort of the VIN diagram where these two come together right it could be Elementary all the way up to doctors mhm um yeah postsecondary it all ties I mean I'm looking at Dr Lisa Morris hibler and all those you better roll up your sleeves and get your running shoes on because uh no we're not going to do her departments all we're talking about fall under her and Community Services with the team um but yeah it it all ties and I think it has been a Banning priority but it it'll it'll continue to be and it all ties in together okay um any more on this one then I want to jump back up here yeah let me just add one on on it it shouldn't just be health care I mean we we should really be studying where the job shortages are in the city of Las Vegas for example maybe there aren't enough plumbers out there to to build houses so we as a city I I don't know how we would do this but we should be partnering up with the business community and maybe the trade unions to see what we can do to help a kid go into a program where he becomes a plumber and makes pretty good money so uh the I don't know how how exactly what our role would be but uh we we should be involved in that partnering up with the the the College of Southern Nevada and some of these other higher education programs so um that that's something I think that we because that's going to help the economy that's going to help create jobs that's going to help diversify the economy that's going to put people to work which is going to reduce uh crime so if there's any way we can get involved in that I think we should be a partner of that I'd like to add to that that we are working with Dr Jara you though we have no connection really to control of the school district Dr zaragosa out at the community of the College of Southern Nevada to go ahead in the school district and get the Union uh Apprentice programs and summer programs going so students can begin to see if they have a proclivity for interest in that area it's a partnership and to me these are expanded Partnerships where we can be influential one of the things that's continuously missing in our Workforce Development are our social service needs individuals who choose not to take a profession in stem but are people focused and that whole piece is desperately going to be needed going forward as you talk about uh the homeless situation and education of course there are those that are going to be in the sciences and math but the reality is we are missing that big piece and if we don't do more to help partner with our educational Partners in southern Nevada cuz that's what we have only our control is it's not the legislature I mean they are totally in control but that we need to really focus on the softer side to provide those of us who aren't into well maybe they all are I'm not into um the stem programs so that would be in terms of high demand or healthare I mean you know you've got the services right there to really support that Steam not only stem Y is this useful I'm looking at you strategic priority if we said really hunker down on Workforce Development real ex the next four and five years and focus on healthcare because we're going big right oh you already made that declaration and also remember to maintain an emphasis or think about filling the high demand jobs in the future as you're building the workforce systems I want to reate different things he buil hundreds of them because he's going to think about it so I want to reiterate I I I agree with councilman um Anthony and um like I said with we're moving forward not Healthcare but in the steam in the workforce manufacturing and uh you know we've gone in San Antonio with Dr zaragosa and the workforce team at CSN with um what they've done in manufacturing and bringing in Boeing and bringing in major corporations to to to to to build a Workforce Community I was in Reno for National Nevada Le of cities and took a tour of Tesla and if any of you guys have not taken a tour of Tesla I urge you if you're up north again they go take a look in just the variety of jobs that they offer and the just the vastness of an industry that's there is is is really mind-boggling and you're 100% right and so we have to diversify and it's not just Healthcare which is a huge component of it huge component so I'm going to leave it up there as Workforce education would be a strategic Priority healthc Care and high demands jobs and that as is that a useful yes priority okay so the city manager said yep if you give me that we will run that ball come back to you with ideas of how we can run it um thank you so jump up diversify economy anything to add to that it came up so I think when we look at diversifying economy we have to go back to the business climate and I have to say in the short time that I've been here these directors and everybody at the city is amazing of thinking outside the box so you have to say it then go ahead and say it I'm going to say it you guys are amazing and um but one of the things that I think is important is looking at that business clim which I know we're already doing but looking at some of the ordinances and the regulations that might stifle the smaller businesses because what was important on that screen was quality of life and that comes down to affordability uh jobs cost of living and then it it encompasses everything education and Healthcare so I would like to see us really look at our business climate which I think is great right now but may we can do better um and see what we could do better actually so yeah business CL would be one way to achieve Diversified economy and so that would be so as a strategic priority do you you need more Direction in terms of what we mean by Diversified well um I think it any more embellishment on those areas that you think are um that have potential for economic diversification I I uh just as a way of background go back to our last Economic Development strategy that the council adopted was 2012 in that strategy we embraced the healthcare industry as the primary priority for diversification because was the only sector in the economy that didn't decline during the Great Recession it would create a lot of jobs and they would be high paying jobs but since then we've been embarking on a number of other areas of effort our Smart City Innovation efforts and a few other things that um could yield a great deal of potential so any any embellishment on what you mean by economic diversification would be helpful to us well I I think that um as our eud team goes out and works to uh bring in industry uh I think it's important that they look at all facets and and work in combination with Mr Sherwood um and uh bringing in companies of the future I and working collaboratively I obviously with with goit from the state right how do we how do we attract a Tesla to Las Vegas instead of it being a story County right how does that come into Vegas when we when when uh uh they're going to play thousands of people what's where is that what's next and uh it's just list is long of Industry that can be coming in Las Vegas we got a great Community low tax environment uh where do we fall short and what do we need to do to work together to bring in major major major industry I can oh God pleas I think I think this is a super interesting Challenge and I I when I first elected I had a room full of developers and asked them like what is the environment for you to be successful and they came back consistently with land use and Zoning which is why the city has such a critical role in partnering with all these other industry leads because land use and Zoning that's us um the challenge with the city is landlocked there's not a whole lot of places to grow except up and so the mayor bran talking about going up I think that's that's the right way to talk about it the challenge is trying to figure out how that happens and I know one of the things that I've talked to the city manager about and his team is the opportunity for some of the big box stores that are no longer being used um like just rethinking how how we planned that part of our community because it doesn't it's changed everything's different now with because of Technology um and so rethinking what's in place and how do we create zoning and Licensing opportunities where it's different in the future um but does but still preserves our same quality of life because I think that's really consistent with What the residents have told us is preserving quality of life but thinking about what what what is going to be different and that's where I think there's opportunity building up and reusing what we currently have in stock and we haven't really talked about for the most part zoning which plays a huge role I know we talked about previously uh about form based coding and how we've have um that in the Medical District and have a couple of uh beta projects in place but that's got to be it the topic of I would think the of us moving forward because it it it plays a lot of roles in a lot of the things that we're doing I think to your point I mean we need to see how form based code plays out it is in it an ex it is in its experimental phase um so I think we have to keep very we have to keep our eyes on it very closely and seeing if it is an a driver of our economy in their City because now we've allowed more freedom and flexibility and how they can build upward instead of just staying to one story and so I think that to the diversifying economy I'm going to Echo all of your sentiments I think that we have to remain Nimble and we have to remain forward thinking and I think that we constantly have to be evaluating our ordinances or our way of doing business so that it doesn't become outdated because with the changes in technology processes are going to change and sometimes the way that our ordinances are crafted it's just going to hinder it's just going to be a no because the ordinances speak that way and so we just have to always have to be um analyzing and thinking about are they still relevant um and are they getting in the way of people wanting to conduct business because we have too many Hoops to go through versus other entities that are near us and so we obviously don't want to lose that business so let me pose a question um to anyone who wants to answer um I've heard go get a whale or an elephant right I go close the big one with the iconic name and lots of employees in terms of a way to diversify the economy it's one way to go right and if you said I think to the city manager in the next four or five years go close one of those would that be something that you could that would be a strategic priority for you we could yes yeah so if you said that you know the staff is going to deliver whatever you want so if you said go close a big one land an elephant they would do it the other option would be to say we want diversification in Little Bits right as opposed to we want you to go land an elephant they're very different and yet they're both diversification and they will have significant implications for how he conducts the band of 3600 so I just am curious about how you're looking at it right like so I heard Tesla yeah right and then I heard but we're landlocked so we could maybe look at big box but if we're building up if that's how we're going to I would answer your question is go really big cuz going really big means all the other little small things will Thrive because of it it doesn't seem like it at the time but when you when you add a significant number of people in a small area all the small businesses will Thrive because of that okay they go big you know then um businesses who are thinking about relocating to I'm going to say Southern NADA are thinking about I think they think Las Vegas first right they think about we're moving our company to Vegas every other jurisdiction can say what they want to uh and I'm sure they have a lot to say but the bottom line is we're moving to Vegas and and so whether we play a direct role in that we obviously play a a um a partner a cerman role to the county or whomever for everything that goes on here right and if it might be located in the county but no one says you know the Raiders are coming to Clark County Nevada the Las Vegas Raiders not the Clark County Raiders and so he makes it even as a partner role and I think I may add to that um when companies come in from around the world to the mayor office cuz they know the name Las Vegas they don't know Henderson they don't unless they have a connection we do partner with the entire community and based on what councilman kudon has been saying the reality when something very large comes we know the land is up in the Northwest and also in North Las Vegas or maybe it is Henderson because there's plenty of land and we do work collaboratively with them knowing that hopefully when something appropriate that needs to be in the Heart of the City where all roads lead and where the history and the center of government is and so much more that they then will be sharing with us and working collaboratively because we don't have that land and then when you talk to developers obviously the cost to go up is huge and the higher you go so it is something that we've been looking at but I think it is our only choice really because of the fact we're landlocked unless you can couple together pieces of land which I know the city's been trying to do is purchase sites where you are taking lots of little parcels and putting them together from 20 years ago when Oscar took office and we went to the Rouse company for a quick little what do we need what are the priorities for the SI for a worldclass city um the first thing that came out of the mouth of the that director was you need land so you have to find land and what they did was uh the council and the management City Management in 1999 20002 2001 began the work on the Union uh Pacific Land cuz that was the only large piece within and made the tra uh the um trade with the industrial park up in the um Northwest so the reality is we are landlocked but