service. The redevelopment agency meeting of April 16, 2025 is called to order. This meeting has been properly noticed and posted in compliance with the open meeting law. These proceedings are being video recorded and can be viewed live on the city of Las Vegas TV on coxcable channel 2. You can also watch the meeting live online and access other city content by visiting Las Vegas nevada.govconnect. The proceedings will be rebroadcast on City of Las Vegas TV on Wednesday of the meeting at 800 PM and also on Friday at 400 am, Saturday at 7 PM, Sunday at 700 a.m., and the following Monday at 5:00 p.m. This building is protected by a state-of-the-art fire detection and suppression sprinkler system. If alarm should activate during today's meeting, please evacuate using the exits at the back of the chambers out to the mezzanine, proceed out the double doors to the terrace and down the back staircase. For anyone that has difficulty with stairs, please check with a marshall or fire official for assistance. Once outside, assemble on the northeast corner across the street from city hall at Lewis and First Street. Employees wearing safety vests or our city marshals will inform you when it is safe to re-enter the building. For public comment related to the items on the agenda, citizen participation and public hearing items, we have available a speaker card which you can complete and submit to the city clerk. Cards are available in the clerk's office or at the rear of the chambers. If you do not submit a card, it does not prevent you from speaking under public comment. citizens participation or specified public hearing items. If there is anyone present today that is in a need of uh hearing impaired equipment, please see the city clerk's office. Please note, if you parked in the parking garage across the street, a self- validation machine is located in the foyer between city council chambers and the security desk you walk through to enter these chambers. You must have your ticket with you to use the machine. If you do not have your ticket, see security personnel when exiting for a validation coupon. We will now move on to item number three. Public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters on the agenda for action. The amount of time any single speaker is allowed may be limited. All comments made will be cross referenced to those specified items. If anyone submitted a speaker card or who wishes to speak under this portion of the agenda, please come to the podium and state your name for the record. We will set the time at 2 minutes. Is there anybody that would like to address the city council? Seeing no one, uh we will move on to item number four for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the regular redevelopment agency meeting of March 19th, 2025. Mayor Prom, is there a motion to approve these minutes? So moved. Please vote. Post. Motion is passed. Agenda item five, discussion for possible action regarding award of contract number 250068 BMBB, Annual Audit Services and Financial Reports Redevelopment Agency. Award recommended to Ruben Brown LLP not to exceed $36,000 annually. Total contract amount not to exceed $180,000. City of Las Vegas redevelopment agency general fund for all wards. Uh, Miss B. Oh, uh, Miss Lloyd Leos. No, this is Tanya Kembell, uh, purchasing and contracts manager for the record. Yes, of course. Welcome. Thank you so much. Um, it is an NRS requirement that local agencies have an annual audit of their financial statements. And so the purchasing and contracts department conducted a competitive request for proposals process and from that process Ruben Brown LLP was chosen to be our outside audit firm. This contract will um be an initial term that will be the audits of FY25 26 and 27. And there are two one-year renewal options for this contract. And that's where we came to the total contract amount of $180,000. It is $36,000 per year to conduct these services. All right. Thank you so much. Um are there any questions or comments from the agency members? Okay, seeing none, is there a motion? Mayor Promote to approve. Okay. Shall we vote? Please post. Motion passes. We will now hear related items six and seven together. Six, discussion for possible action regarding the creation of a security grant incentive program to support and provide an economic boost to small businesses that have been impacted by roadway improvement projects and property theft. $100,000 RDA special revenue fund redevelopment areas one and two. Please note this item is related to RDA item number seven, RA-8-2025 and council item 27 R-262025. Item number seven, RA-8-2025, discussion for possible action regarding a resolution concerning the authority of the executive director of the redevelopment agency of the city of Las Vegas to approve and issue grant funding for the security grant incentive program for 20 individual grants of up to $5,000, which will provide an economic boost to small businesses that have been impacted by roadway improvement. ment projects and property theft redevelopment areas one and two. Please note this item is related to RDA item six and council item number 27 R-26-2025. These items are in ward 1 3 and five. Uh Mr. Kenudson, Miss Diaz, and Miss Summers Armstrong. Miss Babsky. Good morning, Mayor. Good morning, city council members. Dina Babsky, director of economic and urb urban development. Um, a little background on the security program. Back when we were um, awarded the ARPA funds, I want to say about three or four years ago, we established a security program for to assist small businesses, those that were impacted by the, you know, criminal activity during the pandemic, during the shutdown period. And that program was very, very successful. Um, at that time, we were able to allocate $1.5 million um, in grants uh, $10,000. So because the program was successful and we did run out of the ARPA funds, however, the need is still here. We decided to kind of reestablish the program with a little bit of changes uh to make sure that it aligns with the Nevada revised statue associated with the RDA. Um and with that, we're bringing forward for your consideration. So the business assistance program uh is designed to support small businesses affected again either by uh criminal activity or as well. Um we also added another criteria which is impacts by the uh roadway construction work and the way it relates to security is uh during construction what small businesses have been telling us is traffic to their businesses uh is decreased and with that there's opportunity for more criminal activity to take place. So with that would like to uh request your approval to award up to $5,000 for each instance of the grant um application. And this funding would be um aligned with our fiscal year which runs obviously July 1st through June 30th because we're currently in FY25. We would be able to uh review and bring forward for consideration for the award um incidents that or applications that you know related to incidents that happened since July 1st of 2024. So the business owners will have to uh provide proof of the security incident whether it's a police report uh insurance claim video proof things of that nature and then if it is a impact related to the roadway construction we would need to evaluate you know uh that the business has the frontage to the road that's that's under construction excuse me with aligned timelines that they were in fact impacted during the the project work. Uh what is the $5,000 going to be eligible for to be spent on? It is uh security features such as permanent fencing, uh security camera upgrades, exterior lighting, uh potentially locks, and of course, we heard so much about the HVAC uh copper theft situations. So, uh this money could be used to make sure that uh or to purchase security enclosures to help protect the the copper. These are some of the photos um of the criminal activity uh that has taken place uh in the arts district specifically. As you can see, the damage probably goes above and beyond the $5,000. But again, this program is designed uh to upgrade the security, not necessarily to help with the repairs so that security can then uh proactively take care of hopefully nothing like that happening in the future. Um with that, I'll take any questions. Uh just to note that uh as soon as hopefully this is approved there uh the application will be available for those that uh that feel that they're eligible for this grant. Um Leah Williams in my office is the contact and also we will have it online. Okay. Thank you very much Miss Babsky. Are there any questions or comments from the agency members? Okay. Seeing none, is there a motion on item six? Mayor Pro. Oh, did you want to say oh I'm sorry Miss Diaz? Thank you, Madam Mayor. I just want to say uh thank you to the staff. Um I think it's worth acknowledging that um as being one of the council members whose area is impacted, I have um raised the voices of all the business owners that have reached out to me and we did this for the first iteration of the security grant program. And now um again, we're hearing more please and more cries of the need for additional support. 100,000 won't go very far. I'm hopeful that maybe we can identify a funding stream to kind of shore up the account and offer it so often. Um because unfortunately uh the elements strike and then it puts a lot of our small business owners in a really precarious situation. But um really grateful that we're here in this moment and that folks that have undergone a unfortunate event at their small business and the RDA will now have some funds um to recoup for their investment and keeping their businesses safe. So thank you so much to the staff that made this possible today. Any other questions or comments? Yes, Mayor Prom. Thank you, Miss Babsky. And just like Councilwoman Diaz, I haven't had a lot of business that are affected. Just one quick question. And I may have missed it so I apologize but is it on a reimbursement basis or is it um upfront? Uh so currently the program guideline reads uh on reimbursement basis. Um but again you know I think that as we kind of give a test to the current program in its updated version. We will see because I understand that there's a need that small businesses can't always come up with $5,000 to pay for the work. So that's something definitely that's been put on our radar and we will work through it as we you know work through the applications. Perfect. Thank you. Okay, good. Oh, one more. Oh, yes. Um, Miss Summers Armstrong. Thank you, Madame Mayor. Uh, and thank you, Miss Bsky. Um, just to um tack a little bit extra onto the comment uh from my colleague uh in Ward One. I think that an opportunity for us to have invoices directly submitted to the city would be helpful so that our small businesses that don't have the money upfront can get the equipment that they need. um without it being a pass through could be an option for us. And I would hope that you all would investigate that because once a small business goes through a challenge like this, uh every dime is is tied up. And so I hope that that could be an option so that they can just order what they need, submit directly, and get what they need without there being any pass through. So I hope we can look into that as well. Thank you. All right. Is there a motion on item six? Mayor Potm move to approve. Thank you. Please vote. Post. Motion carries. And on related item number seven, mayor promote to approve. Please vote. Post. Motion carries. Agenda item eight, RA-9-2025, discussion for possible action regarding a resolution finding the project proposed by commercial visual improvement program agreement between the city of Las Vegas uh re uh redevelopment agency and Sticky 8 LLC owner and the Dustland Bar LLC tenant located at 1433 South Commerce Street to be in compliance with and in furtherance of the goals and objectives of the redevelopment plan and authorizing the execution of the CVIP agreement by the RDA not to exceed $25,000 RDA special revenue fund redevelopment area 1 ward 3. Miss Diaz, please note this item is related to council item number 26 R-25-2025. Miss Babski. Um, thank you, Mayor. Uh, Dina Babsky, director of economic and urban development. Uh, with me here today is Miss Jennifer Taller. Uh, she is the co-owner of the proposed venue and she's also a longtime business owner in the arts district. Welcome. Thank you. For your consideration today, we are pro we are uh bringing forward a $25,000 uh visual improvement grant uh within the guidelines of our visual improvement uh program. The project is located at 1433 South Commerce Street and it is just uh one block south of the uh what's currently being constructed the new residential project by Cedar Street. As you can see in the in the vicinity is upcoming new residential. Very exciting. There will be more retail. We also have uh unique beverage and food places and you know as the the rest of the arts district the the overall expansion is just so um exciting and overwhelming that seeing such a you know a new proposed project which I will let Jennifer talk more about but very exciting. As you can see the exterior uh is a great uh example of how RDA contributes uh in our efforts to eliminate blight. And so this particular VIP uh pro uh VIP grant will help this uh property to become what's going to be known as the Dust Land, a bar, restaurant, uh live music type of venue. And the currently the uh co the owners of the property, they're investing a very large amount of money, o almost $800,000 for overall renovation and $130,000 for the exterior, which makes them um eligible for the full $25,000 of the RDA VIP grant. Beautiful renderings. Uh the the funding is going to be used for new painting, for new paint, new windows. Uh there's going to be new f new iron fence and obviously a lot of landscaping. Uh the dust land is at 1433 South Commerce Street. As I mentioned, the numbers are pretty significant. So, we are very excited to be able to pitch in and make sure that this project moves forward with hopefully completion and opening uh later this year. With that, Miss Taller, would you like to tell us more about your project? Yes, thank you. Uh good morning, Mayor and Council. Um we're very excited to get this project open. As she mentioned, it's called the Dustland Bar. Um, my two business owners are born and raised here in Las Vegas, and they own 143, which is a really awesome lighting and furniture company. Um, which makes it really exciting to take on this project because we're very invested with our hands. I'm a professional tyler now, so if you guys need any tiling, let me know. So, not only are we raising funds and trying to do stuff, we're really wanting to put our, you know, hard work into it. Um, Logan did the renderings and he also knows how to build everything. So, it's really exciting to see these renderings and watch it come to life as he envisioned it. Um, we have a really awesome local community that have chipped in to help and are very excited to do this. Um, as she mentioned, um, I was a part of the Ferguson's downtown. Um, I do have a store in the arts district called Aken Cooperative and I also own Market in the Alley. So, I'm a big advocate for our local small business community and very excited to have another gathering space to represent the beauty of our city, the talent of our city, and a really unique way to come together and gather, have some beverages, create memories, listen to music, and just have a good time. So, and be a good neighbor. So, thank you so much for joining us today. Um, are there any questions and comments from the agency members? Look good. Okay. Um, is there a motion? Councilwoman Diaz. Thank you, Madame Mayor and Miss Taylor. It's so great to see you. I know everything that you undertake uh usually you succeed and I'll think um outshine uh what I think a lot of our uh what we think is doable in the areas that you go into. Uh so for example when you did Ferguson's it was not near where we are um coming a long ways from the times and so I think that bright spot of bringing mothership and all of the other offerings in there really help bolster that and its adjacency and now you're coming to replicate on a side of commerce that needs a little bit more TLC and investment and intentionality to draw more um more folks and hopefully that Cedar Street development across the way is going to help you a lot too once that's underway. So, um I'm super excited about this. Can't wait to go and um support in any way we can. So, with that, I'm going to move to approve agenda item. All right. Shall we vote? Please post. Motion carries. And Miss Toller, best of luck in your latest venture. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Agenda item nine, citizens participation. Public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the redevelopment agency. No subject may be acted upon by the redevelopment agency unless that subject is on the agenda and is scheduled for action. If you wish to be heard, come to the podium, give your name for the record. The amount of discussion on any single subject as well as the amount of time any single speaker is allowed may be limited. Is there anyone wishing to speak under this portion of the agenda? Seeing none, uh this redevelopment agency meeting is adjourned. We will start our city council meeting at 9:00 a.m. Thank you so much for being here. Who do you know that I know? The April 16th, 2025 meeting of the city council is called to order. This meeting has been properly noticed and posted in compliance with the open meeting law. These proceedings are being video recorded and can be viewed live on City of Las Vegas TV on CoxCable channel 2. You can also watch the meeting live online and access other city content by visiting las vegasnvada.gov/connect. The proceedings will be rebroadcast on the city of Las Vegas TV the Wednesday of the meeting at 8:00 p.m. and also on Friday at 4:00 a.m., Saturday at 700 p.m., Sunday at 7:00 a.m., and the following Monday at 5:00 p.m. This building is protected by a state-of-the-art fire detection and suppression sprinkler system. If alarm should activate during today's meeting, please evacuate using the exits at the back of the chamber out to the mezzanine. Proceed out the double doors to the terrace and down the back staircase. For anyone that has difficulty with stairs, please check with the marshall or fire official for assistance. Once outside, assemble on the northeast corner across the street from city hall at Lewis and First Street. Employees wearing safety vests or our city marshals will inform you when it is safe to re-enter the building. For public comment related to the items on the agenda, citizen participation and public hearing items, we have available a speaker card which you can complete and submit to the city clerk. Cards are available in the clerk's office or at the rear of our chambers. If you do not submit a card, it does not prevent you from speaking under public comment. citizens participation or specified public hearing items. If there is anyone present today that has a need for hearing impaired equipment, please see the city staff clerk. Please note, if you are parked in the parking garage across the street, a self- validation machine is located in the foyer between council chambers and the security desk you walk through to enter these chambers. You must have your ticket with you to use the machine. If you do not have your ticket, see security personnel when exiting for a validation card. Before we proceed with the agenda, would everyone please rise for the invocation given by Pastor Drew Moore, Canyon Ridge Christian Church, and please remain standing uh as he does the pledge as well. Hello. Welcome. Good morning. Thank you for having me. It's an honor. Let's pray. And so God, we pause as we arrive to acknowledge you on this week of Easter. Uh the kind of the center of celebration of our faith. God, I pray that our city would be uh awakened again and again to who you are. God, thank you for this great city in which we live. Uh what a joy to be in this place, to be a proud place for our family and friends to visit. God, I'm grateful for our mayor, for our city council, for the many people who are serving here today, for the first responders in the room, for the many who have come into this room before us and after us to take great care of it and provide it for us. Uh God, we're just marked with gratitude that we get to be a part of what you're doing in this city. I pray for your favor and for your wisdom for each of those who will make decisions today. Pray for clarity of thought and communication for each of the folks who will speak that they might represent themselves well and the best decisions might be reached for the flourishing of our city. God will offer our very best, but ultimately it is you we trust and is you who paves the way. And so we acknowledge you and we're grateful especially for Jesus. It's in his name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, pastor. Will you lead us in the pledge? Yes, ma'am. I pledge allegiance to the flags andice for all. [Music] Before we proceed with the ceremonials, I'd like to acknowledge the life of someone that left us yesterday far too early. Uh, Miss Elaine Wyn. uh she has made an extraordinary contribution over her life to this community to education to culture to the arts and through this moment of silence I would like us all to commemorate her her life and her legacy and may she rest in peace. We'll now move to the recognition of the employee of the month. This is the ceremonial portion of our council agenda. And for our first item, I want to invite our emergency manager, Carolyn Levering, to join us. Our employees strive to make our values of being kind, committed, and smart, and they work to build our community to make life better. I am proud to announce that the employee of the month is Irene Sado. Irene, please join us. Congratulations. Irene is a volunteer program coordinator as well as a facility and event coordinator. She joined the city in 2023. Among her many duties is managing the city's community emergency response team orert program. Irene developed processes and procedures for the recruitment, development, and management of volunteers who are a part of this key safety program. We know that in the event of a major emergency, our first responders will be stressed to their limits. CERT allows us to have a deployable professional team of volunteers ready to support our first responders and ensure that our citizens and visitors get help as quickly as possible. Over the past year, Irene has scheduled and staffed dozens of events, trainings, presentations, and much more. All with the goal of improving preparedness for our community. C is a federally funded program and Irene manages the team for all of Clark County. Through Irene's leadership, we have built strong partnerships with many organizations across the valley. We all know in the event of a major emergency, connections and an ability to work together are key. We are in very good hands with Irene as part of our coordinated effort. Irene, thank you for all of your hard work to make our city a safer place to live. I want to give uh Carolyn a chance to say a few words and then we'll have a photo. Carolyn, there you go. Thank you, mayor. Thank you very much. Good morning, everyone. Um the Office of Emergency Management consists of a small but mighty team of professionals dedicated to building a disaster resilient community. Irene joined our team just over two years ago, filling a newly created position tasked with building a volunteer management program from scratch. Irene met the challenge headon and has exceeded expectations in every way. The community emergency response team 3V refers to our vital vocal volunteers. Because the CERT 3V program is federally funded, it serves a community beyond the city borders, including participants from all over Clark County. These volunteers are a force multiplier for our small office, helping to teach basic emergency preparedness and committing themselves to responding during a disaster. While Irene is remarkably humble about her accomplishments, I think it's fair to say it takes a special leader to recruit and retain the talented volunteers who donate hours upon hours of their time in service to our community. Congratulations, Irene. Now, I've been told that public speaking isn't the first thing you love in life. Um, but would you would you like to say a few words? Well, here, say it in the microphone. Thank you very much. You're very welcome. All right. Congratulations. You're welcome. Shake your hands. Everyone wants to shake your hands. Right. Come back. Welcome to our world. Everybody please join me in [Applause] congratulating recognition of the antiviolence through community engagement ACE program. Um, for our final ceremonial item today, Councilwoman Francis Alan Pinsky is going to recognize a program providing wraparound services to families in need. Councilwoman, thank you, Madame Mayor. Today, it's my honor to put the spotlight on a few individuals who have dedicated themselves to serving their community and are currently making positive strides by cultivating a