Regular City Council Meeting City Council Chambers TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2018 - 5:00 PM
Below is an agenda of all items scheduled to be considered. Unless otherwise stated, items may be taken out of the order presented on the agenda at the discretion of the Mayor and Council. Additionally, the Mayor and Council may combine two or more agenda items for consideration, and may remove an item from the agenda or delay discussion relating to an item on the agenda at any time. Public comment is limited to three minutes per person.
Ceremonial Matters
- INVOCATION - PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Public Comments During the Public Comment portion of the agenda, comments are to be limited to matters not appearing on the agenda. Public Comment will be provided on each agenda under each specific item of business. Any public comment shall be addressed to the Mayor, moderator, or chair of the public body and shall be direct so as to form a view point of an issue. All public comments shall be limited to three (3) minutes, unless specifically extended upon request to the Mayor, moderator, or chair of the public body. Derogatory comments of non-public individuals or another public commenter shall not be permitted. The Mayor, moderator, or chair of the public body may limit the individual's comment period if proper decorum is not observed. Items raised under this portion of the agenda cannot be deliberated or acted upon until the notice provisions of the Nevada Open Meeting Law have been met. If you wish to speak at this time, please step up to the podium, and clearly state your name.
1. Public Comments Cover Sheet
Consent Agenda
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1 Items on the Consent Agenda may not require discussion. These items may be a single motion unless removed at the request of the Mayor, City Council, or City Manager.
2. Consideration for approval of the Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting agenda; the March 13, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting minutes; the March 27, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting minutes and the April 3, 2018 Technical Review Meeting minutes.
- Public Comments - Discussion and Possible Action Cover Sheet
m03-13-18 RCC.doc
m03-27-18 RCC.doc
m04-03-18 TRM.docx
3. Consideration of approval of: a) Notification of Budget Transfers b) Notification of Budget Amendments c) Notification of Bills Paid d) Purchase Orders
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
Cover Sheet
Check Register - City Council Agenda 03.26.18 to 04.28.18.pdf
Combined Budget Trsfrs & POs for Council.pdf
Special Items 4. Presentation of a check/grant to the City of Mesquite Department of Athletics & Leisure Services from the Southern Nevada Chapter of the International Code Council (SNICC) to cover the cost of free swimming lessons to toddlers ages 4 and younger with in our community. Ms. Terry Kozlowski board member of SNICC and with the City of North Las Vegas, will be the check presenter.
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action Cover Sheet 2
2 2018 Swim Grant SNICC.pdf
SNICC Back Up Material.pdf
18 SNICC Free Swim Lessons PR.pdf
Resolutions & Proclamations 5. Consideration of Approval of Resolution No 950 revising the fee schedule for sanitation sewer services within the City for FY 2019 through FY 2025.
- Public Hearing - Discussion and Possible Action
Cover Sheet
ResNo950_2019-2025pdf
ResNo633_2010-2013pdf
CDMRateStudy_2009.pdf
HistoryofRateIncreases_1989to2025.pdf
LegalPublication_21Mar18.pdf
6. Consideration of Approval of Resolution No. 951 revising the fee schedule for collection of solid waste 90 gallon automated services within the City effective July 1, 2018.
- Public Hearing - Discussion and Possible Action
Cover Sheet
ResNo951_2018-2020pdf
ResNo636_2009-2016pdf
HistoryofRateIncreases_1989to2025.pdf
LegalPublication_21Mar18.pdf
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3 7. Consideration of Approval of Resolution No. 957, pertaining to areas of critical environmental concern in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management revised draft Southern Nevada District Resource Management Plan.
- Public Comments - Discussion and Possible Action
Cover Sheet
ResNo957.docx
Department Reports 8. Mayor's Comments Cover Sheet
9. City Council and Staff Reports and Comments Cover Sheet
Administrative Items 10. Consideration of Tentative Map Case No. TM-18-001 (Hilltop Vistas Townhomes Phase I) to approve a 30-unit townhome development on 4.62 acres at 470 Turtleback Road, in the Mesquite Vistas Planned Unit Development.