it's the partnership with with the other entities that will do that and hopefully North Las Vegas Shines on us as they're getting more and more and as we refer because we were very involved in trying to get the Raiders into Cashman which is our remaining large piece what is that 57 Acres 50 50 acres I'd keep trying to make it bigger so if I could just jump in here um real quick on the issue of Landing the big one um you're kind of getting into what used to be my wheelhouse early in my career and we're we we have been on a course of focusing on two areas where we can be successful in Economic Development uh one area is in Redevelopment uh is priming continuing to prime the pump in our Urban core and create make it an attractive place where business wants to invest and move their company so I think you you know one hand you're going to see Redevelopment as a way you you bring a presence of companies or a company into our community another area we've been looking on is where do we actually have land and that that is where we're land challenged the only place left that we can go horizontally is in the far Northwest so we have been spending a lot of time on our sections 31 and 22 because those are areas where we've got large tracks of land that we could set up for that kind of Enterprise so so I I just wanted to help you frame that discussion that um because everywhere in between we're built out the very far west of our community which is where we're going to see some considerably more development is all residential and the only places where we're going to see commercial development or Industrial Development is either going to be in the urban core through Redevelopment or in the Northwest on large tracks of horizontal land and I that that kind of limits you which is why we haven't done some of the things that you might see being done in Henderson and North Las Vegas and other peer communities in southern Nevada until we're set up for those horizontal Enterprises and could you answer to that about the BLM land that's not part of the national park but the BLM are there any opportunities that you see that we have not taken advantage of yet there could be I think we've done a good job of that I think that's that was the lands bill that was approved with the Tulie Springs bill that set up section 22 we were granted out of BLM inventory 640 acre track in entire section and we're working on section 31 as well which is in concert with the BLM so what whatever we do we have to work with the BLM because that that's where we get our land from that's your thank you so this strategic priority that this has been Rich conversation by the um so the diversification of the economy if and I'm going to look for a reality check from you at the backand um in answer to the question what can we do with Excellence over the next 3 to five years to put us on a GL Glide path to 2050 one of the Strategic priorities could be city manager double down step harder focus more on things that would ultimately diversify our economy so it could be um Redevelopment it could be work on an elephant like close the big one right it could be okay but they will come back to you with if you say this is our one of our key priorities they will sufficiently focus and come back with ideas of how they think that can best be accomplished in the next 3 to five years yep yeah okay so we will leave that up there so we know what that means um and then okay then this is another one what else well based on uh based on the survey that we heard today and based on every single survey that we've done the number one priority for our residents is Public Safety I was waiting for you to say that prob should put that one took you I took it was 11:30 I took the over so I just lost so and if if I could just add a little bit to that there's really Public Safety there there's two parts to Public Safety there's there's um people want to be be safe and people want to feel safe so nobody in this room wants to be a victim of a crime I mean no nobody wants to have their house broken into nobody wants to be a victim of robbery burglary and the but the other part of that is people want to feel safe when they walk out of their front yard uh when they walk to their car when they go to the park they want to feel like they're safe so when you're looking at um uh people want to be safe most people want to put that on the kind of on the backs of traditionally it would be police officers Corrections Officers uh firefighters paramedics First Responders that's kind of their job to do that and that's not the case um every single person at the city of Las Vegas doesn't matter what their job is they should be thinking well what can I do in my job to reduce crime specifically crime the second part is um people want to feel safe so when they walk out of out of their front door they don't want to see junk cars parked in the street they don't want to see graffiti though I mean I know graffiti is a crime and Oscar wanted to cut their fingers off which is fine with me but people don't consider that you know part one violent type crime so people want to feel safe and every single person at the city of Las Vegas in their job should be thinking about well what what can I do to make sure that when somebody is at a park or driving around the city or in their block what can I do to eliminate something or add something where people feel proud of their neighborhood they're they're they feel like this is a safe place to be even though there may not be any particular part one crimes occurring uh they need to be able to feel that so um if if people don't feel safe if people are being victims of a crime the rest of the stuff doesn't really matter much H but a lot of that a lot of the other priorities kind of fall into public safety I mean Workforce education if somebody has a job they're less likely to commit a crime and they're more likely to buy a home and and take care of their neighborhood that sort sort of thing so um that that that's really I think the number one focus and so to picky back on what councilman Anthony just talked about in terms of Public Safety something that I'm experiencing a lot of in my ward is the squatting issue and how can code work more seamlessly with Metro on really clamping down on these uninhabited homes or let's say owner vacated home that are not really present and not really responsible for the property how can we as a city work a solution out it it's unfathomable to me that we have those diligent neighbors reaching out to us they have eight code complaints and then the house gets lit on fire why did it take eight times for someone to call in that they're trespassing the property they don't live there it's not safe eight times and then it catches on fire almost putting other lives at risk because if it's a windy day that fire is going to spread really quickly to the other homes so for me it's about how can we be more effective and put things to rest quickly because we've let a lot of properties just sit vacant for a long time and I think that we owe it to our neighborhoods on that front of the public safety front to have a quick resolution if if a homeowner is not being responsive and responsible for their prop property I think something has to happen because those other neighbors are at risk with us just leaving it open and vacant and boarding it and then they don't board it and then they get in and then they light it up and so that's something that's happening quite frequently in my word and I'm a little frustrated with it and I would like to see us come up with the remedy and and something that's quick and I don't want to hear from my community that they've had to phone it in at least a minimum of eight times I would like to add to that I whoops I do think that even though I just saw the sign this is the mayor speaking identify yourself we've gone 2 and 1 half hours nobody's identified themselves um but thank you for the sign whoever put that up our clerk uh we should read it um you know coupling these things and having lived this life now for these nine years watching it I'd like to see a concentration I just assume that was the priority it always is you will never have business investment people won't live if your community isn't safe so safety is just given but in light of what councilman Anthony said and what um councilwoman Das just said I think we need to make a stronger effort in the preventative end of it so what is that I mean as we spend our money where are the pockets that we need to I remember the days when uh it was neighborhood lift with Wells Fargo helping us it we led the nation in foreclosures we led the nation and foreclosures so but boarded up buildings and vagrants and everything it was at its height so my sense is anything preventative and then we need to have develop the arm of enforcement so there's a way to make action happen there's got to be action you can't just tell people a fine of $50 or whatever we need something to need help from your team to figure out how do we implement this and stop and be preventative so you don't have that if I could use as an example of something we just brought to you that's like that we have gotten very strategic in our approach on fire risk on multif family units M let's identify those areas where we have the greatest risk and work on those first yes absolutely excellent madam you mind if I jump in sort of piggy back on uh councilwoman uh Diaz and staven especially since we share some of the same sentiments you know when I first got in office and riding through older communities there's so many abandoned homes burnt out homes um and the challenge also is are these homes some of them have been there in perpetuity they've been there for 10 15 20 years and no one's done nothing with them and then they become squatter paradise and the whole nine and and and I was saying how do we change this now one of the things that I think needs to happen and I think it should be a priority of the city especially in our older districts is that they has to have statute the legislature has to pass something that says you know whether it's going to be abandoned for 5 years 10 years you have to do something with it I don't believe that the city has ability to to tell them you need to tear this down grade it or do something but the legislature can and I and I would be very happy to work with you to to to make that a priority of the of the city to go to them to figure something out and it would have to be for the entire jurisdictions but I think that's fine um so I love if I may suggest start with legal everything go first to Legal yeah and and and and then my second part is that you know since and this also falls within councilman Diaz because we share downtown when we talk about Public Safety do we or do we not need to bifurcate commercial versus neighborhoods because how we keep the downtown Corridor commercial District safe it's a little bit different than the way that we are residents not that one is more important than the other but I think the focus do we we have I don't think in the past we've said Public Safety but but how do we keep the downtown Corridor and our tourism safe and then how do we keep our neighborhood safe and our parks and is that's good delineate find out if there's a difference yeah because it's not it's not one size it's all because downtown's a whole different ball so go ahead I really need to add this to um what we're talking about here and how the city of Las Vegas is going to grow because if you think about all the cities across the United States Boulder city has the largest geographical okay and that's simply because their Council kept annexing dirt okay dirt dirt dirt right so within the Northwest where we are we've got City and we've got County Islands but there is a lot of dirt that we could and I'm putting this out there CU I want Mr perago and Mr Adams and our staff this is something that I think in order to have the city of Las Vegas grow this has to be in the Forefront of our mine is to get uh more land from the BLM or with the parcels that are out there that are just dirt make it attractive to those parcel owners CU we know most of them uh to Annex that dirt into our city so number one priority needs to be annexation uh with dirt from the BLM and dirt that's just just sitting there that's owned by some of our friends that own it the developers out there that are just keeping it dirt so and then we have a place to grow besides growing up we can grow out and we should take the Boulder City example and apply it to the city of Las Vegas so I think that really should be priority mayor what do you think yeah so if I I added that and I was just looking at city manager does this work if I added in here so there's discussion but is a strategic priority the next four to 5 Years be excellent at the following really spend some energy around maximizing real estate right existing real estate building up zoning permitting and I just also heard annexation go get dirt is that so Scott I look at you is that part of what for you would be a singular strategy or is that two different ones yeah I mean well there would be as you've laid out many facets of strategy so the direction that You' be given them as leaders is focus on real estate focus on real estate again um because that's what makes us bigger more viable um when we have the dirt to negotiate I'll give you a great example so if let's say I'm just going to throw Amazon out there let's say we uh cuz I know our manager tried Amazon a few year a couple years ago let's say we attract big corporations like that and we have more to offer them to start bartering with I want you to think about a corporation like Amazon or Google and then I want you to think about the city of Las Vegas giving them such incentives to come with the caveat of building a Tiny Town each of these big corporations we have the land the dirt for them to build and behind their space they have to build a Tiny Town we give them free land they build