better future for atrisisk teens in Las Vegas. I'd like to ask the ACE team to join me up here at the podium. Come on, guys and gals. Good morning. Hello. How are you? Okay. The LVMPD's antiviolence through community engagement team or ACCE for ACE is a pilot program recently created to provide wraparound services to local youth who have been experiencing legal challenges or those at risk youth be that are uh at risk of becoming involved in the criminal justice system. By providing guidance and critical resources, uh, these kids and their families, the ACE program team creates those pathways to success and hope for a brighter future. LVMPD recognizes that when law enforcement builds relationships with local community leaders, businesses, uh, quality of life for all of us is improved. One such instance took place this February when this team joined forces with Walker Furniture and provided furniture and beds to families that were in need. The ACE team currently supports over 40 community are supported by 40 community partners and board members and over 240 youth in our community uh are in the pipeline who need supportive services. While this program is currently geographically limited, there is hope and plans to expand it to secure funding and to up to and including micro grants to increase the impact of this team. thus the importance of highlighting their organization. Uh without the heartfelt passion and tireless effort from Captain Dave Sims, Captain Noa Sparza, Sergeant Tony Brotherson, Officer Selena Cruz, Officer Arnold Parker, Officer Anthony Edwards, and Community Engagement Director Rachel Skidmore, and Crime Prevention Specialist Kelly Gares, this program would not exist. Captain Sims, would you share a few words about the program and uh have our audience uh give them more of an education since this is brand new, we're rolling it out right here in the city hall? No. Uh thank you so much. Uh again, my name is Dave Sims. I'm the captain of the community engagement bureau. And uh I commonly say that the secret of leadership is you surround yourself with people smarter than you. And luckily, I have this amazing and dynamic team here. And it all started with an idea that traditional policing were very good at responding to a critical incident um and finding the bad guy. But what would would it be possible that the incident never happened because we interveneed before the worst day of that youth's life uh happened? And when you challenge a team like this um with a question like that and they just uh really impressed me and this agency and our partners with the innovation that they came up with. So to have a a a remarkable recidivism rate for uh a whole of community approach. This is not just a police program. It wouldn't be possible if it wasn't for a team like this. But those 40 community partners that activate down to that granular level with this uh city's youth um the all we are blessed as a police department especially when you look around this country uh the support that we have from our elected officials. So again, Councilwoman, thank you for for the opportunity and the honor and uh and all of our community partners up here have always been very very supportive. When you activate an entire community, um you can change the lives of our next generation and that generation needs to be protected. Um it needs to be provided with opportunity um and encouragement and positive influencers. So in order for our entire community to activate um I know that we are saving lives uh before the worst day of their life. So uh we're going to keep the foot on the gas. Uh you have my word. Um, I can't keep up with this team. I'm a figurehead that gets to come up and and talk at moments like this, but um, I'm so proud of this entire team. I'm so proud of our community leaders, our partners to make this happen and our elected officials. So, uh, I think we're going to, uh, we're going to create something that hasn't existed and is going to create miracles. So, thank you all for everything. Captain Sims, we do have a proclamation for you and I'm going to just sum it up at the very end here. It's long and you can read it at home. Uh but we, the mayor and the members of Las Vegas City Council hereby proclaim April 16th, 2025 as Ace Team Day. It's your day. We're going to come up front and take a picture with everyone. If there's any family or friends, please come up and join, too. Oh, yes. We're Mayor step up front for a picture. All right, we have a large group of people. So, we're going to need two rows. Taller people in the back, not so tall people in the front. Thank you. And then we're all switch. All right. Beautiful. You're going to look right here. [Applause] Thank you. We should just have everyone comfortable. is always Is this back? Take a different How are you? How about that? I know. I know. I love them all. I just want to Hello. How are you? Let's do That would be easy for you. Thank you for everything. Congratulations. All right. That's it. What is that? Yeah. My goodness. Public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters on the agenda for action. The amount of time any single speaker is allowed may be limited. All comments made will be cross reference to those specific items. If anyone submitted a speaker card who or who wishes to speak under this portion of the agenda, please come to the podium and state your name for the record. This is your opportunity to address the council, but the council is not able to respond or engage in dialogue. We'll set the time at two minutes. Is there anybody that wishes to participate in public comment? Yes, I am here. All right. Welcome. Okay. My name is Eric. Oh, hello. Fantastic council. Hello. and lovely mayor. My name is Eric Melzdc, Christ Nimrod. You can find me in Genesis the 10th chap. You can find King Nimrod in Genesis the 10th chapter, the 6th to the 10th verse. He's being slandered by Bible scholars and preachers. Boom. Okay. Agenda number 46 is a is a proposed 2,849 foot alcohol establishment. Agenda number 47 is request for a non-conforming liquor establishment in ward five. These are in ward five. At the April 2nd meeting, at the April 2nd meeting agenda 39, it was said that of the 232 expelled students, the majority were so-called black. Ward five is in a crisis and more liquor establishments may add more few to the fire of institutional and religious racism. Low self-esteem and self-hate drive people to drink, especially youth. Councilwoman Summers Armstrong, I want the quantitative data about student expulsions and staff training that you asked for last time. Thank you. Thank you very much. Is there anybody else that wishes to address the city council? Please come forward. Good morning. My name is Cynthia Thompson. I am at 601 Harrison Avenue. I am speaking on item uh 240647 SDR1. We um this is the second time visiting this. There was uh something that went wrong with the parcel. It was one parcel, supposed to be two parcels. So, we're back again. And I um wrote um I'm writing a formal expression of my uh opposition to the proposed forplex development plan for the northwest corner of Van Burren and F Street. behind my property at 601 Harrison Avenue. While I understand the need for um responsible development, I have significant concerns about the impact this project will have on my on our neighborhood. First and foremost, the introduction of a multiplex residential building in the area raises serious concerns regarding property value and neighborhood character. Our community primarily consists of single family homes and adding a forplex could dramatically change the density and aesthetic appeal of our neighborhood. Additionally, I considered um uh consider the increase in traffic and parking congestion. The addition of multiple units each in uh with multiple residents and vehicles would exacerbate existing traffic flow issues and increase safety concerns for protest pedestrians, especially children and elderly residents such as myself. However, the privacy and quality of life uh uh to adjacent homeowners will be significantly impacted. A multi-story building will result in a loss of privacy for my property and others nearby. Thank you so much. Can you wrap up? Yes, I will. In addition to the noise and lighting and um multiple families uh disruption of our quiet environment, I urge the planning committee to uh consider this proposal. Um and thank thank you so much. Is there anybody else that wishes to uh speak with the city council? Thank you for your time and attention to this matter. Thank you very much. Good morning. My name is Maurice Paige. I'm the executive director for the Nevada Housing Coalition. Um, today I would like to uh talk about or put a letter of support in for action item number 45240647 SDR1 um OOS uh development corporation. Uh we have been working with um the owners of this business for the last couple of years. they have gone through uh site modification to appease the not only the neighborhood um but also the city of Las Vegas. And so we would like to uh encourage you uh to move forward with this project as this will bring value to the neighborhood and and hopefully uh meet the demands of what the community brings. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Is there anybody else that would like to address the city council? Welcome. Thank you. Um my name is Tashika Lawson. I am here to speak on item number 45 in support of OOS um um development corporation. I can speak that the last two years OOS has done its utmost to learn about the uh emerging projects and products when it comes to housing that are available. They've toured and you know toward Alleian properties. They've toured things like the Mercer, which are resort style housing projects that are in the in Summerland and all throughout the valley. Uh they're trying to bring that type of quality to the affordable housing market in the historic West Side in accordance with the 1909 formbbased code. Um they have done everything that they need to do when it comes to community engagement. Almost every other person who we've seen trying to um bring forth developments in this area usually falls short in one aspect in either community engagement, overdeveloping a property or just having things that are not having enough information or just not having the community support. I do understand that we do have residents who are currently around this project, but we do have projects such as this that are already available and out for people to see in places like Flagstaff that have the same street addresses and the same transitions happening. I am in in I highly support this project. I know that they have done their utmost to make sure that they're bringing the community's voice to this project and they've they've done more than any other person and uh when it comes to doing this. And then lastly, they have been here a little longer simply because of the fact that under the last administration there was some balls that were dropped. So, the investments that they could have done kind of like got like they've been here spending money just trying to be they were invited into our into our state. Um they have awesome projects that are available up up north um for both senior housing and and multif family housing. So, I really support this project. Thank you so much. Is there anybody else that would like to address the city council? In that case, we will move on to agenda item eight for possible action. Any items from the 9:30 a.m. session that the council staff and/or the applicant wish to be stricken, tabled, withdrawn or held in obeyance to a future mate uh meeting may be brought forward and acted upon at this time. Mayor Prom. Madam Mayor, I have three items 40 A through 40E 24-019 GPA 1, Z1, B1, B2, and STR1. Applicant is William Brown, owners H&H investment reality realy on 1.18 acres on the southwest corner of Owens and Gateway. There's an obeyance request to the June 18th, 2025 meeting requested by Mr. Edgar D. Montalvo. Uh 41A through 41B 24-08 VR1 011. Applicant is Champion Resource Group. owner is DFA LLC on 32 acres located at Har Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Located on the west of Harvey Munford Street, approximately 725 ft south of Washington Avenue. There's an obeyance request to the June 18th, 2025 meeting requested by Councilwoman Summers Armstrong and item 4224-05101 applicant is Champion Resource Group LLC owner DFA LLC on 2.68 acres generally located at the southwest corner of Washington Avenue and Harvey Munford Street. There's an obeyance request to the June 18th, 2025 meeting requested by Councilwoman Summers Armstrong. And that will be my motion. All right. Shall we vote on the motion? Please [Applause] post. Motion is carried. Agenda item number nine for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the March 19th, 2025 regular city council meeting. Mayor Prom, may I have a motion to approve the minutes? Move to approve the minutes. Please vote post. Motion is passed. Agenda item number 10. Agenda items 10 through 27 are on the consent agenda, are considered to be routine, are recommended by uh for approval by the departments, and may be enacted in one motion. Are there any other items the council wishes to bring forward? Okay. Mayor Pro 10. May I have a motion for the consent agenda for items 10 through 27? Move to approve the consent agenda items 10 through 27. Please vote. Post. Motion passes. And now I would like to bring something out of order. Agenda. I sorry guys. Agenda item 48 under reports and presentations. I understand we have a time constraint and that's why we're moving this one forward. Um reports and presentations. Again, agenda item number 48 present. Mayor, I don't think they're here yet. I told them about Oh, okay. We're going back to regular order because they're not here. All right. Okay. [Applause] Okay. Okay. Agenda item 28. Uh discussion for possible action regarding the approval of the employment contract with Brian Smith and ratification as city auditor. $172,500 plus benefits from the general fund. Uh Mr. Zamora, would you care to uh comment? Good morning, Mayor and Council. For the record, Vince Samura, human resources director. I'm very pleased to bring this item forward. Um as the mayor stated, this is regarding the approval of the employment contract with Brian Smith and his ratification as city auditor. Mr. Smith has been our acting city auditor since January of 2024. And by way of background, Mr. Smith started his um uh employment with the city on March 1st of 1999 as an internal auditor. He was then promoted to a senior internal auditor and then promoted to the internal audit section manager before being approved as the acting city auditor. Mr. Smith has a bachelor of science degree in accounting and a master's degree in accounting from Brigham Young University. And he is a licensed certified public accountant in the states of Nevada and Washington. And at this point, I'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have. Do any council members have any questions or comments for Mr. Zamora? In that case, um, Councilwoman Diaz, would you care to make the motion? All right. Absolutely. I want to thank Mr. Smith for all of his service serving as an interim city auditor and uh I believe the entire council and the mayor are behind uh his ratification today um to continue in this role and with that I move to approve agenda item 28. Thank you. Shall we vote? Please post. Motion passes. Congratulations [Applause] Oh, shoot. Oh, would you care to say a few words and congratulations? I would love to. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor B, Mayor Berkeley. Thank you, city council members. I'm humbled and honored today to accept this appointment and uh I am so grateful for the career that I've had here at the city of Las Vegas. It's amazing reflecting back on 26 years and the many opportunities that this career has afforded me. Um, so I have great uh just so thankful for all the city has provided for me. I want to just acknowledge my my office staff over here, the city auditor's office. We're a small group. There's Bonnie Joe James uh Louiesie and Nancy, and we're continuing, continually looking for ways to be more effective as an office to make to improve the city's operations. I'd also like to acknowledge the great city leadership team that we have from the city manager's office, city attorney's office, and all the department directors that uh that I have had the opportunity to work with over the years. I'm always amazed as I attend briefings and work with all these individuals just the amazing talent uh that we have here at the city and uh just uh the city is in good hands with its leadership team. And finally, I'd like to acknowledge my wife, my wife Melanie. She is an amazing woman and she is actually a school teacher and teachers coach and she works up at Somerset Academy up in Ward 6 and just an amazing woman and I appreciate all the support that she's been to me over the years. Sometimes she has to remind me to take off my audit hat when I come home because I have a tendency to ask too many questions, but grateful for her support. Thanks to everybody else who showed up today to show their support. And once again, thank you to Mayor Berkeley and council. And I look forward to working with all of you to to further improve the city's operations. Thank you. Thank you so much. Agenda item 29. This item is being trailed to be heard with agenda item 43. Agenda item 30, boards and commissions, discussion for possible action regarding the appointment of nominee Tan Todd vanbasians uh to ward one seat on the arts commission. Uh Susette Hackett Morgan has resigned and her unexpired term must be filled. Mr. Von Bastians is eligible and wishes to serve. Is there a motion? Mayor Probab. Thank you, Mayor. And I I believe Todd is here in the audience. I just want to point out he's going to bring together public works and cultural affairs, and he's going to make the community a lot better by making sure we're lighting our artwork properly. So, thank you for your service to the community, and I move to approve. All right. Shall we vote? Post. Motion carries. Congratulations. I agenda item 31. uh discussion for possible action regarding the reappointment of Char uh Chad Carter to the audit oversight committee. Mr. Carter was originally appointed as a community member in May of 2023. He is eligible and wishes to be reappointed and I move to approve this appointment. Shall we vote? Please post. Motion passes. Congratulations, Mr. Carter. If you are here or not, it's okay. Agenda item 32, discussion for possible action regarding the reappoint of Tony Cornell to the Board of Appeals. Mr. Cornell has served since 2021 in the seat designated as general contractor. He is eligible and wishes to continue serving. Action is outlined in the subject is supported and recommended by staff. I move to approve the appointment. Shall we vote? Please post. Motion carries. Agenda item 33. Uh discussion for possible action regarding the appointment of nominee Bonnie Wall as one of the mayor's design to the Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission. Miss Lisa Sherman served as one of the mayor's design and her term has expired. Miss Wall is eligible and wishes to serve. I move to approve the appointment. Shall we vote? She No, she's not. Please post. Motion carries. And if I may uh take a moment of personal privilege, I've known uh Bonnie Wall since we went to kindergarten together. uh just a few years ago and I know she'll make a wonderful addition to the parks and recreation advisory committee uh commission and I spoke to her on the first night of Passover and she was very very excited about the opportunity to serve. So I'm very happy about that. Agenda item 34 discussion for possible action regarding the reappoint of Rudy Zamora to a ward three seat on the parks and recreation advisory commission. Mr. Zamora was appointed in September of 2021, is eligible for reappointment, and wishes to continue to serve. Is there a motion, Councilwoman Diaz? Yes, Madame Mayor. I move to approve the reappoint of Rudy Zamora to the Parks and Recck Advisory Commission. Okay. All right. Shall we vote? Please post. Motion carries. Okay. Before we um proceed with the recommending um recommending committee uh um items, I would like to call up agenda item 48 to be heard at this time. Okay. Okay. Agenda item 48, reports and presentations. Presentation by Jill Tolles, executive director, the Gwyn Center, and Nicholas Irwin, research director, UNLV lead center for real estate regarding key data from the most recent housing affordability in Nevada. An economic analysis and policy considerations report underscoring critical findings and policy options to increase Nevada's housing supply. And this impacts all wards. Sorry, Miss Barahas. Hey, good morning, Mayor and Council. Are you Barahas, um, director of neighborhood services for the record, I'm here here with Jill Tols, and we are waiting for um the second presenter, Nick. He should be joining us um shortly. Um, they will be presenting today on their u most recent affordable housing study from the Gwyn Center. So, go ahead and hand it over to Jill. Great. Thank you. And how do I change the slides? I don't think they were ready yet. Okay. Great. Thank you. Well, it is such a pleasure to be here before you today, member, mayor, and members of the council. It's particularly exciting for me to see former colleagues that I served with in the Nevada legislature between 2017 to 2021. And I also have the particular pre pleasure of presenting as the executive director of the Kennywin Center for Policy Priorities in front of the founding executive director of the Kenny Gwyn Center for Policy Priorities, Nancy Brunie. As a legislator myself, as a lawmaker, I looked to the Kenny Gwyn Center for fact-based information to help me make more informed decisions. And I always had a tremendous amount of respect for then executive director Brunie. Sitting in this role, I have even more respect because I understand how much hard work goes behind this research. So for those of you who may not be familiar with the Gwyn Center, we are data-driven independent statewide nonpartisan policy research center and we are dedicated to focusing on statewide policy and also where appropriate local municipalities and the presentation today is focused on a topic that has particular interest for you here at the city of Las Vegas. And so recently the Gwyn Center was commissioned to study housing affordability in Nevada. And um as was said, I'm going to be presenting as well as hopefully Nick who is on his way. He is with UNLV's lead school of real estate and one of our leading experts in the area of housing affordability behind our research. But there was an entire team that worked on this incredibly important topic to Neadans. Uh led by Meredith Lavine, Nick Irwin, Shane Phillips from UCLA and then our internal and external subject matter experts. And as we examined this issue, um I wanted to share a little bit of the background of how we got here. This study was commissioned by the state of Nevada using ARPA funds. It was conducted over the 2023 and 2024 legislative interim. Hopefully, all of you received your hard copies yesterday that were delivered to you. Also want to make sure that the public knows that all of our research is available for free and open to the public to help inform debate and discussion about around these important matters. It includes 53 it included 53 key informant interviews. It was distribute it. We distributed a 15 question open-ended survey with 28 responses. Over half of those were from local governments and um regional authorities and applied the team applied quantitative and qualitative analysis of housing affordability in Nevada. I want to point out that there's a difference between affordable housing which has a very specific definition to it and housing affordability which we'll get into. uh how affordable are our units for our citizens? And we engaged in a p policy landscape analysis not just within the state of Nevada looking at best practices but also in similar jurisdictions across the United States. And out of that work, the research team offered 17 evidence-based policy options and strategies for the state and local municipalities to consider. And then this work was peer-reviewed by nine subject matter experts from diverse perspectives. Before we move into the findings of the study, I'd like to share just a little bit about the positioning of the Gwyn Center and why it's so important in today's world. And this is my brain's way of making sense around uh why we need a nonpartisan policy research center today. Oftenimes we come to the table with different sets of facts and information based on our algorithm, our news feed, our friends and family. And if you can see on the screens before you, or if you're watching online, there's a an illustration of two gentlemen arguing over what appears to be only three bars on the floor or four bars on the floor. Who's right? And in essence, that's oftentimes how we come to policy discussions today. And it can devolve into looking at the other person and thinking you're crazy, you're