a tiny town with that Tiny Town comes counselors mental health job creation and now all of a sudden the homelessness Bill burden is now shared right so it's shared by companies that want to work together with us and shared by big corporations and and I will tell you some of the corporations I know I'm just the mayor proam but I actively recruit companies outside of Los Vegas two months ago I was in LA and every time I do I bring our eud department in my office I'm like listen here's another one like go fishing like you know this guy can bring in 300 people but at the same time as we are courting these companies to come to the city of Las Vegas we also have to be giving them the vision of being a true City partner and building little tiny towns behind them to then lift the burden besides the city of being a true partner with these corporations so that's the main reason for annexing this land so we have that negotiating ability great Okay so we've included it under the larger strategic it's about but leveraging real estate existing new annexing yep what else so Public Safety I just want to play this one back cuz this was pretty cool Public Safety is that you don't have an option as to whether that's the priority or not it is this is about strategic Focus for the period ahead and what I heard were the word prevention I also heard preemptive right what can we do an ordinance to minimize blighted neighborhoods um fire hazards like a bunch of stuff that is preventive but it's also preemptive right in terms of so that by itself sorry go ahead I'll wait to you that by itself I just looked at Scott and said would this be a sufficiently clear strategic priority to which his response was yes yes so you know and also with Public Safety with the city um as we looking at dilating residential commercial we also need to address our Marshals the role that they play in expansion of that and also our uh Detention Center you know we we operate our own detention center and I think I don't know we don't talk about it a lot we don't we don't talk about it a lot our our our detention center but it's there and it's there every day and it's and and and uh man our team does an amazing job operating that facility and it plays a major role so I think we need to I I'm not saying change or anything but I think we need to so when you that should obvious be segmented out when you talk about Public Safety right so when you if this were one of the key priorities that the council part of what they would want is for a broad look at yes how to well Ju Just Just to be specific um when it comes to Public Safety there there's two parts there's reducing crime y so we have to reduce the number of burglaries reduce the number of robers we have to take strategies to do that and then the second one is quality of life stuff it's the broken windows Theory where you fix broken windows you get rid of abandoned houses you get rid of shopping carts that's all the stuff that makes people feel unsafe it's the broken windows Theory so reducing crime is primarily the professionals do that even though everybody can do something the quality of life the broken windows Theory everybody can be involved in that to some extent exactly where you started us on the topic because you said there's crime and there's how we feel right right and and you know mean if you get if you get down into the you know the the basics it's the it's the police it's Corrections it's yeah mhm the attorneys mhm and it's the courts the courts and we have all of those we have police we have Corrections attorney court and then you have to add in the firefighting mechanism that's Public Safety paramedics that's Public Safety so I mean you could spend you could spend uh a lot of time talking about that but that's really what what you're looking at is crime quality of life um like Scott mentioned you know the fire the fire stuff you that's a good strategy for uh for an issue that came up that involved Public Safety so no this is a solid city manager says yes if this were one of the key priorities you wanted us to focus on we need to put fire fire safety up Ian fire should be so police fire detention courts yeah but so we just mention we have a new fire station open up tomorrow it's got a a huge a new a new truck that is having I forgot that there some major I don't know truck so it's be really [Music] cool so this is Scott Adams again keep in mind um one of the reasons I've got all the directors out here listening is so they can hear the dialogue and get uh a semblance of your legislative intent behind these priorities so you're you're giving us those priorities with a level of embellishment they're hearing the discussion and then as we talked about earlier we're going to go to work after today to put more detail strategy detail on these priorities and bring it back to you and that's why I thought it was important they heard your discussion so that as we start to do that you your your discussion informs how we how we put that detail on it I mean a perfect example is when you don't think of this as Public Safety but you know Jerry Walker goes in and paints over a wall that looks like crap and I mean that's the best thing that happened to that people walk outside and say hey look at that that's a great looking wall this is nicer neighborhood now which means they feel better about it which means criminals start thinking about well you know this isn't maybe I need to go somewhere else where you know so it it's stuff that that's painting a wall nobody thinks of that as Public Safety but it it is it's Public Safety neighborhood quality of life things like that everybody can do a little bit something in that area love your neighbor paint their wall just kidding um it is 11:44 um lunch is here you so far have got seven strategic priorities listed and so I'm going to suggest that we now take a break you'll tell us for how long yes 30 minutes what do you think 30 minutes okay let's recess will come back 30 minutes at 12:15 and be contemplating what else needs to be up there because after lunch we're going to finalize this list of seven and then we'll go into the which ones are our top and lunches out to your right and to our left 12:15 return they just hired the last round of them so what is that educate me about the e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e hi everybody you got 30 seconds okay yeah yep I haven't I haven't noticed anything he's our he's our famous no he knows I keep telling him okay everybody are we ready phone's back off tummy's full and we've lost Punam again why do I do this we're a minute over it gives you time to get up for one more snack somebody up here is drinking Scotch I want you to know who's is that Scott oh that's iced tea without the but I'll take some if somebody here we go okay thank you all right we're ready I just got busted because I heard her say we have 30 seconds I went to get cookies it was a complicated set of options it took 40 seconds thank you for the public humiliation it is good for me it's just Payback just there um so you've done great work I want you to just look at it before we oh sorry so no I just wanted to add to the public safety conversation that for my ward it's important to feel safe in the Parks and I know that Public Safety in the Parks has been something that my community has been clamoring for and so I just wanted to make sure that that gets addressed um how do we make our Parks safer and um sometimes our community St stops going in using the the space and surrenders the space and I want to see the opposite happen where we feel safe and empowered to continue to use the children playground area or the amenities offered in the park and not just say uh weird people are there and I don't want to go and I don't feel safe there and so they stop going so we added we delineated residential commercial previously we added public spaces to it so that we're expressly declaring that um so two things one before lunch I said we had seven but then as we were looking at them we actually thought we think you have six so let me tell you why we think you have six we had education twice we had Workforce education then we had education on its own I included them twice to get to Seven we actually think it's a priority around education that is continuing except with the subtle difference being that in the next four to five years you're going to go more focused on Workforce right preparedness of Workforce that would still include prek all the way up but it's more with a Workforce Focus right this emphasis high demand jobs Healthcare field so that then puts yeah this puts this education subset right they're together essentially so that's how we get to six anyone not agree there are two things that we just haven't talked about and I I don't know where they fit up there they probably fit in somewhere um but I know we have an amazing Parks and Recreation amenities throughout our community and so we also have fewer Parks and Recreation amenities than most other places in the country and so looking at uh greens space recreational facilities per resident I think is an important consideration um and one of the great things that we do have control over um so I think that has a lot to do with quality of life and how we allocate Parks and Recreation I think it's worth at least mentioning and while you're figuring out where it fits on the space up there housing is just another one I still don't understand completely our role in housing on any part of it and so just something to talk about hous housing housing R housing so I'm looking at the city [Music] manager well um they the RO I mean parks would be pretty would open up a whole new priority yeah I think so that's how I'm hearing it too it so I'm going to put it up it will now be your seventh and it'll be about parks and public spaces the Strategic priority then would be that over the next four to 5 years Focus here and deliver more and then you would then talk with the team and bring it back to you with suggestions as to how that might be accomplished yes parks and Open Spaces how does culture fit in and maybe Ally um I don't want to put that in could we ask Ally I mean are there plans out of her Department um any priorities there that maybe should fit or not is that right Scott arts and culture as it fits into the parks and Open Spaces public spaces it could it could um I mean as it overlaps that could we ask Al it may if you're if you're trying to fit it on paper like maximizing real estate it could fit under there is how we utilize the city's real estate and looking at it from a perspective of Greening up Las Vegas for recreational use in addition to public art and public culture just as a absolutely um yeah [Music] so this okay um you know specifically thinking about pars and Open Spaces um one of the long-term goals that we've been about for a 20150 be really developing a stronger science and cultural infrastructure such as the zoo a botanic garden uh science and culture Museum um like some of these amenities that we still don't have in Las Vegas a art a beautiful Art Museum of course um developing a stronger infrastructure for the Performing Arts and build a network of performance spaces including Regional Equity theater nonprofit theaters professional opportunities for the artists who live here not just the artists who temporarily locate here to perform on the strip um you know another long-term goal would be developing a cultural trust for the city so that we have a trust fund that we can pull from every year to Grant out into the community to support emerging and established artists um as well as really looking at developing a public art program that embeds public Art thank you this is Ali Haynes Hamlin the director of cultural Affairs I'm sorry I forgot to introduce myself don't worry appreciate that um but really looking at how to embed our public art program throughout the infrastructure of the city so not just necessarily putting up sculptures on street corners or painting murals on walls but thinking about how we're designing our public benches thinking about how we're designing the Shad structures utilizing artists and public artists to help develop the infrastructure that we're already including in our complete streets projects and in our new park plans um how can we have an artist design a playground instead of just purchasing playground equipment from a factory um that sort of thing um as well as using art for economic and urban revitalization we've been uh part of the 100 plan discussions and really talking about how we can use all of our resources from public art to Performing Arts to visual arts to really help Revitalize the historic west side and that's something that we can apply throughout the city um also one of our long-term goals is really looking at creating a worldclass trade school network in in Las Vegas this is the entertainment capital of the world there are thousands and thousands and thousands of creative professionals employed here but there is not an infrastructure in place to train the next generation of people who are operating the sound equipment the rigging equipment the lighting equipment um the new technologies that have yet to be invented um all of that should be housed right here in Las Vegas so people move here children grow up here and they learn this can be a viable career for me I can make a solid living working as a sound engineer as a recording engineer as a rigger in a theater um not just as a performer that can integrate also into the educational component as well exactly exactly that's really um the overarching umbrella for me for the goals for cultural Affairs long term is really looking how the arts and culture impact every aspect of Our Lives Workforce Development temporary housing iic revitalization all of it Arts can be a part of everything thank you you're welcome thank you very helpful and I think um Mr Canen that could be uh definitely a part of that larger Workforce Development as well too so we actually was checking with the city manager while Ally was presenting um that from his standpoint would by itself be a completely legitimate and useful strategic priority right if you said to him arts and culture go big that incredibly important you did get a sense of what then would be brought back to you to approve but that by itself is a strategic priority he also and what we were curious about is is that part of parks parks in public spaces is Recreation and he actually said no he thought that they sort of stood sufficiently separately so then we've got a seventh strategic priority which you think is useful that is useful to you is if you said parks and open and public spaces find ways with Vigor go search for ways to deliver more CU we're behind right if you said that go be excellent over the next four to five years he says that's useful me and the team will get it done for you we'll come back with ideas so that then if you agree then that would be its own number seven and then we've got arts and culture its own number eight well to me that is um Goodman here that does integrate the Neon because that is an art form and as we're doing it down our medians um as we improve our public rways I mean there's so much that's already integrated so it just probably should stay there somehow councilwoman Diaz and I want to just Echo the mayor that there's so many ways that we can expand the presence of Art in our communities and I think it's a great Tool uh to combat graffiti for instance and plac is that it's pervasive um and it would probably be cost-saving to us to make sure that we are looking at our traffic boxes that are severely tagged every so often and try to come up with creative ways and good art to put up there one you're remediating that isore but too you might be um avoiding it to be tagged consistently so I think that there's a dual purpose um and I think that we shouldn't lose sight of when we're doing our public roadways again making sure we're in incorporating artistic elements and components and um the talk about Equity across the entire city is super important just to make sure that we're doing it everywhere um is super important and then I want to speak to the Parks and Recreation I think that it's an um I think it's an immediate way to start building the community and the sense of community and making sure that we're bringing programming that fits the needs of the community around that Center and doing a cookie cutter approach but really seeing what do uh councilman Canon's residents want out of his community centers what do councilman uh career's constituency need and what do mine and what do councilwoman Seaman I think that we're not necessarily all the same and just being really creative and unique and um making sure that we're employing best practices in those spaces and I think that then we'll see more people coming to seek Services giving us recommendations and then we can probably get um more citizen participation in our different centers beautiful um part of what I heard the city manager observe to one of you right before the break I just want to say to all of you because I thought it was really important um every single department head is in the room today every single one and part of why that is the case is that the city manager really wanted his leadership team to hear it directly from you it is immensely valuable when you're the one trying to implement intention like if my job is to take action on your intention the more I understand about something as Amorphis as intention the better equipped I am right and so this kind of just the sharing that you've all been doing is incredibly Rich um for a whole bunch of reasons not the least of which is how useful it is to those that are going to then take action on your intention so I just want to say thanks um okay are there any others any more than eight yes M sorry Goodman again looking at how these are numbered they are numbered as how they came to you as a suggestion correct there is they're not because I see with Public Safety number six that needs you're going to ascribe prioritization cuz only leaders can do that all I'm doing is listing thank you okay any others I I I just wanted to say that housing I don't know where that belongs if it belongs at all I think it's a it's a topic that I don't completely understand within the state of Nevada it's a separ one a separ would be maximized for the state could be I mean maximize real estate at the end of the day I don't understand it well enough in our state of I I don't know um Scott Adams at the end of the day all these have some level of overlap with others my gut would tell me it's its own category but that you're the one stying you're the one doing this um that's a big big area I mean that encompasses affordable housing it ties to homelessness I mean there's a there's a whole chunk of affordable housing that isn't homelessness right and so there's um there's also mid-level housing I think about preserving our that was the comment made preserving our quality of life preserving our neighborhoods that we have now while still knowing that there's another 500,000 people that will move in and where are they going to go if we go up what does the infill development look like um are we creating enough housing for the types of people that are coming in I don't that has everything to do with land use I don't know much about housing but I am anxious about it because like councilman Creer said we're going to have if we go up we're going to go in WS 1 three and five and it's right next to long-standing developments that have been there for for a very long time and how do we make sure that the housing mix is right for the population that we have I don't I don't know the answer to that so I'm we're going to leave it up because it is a completely legitimate strategic priority for a collective of leaders to say this matters a lot to us so go work on it with some Vigor and focus over the next four to five years right that would be essentially let me just play back it the direction to use that would be the next 5 years we got to make some significant progress in the available inventories of Housing and what would be helpful is to know as uh the leaders of the Wards what is available to our constituency um because sometimes we might have more apartments in one Ward versus um town homes and homes for them to transition and I think that that lends itself to quality of life right I don't necessarily maybe I need to because my economy only allows me to rent this apartment right now but it doesn't mean I have to do it till I die um so what is the mobility for me in terms of housing uh as a resident of the city of Las Vegas and can I keep being a resident of the city of Las Vegas because I have those options and so I just think knowing our housing stock and that could also help inform decisions down the road um so when we have development projects coming before us and they want to do more Studios but we know that the need is more town homes and um twoot uh not twostory but um Family bedrooms uh apartments with two rooms or three rooms because everybody wants to do the minimalist Style but we have to make sure that we're not missing someone out of the equation yep that that is a sufficiently significant and important strategic priority that would be and I think that ties into mayor prm's theory about maybe looking at annexation because you can't put everything in your WS sure great so thank you for for that anything else do we want to get to double digits we can there's no T that you win if we get there but one of the areas is um sustainability as a city which I think we need to discuss and I think one of the subject matter should be Transportation as well um right sustainability Transportation infrastructure which we had in our list and then Transportation infrastructure and then talk some more about sustainability what might that look like as a strategic priority what would be and you have that up there as well with the environment on that first on your 2030 on your 2015 it is definitely part of your 2050 Vision no yeah transportation is its own right sustainability and the environment tell me about it sustainability and the environment are together right um and what do we mean as a strategic priority for the next 5 years what do we want to do with Excellence relative to sustainability and environment over the next 5 years it could mean uh I just learned yesterday that there might be um incentives out there that um if someone is looking to renovate a property and they really Implement energy efficient um renovations to their property that there might be funds available for them to do all of the retrofits or if there's incentives for um uh solar energy I think we need to be thinking as we hear about Tesla as we hear battery as we hear more of the uh I think that that also means energy Alternatives right and so how can we be um maybe incentivizing the utilization of such and then water conservation I know was a big one um but maybe we just needed get more information out to the public because I think a lot of our water is being recycled and we do a pretty good job but um maybe we need a forecast out and get an update from the Water Authority as well not not to put them on the spot but the city does have a che Chief sustainability officer and that is Tom pero and we have been running a course on a a range of initiatives that are tied to sustainability so it might be worth one or two minutes of Tom just kind of capsizing what we've been doing and is that something you want to see us move continue to move forward with so I Michelle fiori mayor protm so Michael Sherwood and I um in my office without my other council members you know because of that rule uh we are literally looking and working on Net Zero which is sustainability it's basically looking at housing and to where it's all wrapped up in one where the water the electric and as we discuss these things and of course we'll have to get our Community Partners on board Nevada Energy the city of Las Vegas uh uh Valley water district and all of that so sustainability as we look to grow our city and be so it's very important that we do that and so I I think um as Tom comes and talks you know we'll also look at Net Zero as well as part of as part of this yeah uh thank you for the record Tom perago Chief uh what am I I'm not a chief sustainability officer you are now I just gave myself a promotion congratulations let's Ser for time promotion well deserved we chief I'm the executive director of Community Development and the chief sustainability officer so um no got to you yeah too much time in the mountains um so we've been at this since 2004 I want to say when former mayor Oscar Goodman signed the US Conference of Mayors climate protection agreement one of the first of like 20 Mayors in the country to sign it now practically every mayor has signed on to that and that committed us to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions uh to a level that we haven't seen since 1990 as a result of all of our investments we are now at a level of emissions as a corporate entity what we were about 1950 and that's because we are very strategic investing in uh renewable energy energy conservation water conservation um Recycling and we've been tremendously successful we're we're spending a lot less on all of that stuff today than we were uh five 10 years ago when we started all of this so we've been incredibly successful as a corporate entity um addressing environmental sustainability now we're really trying to push that out into the community as this discussion is sort of taking hold and talking about what can we do to encourage that same sort of um action out in the community with businesses with residences and so on working with our utilities they all have wonderful programs and helping to push those out but we're starting to transition a little bit one other thing too we've uh partnered with um the resort industry and a lot of the major uh Employers in our community over that that the last 10 years to make sure that we're all doing what we can to make our entire Community a very environmentally sustainable community and again it's not just a city it's the other uh local governments it's a resort industry is a world leader when it comes to this kind of stuff so we've had a lot of success um we're sort of transitioning into that question of community sustainability by really framing it as Community resilience uh what can we do to make sure that uh we can continue to sustain ourselves into the future have a great quality of life a prosperous Community given our resource constraints and challenges in the future and what kinds of things might happen what sorts of shocks what vulnerabilities do we have that we need to be thinking about as we plan for the future a lot of what you're starting to talk about now and what I'm talking about is baked into the work that the planning is doing and really all of the city's doing on the 2050 master plan it's really cognizant of those questions of vulnerability shocks to our systems and how do we create a resilient community Through um land use infrastructure and so on so that's kind of where we're headed we're also working with UNLV um looking at these things because it's not just um the environmental stuff but it's also you know Community things and basically everything on that list is what we need to do in order to create a community that's resilient and that's prosperous going forward so we do have a great history we're recognized around the world uh we've won uh many many awards and it's all the work that everybody in the city has done I've just been fortunate and blessed to be part of it but uh we have uh really made a name when you talk about sustainability out in the world people know Las Vegas is really an icon when it comes to that no wonder he's the chief Tom can you just add um that actor the Pirates of the Caribbean what's his name oh um yeah Johnny Depp mentioned mayor