stupid, or worse yet, you're evil. And the Gwyn Center is not here to take one side or the other. And the Gwyn Center is here to lay out all the relevant facts and information to help you make more informed decisions as you serve your constituents. So what were some of the key findings that the research team came across? Uh I will share that I am not part of the research like you. I am a consumer and a cons cared caring citizen and so I was eagerly opening up these findings myself and shocked to see what the research team found. Nearly half of Nevada's renters are excessively costburdened. Nearly half and a quarter of homeowners also find themselves excessively costbururdened. defined as over 35% of your income going to pay for housing costes costs. Extremely low-income households have fewer affordable units available than in any other state and the state's income growth has lagged for behind housing costs even in the counties with the highest income growth. Nevada has lost a considerable amount of skilled construction labor and is not well positioned to recover it. Cities in Clark County are lagging in the construction of multifamily housing and zoning requirements were one of the solutions that could be changed to encourage alternative developments particularly salient to the audience here today. It was helpful for me to read the report and understand how we got here and that we got here because of 70 years of consecutive growth as the fastest growing state in the nation up until 2010 and continued at a rapid pace ever since. So you have an increased demand on housing, but then you also couple with that with the fact that we had two significant pauses in meeting that demand with supply through the recession and through COVID. And so those two factors combined led us to the position that we're in where it's been too difficult to keep with up with the demand and has burdened our citizens. So today we want to talk to you about the state of housing in Nevada briefly, Nevada's housing affordability challenges, some of the barriers and drivers the research team found, and then finish with some policy considerations and actionable solutions. So I will go through these briefly and um and then direct you towards the report. But you'll see that as I talked about in the intro, uh, the percentage change in median monthly household income has not kept up with the median gross rent in Nevada from 2011 to 2023. You also see that the median household income in Nevada and statewide house price index in Nevada has not kept up with the demand. And this was one of the most salient points uh that came out of the research in my opinion and that is that as we looked at the top five occupations in the state versus the annual income needed to afford a one or twobedroom apartment. You can see that out of those top five only one category and that is management can afford a one to twobedroom apartment. The other categories include food preparation and serving knowing that in Nevada one in five Neadans are in the hospitality industry and in Clark County that's one in four and office administrative support also cannot afford transportation and material moving and then finally sales and related industries cannot afford a 1 to twobedroom apartment. So you combine that with the number of affordable and available rental homes per 100 extremely lowincome renter households in selected states and you can see where we line up as uh 50 down at the at last um top being St. South Dakota, last being Nevada. And then um last but not least, median gross rent versus the rental vacancy rate in Nevada. Uh you can see over the from 2010 to 2023 that the rental vacancy rate has gone down while the median gross rent cost has gone up significantly in the last 10 years. That also translates over to the home vacancy rent rate in Nevada. again speaking to the issues behind supply. So from 2007 being over 5% down to 2023 being right around 1%. And then we took a look, the research team took a look at the housing stock by type and you'll hear a lot about what we call the missing middle. So developers have built a lot of single family homes uh because there's a greater financial incentive and then they also have developed larger multifamily apartment complexes. But what's missing are those duplexes, the triplexes and the forplexes which provides a great deal of um housing options for families. And yet we're missing that. In fact, less than 7% of the market makes up that missing middle of housing stock by type. And then you can also see um here in Las Vegas, single family zoning, and this is where zoning comes into play on the map. Uh we have a great deal of single family zoning, but when you look at multifamily zoning, it's sparse. And I think that picture is worth a thousand words. So some other considerations that the research team took a look at was in Nevada's housing affordability was taking a look at it from the supply and demand perspective the land and infrastructure which is obviously something that has um come to play in conversations of late and then permitting construction workforce population growth construction costs and then the missing middle housing So some of the policy options and considerations that the team put forward fell into six different buckets. Land and infrastructure, zoning, permitting, resource adequacy, construction costs, and then potential demand side interventions. So that we looked at both sides. And under land and infrastructure, some of the policy op options and recommendations were to continue to collaborate with our Nevada's congressional delegation to advocate for the release of more public lands knowing that 84% of Nevada's land is tied up in um in federal ownership. and then funding a statewide land inventory and redeveloping abandoned or vacant properties, something that we discovered along the way as an intriguing innovative solution. And then with zoning, there was incentive reform. So you obviously have two ways to approach this. Do you incentivize or do you mandate? And what are some ways to incentivize reforming zoning options for developers? Allowing missing middle construction through upzoning to taking a look at current areas that can be upzoned to allow for more of those duplexes, triplexes, and forplexes. Reducing parking requirements and minimum lot sizes. And I will note that this was one of the areas where we did believe that the local engagement was so incredibly important as opposed to a statewide solution. You have to know your own neighborhoods to know what would be the right the right uh Goldilocks principle in those areas. And then um again where it's appropriate perhaps encourage uh ADUs or um accessible dwelling units and then permitting streamlining and expediting per permitting processes and there's a number of specific recommendations I would point you to in the in the report. resource advocacy, establishing a rural workforce housing initiative. Not as applicable for this council, but wanted to include the overview. Institute a middle-income housing tax credit, expand the affordable housing trust fund, increase transferable tax credits, reduce impact fees, and then under construction costs, bolstering bolstering Nevada's construction workforce. We uh noted in the research that Nevada is the second worst in the nation in the number of apprenticeships available per 10,000 construction workers. So making sure that we're building the pipeline not just for today but also for the future. And then potential demand side interventions. actually drew inspiration from you all and uh looking at the statewide or looking at intentional landlord engagement programs on the local level and how we could encourage that across the state based on some of the successes you've seen here and then working to increase Nevada's share of housing vouchers, the section 8 vouchers that were entitled to but not taking enough advantage of. And so with that, I'd like to introduce um one of our experts as part of the team, Nick Irwin. He is an associate professor at UNLV in the economics department and he's also the research director at the lead center for real estate. His insight and also the others on the team were extremely invaluable to being able to pull this report together and find evidence-based solutions. And so I would love to open up for questions and I'm so grateful to have one of our experts here before you. Thank you so much. Okay. Welcome expert. Oh, you can't say a few words. I apologize for being late. I'm so sorry. Um, no, I I think Jill Jill said it wonderfully. I mean, there's a lot of things that you can think about can happen at the state or local level. Um but moreover, I mean addressing affordable housing is a significant issue across our entire state within each of our municipalities and and within the county and um our failure to address them could impact our long-term economic growth that people can't afford housing to stay locally and work in our economies. Thank you so much. Are there any questions or comments from the council members? Did you have Okay, go ahead. Okay. Thank you very much for the presentation and I I appreciate all the work. I just had a question. I don't know how to ask it. Um and so I'm going to do my best and I don't know if there's an answer either. So the challenge that I'm facing in my ward is a lot of folks who who what I say built Las Vegas um and built a home and are retired now and can no longer afford to stay in their home. There's nowhere for them to go. And so I'm curious if you've looked at aging population and who's how does age affect housing? Um, and if we're um, as as people age age, what kind of housing do they need? And as people are young and coming into the market and coming into their own money, what kind of market, what kind of housing market do they need? And how does that affect our what supply we have? And I don't know how else to ask that question. It's just an issue that I'm having in my area. I can jump in with just a caveat about the research and what you're speaking to is really housing stability. And one of the things that we did identify as a limitation of the research is our scope of work was specifically targeted on housing affordability, which you you did touch on, but housing stability for somebody on a fixed income that's being priced out of their home or can't stay and what are the different levers in in the toolbox that you can pull in order to assist those um those residents. And there are is a lot of discussion at the legislative level about ways to look at housing stability, things like the eviction process and assistance to keep people in their homes. That was outside of the scope of work of this particular project, but Nick may have more to add from his perspective. I I think that's a great way to to support everything in context. It's it's really difficult to think about as folks age it becomes things more affordable wise get on a fixed income. Um, part of the issue is incentivizing construction of senior communities, especially affordable senior communities. Um, that is within the purview of of localities could incentivize those developments. However, they do come at the trade-off of potentially if you're focused on, you know, seniors, you're not focused on the missing middle. So, it's doesn't have to be a zero- sum game, but it certainly is important. I mean, we know some of the the figures that I know Jill showed. People within their recent memory remember how affordable Las Vegas used to be for a lot of folks and um they they remember that and they they want to know what happened and the story is really just the supply. So many people moved here, increase our demand and we just haven't been able to keep up that supply for a variety of reasons. Okay. Um Miss Finsky, did you have Okay, Miss Sandra. Okay. Uh um Olivia Diaz. Thank you, Madame Mayor. Um this is so just I think on point and real and um I had a recent conversation with the neighbor across the way from me. She rents the home across the way and she was just sharing the struggles of um being able to afford a home with uh five children in it and um that just incomes aren't keeping up with the cost of everything including housing and how she's entertained potentially going back to California because it's almost um comparable uh for what you make minimum wage in California and what rent prices are here but the income earning potential here isn't rising to um the level of everything. So, it broke my heart to kind of hear that there's so many service workingclass members of our community really struggling to find the next home if the home that they're currently renting is put on the market for sale or um is wants to be increased in terms of how much they rent it for. So, they kind of displace the current family. Uh she also told me that a home up my street is about tw went up from 2,200 to about 2500 a month. I could not fathom how they could be charging $2,500 a month uh for a three-bedroom home in my community. But um I mean this is just to paint and basically articulate with real stories and real lives the impact that your data is shedding light on. And one thing that I did kind of want to share that I think um WS 1, three, and five sometimes struggle a lot with and I don't know if your studies went into this or delved into this much. Unfortunately, I think we've been as a champion, the city has tried to help um move forward any project that comes to us wanting to increase affordable housing options for our community. Uh but one thing that we constantly run into is this nimiism, right? Um the reality is everybody is saying we need more of this uh housing affordability for everyone in our community. Yet when we undertake these projects, people come by droves and say do not build them near me. Um, and then they dissuade the project from it being family focused to senior focused and and so then the families that I just spoke about in initially in my comments then miss out on an opportunity to potentially have access to more affordable options. So, as I've been here almost six years, I've just noticed that we overconentrate affordable housing options in certain areas and we're not spread spreading them equally. Um, and I don't know if you did any research to shed light on how we do have to have mixed affordable income developments so that we're sprinkling the number of units that are affordable throughout the city and not just saying it belongs here, it belongs here, it belongs here because I don't believe that's the recipe to a healthy community moving forward. I think that we're all off better if there's affordable price points everywhere. But I just wanted to see if you found anything in your research about one overconentrating poverty and affordability in in certain areas and two how do we make sure it's not just assigned to certain areas of of the community that then doesn't help the adjacency or the area and in educational metrics and crime statistics. And so um and I'm not saying that people I grew up needing affordable housing my family right and so I'm not it's not to paint that everyone who needs housing affordability is not a good person. I want to just I think there's a big myth behind that that when we're talking working class a lot of people equate it to people who are not working hard to make ends meet every day. And I I want to dispel that myth, but there is a certain reality too that when we don't expose our youth to all walks of life, all career paths, we're as a community, we're missing the opportunity to by design just expose them to all of the potential um for their futures as well. So, um, anyways, I know it's a heavy- loaded question, but I wanted to know if there is anything that you came across that we could potentially look further into as we navigate, um, this challenge that is, uh, increasingly hard to keep that drive and that mission and that focus, but do it in a way that won't have unintended consequences many decades down the road. No, that that's a really insightful thing, and that's um, something that we study in economics. It's it's what happens when you get a lot of, you know, folks in together in areas. These sort of spillover effects of who your peers are does in impact your your future in both positive and negative ways. And another sort of aspect of all this as well is people I assume most parents would want to live in an area where the schools are as good as they can afford. The problem is again coming back to the affordability issue. A lot of the best elementaryaries and high schools are are in areas that probably don't have a lot of affordable housing. Certainly affordable at all price points. Part of that issue is coming back to the zoning of where the zoning's been allowed both within the cities, within municipalities and within the county of where multif family zoning is since it is easier to build affordable multif family units. You can build it more densely. Uh and then we come back to the land issue as well and tied into that was infrastructure. It's really tough especially for you know lower income folks if you don't provide them with the appropriate transportation. It's very difficult for them to make it to work. So those areas less attractive. So, it would require a partnership between, you know, the folks at RTC and and all the local governments to ensure that those are sort of spread out more because it's great if you want to put affordable housing far away, but if it's far away from people's jobs, it's it's much much less practical that they're going to actually be interested in that um all equal because they still have to worry about getting to and from work, being near uh you know, grocery stores, and all the other things that go into your selection of your neighborhood. Miss Seaman, did you care to comment? Miss Rooney? Thank you, mayor. Thank you for the report and thank you for coming over to make the presentation. Um, it's very interesting. I have a couple of questions related to the missing middle product that you mentioned. Um, so the first is, and this is actually a a question posed by another one of your former colleagues, our deputy city manager, Sabre Nubie Smith. Sabre Smith Nie. Um so uh with respect to the missing middle project uh it was our understanding that builders had shied had shied away from building those in part because of the construction defects issue and litigation concerns. So what role if any do you think that those construction defect laws have played in um disincentivizing development? I don't know if you if your research looked at that. I think it's a fascinating question because of certainly something that I'm familiar with at the state level. But no, this research didn't look at that intersection, but I think it would be a a valuable question to take a look at when those laws changed and um what the impact was that followed after in terms of of development in those areas. Okay, it's a great question. And then my other question is I was struck by how many more multifamily um units Reno has developed and so is is are you saying that it's simply a zoning issue difference or has Reno provided more developer incentives or other sorts of incentives to um encourage development of that particular product? I would say it's zoning is is a big component of it, but I know I mean I assume there are some additional incentives. I'm not familiar with them off hand that they've provided, but you know zoning is a big thing. Zoning implicitly controls what we can build where. Uh and obviously you can always ask for variances of course, but that does require added cost and added time that you know some projects may not pencil in at that. So zoning is a big component. And then you know up in Wo County they don't have the same federal lands issue as we do as well which is you know slightly lessens it provides more available land that could be built on than we have. And then my final question is the report's been out maybe a month and I know we have a legislative session going on. Are there of the policy considerations that you proposed? Do you um is there any sense that the legislature and um stakeholders are uh gathering support around a couple of them or of the 17 where do you think there's some lowhanging fruit for either our body or even the legislature? Thank you. Thank you. We are tracking six different bills that are tied specifically to the research including the governor's bill that included some of our recommendations in a much larger omnibus uh pro presentation and that's making its way through the process had its hearing I think about two and a half weeks ago and uh so a lot of the focus has been from at least our report on the zoning um aspects and some of the ways to help um you know streamline line the processes and encourage more of that missing middle and um and so I don't know if you have anything else to add to that but no I I think it comes back to what what council woman Diaz says about you know the nimiism as well always stands in the way of people coming into um uh into you know planning commission meetings and maybe having their their their disapproval of certain projects but that's the nature of how housing is built in the US it's very local even though housing is a regional need I mean in order to address our housing needs for all of Las Vegas MSA requires Las Vegas and Henderson and North Las Vegas and the the the county itself. Um, but at any one of those points there can be a stop of if you know some people really don't like a particular project, they can make their voice heard and that could potentially just create more time, more cost. And it's really tough to ignore that because you all you answer to your constituents and you want to serve them the best way you can. So, it's a tough balancing act that we're sort of asking all governments across the US to try to figure out how to balance this best to build more housing, to make the economies more vibrant, to allow more people to to have affordable homes, but also balance the needs of of other constituents in other areas. It's it's a very difficult thing we're asking y'all to do. I will say that Reno did see a 15% increase in that production of that missing middle and the reasonzoning that impacted the supply. And I do know that they engaged in a very strategic effort of focus groups, community engagement, listening sessions, and as we all know as representatives, it's one of the most effective ways that even if people at the end may not um may not have initially favored what the outcome was, the fact that they were included and heard in the process, they're much more likely to be accepting of the changes that can be made. It's so important to engage those constituents and um I believe if I remember correctly the that Reno engaged the use of the communication studies department which I taught in for 17 years at the University of Nevada and so utilizing universal university partners like at UNLV or Boyd Law School to engage in those focus groups and help to to provide that research for you to inform those decisions about how to balance out those complex needs that Councilwoman Diaz pointed out between schools, income levels, um the desire for certain types of housing, and making sure that we're not overly concentrating one type of product in one area versus having it be more evenly distributed and having that buyin from the the citizens in your wards. Councilwoman Summers Armstrong, thank you. I was going to try to hold my peace, but I think as we've known each other since 2021 legislature that I have always been in this space of advocating for affordable housing. Um, and I think that in addition to what government can do. Um, there really is space for us to have partnership with industry. Um, and I think that that's been resistant in some manners. Uh sir, I I heard you mention just briefly about um our uh eviction process in the state and um for those folks who don't know uh ours is different than any other state in the nation. Uh you can be evicted with a piece of paper on your door. There's no court hearing. um and from people who come from other places and are unfamiliar. They are often evicted and don't even realize what the process is for them to to state their case. Um and our our laws need to be addressed in that area. I know that there's some bills going through uh for both habitability eviction process as well as the the eviction process as a whole. And I I I truly believe that we cannot expect government to find the total solution. Uh we we don't have enough tax credits there. It's impossible. We have to have an income source, a permanent one that is going to help fund affordable housing. But we also have to be bold and brave enough to say to the industries that are the people responsible for renting, we have big uh uh real estate investment trusts that are coming into our communities and buying our houses by the thousand. Now they are the people who determine who gets to live where. And when we don't put any governors or any expectations on how they behave in our space, we are just chasing a moving vehicle. And I hope that you all um if your paper doesn't address that now as you are going further down in into the rabbit hole on this and and addressing the issue of