Carolyn Goodman in Paris remember that it wasn't Johnny Depp it was um Leonardo right I'm sorry they're all the mayor and I were supposed to go to to the the uh Global Climate talks in Paris your name and because of things that were were happening at that time we decided not to go but at that meeting of of all the world's leaders um the mayor of Paris convened all of the major cities around the world to have a conference on climate change and sustainability at the same time and the keynote was Leonardo DiCaprio he called out the city of Las Vegas I got texted like in the middle of the night from a friend who was there said Leonardo decaprio just called out the city of Las Vegas as a as a global leader in sustainability and renewable energy right so I mean I don't know that Leonardo DiCaprio is any expert in sustainability but I mean he he is now he's known and I mean you know so thank you I I would like to add to for the I think this is relevant to what the mayor started off with is is what can we fiscally afford um which is also part of sustainability and I learned that every day cuz I carpooled with Tom pero for two years he never gave me a dollar not $1 for car pooling he knows how to be fiscally prudent so I think it's important that we include that in sustainability as being fiscally responsible cuz that's that's how Tom does it the so what we've just heard is that's going to happen anyway yeah it's a different discussion today the question for you is as a collective of seven ultimately we're going to get down to just a few strategic priorities do you want a bigger bet placed is that one of the priorities yes or no CU that's what will keep it on this list or not we already know what's going to happen right yeah but you got to put money into it and you got to focus on it well it's Tom's going to do his best like he's been doing at just where does it go in the priorities well so the question for you is is it for the seven of You In This Moment potentially one of the things that you're going to want to make a bigger more intense focus on go under part of the E you could you can put it anywhere you want because it's your list or we could say we are so proud and pleased with how it's doing yeah let's just let Tom keep doing what Tom and the team are doing we want him to keep his job or go up he's just been promoted so so it is completely possible I mean there a legitimate option as Leaders to say we are so honored and grateful that the plan is so brilliant that we're doing it at a very high level we're just going to continue to have the mayor name roll off the lips of Highly ex expert sustainability people like Leo DiCaprio that would just keep going oh gosh right and separate from that to a staff of 3600 here are the three four five priorities that we really want you to focus on so does and certainly I would think that's part of our eud team that they have to focus heavily on sustainability and climate control and environmental issues as we get developers coming into the community to help us build the housing and everything else and then do we like the VIP and the what was the other one the smart um the other 50,000 that we had through eud to bring buildings up to code there was another incentive that we had what was it called downtown assr downtown downtown business there was the VIP and another one and then we took took out something but it is what is it Bill the other the other uh program beside the VIP that you now do internally I don't think you can see what we're talking about yeah he will something with an S it was um good afternoon Bill AR economic interment development we have a number of incentive programs commercial visual Improvement we have a multif family visual Improvement uh we have the downtown business assistance program that helps the inside of the building we have an office incentive we have a Medical District incentive and then specific to sustainability uh I attended a workshop with uh someone on Tom's team Marco verat commercial Pace uh financing and I think councilman Diaz was there also there are a lot of new incentives and it businesses recognize that smart business is investing in sustainability so there number of new options and tools that we can that are Financial in allocation Grant yes right thank you thank you I I would offer I think because of the work of Mr Pergo that this is embedded in the culture of the city I think it's a source of Pride for me because I grew up in it and so it's how I think about everything now and I think that's true of most everybody in the city and you've already claimed gold standard I mean when the 2050 claim was to be number one you're already top tier in this one you've established that been recognized for it promoted the guy in charge of it I'm trying I'm trying it's not looking good um and so unless there's some explicit go to next level in the next 5 years message that you want to deliver to Tom my suggestion would be that the doesn't belong on this list it is what you do you're doing it at a very high level but it isn't it's part of our DNA it's part of our DNA that unless you want to lift it up specifically as a significantly focused on priority doesn't sound like it is he's already doing it um do you do we agree yes okay then take it off so and then we've got Transportation talk about what that means as a strategic pillar priority one if you offered that would I think for transportation um mean if you look at any major Metropolitan City then there are multiple means of ways to get around a community um and then with the uh environment the way it is the amount of traffic trying to get less people um out of cars and into alternative means of transportation whether that is rail uh whether that is biking um above ground rail below ground rail uh more robust transit system with RTC I think we have to take that into consideration then with the new means of of people commuting with the um transportation networking companies Ubers and the lifts I think that's got to be all taken into consideration as a city useful as a strategic priority it would definitely be so if you said really come up with solutions to expand the transportation offerings for residents of the city of Las Vegas yeah I mean it has to also and also as the community moves further out towards you know uh out in W 6 and keeps expanding out how do we get people how do they get into the core of the city to come down the city hall um to do business outside of Hoying their cars and coming in in here ride a horse ride a horse save a cowboy yeah I think it's got to be then also with the expansion of I if if if you look at a regional perspective Las Vegas has to be part of the conversation for that as well okay so that would be you hear that and it was a useful a strategic Direction okay that would resonate with me and what the citizen priority was and I want to bring it up that war on poverty Transit and transportation options is one of the greatest things you can do on that war on poverty yeah and talk about what it means to have access if I can't get there I got no access doesn't matter what it is also to remember that the scope of transportation is not just within our city the confines of our city boundaries but a lot of people might work in another municipality or another jurisdiction so they might be going to Henderson they might be going to North Las Vegas we you know they may live here but they that doesn't necessarily mean that they work here too so we need to make sure that there's good Transportation options that connect our city around priority for us and we put money towards it and effort so you've got 10 strategic priorities without it I'm not saying how they're prioritized though just so it's incl when we prioritize the next step is to actually lift up because it is simply not possible based on any laws of physics that anyone no matter how motivated they are can do simultaneously 10 things with Excellence except what you have proven to us already this morning that um we can combine things and so maybe there's an area where we can if it as we look at it and it's prioritized by the council um then we can see and if it drops off at the bottom maybe something else will be at the bottom I just think that well if you end up with three to five priorities by necessity five to seven of this list are going to drop off which is not to say so when I declare the things that are really important as a leader I am not saying therefore nothing else is what I am saying is be Evergreen and solid and keep delivering as you've always done and go after these with Excellence yes right so they're both true so if in fact the media should decide to look beyond that this was a consideration well and we promoted the guy in charge we promoted the guy in charge in real time I also fired somebody last night oh Mike Jansen of course I hired him back immediately and councilwoman Das can attest to that and Mr Johnson I said i' pick you up in a heartbeat if she fired you I would hire you right back so worri well you're having a good day huh okay um I think from a strategic planning perspective there's value in saying that we have a set number of priorities there's a finite number of resources and a finite amount of time to think about anything but if you embed the way we approach all of our priorities have sustainability in in mind there's a way to say that I think to make sure the word is part of there for example in transportation Light Rail could come into the conversation and that's that's also environmentally appropriate right good good so that's a great Direction challenge we're going to weave it is part it's what you said at the beginning which is it's part of our DNA um okay then transportation is our number 10 do we have any other are there any other potential strategic priorities that if we that we want to include on that list things that we can be go after with Excellence the next four to 5 years to remain on a Glide path to 2050 going once going twice gone Okay so we've got 10 and look how far ahead she is where's the the one oh there we go so you see all of the words are there right so that hopefully can anchor you right back to the conversation we have summarized them down to one or two words consider this like a series of labels so diversify economy includes everything you talked about in here right and so on so the second one that you see is maximize real estate that's everything that we talked about in here existing assets Annex annexation existing new zoning licensing big box all of that conversation that's what we mean third one is homelessness and that is essentially what we're saying is city manager please put something together so that in the next four to five years we can really be excellent at increasing mitigation and addressing homelessness right that make sense number four is health care which is everything that we talked about expanding ACC access Max or utilizing conditions to accelerate when possible cultivating an environment where we can even accelerate it further being really data driven about the whole thing but let's go after it and let's go let's go hard so that we can win big so that's Healthcare uh the next one number five is education now this is the one where education is now bannered with we mean really Workforce education specifically healthc care field and high needs fields and then we would contemplate systemic solutions that would run prek to 16 okay um so that's number six or that's number five number six is Public Safety that's this we are really good and our based on what Jeremy told US citizens feel pretty darn safe good and over the next four to 5 years let's be Excellence at at being preemptive to prevent in the broadest sense right police fire Corrections um courts decrease crime increase the quality of Liv so that's what we mean by and that's residential commercial and in open and public spaces so that's what we mean by Public Safety number seven parks in Open Spaces is the conversation that we had where oh to have more of them so you're going to say come on we're behind the National curve in number of Park offerings per citizen Step It Up go after it with bigger in the next four to 5 years right and then finally arts and or not finally right but arts and culture is next and that was what we heard would be that just sort of go faster on existing plans Double Down octane energize them to deliver more quickly okay housing mix we just had this conversation so I don't need to repeat it because you just had it right let's get more inventory capital or lowercase eye so that it's to increase the offerings and then finally Transportation which is what we just think let's pursue vigorously um expanding the transportation options either for today or for the future so those are 10 right that kind of it's a little glazy over because it's super complicated stuff and it is not possible to be excellent at all of these things simultaneously so now in front of you oh does anyone have any questions about these [Music] 10 or comments are these 10 true for you it's a yes or no question yes but I do want to make a comment dealing with homelessness encompasses mental health care and diversifying the economy those kind of to me go together you can't just take homelessness and leave out some of the um the other two so here from the the overlay because you're right you're absolutely right and I think all of these flange and touch each other right so there's nothing that's going to be completely by itself I think from the city manager's perspective he's got departments and teams constructed right and so if you say to him please solve for homelessness um healthc care and mental health that's the he's got teams that would work so he would say that's probably three strategic priorities is that three and they may overlap well I I think Scott Adams uh I think what I said earlier is they they tend to overlap for example um homelessness involves housing it involves Healthcare mental health in particular uh and it involves employment