seniors who are aging trying to age in place um that you also address that issue. Um we we cannot expect workingclass people um who make up the majority of the people who live in this state to have to fight rising cost, slow amounts of their income and then a system that is against them because it's not favorable nor equitable. Um, so thank you for putting into beautiful words and graphs what the ad advocacy community has been saying since COVID. Um, we didn't have the money um to do such a beautiful representation, but you're telling a story that people have been yelling from the rooftops and no one wanted to listen. And now you have helped us. Um, because I still consider myself an advocate. Um, I can't um not advocate for my community because this affects W five in the most intimate way. And I'm grateful to you. It's wonderful to see you. You're doing excellent work. I'm sure Councilwoman Brun is very proud of you and how you're continuing in this um advocacy, but mostly in the in the scholarship of addressing our community needs. And I'm I'm really grateful and I thank you. and I will be quoting this a lot. So, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Um, yes, of course. I have one more question which my colleague reminded me about. And Nick, this question probably is um more for you and kind of beyond probably the scope of this report. Um, since you're working on real estate and housing at UNLV, have you looked at sort of the role of short-term rentals and corporate ownership of housing here in Nevada? Because it does feel like it's um we just, you know, because everybody wants to come to um Las Vegas a couple of years ago, you know, even before we put in the short-term rentals regulations at the county and the city, we were seeing a lot of that. So, is that playing a role? is are those um forces playing a role in some of the things that we're seeing and and how I guess do does that compare to other states maybe in the um mountain west and if you don't have an answer now just um would love to circle back at some point. Oh, I I think we could definitely have a conversation about this for for hours because it's something that with Elite Center we're deeply interested in understanding the amount of corporate ownership and investor ownership. It's just the tricky part for us is actually linking those owners, those LLC's who may own one or two houses back to any sort of supra group that owns, you know, say Open Door owning a bunch of houses. It's very difficult to track that because the, you know, the assessor's website doesn't talk to the Secretary of State's website. Um, but we have found that there are definitely patterns of investors that are buying up, you know, whole tracks of some neighborhoods within the county. Um, but some neighborhoods barely have anyone. And that's obviously we don't quite know. We're still sort of trying to get our mind around what's going to happen if we're taking these single family homes out of the resale market. So, people can ever become homeowners, but there are more rental units. So, we don't know what the net societal effect is going to be. Just it does mean fewer homes for people to buy who want to get people into becoming homeowners. That's a great way to to create wealth for your family and generational wealth. Um, we don't quite know. I'm really interested to see as the um short-term rental, you know, laws get get enforced more. see if that does have a deterrent affect how many people list. Um certainly it's it's we haven't looked at that specific issue, but we do have folks at UNLV who are very interested in short-term rentals. So, I'm happy to have a conversation about how we could perhaps provide some research that can sort of help all of you make make better policy at least understand the the the environment that you're you're operating in. And if I can just add to the the last two comments and thank you so much for all of your passion for this issue for so many years and and thank you for the insightful questions. Um the grant for this research project is over but we did include the limitations of this study and opportunities for future research that the team would like to dive into. And a lot of the questions that you asked today are the same questions that the research team wanted to dive into deep more deeply. And so if there's any way that the Gwyn Center and in partnership with the UNLV lead school of the Center for Real Estate can be of service to this body, we are more than happy to have that conversation as well. Thank you. Thank you so much for your very uh important and sobering presentation. I know uh the first home my parents ever bought was here in Las Vegas and it was $33,000. And I think it's important and part of our job as leaders of the city is to ensure that those that are coming up behind us have the same opportunity uh for home ownership or at least uh an opportunity to live in a safe and clean environment and raise your children. So thank you very very much for this presentation and thank you for joining us today and uh thank you this was a presentation only and no action is required. We will now go back to agenda item 35 recommending committee bills eligible for adoption at this meeting. Councilman Kenudson, would you like to have the bill read? Yes, mayor. Build number 2025-2, an ordinance to amend the title 19 land use tables regarding various uses to correct drafting errors regarding those uses that were made in ordinance number 6876 adopted last year to provide for other related matters. Move to approve. All right. Shall we vote? Oops. Please post. Motion carries. Oh, I think it does. Motion carries. Agenda item number 36, new bills. Items 36 through 38, bills 2025-3, 2025-4 and 2025-5 will be heard at the recommending committee meeting on Monday, May 5th, 2025. City attorney, would you read uh the new bills? Yes, ma'am. Bill number 2025-3, an ordinance concerning the city of Las Vegas, Nevada special improvement district number 1485, all to drive landscape maintenance FY2026, providing for the payment of the costs and expenses of maintaining street beautifification improvements, assessing the cost of maintenance against the accessible lots, tracks, and parcels of land benefited by said maintenance, ratifying, approving, and confirming all action previously taken, prescribing details in connection therewith. Bill number 2025-4. An ordinance concerning the city of Las Vegas development improvement district number 1516 Fremont Street Maintenance District FY2026 Las Vegas Boulevard to 8th Street providing for the payment of the cost and expenses of a neighborhood improvement project assessing the cost of the project against the accessible lots tracks and parcels of land benefited by set improvements ratifying approving and confirming all action previously taken prescribing details in connection therewith. Bill number 2025-5 an ordinance to amend LVMC chapter 6.8 8 to make various changes regarding ambulance franchises, including provisions to update maximum service rates. Change the method and calculation of annual increases in service rates and franchisee penalty items. Update provisions regarding the revocation and adjustment of franchises for non-compliance. Provide for the extension of ambulance vehicle service life under certain circumstances and to provide for other related matters. Would you repeat that? I already threw them out. Sorry. New bills 2025-3, 2025-4 and 2025-5 are assigned to the May 5th, 2025, recommending committee members Councilman Kenudson, and Councilwoman Seaman and Pollinski. If any so designated are unable to attend, the clerk's office will coordinate finding substitutes as necessary at my direction. We'll do. Thank you. Thank you. Agenda item number 39 24-0672- SUP1 council review special use permit applicant Sidraz Investments LLC owner 7th Street Properties for possible action on a council review of the approval of 24-067 uh 72- SUP1 by the planning Commission on the following land use entitlement project request for a proposed 12,700 square ft alcohol on premise full use with A7,650 square foot outdoor patio at 115 North 7th Street uh T5-MS T5 Main Street Zone Ward 3. Miss Diaz, the planning commission and the staff recommend approval. Uh, this is this is a public hearing. I now declare it open. Is the applicant present? Your honor, Steven Mack, on behalf of the applicant, Sid Raz Investments. Will you care to tell us about your project? Sure. Um, it's a it's for a um a nightclub. Um, it's going to be called BA House. It's uh there is a similar nightclub in Houston. It does extremely well. it's had very good success and they're bringing the concept here to the downtown area. Um we've had the opportunity to speak with the surrounding neighbors who initially had objected to it. Um that includes the DTP 60 properties uh the Elcortez and um and then there was a representative from the school district as well with regard to the hours. Um we believe we've addressed all of those items. We did so at the planning commission and we've met with Councilman Diaz to do to go over any of the concerns and issues with that um with the project. Um and we've agreed to um certain restrictions on the project. Um and that is uh that the nightclub shall close uh at uh 8:00 a.m. um with the exception of any school district days. So it'll be closed by 4:00 a.m. So to be uh done and over with prior to any school issues so there won't be any conflicts there. um weekends and non-h holidays. There's an outdoor patio as well, which the outdoor patio allows from for some really interesting opportunity for the downtown area because there isn't anything like it for the size that it provides. You have the the big um entertainment area over by the D. Um and that is for very big large venues. This is a smaller venue that kind of provides another aspect down in the downtown area which is kind of nice. However, um in concern for the neighbors, uh during the week, um and on weekday and non-h holidays, it closes at 11 pm. Uh weekends and holidays, it can close at 1:00 a.m. Um there'll be a six-month review, then a one month, a one-year review, which we've agreed to, and um we've come to an agreement with all of the neighbors with regard to that who are now supporting the project. All right. Thank you, Mr. Mack. May I have a staff report, please? Yes. Thank you, Mayor Seth Floyd, for the record. Uh, mayor, the subject site was previously approved for and operated as a nightclub with full alcohol between 2009 and 2024. The request before you is to reestablish the full alcohol use component to the subject site. Staff finds that the proposed alcohol on premise full use request can be conducted in a manner that's harmonious and compatible with existing and future surrounding land uses and recommends approval of the request. Uh, of additional note, the planning commission placed additional conditions of approval on the special use permit limiting the hours of operation of the nightclub and outdoor patio use as well as imposed a six-month and one-year required review from the date of the business license issuance. Thank you. Thank you very much. Um, is there anyone wishing to be heard on this item? Yes, please come forward. Would you state your name for the record? Uh, good morning. Dara Goldsmith. Uh, address 2055 Village Center Circle, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89134. I'm legal counsel for DTP properties representing 60 adjacent properties. Um, we've worked collaboratively with the Bow House operators. We've met with Councilwoman Diaz. We did have concerns about the noise because we do have sleeping rooms, beds and heads as Councilwoman Diaz refers to, which I love that term, within about 20 ft. So that's in part why we have these timing issues of the six-month review and the 12-month review. We also have in addition to the beds and heads, we have people actually reside just outside 350 ft in the 211 um micro housing units. So we we're concerned about the noise, but we believe that we've worked through these issues. Um the one concern I did have is I had provided some additional information previously that didn't appear um I had sent it over. it didn't appear in what council had for the agendaized item. Um, and I think that it's important that staff is cognizant of this proximity both for our properties as well as the Elcortez. Um, that this is a noise concern. And the other thing that I would say is a question that we had that I'm not sure because we're coming before this council which takes sometimes a longer time to get reviewed. Um, for these reviews that were coming back, are we going to be coming? I wanted to confirm whether we're coming back to this council or whether we're coming back to planning commission. City attorney Jeff, city attorney. Uh thank you, Miss Goldmith. Uh on the first part though, uh community development, do we have the documents she's referring to? Seth and Peter. I think Miss Goldmith is referencing maybe some email exchanges that went to planning staff. And I don't know if you're aware, Mr. Floyd, of them or Mr. Lostein can speak more articulately on it. Yeah. So I Jeeoff I think the question is whether under title 19 if we put a review on it does it go back to planning commissioner city council. The way that the code reads is the first the first part of the question was that she submitted some comments in reference to how there were heads and beds and close proximity and adjacency to this now entertained project or development being presented to planning commission. So this is this goes back to even when it first kind of popped up and she kind of submitted some comments about how come in planning's report when we get all of the debrief of what we think from a planning perspective is sound or not sound conforms or doesn't conform to our ordinances. She kind of wanted to know why we weren't really paying much heed to that kind of hotel motel counts, uh, multifamily um etc. I know that I touched base with staff and doing my due diligence on this item and the only thing that really triggers um, a distance separation is a residence, so like a house. But if it's a multif family, which we're I think increasingly going to see more of in the downtown area, it makes I think it's just something for us to also internalize and figure out a path forward. Um because I think that there's some parts of our city that are outgrowing its initial uh establishments and we need to just continue to evolve as our city evolves. But that's I think that's the first part of the question that Miss Goldmith po posed. Yeah. C uh Councilwoman, thank you for that question. So Seth Floyd for the record. Yes. So on in your staff report on page five, uh we do identify what the surrounding properties are. So those adjacent properties are identified in the staff report. I did talk to Miss Goldmith at planning commission. Um and she expressed the similar concerns that it wasn't highlighted in the analysis section of the staff report. Um and you know, our job obviously is to make sure that is to analyze projects against what the code says. I do think the staff report adequately does that and that information is in there. But certainly obviously as as she is doing, she's able to come and present that information to you for you to consider when you make your final decision. And and to that to that point, my concern was since that information wasn't provided with the maps and the draw and the distance drawings. My concern was if I come back to either this this council or come back to planning commission in the future, I don't want it to be said, well, Miss Goldsmith, why didn't you provide this information to us previously? And I just want to be clear that I have, but it wasn't in the record. Got it. Jeff, city attorney. Um, that's where I figured you were going with it. Councilwoman Diaz, if you're okay with it, I'll get the documentation from Miss Goldmith via email and we'll include it with the record with your Go ahead. Okay. Uh, so Lanne, we'll send that down to you guys to include with the item. On the second point that uh Seth was getting to uh from Miss Goldmith, we will treat the city council action today on the review as uh the body ultimately reviewing everything as final action. So therefore the review required reviews at 6 and 12 months will be in front of the city council. Um I know the community development staff will knowing that it's 6 and 12 months, they'll be able to get the notices out and tee it up so it hits those dates for you guys. It's not going to be going in the seven or eight months. It'll be 6 and 12. Thank you for the clarification. I thank you very much, Miss Goldmith. Um, is there anybody else wishing to be heard? Would you state your name for the record? Yes. Joe Woody, uh, 600 East Fremont. Uh, I'm with the Alcortez. And I wanted to kind of reiterate what, um, um, Attorney Goldsmith was saying that we had some good collaboration. And I want to thank Councilwoman Diaz for taking time to meet with us yesterday. I think we accomplished a lot. And generally we we are supportive of this um venture now. But throughout this process, there was a lot of talk about the entertainment district and what that means and and you know that it's just you know it seems like some people feel that it's like a free-for-all that you can just turn up the music and go as long as you want. and and you know since that entertainment district was formed I was there it was in early 2000s a lot has changed and we've invested a you know $100 million in the Elcortez and so the dynamic has changed and we continue to invest in fact we have a big project for the Cabana suite makeover and and when Tequilo Zul was in that location the music that they made it out of there we couldn't rent those rooms and So, we are going to monitor this closely and we we will certainly it'll affect our decision. We also have a residential project that goes north of of the cabana suites that concerns us. So, the operators have shown us what they've done in terms of um insulation and sound deadening and and you know, we talk about the hours and you know, but that's what the operator if he has a manager or somebody else that comes in and says, you know, I'm going to turn this up. The business is good. We just want a process where we can seek corrective action and u attorney Mack here said I could call him. So uh we'll look to do that if we need to. But generally we just want a a quick way to seek corrective action if need be because you know it's any amount is too much. And you know, this club goes until 8:00 a.m. Um, you know, our experience with nightclubs in Fremont Street is nothing good happens after 4:00 a.m. So, it goes beyond sound that we'll be keeping our eye on. Just just for the record. So, I want to thank you, mayor, and members of the council and staff. Appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. Freddy. Appreciate it. Um, I know you have so stated, but um, let me get it again for the record. Uh, does the applicant agree to all of the conditions that have been stoated? It does. Thank you. And and I want to say that we've been uh we've started a very good relationship with our neighbors and and intend to continue that and we will be fully open communicative uh wise and and to make sure that we we make them happy. We're we've we've triple insulated that place and it's going to we're going to have them come over when it's done and just to see what we've done and to make sure that everything is is good with them as well. All right. Thank you so much. Is there any comments or questions from the uh city council members? Okay, seeing none, um is there a motion? Councilwoman Diaz, I have a few questions or comments and then we'll we'll get we'll get to the motion part. Madame Mayor, Mr. Mack, I just want to make sure that you know what we said um in our meeting with the the Jason's neighbors um is on the record as well. So, uh just wanted to talk about how in our meeting we we uh said that we would be um sharing special events as soon as we planned them and calendar calendared them. We would be sharing then with our adjacent neighbors so that they were aware of an outdoor patio um event and that we're going to do everything possible within your technology means to ensure that the sound does not bleed across the alley to the downtown or or you know um diagonally across to the cabana. So, can you just kind of hit on that point how we did agree to make sure that we're flowing the information as promptly and as soon as you all have it? Absolutely. And and that is absolutely correct. Um we're going to take all the you know, for instance, the speakers will be pointed inward towards the building. There's uh there is a trash enclosure or outside in the back. We're going to extend uh the building to create more um sound barrier through the back end of it. Uh and um like Joe said, if if there's an issue with the with the manager there that they're not getting cooperation, if for some reason or another there's sound leaking out that they can call me at any time, um that I will make sure that it gets to the people that need to know and get and and get corrective action immediately. Myself, but any anybody else will as well. and we've made those uh um affirmations and obviously from this item um presentation at planning commission uh there's a lot of concern over the key employee and who's managing and operating the premises. Could you introduce that new key employee and who will be leading the charge now of um Bow House? Sure. Uh it's Rafi Mer Merchant who's present as well and then uh uh he he's the main person that will handle it. Um, we also have consultant who's runs the original Bow House. Um, and Sammmyy's here as well. Okay. Can they come down and just speak to their experience and also commitment to be good neighbors? My name is Aim Siddi and I'm the owner of Bah House Houston and uh we've been running the business for past six years and we never have any problems and we also work with the community and the neighbors whatever the sound problems are we are willing to work with that we are investing a lot of time first research how to make the indoor room completely soundproof and even outside our business model is mostly indoor 90% of the time it will be indoor and also because of the weather situations in ex you know the outdoor use will be very limited and I don't think so we're going to use a lot of events outdoor at all but of course there's a big space we would like to use it and we're going to do as much sound uh sound uh absorption and there are panels the technology is much more moderate now we're going to make sure about that and still if the neighbors are not happy we will try to turn music off or down outside. My name is Rafi Merchant and uh definitely we will be working with the neighbors and uh uh once this all uh everything is done, we would like for someone to come and listen to the uh the music and um see how loud it is and then we can say as much we want to but once you hear it then you will see it. And I do want to express to the council and the mayor that in the meeting um they were more than open to inviting uh anyone from the adjacency to kind of know that they were blasting the music and then they could gauge if it did have any impact upon having everything ready pre-opening kind of in that vein. Correct Mr. Mack? Correct. We actually should have it hopefully done in a couple weeks to have them which is well before the opening will occur. And then can you just speak to the investments made already to improve um this new uh nightclub? Well, the the there's concrete walls that are on that it's a concrete building. So I I don't know how thick that is, four or six inches thick. Then there's a wall that that is between that that's another 3 4 in thick. And then there's going to be um up to three layers of soundproofing after that. So, it's going to be pretty soundtight hopefully. Um, it doesn't do their business any well if the music is outside and people can stand around and listen to it outside. So, we're gonna try and keep it as much inside as possible. Okay. All right. I appreciate that. Um, I just wanted to make sure uh we had everything that we talked through at the meeting on the record. Uh, so the neighbors feel comfortable. We all know we're doing the best by each other. Um I know that all of the conditions that uh were put forth that planning, but I just want either Mr. Loenstein or Mr. Floyd to rearticulate just the conditions and then we can move forward with the motion just so that that those are clear too. Uh Seth Floyd, for the record, uh I'll read the conditions that were placed at planning commission. So, condition A from planning commission was the nightclub shall close at 8:00 a.m. with the exception of Clark County School District scheduled days when the nightclub shall close at 4:00 a.m. Uh, condition B, on weekday non-h holidays, the outdoor patio shall close at 11:00 p.m. C, on weekends and holidays, the outdoor patio shall close at at 1:00 a.m. and D. A required review shall be performed 6 months from the date of issuance of a business license and at one year from date of issuance of a business license. The applicant shall be responsible for the submittal of the required review application and associated fees. And as the city attorney just mentioned, that will be a city council review, not an administrative review. And Mr. Mack, just one last time, do you agree to all the stated conditions? Yes, we do. Okay. With that, I'm going to move to approve. I appreciate you coming to meet with me. Clearing the air from planning commission to city council. Getting all of this articulated on the record is important and I appreciate you staying the course. So with that, I move to approve agenda item 39. All right. Shall we vote? Please post. Item passes. Uh thank you very much for coming in. Thank you, Mr. Mack. Thank you. We very much appreciate your assistance. Thank you. Okay. Agenda item number 40 has been held in obeyance until the June 18th, 2025 city council meeting. Agenda item 41 has been held in obeyance to the June 18th, 2025 city council meeting. Agenda item 42 has been held in obeyance until the June 18th, 2025 city council meeting. We will now hear related items 29 and 43. 