opportunities because a lot of the folks that are homeless lost their job so it there there we I think what if you say homeless we're going to look at where all those factors that go into that that those will be part of the strategies cuz to go after it with Excellence will demand that so it could be one category basically or not the the alternative would be is you look at healthc care housing Workforce and as you approach it you approach it from all ends of the spectrum from people who recently lost jobs and are homeless to diversifying the economy so there's two approaches I don't know which is best okay I don't either you going to say something Michelle FY so I agree and as councilman canson had said with homelessness it really encompasses everything from jobs to housing to healthcare which is mental health care to educating them because sometimes they're going to need job training to Public Safety and when I think of Public Safety and homelessness because homelessness you know as we toured um a couple of different uh places around this country on how they deal with homelessness you've got to be very cautious on where you're housing homeless people uh like a wet and a dry area especially if the homeless individual is intoxicated and there's children that are homeless so I mean it's really it's all encompassing but I think uh going forth we look at each of these divisions as you know homelessness is going to need Transportation they're going to need they all overlap so this is not to suggest at any level that they're that they do not touch and should not touch um and the reason that I've been doing the reality check with the city manager is at the end of the day leadership Direction needs to be useful to those who are relying on it right so I've been saying to him is this useful as a strategic pillar and when he says yes we believe him right so that's what he said so we've got 10 now here's what I want you to do in front of you got three stars they're Post-it notes but they're stars star shaped I want you to pull them up for so here are your three stars you got three stars here's yours where's your got them five star on one of them what are we doing here peel them apart and put side side you got Stars three stars side by side in the middle of one of the Stars fairly large write the number one in the middle of a second star fairly large right the number two in the middle of the third star yep You' already figured it out right fairly large the number three then I want you to look up at those 10 those are the 10 strategic priorities that all of you have agreed and articulated MH in response to the question if we do a few things with excellence in the next four to 5 years we will be on the Glide path to our vision for 2020 those are more most important we need a star one more star we're losing a star more important than anything to have enough Stars we got to have enough Stars oh he found it stuck together oh they were stuck together okay emergency over glad that's glad we landed that plane that was kind of um so those are the 10 and now what's important is to get the clarity from the leadership team of seven so here's what I'm going to ask you to do of those 10 the one that for you personally is the most important I know it's not easy to be a leader that's why you get like the microphones and name plates um the one that for you is the most important you're going to walk over to that item and you're going to push your number three star next to it okay okay because three is cuz I it's like a vote I'm putting weight on this cuz it's my number one priority the item on that list that would be your second highest priority earns your star withth of number two and your third priority earns place next to that to start with the number one what okay so your first priority first priority gets us three yeah see more go backwards yeah okay so yeah your first choice gets to number three it's about voting oh the one is my first priority is number three you put the number three next to your highest priority a political caucus number like that is your first priority first priority correct okay okay next to your highest priority place the number three bring in every moment of your life experience everything that you've ever discovered or learned while on the job every conversation that you've had the thing that for you is the most important gets the number three the thing that's the second most important gets the number two and for you the third priority earns the number one [Music] [Music] that's interesting it is mirror be Public Safety you can't do anything if you're not safe I don't know don't be moving tickets around career okay oh wow so I want you to notice two things there are seven of us right seven of you in this moment as stored to this community and so wherever you see stars it means we are of one mind and then as human beings there's certain things that we care more deeply about frankly than we do other things and that's just the way we work and so let's not abandon that fundamental human trait when we're talking about something as serious as leading the future of a community and my one word up front was Unity that's right that's right so I'm now going to do some math right so in education we've got six there's two that say three public three five 1 two three oh oh but mine are all off I just put my star in the right place I didn't put the right numbers cuz I'd already done one two and three I'll go change the number yeah you got to change it it's going to mess up our mask did we do that no what her orders were the only one that came out the same was there and that number two excuse me Ste your highest priority number three is your highest priority priority your second choice third choice cops number one oh it was number one number one priority that's right this one up two no matter what so that is two okay so redo so just as you're thinking it through so what's that number four every that's a number four so everyone did place next to their highest priority their top priority the number three star their second highest priority earn the number two star their third highest priority ear the number one star everyone did that yeah you didn't double dip or double star no just checking okay so Public Safety we've got what's that I said Integrity whose word was that I believe you all 3 6 9 12 15 parks in Open Spaces it's a two was that you I knew it no no no that was your big thing last time too 2 4 six8 two three oops and nine okay so notice what you've got right just what do you see as you look at this priorities yeah and what are the priorities that you see the numbers what are they police Public Safety public safety first one is public safety second one is what healthare third is what econom diversifying economy and then everything kind of comes yeah like there's a big break right so one option for leaders it's your truth so whatever it is true for you you can absolutely say we've got three city manager there's three big ones Public Safety diversification of the economy and Healthcare go hard on those in 2013 we had four priorities in 2017 we had six priorities this moment with the seven of us in 2020 we want to go hard on three you could absolutely say that or you could say you know what add in education when you could pick where you want to cut that list off right what's the number on education you have there education is a four okay so with education it's very difficult in just my opinion for it to be the council's priority because it's a state priority now the council as council members could urge our friends who are state electeds to make that a state priority but are you know the three a suggestion okay let me make a suggestion um you've got three priorities as a group of seven right here's what I see there are three heads and shoulders above the other seven yeah right and so if that what if that is what it is then let's allow it to to be what it is okay we don't necessarily need to over think it or over complicate it cuz sometimes it's like it's okay it is what it is right and so if and then I would say to the city manager who ultimately this entire exercise is to get your Clarity maximally useful for him so he can conduct 3,600 people if they said if your leader said Public Safety Health Care diversification of economy does that give you what you need well I think the the one thing that when I look at the the clustering of the Stars those are also yeah the three where a majority or greater of the council said it was a priority because I think there's a that's the other break if you if you look at it on all the others there was less than a majority of council that said it was important that so it so four wins all the time number four wins all the time in in those three four or more of you said it's the most important thing I I think there's just L the three from from your perspective I hope I would look at those top three and knowing that the others although they don't have stars in them that there's a way to incorporate those into the top three as well so as you're talking about maximiz ing re real estate there's a way to talk about parks and open spaces and arts and culture and housing and so it's just a embedded in the way you think about the top three priorities that even though there's not a a count of four on the rest of them that they're an important conversation in how you go about the top three yep and another way um how to describe this yes I mean the sustainability was one great example that we talked about earlier where sustainability could be a consideration how do we advance our sustainability commitment in whatever we're talking about doing right and without question homelessness is part of Public Safety there just question that doesn't stand alone and that's still different par public that's still different than declaring Public Safety as the priority and when in the course of achieving Excellence on Public Safety when we can also achieve sustainability good for us when we can also achieve progress on um homelessness good for us that's very different than saying pursue homelessness solve for it right it's a different Clarity put it would be important though to hear from Council that as a consensus homelessness is a consensus part of Public Safety we're spending a lot of resources iiz I think it's I think it's very telling very surprising that I'm the only person that voted for homelessness uh no if I thought about it councilman absolutely I would almost put that as the priority with you it's part of Health Care and it's part of Public Safety it really doesn't well I I think that take Transportation I don't know I I I see it a little differently and uh I think that homelesses is not only a a priority I think it's a capital letter priority with Capital H all the way through personally and I think that everything Falls sure it falls under Public Safety but you know uh Public Safety also includes Detention Center commercials you know so many other factors I think homelessness is its own category within itself and I I said it a while back and I'll say it again if we don't recognize it and go to defc 10 and recognize it as its own subject matter in capital letters then we we're continue to sort of go from where we are that would be part of my opening statements where I'm not trying to be difficult it just comes naturally the providing access to providing access to those priorities is of the most importance and understanding the environment in which we can maximize our real estate means that we're going to have to challenge ourselves with how we work with the population that is suffering from homelessness which means that Healthcare has to Encompass that part of our population as well and if we go forward in improving access to healthare that means all segments of our population without actually targeting anyone of our segments of our population I I feel that there's a a challenge from a city city perspective in focusing all of our efforts on one segment of our population because then we forget the rest of the population that also needs access to Services I think that's a valid statement yet um whether we want to segment it out as a separate popular or not it is what it is right and we we've got 6,000 Street Homeless we have it uh up and down our streets uh up and down Fremont Street uh up and down our tourist Corridor uh so I get what you're saying but I think it has to be personally I think because it's so important and and it carries such heavyweight that it should be segmented but I get I think maybe we're all on the same page and maybe saying it differently yes I think I I think without question when I put that first star up at Public Safety in my brain was homelessness to the point that I didn't even see homelessness separately I saw it as part of Public Safety which in my mind it is I would have taken my vote off of Education which is fundamental to everything cuz if everybody were equitably educated they would make good choices and they wouldn't be homeless except for those who can't take care of themselves because they're totally matalo or so drug addicted so to me homelessness is absolutely fundamental to Public Safety and I agree with you and I still believe that when we work on Public Safety diversify the economy and especially Health Care Mental Health Care we will be tackling homelessness because it is I think number one on all of our minds but we want to get to some of the source and trying to help by doing some things we we we have the corridor but I think trying to work on it in another angle will be beneficial for the city well and we've been working for the past at least 5 years on trying to get the gene prison dedicated to the sanitarium care health facility for those severely mentally ill that can't take care of themselves which we will continue to do cuz is so critical to the good health of a community so it's just an explanation to councilman career I could move off education give you another star but if you put your homeless