29 R-27-2025. Discussion for possible action regarding a resolution adopting the Kyle Canyon special area plan for the Kyle Canyon area generally bounded by uh Moccasin Road, Durango Drive, Acriman Avenue, Grand Teton Drive, um Pulley Road, and Witch Mountain Street. Item number 43 24-0615-drir1 director's business applicant owner city of Las Vegas discussion for possible action on adopting the Kyle Canyon uh special area plan for the Kyle Canyon area. The planning commission and staff recommend approval. These items are in ward six. Councilwoman Brun. Item 43 is a public hearing which I now declare open. Mr. Floyd. Thank you, Mayor Seth Floyd for the record. And uh first of all, I want to draw your attention to the document that was just passed out into the screen. This it should say items 29 and 43, not 27 and 41. So, I apologize for that uh oversight on the agenda items, but I think it was timely. And mayor, I'm not sure if you planned this or not, but I appreciate that the Gwyn Center presentation went first because I think that was a nice segue into this conversation because uh as as you all know as a council a few years ago, you adopted a master plan 2050 and that was a vision document for where the city was headed or is headed over the next 25 or 30 years. And we are, as I think the report indicated, going to be a different city in 2050 than we are today. We are unlike Clark County and Henderson and to some degree North Las Vegas, we are out of new developable land for the most part. Uh and so we are looking at other ways to maximize and leverage the resources that we have to house the approximately 300,000 more people who will be here by 2050 and also provide services, housing, transportation, jobs, and all of those things. But one of the few areas where we still do have some developable land and the reason why we are we did this area plan early on in our implementation process is Kyle Canyon. Uh this is uh the fourth area plan that we have been working on. It represents the far northwest, all of it is in W six, the far northwest of the city of Las Vegas and still does have some vacant land left available uh to it. And with that, I'm going to turn it over to Marco Volatada on my team to talk you through the plan and then we'll be here to answer any questions that you have. Thank you. Good morning, Mayor and City Council. Marco Volatada, Department of Community Development. For the record, as Mr. Floyd was mentioning, you know, it wasn't, you know, over the past couple decades, you know, we've seen the footprint of the city, you know, continue to grow to the northwest and it, you know, at a certain point many, some of you might remember that Kyle Canyon Road was like the only, you know, it was in the middle of nowhere, it seemed, but development has reached our our limits, our city limits. And this special area plan will help plan for the next 30 years in this area. And it's as Mr. Floyd had mentioned, one of several areas of the city where we have been working on implementing the the broader vision of the 2050 master plan and getting into some of the specifics as to development and infrastructure and issues like housing, transportation, water, so on and so forth. The Kyle Canyon special area plan uh does have a a quarter of it that is more or less undeveloped right now. uh but also includes other uh master plan communities including Sky Canyon and Sunstone. Um but that that northwestern corner is the area where we spent a lot of focus and working with uh stakeholders in Councilwoman Brun's office over the last year or so and our consultant team Smith Group. Uh we were able to, you know, work with the community and kind of determine what we're going to how we were going to plan for that area in particular as well as those other master plan communities. This has been an area of a lot of change over time. Uh but there is there are some specific needs that have been uh anticipated and will need to be uh addressed in into the future. Uh new fire facilities, metro substations, uh housing itself, schools, and then and then parks. And we'll talk about that in just a couple minutes here. We did some outreach with uh stakeholders and members of the community. And a lot of the things that people told us was they like that that feel in the in the Northwest. They like the accessibility to uh Mount Charleston. And really this is the gateway to Las Vegas if you're coming from up north from the from any the Air Force bases or the test site or from northern Nevada. Uh they like the uh the scenery. They like the accessibility to uh Red Rock Conservation Area in Mount Charleston. But this is an area that is lacking infrastructure in parts of it. Um there there is a lack of amenities. There are things that need to improve in terms of existing development because there hasn't been anything out there and development is catching up. So from that public outreach and some of the surveys that we we conducted, we developed this community vision and it really does embrace the the outdoor recreation and uh accessibility to the to the mountains and uh to the trails that that are out there or will be developed into the future. And this is at the heart of this special area plan. So in terms of the five ideas that are central to the plan itself, uh we take a look at the land. We look at the quality of the place and the neighborhoods, how recreation and active lifestyles can be uh can be enhanced and improved, how streets are going to be uh laid out, and then how we address probably the most critical piece uh and public works is has weighed in on this as well, infrastructure and public service provision. So in general, this uh this document will provide policies for our planning staff to uh review and assess as applications come in for development. as we look at uh as we look at things like land, you know, we want to make sure that we have native and adaptive plants planted in our neighborhoods uh and that we're sensitive to development that's immediately adjacent, not only those existing master plan communities, but also the Red Rock National Conservation Area and uh the tribal lands and Tuli Springs National Monument. We want to make sure that we have that range of housing options and look at those where are those locations for mixeduse development particularly at US 95 and Kyle Canyon Road. Where can we have a a thoughtful transition of density from the northwest uh you know going up the mountain into the uh you know into the Mount Charleston area and how do we create that sense of place. So, with this is a is a an advisory uh land use plan that provides that transition where we have that density and intensity closest to where the freeway is and then tapering it off as we go further and further west up the mountain. And again, planning staff can make recommendations of approval or denial or conditions based on how this fits with that overall scheme. In terms of recreation, we have a number of opportunities uh current and uh future for outdoor uh for outdoor recreational purposes as well as trails to link different parks and resources together. Uh we have of course Alen Beck Memorial Park and New York Soldo Park and North the Northwest Regional Park will soon be uh additions to the Kyle Canyon area. But again, if you want to go up to Mount Charleston, having the ability to to do that and to hike there and recreate there, there are trail heads within this area that we want to have built as well that will help make those linkages uh together. And with the, you know, with these major amenities, you'll be able to, uh, you know, have opportunities for the, you know, for traditional recreation as well as doing things outdoor biking or hiking, uh, so on and so forth, as well as take advantage of this, um, this regional this regional complex and sports park that, uh, that public works has been planning on in conjun conjunction with the school district, which will add a comprehensive four-year high school. In terms of streets, u we we do want to embrace vision zero. We have worked uh to meet up with NDOT and look at some of the specifics on Kyle Canyon Road itself uh and how we can um make that a safe, thorough fair. Uh we've had a few meetings over the last uh last couple of months with them in terms of how we want Cal Canyon Road itself to look and how make sure that it is a safe corridor with um with the ability to handle bicycles and people who want to go out and walk and connect uh to different parts of of Kyle Canyon and areas to the uh to the east and to the south. In terms of the overall investment though, um we have uh looked at that question because that's probably the the one that will will dictate how development is to occur. I mean we we don't have schools, we don't have fire stations out there now, but we will need to look at at the methods of doing uh you know that that financing as development comes in specifically for water, sewer, flood control uh and then other energy and uh road improvements. And the estimated cost that you you'll find in the uh in the appendix is north of $650 million just on a first on a first path. And that's over the entire year of the years of the plan and as development comes in. There are a couple of things that need to come into place. First and foremost, water. Uh there are pressure zones that are out there. We'll need to have the water infrastructure come into place, but right now in the Las Vegas Valley Water District's capital plan, we don't have reservoirs and we don't have some of the major laterals that are needed to accommodate some of the development further to the west. Uh similarly, we'll have to make the connections on the sewer side. Uh so some of the construction that you know when that does occur, we'll need to have our our city sewer extend to those same places as neighborhoods develop themselves out and that does impose a similar cost to get that return flow credit back to our wastewater treatment plant and uh and then back out to Lake Me in kind of concert with with the water district. In terms of flood control, you know, we have a master plan that we work through with the regional flood control district. Uh, a number of facilities have already been identified in terms of channels to move uh to move flood waters that do come off of the spring mountains uh into detention basins and into the Las Vegas wash system. Um, but again, those those basins and some of those channels are haven't been uh funded yet. We will need to uh again be deliberate in terms of how uh this area develops out and make sure that flood control is placed adequately uh and phased in such a way uh so that neighbors neighborhoods don't develop their own on-site retention or don't need to. So there are a lot of uh a lot of other things that we have incorporated into this uh special area plan that overall embrace the 2050 master plan and its overarching goals. Uh we want to uh uh continue working with the council woman's office. We do have a number of other special area plans going on simultaneously. We're going to be finishing up uh the Madre Foothill special area plan next for Ward 4 as well as the uh Charleston special area plan for Ward One. Uh but sim similar to Kyle Canyon, this is aiming to develop housing, to develop uh transportation, to develop infrastructure uh and meet the long-term goals of the 2050 master plan. And if that's uh if there's any other questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them. Thank you very much. Um uh this is a public uh hearing. Is there anybody wishing to speak on this item? Please state your name again. Hi, my name is Tashika Lawson. Um, I actually used to live over here uh at the community right before this, Centennial Hills. It took a long time for that community to actually get built up. Um, so I'm excited to see that we're planning ahead for new communities to come. Um, but just like we were talking about when it comes to affordable housing, I would like for us to build into the infrastructure and the pre-planning right now to be able to have an intake system for people who are showing a decline in financial independence so that they don't end up in some of our some of our wards that are actually currently providing the core of all of our supportive services such as ward five, ward one, and ward three. Um most of the people who are going to come out and say that they don't want um lowincome or affordable housing in this neighborhood, their kids, their grandkids, their parents, um their loved ones, their friends, they're going to end up in the communities that currently cannot support more supportive services. So if we're going to be planning right now for that, I would like to actually have that also planned into the core of this of this new plan. Thank you so much. Is there anybody else wishing to be heard? In that case, I will close the public hearing. Are there any questions or comments from city council members? Okay. We will act on item 43 first. Is there a motion? Councilwoman Brun. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to acknowledge Marco and the work that you've done. I think as many of us know this process has taken so long. I think we could have birthed not one but two babies because it's been at least 18 months since we um had our first set of focus groups. So I want to thank you for shephering this process um as you would your own child. Uh I think the conversations have been great. I also know that I you know just want to publicly acknowledge that we've had a lot of applicants and interest and developers come up to that area. Um, so I want to thank them for their patience. I think it some of the projects that came in early, took a little bit longer than we thought, but again, we were kind of in the middle of this process, but I do think we've got a good framework and there is growing consensus about the vision that we have and the way we build out so that, you know, we do address the neighbors concerns of wanting connectivity to the nature spaces and trails and just really leveraging the beautiful landscapes are out there. So, thanks to you both and your teams. And with that, I'm happy to approve or make a motion to approve item 4324-0615-dr1. Thank you. Shall we vote? Please post. The item passes. And uh motion related item 29. Miss Brunie. I'll make a motion to approve 29-R27-2025. Okay. Shall we vote? Please post. Motion passes. Thank you both very very much. Agenda item 44 24-0638-v1 variance applicant owner Martin Menddees Nolasco for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to allow an existing patio cover carport and a proposed patio cover porch that do not conform to title 19 uh 06 development standards for setbacks. placement size and lot coverage on 0.14 acres at 4921 Elmhurst Lane R1 single family residential zone ward 5 Summers Armstrong. The planning commission recommends approval. Staff recommends denial. Uh this is a public hearing that I now declare open. Is the applicant present? Good morning. My name is Rebecca Simon from Plotted Design representing the applicant. Thank you so much. Would you like to tell us about your project? Absolutely. Uh so we initially went to the planning commission meeting um where we were asking for a uh a porch and a already existing carport cover. Um the porch we upon their request we moved back to behind the front setback. So that's no longer part of the application. Uh so we were just asking for the 00 setback for the existing unpermitted carport cover. Um an issue that came up was making sure that it was fire rated um which we did include on um the proposed floor plan as well as the uh 3D models um in the uh in the application that we handed in. Um and then uh yeah, we are just asking for approval to go ahead and get this already existing carport permitted. Uh we will be going through the building department and making sure that it's fire rated so that it is safe for them while alleviating as much cost to the property owner as possible. Thank you very much. Can we have a staff report, please? Thank you, Madam Mayor. Peter Loenstein for the record. The applicant made significant revisions as indicated to the requests subsequent to the February 11th planning commission meeting resulting in the elimination of the front yard setback deviation for the proposed porch as well as the proposed deviation of the aggregate accessory structure floor area. Current request only includes the zero foot setback for the sideyard for the existing unpermitted carport. No ne evidence of a unique or extraordinary circumstance has been presented and the applicant has created self-imposed hardship by constructing the improvements that encroach into the required side setback. In view of the absence of any hardship imposed by the site's physical characteristics concluded that the applicant's hardship is preferential in n nature and is there for outside the realm of the NRS chapter provisions for granting of the variance. Therefore, staff is recommending denial of the request. Thank you. Okay. Does the applicant agree to all of the conditions? Yes. Okay. This is uh an open hearing. Does anybody wish to be heard on this item? Seeing no one, are there any questions and comments from the council? Thank you, Madame Mayor, and thank you so much, uh, Rebecca, for coming online and chatting with us yesterday. Um we you know we we want improvements in the community. I've driven by this house several times uh in the last well walk the neighborhood during campaign of course but um we've driven by going to different activities in the community and I'm glad to see people are really interested in making improvements but we did have some concerns and so I've added a couple things and Mr. Lmenstein uh will address them. These are nothing new. We talked about it yesterday. So, um, thank you for your cooperation. Yeah, absolutely. Does anybody else on the council wish to speak? Okay. Um, is there a motion, Councilwoman Summers Armstrong? Oh, through you, Madam Mayor. Oh, yes. I'm so sorry. Thank you. Uh, the what I have is a proposed amendment to condition number three of the application. It will now read, "All necessary building permits shall be obtained within 180 days from final approval and final inspections shall be completed in compliance with Title 19 and all codes as required by building and safety division." Thank you. Does the applicant agree to those conditions? Yes. All right. Can we get a motion, Miss Summers Armstrong? Thank you. I'd move to approve this application with stated conditions. Okay. Shall we vote on the motion? Please post. Motion carries. Thank you very much. Thank you for your time. Agenda item number 45 24-0647- SDR1 site development plan review. Applicant Aikis uh development corporation owner city of Las Vegas for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed fourstory 22 unit multifamily residential building on uh 0.33 acres at the north northwest corner of Van Beern Avenue and F Street T4-N T4 neighborhood zone ward five summers Armstrong planning commission and staff recommend approval. Uh, this is a public hearing which I now declare open. Is the applicant present? Yes, your honor, members of the council, my name is Bob Gronower, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive. Uh, to my right is uh, Chico Clark with OOS development. Uh, they are the applicant on this matter that's before you. Um, what I'd like to do is give you a brief presentation here with respect to what we are requesting. Uh the first thing I'd like to do is locate you on the overhead here where the uh property is actually located. Um this is a about a third of an acre of property as you can see here on the zoning map here. Um it's on the corner it's on the northwest corner of Van Beern and F Street. Uh the surrounding zoning the zoning on this property is zone T4 neighborhood. Uh this T4 neighborhood allows for a multifamily. Um it's actually permitted in this zoning district and that is uh what we're asking for here which I'll get into in the presentation. Um this piece of property here is also part of a couple of plans. Uh first of all it's a part of the redevelopment area one uh plan. Uh this is also a part of the 2045 downtown master plan the uh historic westside district plan and this is also part of the uh 100 plan. Uh so the good news is there's been a lot of study of this property in this area by a lot of professionals here in trying to see how we can build some synergy for development in this area here for the west side. Um with that being said, the next thing I'd like to do is show you the site plan for the proposed multifamily development. Um for purposes on the overhead here, this is uh Van Beern Avenue and this is F Street located here. Um, we are proposing a uh fourstory building which I'll show you the elevations of uh on this piece of property. Um, there are 22 units that are affordable for affordable housing that we've been working with your staff. Uh, of the 22 units, five of them are one-bedroom apartments. Uh, 12 of them are two-bedroom apartments and uh, five of them are three-bedroom apartments. So what we'll have here is on the first floor of the four stories, the first floor will be amenities and play area and offices. On the second, third, and fourth floor will be the residential units. Um what's important and I'm going to show you on the overhead here is there's some changes that we've made uh since the planning commission uh meeting. We've uh my client has worked very closely with councilwoman Summers Armstrong in her office and and meeting with some of the neighbors and trying to come up with some solutions here to address some of the concerns that have been brought up from the neighborhood meeting, from the planning commission meeting and other subsequent meetings uh since the planning commission meeting. Um on the overhead here, the couple things that I do want to point out is some of the changes that we've made since the planning commission meeting. One of the things that we've done is we've moved the building, this building here, three feet to the east and working with your staff. The reason for that is is because that gives us the ability along this west property line because we have a existing single family home that's located here. So along this west property line, this gives us the ability to put in oleanders um in in in landscaping in there because the oleanders, if you're familiar with them, they grow fairly quickly and they're they're big and bushy and uh we've worked with your staff. There's a condition that if this application is approved that it would be required that we would have 24inch box oleanders along the west property line here. Uh, another change that we made, the third change that we made is we it was asked to move the trash enclosure as far away from the residential property to the west of us. And we initially had the trash enclosure placed in this area uh where we've moved it over into this uh excuse me into this area here as I'm showing you on the overhead. So, we moved it as far east as possible as as we can. Um the fourth thing that we did is and I'll show you on the uh plans cuz we have um on these plans here. What you'll see here are we put in some screen windows along the uh west property line. These will have the louvers up facing upwards. So it will make it difficult from someone who lives on the west side here who faces out on the west side will be looking out of their window. We put the screening on there to give some view protection or some privacy protection to the adjacent property owner. Uh we initially as we started this process we did not have that. We just had our regular windows. Uh we were looking at awnings. We've you know working with everybody trying to figure out what is that win-win situation. And that's some of the the uh proposals that we have. I believe there's a condition proposed condition ensuring that uh what we're representing before you today is exactly what you're uh what you're going to get. Um that being said, um it's a beautiful building here. The investment for this area is going to be about $10.5 million of an investment. Um what we believe with this is this is a jump start of creating to help create synergy