under Public Safety I would really be happy our heart is with you our I'm sticking with homelesses so here's um this is Rich conversation so thank you for having it it's so useful to hear um so on behalf of the 3600 and of us that are on staff I'm not one of them but I'm using the Wii um on our behalf it the crispness of the clarity matters right so you have declared three priorities Public Safety and you'll see them up there now public safety health care and diversify the economy um and what it does not say councilman career is homelessness and so part of committing and being a elective as a leadership team is we got to support what we come up with right because otherwise it gets really difficult for staff who's looking for the clarity the the of the direction now having said that your city manager and 20 department heads have been listening really carefully and there is a human being that has not yet figured out any in this room or in this community that homelessness matters a lot and so what said is we're going to find ways as we develop the strategy and go next level we hear the priority that is that is shared and important to everybody and we will bring back something that shows you that we're that we're hearing end right and so it isn't up there like the the specific priority homelessness is not up there and he is committing that he's heard it and then it'll be woven in he actually thinks as I think you said it too that it's really a key part of the public safety discussion and and healthc Care definitely is a component of healthare yeah yeah I'll give you another example um Health Care you've made Health Care one of your highest priorities you really can't expand our healthcare industry without U working on Workforce Development and education right there's in fact it's it's a critical factor to expanding the healthcare base making sure we have plenty of folks that can work in Allied Health profession so you can't work on expansion of healthare without working in some other areas I know that question and maximizing real estate's one of them because we've had that conversation about Medical District we are going to have to figure out how to maximize real estate in the Medical District to expand it well and to then you we always come back to the fact we have to partnership with the county and the university I mean it just keeps you keep adding these tacles and it goes on forever and it does go on forever um so what I want you to do now is look up at first 2050 and here's what you saw earlier today and you talked about your vision for 2050 and then look up literally to the three priorities that then become the answer to the question what are the things that if we do with x excellence in the next 3 to 5 years Place us on a Glide path to getting here so that's the reality check right that's a reality check and what this right there that's what you said literally the first thing we had safety Healthcare and business climate safety Healthcare Diversified economy there you go okay well that was elegant what you just did um and then now on behalf of the city manager and the staff it is important When leaders are look at me in the eye and say this is what I believe and I will have your back because the alternative is when I don't hear that from a leader they're holding open the opportunity that they may run over me at some point right or direct me in a different direction the highest respect that you can pay your city manager and a really motivated world-class staff is to look them straight in the eye and say this is what I believe and I've got your back and then support each other in having back cuz that's what great leaders do so that he can literally get the 36 member orchestra playing in a way that I have zero doubt in my mind is going to allow us to claim probably much earlier than 2050 the world's number one community and so I am going to ask you now to look in the eye the folks in this room and then beyond them 3600 and like say to them this is what I believe specifically what is it that you're you're saying that we believe that these are the three priorities that these are our Collective priorities out of the you don't agree with it I think hom should be one of them I understand I understand the rationale yeah and it's not I understand and so we've gone through process so this is a Time When leaders got to sort it out because it can't be our we don't always vote it's not always seven to zero votes by the way leadership Clarity is not a vote say that we we respectfully well I can respectfully not agree with my colleagues and have the utmost respect for them is what I'm seeing completely completely different conversation today this is not a vote and there's no it's no it's not a win or loss it is a desire to provide pristine Clarity that will then Cascade down through an organization maybe vement maybe votes a wrong terminology because we are not voting right um we are not um um there's no right or wrong I think everyone's on the same page I just personally do not believe that these are the I would put homelessness as one of those three so I cannot in good Consciousness say yes I'm on board with these three because I don't think that they should be one of these three I think one is missing so and it's nothing wrong with that right I don't think there's anything wrong I think everyone's on the same page it's just that I think that Homeless this should be one two three so let me ask you slightly differently recognizing because we've had good discussion and you've gotten on the record homelessness matters a lot to all of you and when offered an opportunity for S to place it as one of the top priorities it was not one that's great that's fine I'm not I'm not saying that so as a Consensus These are the three that through a process of consensus emerge as the shared consensus the question is can we all support this consensus I will support it I see I so yeah without doubt I'll support I support the majority of the will of of the council by all means even if I didn't vote for it I still it is what it is so we have to move forward and support it great all means that's what the team is looking so what were the words again I will I do can you do it now I support you chop chop and I got and I got your back I got your back I've got your believe right this is what we believe and I've got your back because they're going to come back to you now with ideas on how to achieve you know something I just have to I'm very disturbed by this though cuz I really today do believe it's one of the personally my priorities we do not want to be La we do not want to be exposed to the sanitation issues that are at our door we cannot handle in the city of Las Vegas the entire and growing homeless issue that's going to keep making it impossible to operate downtown and it is in my mind with because I didn't look at your separate issue which I appreciate it was my vote for Public Safety and if anybody had asked me today tomorrow until it's fixed or moving along what's your priority I would say homelessness and so to me it's more important to me to fix homelessness and get these people back into a life or in a physical place of safety and off the streets more important than diversifying our economy and I don't me mean to create it and and obviously the majority rules here so I will use the words but the reality is today yesterday tomorrow until we've done this it's critical for us to stay this course and homelessness is that huge part of safety Public Safety for me and it's a huge part of healthcare so I want to just observe because we've had a whole bunch of inputs right that coming into the session one of them was a presentation that he gave you about 2014 and then 2017 notice the Strategic priorities in 2014 one of them specifically said Public Safety SL homelessness what year was that that was a 2014 14 yeah I remember voting you had four and it's specifically that's the whole that right so if that is what you mean are we allow are we bargaining are we allowed to bargain are you what are we bargaining no you're coming to consensus so I can come to consensus with adding homelessness if we can add education and have five oh my now you're bargaining list okay now there's a new game I like that I'll I'll with you I'll support support going to say that if we wanted to also public hearing folks we're doing this the right way we got three votes let's have if we listen to to our residents their top three priorities were Public Safety um healthare and education and if we want to be a responsive government that listens to their constituency we should incorporate education okay education and homelessness but again let's get real we are the city we are not the state and I've been with the state I wasn't assembly woman as you two were there is very little that the city can do for Education we can also be um an advocate for education to our state so when it comes to our city of Las Vegas priorities education is ranked four because there's our hands are tied the things that are have been toply ranked by this body today is Public Safety health care and diversified economy with those three top priorities subcat cily will be homelessness is public safety's number one then we have our parks in open space which is part of the real estate we have our arts and culture part of Diversified economy because when you have corporate partners that can support everything boils back down to how are we going to pay for it so unless we diversify the economy and create these Partnerships to pay for everything these are the top three so I'm going to stick with Punam stick with what we did stay the of course I've got your back please do it and by diversifying the education I might say it helps to pay for the homelessness and other programs I think everything is all encompassing I think that it's just we're categorizing it public safety first we need Health Care Mental to help the homeless and if we don't diversify economy then we can't help anyone so it does I just just on this topic of homelessness you've heard now ask few minutes do we want to call it do you want to call it public safety homelessness no no it's because then it's Health homelessness it's Healthcare homelessness too so homelessness inass is everything homelessness if there's homelessness you will not have a diversified economy you will not have an economy because everything will move out of this city to where the homeless aren't that's right and that is the critical mass to in inviting and we heard the reason one of the sing L most important reasons we lost the Raider interest was because of homelessness in the heart of downtown so the economy if we don't fix the homeless issue for the health of the whole Community as well as those caught in that horrible cycle if we don't fix that everything fails bargaining is not happening but what we want to try to get to because people looking for leadership need this so on behalf of those that are looking for the seven of you we want pristine consensus I'm good okay and part of and how we know we're getting pristine consensus is when people look Us in the eye and say this is what I believe and I've got your back and that's what that's how we all roll right so that's so the question becomes what do we need to do to get you all there we're real close we're real close we want you all there because so Council so city manager and all of you fabulous directors out there that have helped me so much I'm asking if you will please see this as a priority Public Safety Health Care diversify the economy which encompasses homelessness and I have your back and I will do everything I can to help you to help our city to be number one and the best it can be and thank you I feel like I'm no you got the word in there and as long long as that becomes the Mantra yeah so thank you okay that's two I support the city of Las Vegas that we know that yeah and I support the objectives of the city and to support the group this where we're going with u and I got your back I've always got everybody's back exactly exact I know you do I know you do I'm good no you guys he was good I'm I believe in that and and you have their back yeah of course and as stated by Council woman Seaman specifically as she said it you know I have your back of always had your back from the day you took the office and of course my family at the city every one of you you have made this city what it is today and I know as I look each of you in the eye from far away you are why this City Works you have built it you stayed with it through past years and you are the reason this works and you support and follow the lead of our wonderful city manager so you have as you stated it encompassing the homeless as part of it I'm there and have your back yeah I would I would comment one of the most interesting things about being in office is if you ever disagree with another elected official the world around you thinks that you're bitter enemies and that is absolutely not the case at all right uh you can exist in the same space and have disagreements and get along really well and I think it is the conflict that makes us a stronger City so the fact that we have different thoughts and different ideas makes us a stronger group of leaders and it makes a stronger Community because of that so I fully support Public Safety healthare and a diversify economy as the top three priorities given the conversation that we had today and all the things that are important up there because all of it is incredibly well connected you can't have any of these conversations about these top three priorities without talking about those things in every conversation so I have the city's back and have this back of this Council and those people they they all know that already them every day I have your back everyone in the city of Las Vegas it's it's my home I'm glad I came back to it I love the city although you're still carrying a little bit of resentment about the money that you never got from Tom like