in this area because what I already what I started in the beginning of my presentation about the three different plans that has been reviewed in this area. Uh what has been determined is is that your staff is recommending approval of this application because we meet the guidelines and policies. Uh, as you heard the presentation earlier from the Gwyn project or the Gwyn presentation, uh, you have a housing stock um, problem. Uh, adding this multifamily in here, the affordable f affordable housing helps that situation and meets that policy. Um, and matter of fact, you also by adding this into this neighborhood here, you provide a variety of housing. Uh, and one of the things I'm a big believer in is because this meets this policy here, but the example is all of us, if we have kids, when our kids are ready to move out of the house, how much we love them, we want them to come out of the house, but you'd like to have them in your community, right? And and I know I do that with my son. He's he lives in an apartment complex about 10 minutes from me. I live in a single family house. He stays within that community. The nice thing about this project here is knowing as a family man is knowing people who live in this area, who have kids in this area. The last thing that you want to do living in the west side here is have your children move to Summerland, move to Henderson, or move to another part of Las Vegas. I think you'd want them within that community. So, I think that this is a good thing here of what we're proposing and that's one of the reasons why we meet those policies within the plans. Um we have access to various transportation in the area uh for RTC which is important when you're dealing with affordable housing. Um development of vacant lots. Uh that's another policy is if you took the look at the aerial here or travel the area and if you know the area there's a lot of vacant lots. Uh again thinking that coming in with a project like this is definitely will build that synergy for other investments of millions and millions of dollars that will come into the neighborhood. And finally it's an infill piece. you know, it's an infill that that comes in here and creates good good synergy as I already mentioned. So, if you're inclined to approve the project that's before you, um, we have some additional conditions. I know we've been working with your staff and I want to thank your staff and the councilwoman and and Kelly and the uh the liaison. Everybody's been great to work with and the neighbors and trying to come up with some conditions. Not everybody's in support of the project. There's people here who speak in opposition, but one of the other things that we would like to do if this project is approved is there is a condition um that staff has that along this property line here, the wall is not 6 feet in this area somewhere along here, there's a condition that if this is approved that if the pro adjacent property owner will allow us, we will build a six foot high block wall along that property line or on top of her wall if it's structurally engineered to do So, and that would be at our cost obviously that would give some additional privacy and so there's a condition that staff has written up. The other condition that uh staff would add on to this is if there are any substantial changes to this plan to the height, to the density, to setbacks or any significant changes, we would have to come back as a major uh major um major site development plan review, which means it would come in as a public hearing, which is perfectly fine because one thing I want to do as we discussed with councilwoman is if we make any representations here, let's put it in writing. Let's make sure that whatever we're representing is true and if there's any changes whatsoever that are significant, let's come back to the public hearing process so no one's not surprised. So, that being said, your planning commission heard this application. They recommended approval of the application. Your staff is recommending approval of the application since we meet the policies and guidelines and we have some additional conditions as I mentioned that staff is uh will mention if uh this application will be approved. Uh, that being said, I could answer any questions that you might have. Thank you very much. May I have a staff report? Yes, madame mayor. Thank you, Peter Lostein. For the record, the proposed development supports the goals and policies identified in the 2050 master plan and the vision 2045 downtown master plan. Staff finds the proposed development can be harmonious and compatible with the surrounding area and therefore recommends approval subject to conditions. Also of note, since the March planning commission meeting, the applicant has further revised the proposed development to provide additional landscape buffering for visual mitigation to the property of the west as well as an amended building buildings western elevation to include window louvers. Um the additional conditions as mentioned uh at the time of the motion. I'm more than happy to read them in. Thank you. And does the applicant agree to all of the conditions when they get read in? Yes, I will. Yes, I do. Good answer. Um, this is an open meeting. Is there anybody in the audience that wishes to be um heard on this item? Seeing none, I'll quote. Oh. Oh. Oh, so sorry. Oh, I think this is Hello, council members. Um, I would like to enter these into Would you please state your name for me? My name is Cordelia Wallace. I live in the property right adjacent to the proposed project. I live at 610 West Van Beern. And I would like to enter these into the minutes. Um, I have one for the mayor, one for the councilwoman, and for the one for the city clerk, please. Either it go to either one, so it doesn't matter. Okay. So, like I stated, my name is Cordelia Freeman Wallace. Um, I met with Councilwoman Armstrong uh last uh before the uh planning commission meeting and unfortunately I wasn't able to go to that meeting because the day of that meeting I was having surgery so I wasn't able to voice my opposition unfortunately. [Music] Um, I grow a lot of my own fruits and vegetables. Um, I have a peach pe a peach tree, a plum tree, fig tree, guava tree, lemon tree, date tree, and I would lose I get the sun from the sun. Um, I lose all of that sunlight from sunrise up until about 1:00. and that would pretty much decimate which is a large part of my food source. I grow my own, like I said, my own uh vegetables and fruit and that sunlight is vital for my a good portion of my food source. And as well as needing that natural sunlight for my food source, I also get that natural sunlight for the inside of my house, which mitigates um needing artificial light and a heating source. So, because I have a a big picture window, and so that natural light that comes in on the east, um it heats my house and also gives me that light. and I sit and I work because I do a lot of my work on the computer and that light is vital um when I am doing my work and so I would lose that light as well. Um having a four-story uh building right next door to me so that light would be completely decimated. I would no longer have that natural light. Um my loss of privacy would be lost. Um I spent a lot of my time in my yard like I said. Um, and when I'm out in my yard, I dress lightly because when you're working, of course, you get overheated. And so, um, I do worry about, uh, privacy. And so, they said they would put the awnings up, but, you know, um, people do tend if they, you know, um, if there's a will, there's a way. If they want to look down onto my property, they will. If you look at the pictures that I provided, it shows, you know, a lot of what I'm growing and my yard and stuff. And so, um, you know, on, um, nice spring days and on, um, on hot summer evenings, I sit out in my yard and I I lounge and that sense of security would be lost. you know, having a huge four-story uh apartment complex right next door basically sitting on top of my property. Um there would be a great increase in vehicle and foot traffic and from what I'm told um the building the property would not be secured. anybody can walk onto the property and already there's a uh a problem with homelessness, you know, um you know, the properties that's already over there, the apartment complex that's already over there, they're over there constantly rifling through uh the trash. And when they do that, they just throw the trash anywhere. And like I was told that wasn't worked into the plans, you know, having it gated. So they would be on the property, the homeless people, you know, they go on there, they sleep, and then, you know, um I worry about that as well. Um and like I said, um it would enter the they would enter property right along my east wall. And so I worry about the constant noise, you know, and so I because it's pretty quiet basically, you know, you know, [Music] um there really isn't that much noise. And so having an apartment complex floor story, you know, people in a 24-hour city, you know, people would be coming and going constantly. So there would be noise constantly. Um also um, there's already an oversaturation of low and, um, fixed income rental properties in the area. And studies have shown that when the area has too many low and fixed income rental properties in an area, it adversely affects the value of your home. So, this will decrease the value of our homes. You know, we as homeowners, we are not against progress in the historic Westside. We want that. Um, but we were really looking forward to having homes built on that parcel of land right there. Um, because um, it would maintain a continuity of our homes. this four-story apartment complex, it does not fit the scale and the character of the homes surrounding it. You know, we have these home single family homes, four I mean single story, and then you have this huge four-story apartment complex. It's like an eyesore, you know. Um, and so like I said, um, we really wanted, you know, other homes, you know, Habitat for Humanity or somebody to come in and build homes right there. You know, um, you know, I know the city owns the plot of land right there at H&J and it's right across the street from a a kids uh uh playground. You know, I'm like, why could it not have been put right there? I mean, there's no homes surrounding that plot of land that's owned by the city. It makes more sense to put it right there. And then also, that plot of land is right across the street from another apartment complex. It just made more sense to put it right there. Okay. And then um also um you know I've you know I was told you know from a couple of people well um it has to be four stories and 22 units in order for the investors to get a return on their money. And you know, I'm thinking, okay, um, what about us homeowners? We've worked so hard. I've been there 26 years. And, you know, um, you know, uh, we as African-Americans, we've been redlined and, you know, um, uh, locked out of so many things. And we I've, you know, we've got a piece of the American dream, home ownership. And we've worked so hard to create a legacy and create generational wealth for our families and to get this stripped away from us, you know, decreasing the value of our homes and to worry about uh um the investors more than the homeowners who've been here for decades. I mean, why not worry about the the people who've been here for decades, you know, uh rather than the investors, people who more than likely most of them don't even live in the community. So, just, you know, take that into consideration because like I said, we've been here. I put my blood, sweat, and literal tears into this. I take pride in my home. All of us take pride in our homes. We I keep my home up. We all do. we just please um I know that um you hear us just please listen to what we're saying you know take into consideration our concerns and you know this really means a lot to us thank you so much okay all right thank you is there anybody else that wishes to speak good morning um city council madame mayor um My name is Dedra Edmund Drew. Um, I'm the property owner at 418 Jackson in 89106. I'm also the CEO of the Jackson Street Alliance. The Orcis project will be one block south of Jackson Avenue within the historic West Side. I am in favor of this new development. As was stated before in public comment, Chico U Clark and Ois have done their due diligence over the past few years. They've made requested changes and has engaged the community. The historic Westside not only needs but deserves to revitalize in a way that breathes new life into this community. Key word being community. This is an infield project and I think it's an excellent use of a lot that has been um remained empty. Um one that the unhoused more than likely encamp on. There are projects that I personally feel should not be in this area, but the Westside Flats will absolutely enhance 89106 and um I am in favor of this being passed so that it can spur more growth in the area. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Drew. Is there anybody else that wishes to speak? Take your time. Beatric Turner. First of all, this project came along when puppet stuff was sitting here as the city councilman. This didn't come along with the new council woman cuz you've been here three days ago Sunday. But to do that and you and you see the pictures of how she how they keep their homes up right there. That's out of line to do them like that. I mean, cuz she got a beautiful home, beautiful front yard, backyard, and the neighbors over there take pride in their stuff over there. Although they got that ratchet church across the streets from that don't do nothing, but that don't need to go right there on that piece of property. And it do not. And you know, before they even they even got got that property, Cedric should have met with the community and get the input from the community. And that didn't happen. He didn't do that. And that don't I don't care who stand here and say they support it. No, it don't need to be supported. So, first of all, they property ain't worth a damn over there on Jackson Street. Okay. So, no. Uh-uh. We don't that don't right there. No, that don't need to go right there. You talk about making a slum, you gonna make a slum over there. So, is they going to have onsite management going to be there? No, it's not. It's gonna be just open to the homeless and the whole nine yards. And the kids gonna have to go cross the streets to the park. And that ain't no place for them kids to be walking from there to the park with all the homeless and the different stuff that come through there. Especially them little girls and little boys walking through there with with with those folks that don't need to go there. But I tell you what, put it there. And you know, I ain't been here in a long time, and y'all know that. But every time something on Ward Five come up, I'm gonna make it my business to be sitting front row center. I'm going to be your worst as damn uh nightmare if you let that go in there. Cuz that's what that's going to be, a nightmare in the community. And I want to say this, uh, councilwoman, her yard look better than yours. Oh, how nice. Uh, thank you, Mrs. Turner. Um, is there anybody else that wishes to speak? Yes. [Applause] Hello. Would you state your name? My name is Miss Kathleen Nibblet. I live at 622 West Van Baron Avenue. I'm the neighbor of Cordelia. I'm on I'm on the corner end and then she's right next to the property. I've been there 26 years as well. And I understand that they want to beautify the community, but nothing has been done in the 26 years that we've been there. Nothing but, you know, the homeless has taken over. Um the neighborhood is cleaned up now, but to put uh the what they want to build there, I don't think it goes with our neighborhood. Maybe houses, put another house or something of that nature there, but to make it congested, I I I don't see it. And I have grandkids, you know, that I want to go out and play. I don't want them to be bombarded, you know, because that's not the space for it, you know. Um, I oppose it. I don't want to see this happen. And just take our take our feelings, take our frustration into consideration. If you live there and you've been there all that time and nothing has come about, no change, no nothing, nothing in the community, even across the street, we don't the um DDs, they had DDS over there. They shut that down. everything they're shutting down, taken away from the community. But then you want to put a big old big building, four 22 units, you know, that's that's not right. That's not right. Just take in consideration our feelings and how we feel about our home that we've been there 26 years. Thank you. Thank you so much. Is there anybody else that wishes to speak on this item? please come up to the podium. Hi, my name is Tashika Lawson. I did speak earlier. Um I did just want to add a couple of points. Um one, I'm expressed extreme amount of empathy for the residents that are currently um um voicing their opposition. Um, but I will say that the city holds um at the time that this went up um held about 40 properties in this in the historic west side that could have been chosen for this high for this high density um uh what is it transct zone. So it could have been zone for you know a twotory uh two to three story with the with larger setbacks. Um and no offense it was not. So unfortunately the people who are currently trying to develop this property are only going under the gu under the guidelines as set by the city of Las Vegas. Um they could we have currently at the very minimum three other properties some held by churches, other held by the um civic or um um advocacy organizations, others owned by the city of Las Vegas. all that are actually facing that are not facing residential area um residences um not next to the parcels where a person is currently residing or sitting next to a forplex. None of these properties were chosen by the city as one of the first properties to go up for building in the neighborhood. That is part of the issue which is I believe currently a very big problem that is currently being miscommunicated between our community as a of the west side and the city of Las Vegas. Um that and the property builders that are currently trying to build over here even if they would like to change the parcel like the city wants to put something up the lowinccome tax credits that were applied for. I see them attending these um conferences trying to actually get these prices for these particular units to be dropped down as far as they can. Not to offer lowincome um slums, but to be able to offer products for people who are like myself who are who are young professionals, emerging adults, small families to be able to afford products that they would like to live in in the historic Westside. There are a lot of places that we could have built on, but the city of Las Vegas is who chose this particular site. So, I do believe that it would be very beneficial for the city of Las Vegas to also be able to take responsibility and have those types of conversations directly with the residents and understanding that the current zoning that is over here, the formbbased code was not really clearly communicated in community meetings to the to the residents. Um, we have people who think that we're still zoned for R1. Um, that zoning went away in 2022 when the this new form-based code was adapted, meaning that they have they can the instead of using the form over use, they can use the useover form, meaning that we don't actually have to ask for as much permission or um have to deal with as many problems that we did trying to actually build new businesses near the churches, which are which was a large part of those barriers. We're trying to do a lot of infill building and it's very hard to do that when you can't get access because a lot 11% of part of this neighborhood is are owned by people um who are in churches. We've got a large percentage of people who are straw buyers who are only speculating in this neighborhood to build. And then we have a large percentage of our community that has been redlined out of the redevelopment of their of their parcels. So they may be sitting on a large we may our community sits on a large amount of legacy land with no options for redevelopment. So if we don't start addressing these issues, we're going to constantly be at odds simply because of the fact that we're not using things like the what is it the uh what's it? the Nevada Revised Statute um 279, which is for the redevelopment of neighborhoods such as this that are in census tracks that are designated for the redevelopment with the maximum amount of funding options for not only our families, but the businesses that are actually going to really develop in harmony with our community. If we do not start doing stuff like that, um we're going to start we're going to continuously be at odds. I honestly really do support this particular um I would I would like to see this built. Okay. I don't I don't think that it was right when the formbbased code maps were drawn that they were drawn knowing that these this this was drawn as a high density um high density parcel when it could have actually been drawn as a slightly lower density parcel that would actually have been in harmony with what the residents would have liked. So, at the very least, I would like for us to start considering coming back to the community and actually talking about the re possible redesation of some of these parcels under the 1909 formbbased code for the historic westside because we have things that are currently not they're not zoned properly. We have things like the Mulan Rouge site that is currently zoned as a T4 when it could be don't designated as a T a T6, meaning that it's a difference of between five stories and 20 stories. And when you're talking about high catalytic um properties that have real chances to be able to bring and revitalize our communities, we do need that. We think that we also do things like the Edmond Center to be drawn back into the opportunity zone because of the fact that that is a parcel that is currently has if you're looking at that is almost I believe 13 acres. That's as big as the stratosphere. Um and it's currently drawn out of the largest redevelopment catalytic zone um zoning map in in our area. Not not only just the city of Las Vegas, but the historic West Eye. need these sites to be redrawn and we need the city to actually really look at these how they zoned these maps and actually come to the community and tell and see how it is. We have a lot of opportunity but we need the city to actually look at the look at this community from the from the perspective of rebuilding the community in harmony with the community would like and what it needs into the future. Thank you so much. Is there anybody else that wishes to speak? Please come forward and state your name and then we're going to close the public hearing. Hello, my name is Ambrose Wilson, representative of Black Agenda for Small Business Development. Um, and I come to today to engage with Chico Clark to help mentorship and different projects and developing the children's academics. Um, and we want to bring it to his attention to just to help different alignment and safety with the children and teach them different aspects of living and developing. Are your comments pertinent to this um this agenda item? Yes. It is. It Okay. It's dealing with this item in particular. Okay. And that's that's basically what I was going to say is, you know, I just have we're going to help develop the the children's community and academics within the project. So, support. So, are you in support of this? Supported. Yes, I am. Oh, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Yes, ma'am. Is there is there anyone else that wishes to speak before we close this? Good morning, mayor. My name is Joel Epstein. I'm an inventor. I've been living in Las Vegas for over 10 years now. And uh I worked in uh desalination projects over in the San Diego area, but I've been always working with water. And the thing is, I've actually come up with a workable way of manufact. Yeah. Okay. Thank you so much. Okay. Okay. So, okay. Are there any questions or comments from Are there any questions or comments from the council? Thank you, Madame Mayor. Um, this is a very controversial I would say was the is the proper word project. Um, we know that uh historic West Las Vegas has been divested from for generations. Um, the subject property has been empty probably 30 years um the entire time that I've lived uh in the state. And we've got to begin somewhere in finding projects that are respectful to the community on one hand, but are catalytic in growing and developing our community. Uh as a dear friend of mine um constantly says to me, we have to find a way to say yes. And the project at first as I saw it um had some issues and I was very very clear with uh Mr. Clark that I was not happy with the with the with some of the things and and they had to do with how we were screening the neighbor uh to the to the west, Miss Freeman. um and how we were dealing with her real concern about clear story windows looking over her property and her lack of privacy. And I went online myself to find the screening devices. They're used actually in Australia. I was on line for hours trying to find something that would provide um respect for her privacy. Um, and I think this is a um this is a doable option along with moving the building back so that we have a vegetative screening which will do a couple of things. one, it will give her privacy on that wall, but also it will cool because those plants will uh create a cooling effect to the block wall um to both sides, to her property and to the property um where the um proposed project is going to go. Um I I have to give props uh to Tashika. Um, I've watched you over the years be very very clear when you are researching and finding information that you share. Um, and you are right in some aspects that we could have done a better job in formbbased code. I think the city did what they thought was right, but I think that we do need to revisit some of this and I hope that the community will work with us to do it. But right now, we have a project that's been in the works for three years. The developer has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in making sure that they met the re they they were responsive first of all to a request for proposal that the city put out and that they were responsive and responsible in developing what the city had asked them to do, which is to provide affordable housing. I will be honest. I lived next door to an apartment complex when I was a kid. We had a single family home in uh Oakland, California. My parents used all their little coins and bought this little house and I lived there most of my elementary school and my life before 16. And it was great to have neighbors. It was great to have kids next door. But I think all of us can be honest that the real issue with not in my backyard is how developers and property managers manage their properties once people are in them. And I think that is where we have the most opportunity to do better as a municipality. And you will hear some of the um um Mr. Loenstein's going to read into the record conditions. We pushed as far as we could uh with our current rules and uh to ensure that this property will be wellmaintained in the community. And I've also told Mr. Clark that they need to immediately engage in property management that is well respected in our community and well established so that this property is wellmaintained. Building a building is is the same anywhere. You put up sticks and concrete. You put up piping for water. But it who cares about how that property is maintained over the long haul determines whether it will have genuine um connectivity to the community. And as a city council woman, that is going to be my thrust. And I've told Chico clearly he's under a microscope. This oak noise is under a microscope. and they will be required for as long as I am here and even longer because I'm not moving. I will be in your face to ensure that this property is wellmaintained because this is the first vote for a multif family that I will cast and this is critical. I'd like to speak to our community members who may have missed the presentation that was done by the Gwyn Center. I've been an advocate for affordable housing and have been fighting and taking taking body blows in the legislature trying to find ways to get housing that is affordable to our community. I want to share just a couple of little facts about Ward Five in the presentation that was done by the Gwyn Center. And I'm so glad they did this because it gives quantifiable data to what we've been talking about for years. 