let's be clear two two years of car pooling by the way a lot of money little bit of resentment a little bit and if I got a prus because of him because I was trying to be environmentally friendly but it still took [Laughter] gas and Tom bought a truck oh with all the money you sa it's because I bought a Prius he was trying to balance out the world B but he bought a truck along with my big old F3 50 truck too so I'm right with him thank you and I'm right in uh sink with my colleagues and the mayor um you obviously have had our backs um because the work doesn't stop ever uh we can't let a ball drop and uh I Echo the sentiments of councilwoman Seaman that you guys have been um extraordinary and supportive and see helping us see through very complicated issues that come before us and you know I have your back just like you've had mine and uh I declare then Public Safety health care and diversifying the economy as the city council's next set of priorities good thank you um hell of a good job people now I can say stuff that that the public meeting um because I'm not subjected to the same pressures and stuff as you are right um hell of a good job it is not easy to do what you do even on an easy day it's a much different ball game when you're brought in to a session like this for 6 hours ask questions as bizarre as some of the ones that I asked you thank you for going I mean for me it just reveals even more about how spectacular you are and remember we follow people not strap plans and so ultimately leadership is a function of to what extent will I be authentic to what extent will I have the honest Earnest conversations to what extent will I tell the truth in public because when I do that as scary as it is to go there it is when people will follow me with a Vigor that otherwise isn't possible right and that's our life experience isn't that what we've experienced in life as we think about the people that we'll go anywhere for they're not the people who are perfect they're the people who have allowed us with witness to their imperfection right to their hopes and dreams and fears fears and anxiety that's who will go sort of through walls and windows for so thank you it takes a ton of courage to do what you just did so I just want to if I had a hat on I would take it off and again just reminding you that courage when I see it I now believe is simply a person willing to get vulnerable and from all of us Puna mother you're the best and we appreciate how you have taken us and walked us through this and held the attention given us the games to play on the process and we really appreciate everything you've done very sweet we are going to give you some change back I do want to leave you with um a story Fel indul um and it was something councilman CIT you mentioned and you used the word blessing and you talked about faith um and I said I think that gave me permission to talk in a slightly different context and so I'm going to do that now um here was a profound lesson for me so I'm going to share it with you and I hope it's useful August the 19th 2013 I was reading the Las Vegas Review Journal which I do every morning and like I do every morning I scanned I was scanning the obituaries I don't spend a lot of time there I just scan and there was a young face um and I always notice a young face or a particularly old face and they always look at the age I don't know why I'm just curious like that if it's a really old person anyone over 90 995 for a split second I have a sense of wow what a wonderful long life lived I hope they claimed the things that they wanted for their epit just for a second and when I see any kind of young face for a second I will pause Split Second and contemplate and send a little love to a family that's got to make sense of what is really hard to make sense of so this one day there's a 27-year-old her name was Jessica see her name's 27 I had a son roughly that age and so for a second I'm like o there's a family in pain I send a little love very long obituary and there were some words in the middle of this long obituary that I could tell my only job was to catch the words as they left off the newspaper and I did and I caught them on a note card and the note card today says the following words I have pockets of joy and gratitude because in a universe of incalculability and in the vastness of time for a couple of moments we were together so every morning I choose to begin my day by selecting a perspective and so the note card Jessica embodied in the note card was on my bulletin board and lots of mornings I would look up and she would offer me the perspective and the perspective was in a universe of incalculability in a vastness of time all of a sudden the same sunrises and sunsets that I've seen in this community for over three decades in the context that in there was 7.8 billion people on the planet in that moment and I was the only one who got that specific view of that Sunset made it spectacularly more beautiful gave me a sense of gratitude that was a whole new level and even the jerk that cut me off on the Sahara overpass sometimes the jerk is there but even when that jerk cut me off thanks to Jessica I had this perspective of wow in a universe of incalculability in the vastness of time I'm not sure but you're my jerk nobody else gets this experience I'm grateful and you're going to teach me something so Jessica was teaching me profound lessons right about the power of perspective how she deepened my gratitude she was really a bit of a guide and a teacher and a spiritual adviser for me and then every once in a while when I get asked to speak somewhere sometimes it was as though Jessica just said I'm going to and there I would be with the no card cuz the no card chose to go and I would share the story of Jessica and people get moved and sometimes they would cry and I had no idea what the intense personal relationship was between those people and Jessica but what I understood was how blessed I was to have had a role in a legacy where I would never meet the human being and in a universe of incalculability in the vastness of time that made perfect sense it's all that I don't know it's how I don't understand Ripples and cause and effect and A to B it just is so much bigger than my comprehension so I'm merily learning to developing a really deep relationship with my BFF my spiritual guide my inspiration I am honored to be a link in the chain that allows her voice to get expressed it's just pretty cool I get my haircut every two weeks guy named Fred 20 minutes was huny oh David go do you go to Fred oh that was a really random moment to respond David regular just we were all thinking it I just said it that's all so I'm downloading the power and the lessons of Jessica and I can see his reflection in the mirror in front of me cuz he's behind me and he freezes and then I can watch emotion well and start to leak out his eyes the man is crying I'm confused I said what happened he said I love how you were talking about her she's an inspiration she's a light she's perspective she's a teacher she's inspiring people and I said why she said reaches over grabs his phone shows me a picture I now know that face it's Jessica and he said I know her I'm like you know Universe of incalculability my girlfriend Jessica nothing surprises me so I am not surprised you Noah but tell me why you're crying said here's the thing you need to know the story as you're describing it is different than the one I know cu the story of Jessica I know is that she got into a relationship with an abusive boy at the age of 16 at the age of 18 that abusive boy burnt down the home that she was sleeping in resulting in massive Burns over the majority of her body which led to the introduction to the pain medication that was the only way to get relief which then became the newest journey to hell and the Final Act for her was by my own hand action of suicide I will take my own life that was the obituary that I saw on August the 19th 2013 so powerful lesson for me in the story of Jessica she reminds me that we don't know much because if I only look at the segment and I mean the segment that is Jessica's 26 27 years on in the world it could be simply sad and yet if I zoom out into a universal incalculability in the vastest of time everything is as it's meant to be everything I don't understand why but I certainly get reminders of it and Jessica for me is the number one reminder all of that to say on February the 26th 2020 in this little city in this big world in the vastness of time in the monster that is this universe the seven of you are together so I'm going to go back to the words that I wrote down that day I have pockets of joy and gratitude because in a universe of incalculability and in the vastness of time for a couple of moments we were together you have no idea how far your ripples will extend you just will never know but however we can show up if we can trust if we can be Brave if we can say stuff that no one else will say if we can have each other's back in a way that makes us uncomfortable then do it then do it because every lesson that we've ever learned in the rest of our lives says that's how real life works right so I can't tell you how blessed I feel that in this moment I don't know why there's two million people there's seven of you we know that and then one incredibly lucky lowgrade infection that got to hang out with you all day so I want to say thank you and you now have 18 minutes change because you've done such a good [Applause] job do you want say so um first of all I want to um say that you've made me the Envy of every city manager of every major city in America because I uh as I speak to my colleagues and peers um it is not often that you can get your Council in a room and in a very short period of time reach consensus on a set of high level priorities so you have accomplished um the ultimate in policymaking and so I both congratulate you and thank you as your city manager and our staff team for doing this so the conversation you just had Cuts both ways um I support and we will support these three priorities and we will have your back on these three priorities um and you'll see that through the effort that we'll take over the next few months we're going to now take these and all the other things that you established as important things that we should be accomplishing and put those into a much greater level of detail and bring it back to you and our hope would be you would endorse that with possibly changes and modifications and then it'll be our job to get out there and get it done thank you so um again I can't underscore how much we thank you uh for helping us with this effort thank you Mr Adams and thank you all we have a second public hearing so as there anyone from the public who would wish to address the council we we will not respond but we certainly will give you your right to do so all right hearing and seeing no one for us yes you did want to say something yeah before your turn before I turn cuz we do have like 16 minutes so it's hard to give back that much time right we want every pen out of it's not hard to give back time don't please no it is not what what I'd like for because that was just really um awesome what you just did so we started at the beginning of the morning right by going to every single one giving them one word and they express their hope and so now I'm going to go back if you don't mind you got take a whole I'm going to give you one word no cuz you should see how fast they did it you remember punch like popcorn we're going to do this really fast the one word that you want to express to this awesome Group of Seven human beings that give selflessly because they care that deeply so we're starting with you one word peace gratitude gratitude Clarity Clarity compassion compassion appreciation appreciation gratitude gratitude Clarity Clarity ambition ambition direction direction got to go with appreciation as well how many words was that appreciation passion consensus consensus thank you appreciation appreciation syy Synergy enthusiasm enthusiasm appreciation appreciation thanks thanks passion passion awesome awesome collaboration collaboration gratitude gratitude inspiration inspiration thoughtfulness thoughtfulness collaboration collaboration consensus consensus conviction conviction direction direction grateful grateful inclusive inclusive stewardship stewardship truth love strength one word what truth hph love hyphen strength connection connection Clarity clarity fulfillment fulfillment guidance guidance leadership leadership clity Clarity determined determined coming back to you appreciation appreciation leadership leadership inspired inspired thanks thanks gratitude gratitude focused focused we got you right direction direction collaboration collaboration peace peace Harmony impactful guidance guidance leadership leadership compassion compassion um that was not 16 minutes CC my career how many you still get some change back I promise yes thank you oh my gosh we don't leave people behind support support proud proud deliberative deliberative thank you and then as there should be we're going to have you all have the final last word ending with you right so your last word come back to me okay come back proud proud excited excited thank you thank you moving on out moving on moving hyphen on hyphen out coming back to you do I need to say can't be can't be a swear word protection prot protection protection you know a swear word is a noun and a verb and an adjective an adverb I mean I could go on but your word was protection protecting yeah beautiful informed informed ready ready thank you just so proud and grateful thank you and before we do adjourn even though I asked for second public comment no one came up and I did close that you want me to read this in okay okay and I did say hearing none so this is a journ thank you all have a great rest of day Mr Adams do they have the rest of the day off no wow talk about magnanimous leadership wow my office I think left