50 over 53% of the people who live in Ward 5 fall into the two categories of the lowest paid between 30,000 and $41,000 a year. That is below the area median income. food preparation and service related folks and people who work in office administration. That's how I came up in this business. I was a legal secretary at a law firm when I first got here, making $16,000 a year in 1993. 1990 16. When I got divorced in 1994, I was making $23,000 a year. It's only God that helped me to make ends meet. Only we have neighbors who need a good place to live. They don't want to be in Summerland. They don't want to be in Henderson. And they know they're not welcome in Boulder City. Ward Five is home. They have history and families. And it is our responsibility to ensure that they have a place to live that is decent. That park on the corner of D and Van Beern was just redone by the city of Las Vegas. They put hundreds of thousands of dollars so that our children could have a clean, safe place to play. I want our kids to go there. I drive by every weekend, every Saturday to see that and make sure that our kids are there. And last weekend there was a birthday party and it was amazing and I want to see more of that. We have Ethel Pearson Park that is on the uh capital improvement program next year that is going to be rehabbed. Why? Because our kids have a right to go to the park. But if they don't have a decent place to live, what good is having a good park? This is not if or and this is all of it. And we have to be a community that welcomes our neighbors because these are my kids and your kids and your friends and they need to have a good place to live. So I'm going to support this project with the conditions and with the understanding that Okois, you have a high standard and anybody else that is coming into the parameters and the the W five boundaries and you want to build, I don't care if you're on Lone Mountain Road or if you're on Fremont Street, the standard is high. Don't bring garbage. don't come with the halfbaked plan. You come with respect for this community because we have suffered enough. But it is also time for us to move forward and say yes to something. So again, if you have any changes to this plan, you have to come come back. These louvers are to give privacy to Miss Freeman. The plants had better always be growing. Always. The trees had better always be well-maintained. You have management on staff that is going to ensure that your residents understand they're moving into a community. I don't care where they came from or they may be children of people or just moving. But this is to be respectful to the neighbors. noise, kids, garbage, parking, all of it. Handle your business. That's all I have to say. Thank you very much, Councilwoman. Are there any other comments from the city council? Councilwoman Brun. Thank you, Mayor. I have a question. Uh, so the affordable housing, it's truly affordable housing. So, are those units in perpetuity or for a 20-year period? Chico Clark of OOS's development for the record. Uh they are they will be uh right now they are on a I believe it's a 50-year uh 50-year plan and after that we will be working with NHC to get those recycled back into the affordable housing space. Okay. And then what's the level? Is it 30% AMI to 120 or what are the levels at please? It is for families and individuals that are making 30 to 50% of the area median income, which makes the rents somewhere around $4,500 to a maximum of $1,100 for the most most uh expensive three-bedroom. Okay. And I also want to echo my colleague um as we heard this morning, we are uh we have a deficit in sort of the middle missing middle housing stock and multif family. I want to thank you for your leadership in bringing this to our city because it's um greatly needed. Thank you. It's been an honor. Any other questions? Mr. Loenstein, could you um uh go over the conditions with us one more time? Yes, Madame Mayor. So, the first would be an amendment to condition number 10 to reflect 24in box versus 15 gallon. In that condition, the two added conditions would read as follows. Any substantial changes made to the development, including but not limit to building placement, building height, unit count, and/or building facade, shall require a major amendment to be heard at public hearing. The second condition reads, "A waiver to allow a 6-foot solid wall within the front yard along western property line where the maximum height of fences and walls erected between the front property line and primary structure shall not exceed 5 ft and the maximum height of solid fence or walls shall not exceed 2 feet. Is hereby approved. If agreed upon with the adjacent property owner, the existing western perimeter wall shall be raised to six feet in height if structurally sound and permissible. If not applicable, and if agreed upon with the adjacent property owner, the existing wall shall be removed and a new 6-ft block wall shall be constructed within the front yard. Thank you. Thank you so much. And once more, for the record, does the applicant agree to all the conditions? Yes, your honor, we do agree with all the conditions mentioned. Thank you very much. In that case, may I have a motion? Councilwoman Summers Armstrong, I have one more question. Um, at this point, Mr. Loenstein, would a DPMR be appropriate? It is. Uh, however, it's already placed into the application, so I do not have to read that lengthy condition. It is currently condition number three in the staff report. Thank you. All right. In that case, um, I move, uh, Madame Mayor for approval of this item. Shall we vote with conditions? Please post. Motion is passed. Thank you very much. Thank you for your consideration. Thank you. Thank you. Agenda item number Good luck. Agenda item number 46 24-0674-SUP1 special use permit applicant Al LLC owner F AEC Holdings Wula LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed 2,849 square foot alcohol on premise full use at 450 Fremont Street, Suite 135, C2, General Commercial Zone, Ward 5, Summers Armstrong. The planning commission and staff recommend approval. This is a public hearing that I now declare open. Is the applicant present? We're We are here, Madame Mayor. Um, good afternoon. Good afternoon, council members. I'm here. Um, this Nathan, can you state your name for the record? Lisa Mayo. Uh 2431 Tour Edition Drive. I'm here um on behalf of the applicant. Um uh Mr. Amir is here. This is a uh opening Hush Puppy um uh restaurant on Fremont Street. Uh we need the special use permit for that. Mr. Um, air purchased the 50-year-old hush puppy that we all know of over on Charleston in 2023 and now he is bringing to Fremont Street the great food and tradition of the Hush Puppy and uh staff has approved this and the planning commission approved this. This is in W five um Summer Armstrong's district and if you have any questions um Mr. Uh air is here and we would certainly approve uh enjoy your approval. Thank you. Thank you so much. Can I have a staff report? Thank you, Mayor Sethfully. For the record, mayor, the proposed alcohol land use can be conducted in a manner that is harmonious and compatible with the existing surrounding land uses. Therefore, staff recommends approval of the requested special use permit subject to conditions. Thank you. Thank you so much. Is there anyone wishing to be heard? Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing. Um, are there any conditions that the applicant has to agree to? Mr. Floyd, are there any issues? Are there any conditions? There are no additional conditions. Mayor, would you like to tell us a little bit about Hush Puppies? Yeah, my name is Magdammer. I'm proud owner of the oldest restaurant in Las Vegas, the Hush Puppy, which I purchased two 2023. And it is a tradition of Las Vegas, I guess, with Hush Puppy and the catfish and all the good products. So I was invited to come downtown and uh Freeman Street to open uh Hush Puppy there to be a part of the legacy of Freeman Street. So I'm here to thank you all and well don't thank us yet. Are there any questions or comments from city council members? Are there um is there a motion? Uh city councilwoman uh S Summers Armstrong. Thank you, ma'am. Uh Madame Mayor, I move to approve this um this application. Thank you. Shall we vote? Please post. Motion passes and best of luck in your new location. Thank you so much. Thank you. Agenda item number 47 25-00009 uh 0-e OT1 first extension of time nonconforming applicants um trip 7 Gaming and Spirits owner SNG Shopping Center LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for a nonconforming liquor establishment tavern use at 2333 North Jones Boulevard suite 108 C1 limited commercial zone ward 5 Miss Summers Armstrong. Uh staff recommends approval. Uh this is a public hearing that I now declare open. Is the applicant present? Yes. Could you tell us something about your project? Yes. Uh my name is Brandon Hamik. I'm the owner of 777 Gaming. Um, I purchased the tavern last year in March and um got approved for gaming uh through Nevada State Gaming Control Board and have remodeled the space and looking to get an extension of time. All right. Thank you so much. Is there a staff report? Thank you, Mayor Seth, for the record. Mayor staff finds that the applicant has demonstrated hardship and that additional time is necessary to obtain the required permits and licenses to reopen a new operator. the previous uses on the site can be conducted in a manner that is compatible with the adjacent uses and staff therefore recommends approval of the extension of time with a one-year time limit in accordance with title 1914. Thank you. Thank you very much. Uh is there anyone wishing to be heard on this item? Seeing no one, I'll close the public hearing. Um are there any conditions? There are no additional conditions, mayor. All right. Um, any questions or comments from the council? Is there a motion? Councilwoman Summers Armstrong. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I move uh for approval of the request for an extension of time. Shall we vote? Please post. Motion passes. Thank you for coming in. Thank you. Agenda item 48 has already been heard. Agenda item 49, report from Audre Audrea Hooper, executive director and of course and Patrick Riley, board chairman, Downtown Vegas Alliance uh regarding the organization's activities and achievements throughout 2024 and their goals for 2025. This affects all wards. Welcome. Good afternoon, Miss Babsky. Yes, thank you, mayor, city council members, Dina Babsky, director of economic and urban development for the city. And I'd like to welcome our guests and uh great partners. So that with us here today um are the board members with the chair being Pat O'Reilly. We also have uh Mr. Joe Woody and also Lisa Robinson. And of course, we have the irreplaceable Miss um Audrea Hooper who is the executive director for the Downtown Vegas Alliance. Just for a little background, we have been partnering with the organization for the last 10 years. Uh we're currently in our second year of a three-year uh memorandum of understanding where the RDA or the city is partnering with the organization um in the amount of $25,000 to continue the work that they do so efficiently and effectively to support our small businesses and large businesses in the downtown area. As part of their um deliverables in the memorandum of understanding, uh they deliver their annual report on the achievements and goals for the upcoming year. And so that is what they're here to do today. Welcome. Thank you, Madame Mayor, members of the council. Thank you for uh entertaining us. Good afternoon. I'm the chair of the Downtown Vegas Alliance. Um this is my fourth year. This is actually the last presentation I'll be making to you. I'm term limited at the end of June. Someone will be here in my place next year. Um so I'd like to give the presentation to you um for this uh for this year. If we can get the next slide. Okay. So, the the purpose of the Downtown Vegas Alliance, as you would imagine, is to see the downtown Las Vegas area grow and thrive and have an even brighter future. We we focus on making the place a a better place for business to uh to be conducted. A place to work, a place to live, a place to visit. It it's something what's the line? We're down for downtown. Um go ahead. Our history is is pretty well known. We've been around since 2009. We are a 501c6 nonprofit organization that was formed by business leaders in the downtown area um to bring together stakeholders who are passionate about the community and we have been in partnership with the city of Las Vegas uh for the last 10 years. Um the result has been a successful revitalization of the downtown Las Vegas area. I want to flag that word revitalization for for later. Here's our board of directors which includes myself uh Bill Peritus uh of Bank of Nevada, Mr. Woody who's the u CFO of the Elcortezo uh hotel and casino Corey Fagan uh the first Friday uh director Dulcea Rangavilla of Craig and Pike there's our executive director Audrea and then our members at large include Jonathan Alman of the Mob Museum, Andrew Simon of the Fremont Street Experience, Seth Shore of Fifth Street Gaming, Jonathan Alvarez of uh Protective Force International, BC Leoo of Noble Studios and Jeff Victor of Circa Resort and Casino. So, two of the things we did in the last year, we we held uh two successes and insights events with the city of Las Vegas. The one was in October 2024, which was a commitment to creatives in the arts district. It was hosted at renowned events and we had breakout discussions at neighboring businesses. Um it was a very well attended event, lots of great energy. We talked about artist housing and the challenges there. Possible creation of a business improvement district for the arts district and the creative community in general. More recently, we had a technology and innovation successes and insights at the innovation center. Uh it was very very well attended. Uh showcased robotics. Uh I think we have one of the robots there. Uh no, not Tyler, the one the one next to him. Um and uh driving innovation, fueling exceptional growth. That was a that was definitely a fun event. Lots of interesting stuff going on there. We also conducted the uh second cohort cohort of our small business incubation program. We're very proud of that in conjunction with the urban chamber of commerce, the Latin chamber of commerce and prestamos. We uh hosted 26 businesses uh uh prim primarily um small businesses, minority owned. uh they received coaching connections to smaller and larger businesses and received uh lending uh pardon me the necessary skills and tools to compete in today's environment. There was also a lending circle that was part of that cohort and that was also um uh due in large part to funding from the city of Las Vegas. Membership mixers, we uh try to do those once every month. They're fun, but they're not just fun. They're there where businesses get to meet, talk about uh what's going on, share stories, uh share part of that business community. I've seen a number of you at those uh at those events. Uh it's great to have you. You're always welcome to come. It's a great uh way for you to get your ear talked off by the local business owners. Um but uh um and and here are some of the places we've had them at in the last year. Pizza Rock, Origin, Seventh and Carson, the Bob Museum, and uh uh most recently Atomic Golf. We also handed out our second annual Rich Worththington Legacy Award um celebrating our now 16th anniversary and the 2025 award winner was Kenny Epstein. And um you uh mayor, you may recognize that photograph that was uh Could you have found a better photograph? Uh well no. Uh uh it's a great photo, but uh that was inauguration day. So it was a special day and we uh were very grateful that you were able to join us that day. All right. We always do news of note. If you don't get news of note, you should get newsof note. Uh, sign up for it because weekly we provide news on downtown Las Vegas. We have an updated design, but you'll you get informed of happenings every week and that's one of the services we provide to the community. We also do uh hear the numbers on social media engagement. I don't know much about social media. I do know that these are real numbers. We don't pay to boost the numbers up. This these are really what people are doing. New followers, people who are sharing stories and the like. Our plan for 2025 is to have two more successes and insights in accordance with ourou to conduct monthly member mixers and have members discussions to have lunch with the mayor. We did that actually that photograph is from last week where we had an excellent lunch and to continue with news of no. Um I'd like to give you uh I know it's late. We're into the lunch hour. I want to give you an anecdote. About two weeks ago, I attended a uh retirement uh party, Tammy Christensen of the city, and it was at Las Vegas Brewing Company, new business in the arts district. As I left the party, I walked out the door. I saw a 374 unit apartment development by Southern Land across the street. I turned the corner. I passed um I passed a number of interesting businesses, shops, um great restaurants, all within a probably a football field length of walking. And it just kind of sunk into me how how much downtown has has really come alive. Um and not just in the arts district, in Symphony Park, in um at Fremont East, at the Fremont Street Experience, in the medical district, all sorts of other places. And that word I flag before revitalization, it's actually a misnomer. It's a vitalization. It's happening for the first time. It's happening before our very eyes in real time. And I'd love to take credit for it. We'd love to take credit for it, but but really I think it starts with the city. The city over the years has created an environment for I'll call it an appetite for risk. And when small business owners and medium and even large business owners feel that there's an appetite for risk, they'll take that risk. And that's what's happening in downtown. And it's really encouraging and I and I hope it continues and I hope it uh continues to grow. And I wanted to thank the city for this great partnership. And if you have any questions, I'd love to I can assure you we will take credit for it. Does anybody have any questions of from our city council members? Yes. I just want to comment and thank uh you all for being um a really important partner to us, the city. You keep us engaged. You keep us informed. Um we've been through good times and not so great times called the pandemic. Uh but we were there for each other and that's what matters that we come even bolder and stronger out of every challenge. And as we've faced challenges, we've just been there to reassure each other we're going to get through it and better um more positive things will come. And I think we just need to continue to chart the course and you know we're constantly as a city trying to make the best out of the city so that everybody wants to live here, work here, and play. Thank you very much. And I can tell you that we're all very proud to be part of this uh partnership and and grateful to be working with everyone here. That's really great. Thank you so much for coming in. I appreciate it. Uh there are any other questions from the city council members. In that case, this was a report only. No action is required. We're now going to move on to item 50. And thank you for coming in. Thank you all. Have a good day. Agenda item 50. set date on any appeals filed or required public hearings. I would instruct the city clerk to set the public hearing dates and appeals from the city planning commission meetings and dangerous buildings or nuance uh litter abatements. We'll do. Thank you. Thank you. Agenda item 51, citizens participation. Public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the city council. No subject may be acted upon by the city council unless that subject is on the agenda and is scheduled for action. If you wish to be heard, please come to the podium, give your name for the record. The amount of discussion on any single subject as well as the amount of time any single speaker is allowed may be limited. uh this is your opportunity to address the council but the council is not able to respond or engage in dialogue. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak under this portion of the agenda? Yes. I hung around Lisa Mayo Dreso uh because I couldn't miss the opportunity after your Gwyn presentation to talk about something that's near and dear to my heart that I'm really working on which is tiny homes in our community. And uh we're calling them now tiny homes and small residential units because they really do fill that gap of the middle when we talk about what's missing in the middle. uh Dallas Harris and the uh uh legislature passed SP 150 championed the tiny home legislation. Every municipality in our community, every county has zoning for ADUs, uh tiny homes, small de residential neighborhoods. Uh in the Gwyn report they talked about the lack of labor and construction, the cost of materials. Um and that the only way to get past this is to shrink the size of the homes that people can afford and make them affordable. Uh tiny home is defined from 400 square ft to 1,000 square ft. Uh when um Senate Councilman Kusen talked about seniors that don't want to be in a 1500 foot home or an 800 square 1,800 foot home at 5 700 800 900 foot home is the perfect thing and they're affordable. The other thing I'm working on and we're working on with Vegas tiny homes is to bring manu home manufacturing here. a home manufacturer that can manufacture homes, cutting the costs, cutting the time, cutting into all of those things that make homes not affordable in our community. There's over 80,000 infill parcels, which within the city of Las Vegas and or maybe it's southern Nevada and tiny homes, small residential units are the perfect thing to put into these areas. The thing that we at Vegas Tiny Homes really want to uh uh support is own home ownership. Own a home. You can get into a a 90,000 200,000 $250,000 home that's affordable and you can own it. So that I thought that was really missing from the Gwyn study. They did mention ADUs briefly, but I think we really need to start to look to embrace this idea of manufactured housing and small residential units because I really think it's an opportunity to allow people to own a home and get out of this cycle, generational cycle of renting and generate some uh generational wealth. So, I just wanted to put that out there. We are having a tiny home uh Vegas tiny home trade show September 5th through 7th in downtown where we're bringing thousands of people into downtown um in order to have that and we hope to see some of you there. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Anyone else wishing to address the council? And I failed to limit the amount but since uh Lisa did three minutes um you're afforded three minutes. Thank you, Madame Mayor. Um, I won't need three minutes. Um, just wanted to reiterate um the excitement that we have for the Westside Flats um coming online. I I know uh Councilwoman Sundur Armstrongs will hold their feet to the fire um because this is such an important project. And also I wanted I don't know if I'm allowed to speak on number 50 with Downtown Vegas Alliance. Um, as the historic westside is encompassed now as downtown North, I've gone to several of their events. Um, even when Shawn Douglas was in charge and I'm just hoping that the West Side, Jackson Street, the things that we're trying to do as we are part of the downtown that we are afforded those types of initiatives and that type of energy. uh working with Downtown Va Vegas Alliance or whomever that we also see the revitalization that we want to see and um and that's it. And would you please state your name for the record? I'm so sorry. My name is Dedra Edmund Drew uh CEO of Jackson Street Alliance property owner at 418 Jackson Avenue. Thank you. And I suspect that your council woman for that area will be all over this and making sure that it happens. Absolutely. And Miss Ruby Duncan says hello. H love her. Thank you. Does anybody else wish to speak? And um we have three you have three minutes since you've been so patient. Anyway, I'll make this quick. I'm here to tell you that I can make water from scratch. Pure water that could be from like a house all the way up to Lake me to the world. And the way and also if you look at the Oswan Dam in Egypt, they have 560 million gallons of storage a day. Sir, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but we need your name as well, too. Yes. I'm sorry I didn't I may we have your names for the record. Oh, yeah, sure. Joel Epstein. Okay. And so what I'd like to request with your permission, I'd like to speak with you or any of your members at a later time to go into some detail how this works. Like it's only 2.5 cents a gallon and you can make pure water that has no chemicals in it. It has no chromium in it. It has no u any of the other things that we have in our water. So basically it's coming from the air and then it's processed in a very uh I I think it's a little complex. So I I'd rather take that time to discuss with you or any other people that you'd like and we could call you and make an appointment. Uh Mr. Epstein, I'm sure if you call any one of the council people, we'd all be delighted to speak with you. But may I also suggest that you contact the Southern Nevada Water Authority? That might be the more appropriate place to make a presentation. We have done that. And because the invention has no incoming money, it's it's not doesn't qualify for anything they have. It has to be I mean ours is an innovation and of course it's not a business yet, but it's an innovation. All right. Thank you so very much. I appreciate it. Thank you, M. people really overlooking that one. Would you mind stating your name for the record? I'm Jana Epstein and we have talked various people and then a few scientist people already approved that is a prepent already and we really needed support but you know people don't understand what's going on they don't pay attention so we needed talk to some few scientific people or engineer together that make them understand because he doesn't let this information out to everybody He's afraid that somebody going to steal it, I should say, you know. So, if you help us and call us back, can we give you a phone number? Um, I suggest that you call the city council or the mayor's office. Okay. We have we have that from the people. Yeah. Okay. I thank you so much for coming in and thank you for your patience. Thank you for being letting me speak. Our pleasure. Appreciate it. All right. Um, does anybody else wish to speak? The research institute. You can also tell them to reach out to again. Hello, city council. Lovely mayor. And would you state your name again for the record? My name is Eric Melzdc, Christ Nimrod. You can follow King Nimrod in Genesis the 10th chapter, the 6th to the 10th verse. And scholars and preachers slander him. Anyhow, [Music] um the last time I came here on April the 2nd, there was a um a person died at the filthy courtyard's filthy sleeping area the next morning on April the 3. person died in the sleeping area in the courtyard because it's filthy and it needs to be cleaned and they don't clean it. Urine, all kind of stuff is on there on the mat area. They ought to be sued actually. Anyway, at the last council meeting agenda, last county at the last council meeting, agenda 39, Dr. Cis Rayford of region 2 superintendent of the Clark County School District gave a report that said among other things that 232 students were expelled m and the majority of them were so-called black. I said they had a spiritual problem. By that I mean they are falsely taught in church and in their homes that father God is white and that they are taught that they are cursed to be the lowest of slaves to the white man and the Jew in Genesis 9:25. They actually taught this. I have personally proven it to be a lie and it promotes inferiority, low self-esteem and behavior problems. Black youth are also taught that Nimrod the king, the son of Kush, the scholars lie and say that he's a rebel against God in Genesis 10 the 6 to the 10th verse. That also is a racist lie. If white and Jewish youth were taught these lies about themselves in the book that they worship, they would be expelled too in very large numbers. The problem I repeat is a spiritual problem. Thank you so much. Thank you. Is there anybody else that wishes to address the city council? In that case, we'll move to agenda item 52, uh, council emerging issues, discussion regarding potential items for future city council agendas or wards. Any discussion must be limited to whether or not such proposed item shall be placed on a future agenda and no discussion regarding the substance of any proposed topic shall occur. No action shall be taken. Do any members of the council have any topics that they would like to bring forward under this item. Okay. Thank you so much. We will now move to agenda item 53. Council member recognition. Comments made by individual city council members during this portion of the agenda will not be acted upon by the city council unless that subject is on the agenda and scheduled for action. Shall we start with Miss Rooney and we'll go work our way across. Thank you, Mayor. I want to wish everyone a happy season of renewal whether you're celebrating Passover or Easter. With the good spring weather here, Ward 6 has been busy. We kicked off the month by partnering with Get Outdoors Nevada to clean up our Centennial Hills Park and our natural habitat preserve. We had over 70 volunteers come out and together we picked up over 500 pounds of trash. Last week, we met with engaged neighbors at our monthly Bogaditos with Brunie. Thanks to everyone who came out to share your thoughts and meet your neighbors. This past Saturday, I was able to take a few hours off and enjoy the annual Blueg Grass Festival hosted at our beautiful Centennial Hills Park amphitheater. It was great to join over 5,000 neighbors out there enjoying the music, food, trucks and vendors. On Saturday morning, I participated with the city team in the corporate challenge 5K at Kellogg Zaylor Park. Team Brunie is gearing up for a busy few weeks. This Saturday, we are hosting our annual spring fling at Floyd Land Park, which will include a classic car show and pet parade. We have over 80 vendors signed up, so come out and support our small businesses. Next Wednesday, April 23rd, we are hosting our quarterly small business breakfast at the Centennial Hills Active Adult Center starting at 8:30. We'll have several speakers there from the Small Business Development Corporation. Please RSVP so we can make sure we have enough breakfast for you. Next Friday, April 25th, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., we'll be taking advantage of our neighbors love of our dark skies and hosting a night among the stars walk. The Las Vegas Astronomical Society will be joining us to lead a magical stargazing expedition. On May 3rd, we will be hosting um a superhero 5K run out at Floyd Land Park in partnership with the Centennial Hills Kowanas Club. We'll be starting at 8:00 a.m. All proceeds from the entry fee will be going towards scholarships for graduating high school students. On May 3rd, later that day from 9 to 11, we'll be partnering with Get Outdoors Nevada once again to clean up Taton Trails Park. Please join us. On Thursday, May 8th, we are partnering with Councilwoman Summers Armstrong and Commissioner McCertie to offer a special Mother's Day lunch at Floyd Land Park starting at 11:00 a.m. The theme is big hats, floral dresses, sneakers, and pearls. So, dress up and guys, please wear your bow ties and sneakers. Men are invited. On Friday, May 9th, we're hosting Jazz Underneath the Stars, a concert in partnership with Jazz Outreach Initiative and the Jazz Vegas Orchestra. The concert is free. We'll be starting at 700 p.m. and offering an experience with shuderie boxes and libations for per for purchase. As always, we want to hear from you. Please reach out to us at 702229-5463 or email us at wart6lo vegasnvada.gov. Thank you. Thank you so much Councilwoman Seaman. Thank you. I attended the Nevada Bio Annual Awards dinner at the Durango Hotel and Dr. Jack Jack Jacobs was honored as man of the year for his groundbreaking contributions to Parkinson's disease research. I also attended Club Christ second annual gala branching out building what matters at the vision of greatness center where assistant sheriff hos was the keynote and he was so inspiring highlighting the strong and impactful partnership between club Christ and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in supporting youth and families in underserved communities. Our breakfast buzz and war two biz was great since we had our animal protection services which gave an insightful presentation and Sergeant Belchure. He introduced Scarlet to the crowd, our fantastic police K9. We're also thankful to the LVMPD homicide Sergeant Kennedy for sharing valuable information. And a special shout out always to Captain Greg Venice of the Summerland Area Command for answering all our public safety questions and keeping everyone informed. Uh it was great to attend the third annual Beneath the Neon Gala where I pres presented a proclamation from the city of Las Vegas to Shine a Light Foundation on behalf of um all the great work they're doing under the leadership of Paul Vatrina. I just have a problem saying that name. This incredible organization has shown unwavering dedication to serving our homeless population with compassion, vital resources, and life-saving support. This is the group that goes out into the tunnels and brings resources to those and try to get them into recovery. I've gone out with them. They're just amazing. The foundation's mission is transforming lives and the power energy in the room is a testament to its profound impact on our community. Our upcoming events, we'd like to invite everyone to join us and a human trafficking awareness event that I am co-sponsoring. It's not actually my event where they're going to be showing a powerful film and engage in meaningful discussion. And then we have our upcoming Easter egg hunt in partnership with Juvenile Justice Impact. And then we again have our Ward 2 breakfast buzz which gives everyone a chance to meet fellow residents and discuss community matters. Um mark your calendars for our annual Memorial Day ceremony at the lakes a heartfelt tribute to honor those who have served. I want to wish everyone we're in the middle of Passover and also a happy Easter coming up. Wishing all your loved ones a joyful and peaceful Easter. And we have our regular adopt a pet which we have Han Hans a terrier me American pitbull beagle mix. Oh, he's adorable. Weighs about 60 lb. He's 3 years and 6 months. He doesn't look 60 pounds, so don't be deceived. Um, then we have Severus Snap, a domestic short-haired male, 16.4 4 lb. That is a hefty cat. Age 2 years and 1 month. If you would like to adopt, you can go to the Nevada SPCA, the Animal Foundation. There are rescues all over this city. Um, you know, don't discard your animals. There are plenty of people who will adopt them. Um, next slide, please. If you would like to get your word out about your W 2 business, you can contact my office at 702229-2420. Every week on Saturday, we feature a small business and I try to get the word out about what you do. And next slide, please. If you have any issues in war 2, you can just contact my office at war 2 loss nevada.gov gov or phone 702229-2420 and we will help you with whatever issue it is. Thank you. Thank you very much, Councilwoman. Councilwoman Diaz. Thank you, Madame Mayor. It most certainly takes a village to make a huge impact on our community. So, I get to um share that uh once again on Saturday, April 5th, we were at our safe village cleanup. Um, Ward 3 joined forces with Downtown Area Command officers, CASSA Delus, uh, children, volunteers, and parents, and our department of neighborhood services. Again, we're making sure that, um, all of our communities, um, make sure that they have a sense of pride of where they live and it's, uh, spotless as much as we can have a hold in that. Um, and so 318 pounds of trash were collected and volunteers that participated um were also adjacent business owners like Oasis Cannabis Dispensary, uh, the Raiders Foundations, um, and many countless property owners. So, I just want to thank everyone's support because we all collectively can make a difference and make WI 3 more safe and beautiful. On Thursday, April 10th, Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada had its advocacy and justice complex groundbreaking and some colleagues of mine, Councilman Palinski, Councilman Canudson, the mayor, myself, we had an amazing time attending and celebrating um this very different groundbreaking ceremony. I've never seen a groundbreaking with no shovels and no dirt. Uh but the we did it the legal aid way, but it's so um refreshing to know that I think by the summer of 26, we might be receiving an invitation for a ribbon cutting of an amazing asset to our community. So excited about that development moving forward. Yes. Um, yesterday, Tuesday, April 15th, we had coffee with a cop. And I want to thank our downtown area command officers and our city marshals pop team for being available to our businesses and residents for coffee and conversation at Iwana Coffee in the arts district. If you haven't been there, you are in for a treat. They roast their own coffee and offer tasty options for your tummy. A big thanks for to Alex and Carol Rodriguez who are the Iwana coffee shop owners for being wonderful hosts. And I want to um give a special shout out to Denise Stride who is our um crimerevention specialist at Downtown Area Command. And she sadly informed me that she'll be retiring in May after 20 years at Downtown Area Command. So, I think uh she will deserve a little special tribute as we bid her much success in the next chapter of her life. Um just reminding everyone the um LVCA, Las Vegas City Employees Association, is hosting a shredding event on April 25th. I made my tax filing on time. I hope you guys did, too. And I'm gathering my documents to take to them for shredding on Friday, um April 25th from 9:00 a.m. to noon. So, head on over. Uh they said they they don't have a limit on boxes. They will take as many boxes as come through and they want to set a record. So take advantage. 857 Nor Eastern um in fabulous Ward 3. Also want to invite you all to attend Earth Day uh cleanup efforts. We're going to be at the Las Vegas wash in Ward 3. And uh we just want to invite as many of you as possible on Saturday, April 26th, 9 to 11. And the meeting point is Doug Selby Park, a former city manager of the city of Las Vegas. That's what that park is is named, who that park is named after. So 1293 North San Hill Road, 9 to 11 on April 26. Please share the word and I hope to see you all there. We're doing that in partnership with our marshals, Metro, and Telmundo. Um the 26th is going to be a very uh busy day for me. Uh, aside from the cleanup earlier in the day, we're also inviting folks to come to the fifth annual Las Vegas Mashika New Year on April 26th. It's a free event with art, music, food, dance, uh, jewelry, and children activities, crafts, and so much more from 2 to 6:00 p.m. at Gary Reese Freedom Park, 3051 East Washington Avenue. I hope you guys can come out and partake in the offerings. And at the end of the day, we will have movie night at Freedom Park. We're showing Moana 2 uh at 6 PM or at upon sundown. Uh and we'll have um popcorn and um some refreshments available to attendees. So again, hope to see you all with all everything that's going on in W 3 on April 26th. And that's it for me, Madame Mayor. I hope that people continue to reach out to Ward 3 at 70229-2359 or email us at w3 vegas.gov. Thank you so much, Councilwoman. Councilwoman Pinski. Thank you, Madame Mayor. Uh my first slide will highlight a victory in the Next Level Sports Recreation Flag Football League fourth grade edition. The Trojans won. Uh they were underdogs. The team includes two Hellbert boys, one Floyd boy, and one Pinsky. Uh they were definitely the underdogs to an undefeated future Bishop Gorman football players team. and uh Judith Seagull, if you're out there listening, we'll see your son in next year's championship for the fifth grade. Uh next up on Friday, I had the opportunity to tour the beautiful Rita Dean Abbey Art Museum. Rita was a tremendous local artist who passed away in 2021. I encourage everyone to visit the gallery located at 5850 North Park Street, which is just barely in the county island of Ward 4. She has an extensive body of work that is so impressive. Uh you all need to see it. Uh Friday evening, I was honored to be guest speaker at the Sun City Summerland Gun Club. It was great to connect with residents and share information about all the exciting events and projects cooking in Ward 4. And uh my councilwoman Diaz um did a good job uh talking about the Justice and Advocacy Center. So we'll pass on that. Uh yesterday the mayor and councilwoman Diaz and I attended a tip a cop event at We a Thai hosted by the AsianAmerican Pacific Islander Alliance. I'm always happy to give my support to our local law enforcement community and the food was amazing as well. On Tuesday, April 22nd, our Green Planet is hosting a giant student farmers market at 1980 Festival Plaza Drive at 9:30 a.m. to 12:30. All the proceeds are reinvested into school gardens. So come out and support the kids and buy some tasty fruits and veggies. Uh join me Friday, April 24th for a movie in the park. We'll be viewing The Secret Life of Pets 2 at Triango Hills Park. Uh we'll be having snow cones, popcorns, pet themed activities, and food trucks for purchase. The fun starts at 6 p.m. Bring your lowback chairs and blankets for this free family fun event. And don't forget to bring your pets to join in our pet parade. Do you have any information regarding any of the 12 missing kids featured on this side slide? If so, please call Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department missing person's detail at 7028283111. According to Nevada Childsekers, more than 8,000 children go missing every year in Nevada alone. That's 20 children a day. Over the last seven years, the big search team through Nevada Child seekers has found and relocated more than 150 kids and reunited them with their families. At risk youth or runaways, please call or visit the nationwide uh runaway hotline at 8007862929. And lastly, please stay connected with us on social media platforms or contact us directly the oldfashioned way at 702292524. We're always here to provide any assistance that we can. Thanks. Thank you so much. And um providing cleanup, Miss Summers Armstrong. Thank you, Madame Mayor. Uh just a few past events to discuss. Uh we had a praise in the park on Saturday, April the 5th. Uh we had um it was a a joint uh event collaborative with the city of Las Vegas airing Arrington and the Facebook Corral and the West Las Vegas Arts Center. It was a beautiful day. It was well attended and uh I'm excited that this happened in our neighborhood. The snacks were on fire. Uh Mr. Jeremy was there with uh peach cobbler in a jar, sweet potato cheesecake. Yeah, it was a ruination of any diet. Uh so uh we would love it was wonderful and and we hope that those folks who attended enjoyed themselves. Um on Saturday the 12th of April, we had a cleanup in the Desert Meadows uh neighborhood right there on Liio Way. We've met uh with um some staff and volunteers uh and uh I'm there with a very ugly hat as well as my assistant Julius. And we put in yards helping the neighbors there to pick up um and just add a little bit of um sunshine and and clean up into their neighborhood. It was lovely. It was a good day and we're glad to be of service in our community. Also, um on the 12th uh was Easter in the 106. Uh we had folks from the Balden Area Command. We uh had hosted this event and our team was there along with some folks uh with our community outreach and it was wonderful. They had the blowup Easter bunny. The kids were having a blast. Um the uh police had a DJ and they they would try to pause to get the kids to slow down and they were running to get those Easter eggs so fast. The golden Easter eggs were the hit. Um but it was wonderful just to see our neighbors. We got a chance to talk to people who were sitting on their stoop in the neighborhood and just build relationship. And so, uh, thank you so much LVMPD and Balden Area Command, uh, for hosting this, uh, event. Um, we have an upcoming event this Saturday, the 19th, is the Historic Westside Legacy Park 2025 inductee ceremony. Uh, will begin at 8:30 a.m. till 10:30 a.m. at 1600 Mount Mariah Drive. Uh, please get there early to get a seat. uh is going to be a beautiful and moving event as we induct uh five new uh folks into Legacy Park. These are really uh folks that have had a profound effect on the history of historic West Las Vegas and we are truly honored uh to be able to honor them. On April the 26th, we have the Caribbean Heritage Festival at the Sammy Davis Jr. Plaza at 77 770 Twin Legs Drive. Uh it's going to be a blast. I'm sure the music will be rocking. Uh so if you're into reggae music or just want to enjoy some Caribbean flavor, we hope that you will attend uh lowback chairs only, please and be prepared to um purchase uh some wonderful uh flavorful food and beverages. Uh also on the 26th is Earth Day Arbor Day in collaboration with Get Outdoors Nevada. We will be at Children's Memorial Park at 6601 West Gallowan Road. We will be planting trees. There will be face painting, a bounce house, and if you are a vendor and would like to participate, it is free. Please uh click on the QR code to figure out how to sign up. Uh it's going to be a lot of fun. Please wear comfortable clothing and a hat. It will probably be warm, but we want to really have a a wonderful impact on Children's Memorial Park on the 26th. And finally, just want to remind folks that uh my staff and I are available um at 702229-5443. Please reach out to us if you have any community concerns. Uh we are here to be of service to our community and we want to wish everyone um a happy pass um Passover and a wonderful Easter uh weekend. Be safe and enjoy your families. Oh, thank you so much. Um uh the city council will be holding a special meeting this Monday at 12:30. Um it has been noticed uh just for everybody's information. And now the city council meeting of April 16th is adjourned.