- Public Hearing - Discussion and Possible Action Cover Sheet
TM-18-001_Memo.doc
TM-18-001_App&Plans.pdf
TM-17-001_470TurtlebackRd_VicinityMap(2).pdf
Public Comments During this final Public Comment portion of the agenda, comments are to be limited to matters only appearing on the agenda. Any public comment shall be addressed to the Mayor, moderator, or chair of the public body and shall be direct so as to form a view point of an issue. All public comments shall be limited to three (3) minutes, unless specifically extended upon request to the Mayor, moderator, or chair of the public body. Derogatory comments of non-public individuals or another public commenter shall not be permitted. 4
4 The Mayor, moderator, or chair of the public body may limit the individual's comment period if proper decorum is not observed. Items raised under this portion of the agenda cannot be deliberated or acted upon until the notice provisions of the Nevada Open Meeting Law have been met. If you wish to speak at this time, please step up to the podium, and clearly state your name.
11. Public Comments Cover Sheet
Adjournment 12. Adjournment Cover Sheet
Note: Please be advised that the Standing Rules of the City Council are attached for your information. The Standing Rules govern the conduct of City Council Meetings. These Standing Rules may be acted upon and utilized by the Mayor and City Council at any City Council Meeting.
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The agenda is also available on the Internet at http://www.mesquitenv.gov and http://nv.gov
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RULES OF PROCEDURE
1. Authority
1.1 NRS 266.240 provides that the Council may determine its own rules of procedure for meetings. The following set of rules shall be in effect upon their adoption by the Council and until such time as they are amended or new rules are adopted in the manner provided by these rules. 5
5 2. General Rules
2.1. Public Meetings: All meetings of the Council shall be open to the public, expect those provided in NRS 241 and 288. The agenda and backup material shall be open to public inspection in the City Clerk’s Office.
2.2 Quorum: A majority of the members of the Council shall constitute a quorum and be necessary for the transaction of business. If a quorum is not present, those in attendance will be named and they shall adjourn to a later time.
2.3 Compelling Attendance: The Council may adjourn from day to day to compel attendance of absent members.
2.4 Minutes: A written account of all proceedings of the Council shall be kept by the City Clerk and shall be entered into the official records of the Council.
2.5 Right to Floor: Any member desiring to speak shall be recognized by the chair, and shall confine his remarks to the item under consideration.
2.6 City Manager: The City Manager or his designee shall attend all meetings of the Council. The City Manager may make recommendations to the Council and shall have the right to take part in all discussions of the Council, but shall have no vote.
2.7. City Attorney: The City Attorney or Deputy City Attorney shall attend all meetings of the Council and shall, upon request, given an opinion, either written or verbal, on questions of the law.
2.8 City Clerk: The City Clerk or Deputy City Clerk shall attend all meetings of the Council and shall keep the official minutes and perform such other duties as required by the Council.
2.9 Officers and Staff: Department heads of the City, when there is pertinent business from their departments on the Council agenda, shall attend such Council meetings upon request of the City Manager.
2.10 Rules of Order: “Roberts Rules of Order Newly Revised” 10th Edition shall govern the proceedings of the Council in all cases, provided they are not in conflict with these rules.
3. Types of Meetings
3.1 Regular Meeting: The Council shall meet in the Council Chambers for all regular meetings. Regular Council meetings will be held on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. If the second or fourth Tuesday falls on or near a holiday or falls on any day wherein it is determined a quorum may not be available, the Council may provide for another meeting time.
3.2 Special Meetings: Special meetings may be called by the Mayor or by a majority of the City Council. The call for a special meeting shall be filed with the City Clerk in written form, expect that an announcement of a special meeting during any regular meeting at which all members are present shall be sufficient notice of such special meeting. The call for a special meeting shall specify the day, the hour, and the location of the special meeting and shall list the subject or subjects to be considered.
3.3 Adjourned Meeting: Any meeting of the Council may be adjourned to a later date and time, provided that no adjournment shall be for a longer period than until the next regular meeting.
3.4 Workshop and Study Sessions: The Council may meet in workshops or study sessions to review upcoming projects, receive progress reports on current projects, or receive other similar information from the City Manager, provided that all discussions thereon shall be informal and open to the public.
3.5 Executive Sessions: Closed meetings may be held in accordance with NRS 241 and 288.
4. Duties of Presiding Officer 6
6 4.1 Presiding Officer: The Mayor, if present, shall preside at all meetings of the Council. In the Mayor’s absence, the Mayor Pro Tem shall preside. In the absence of both the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem, the Council members present shall elect a Presiding Officer.
4.2 Preservation of Order: The Presiding Officer shall preserve order and decorum; prevent attacks of a personal nature or the impugning of members’ motives, and confine members in debate to the question under discussion.
4.3 Points of Order: The Presiding Officer shall determine all points of order, subject to the right of any member to appeal to the Council. If any appeal is taken, the question shall be: “Shall the decision of the Presiding Officer be sustained?”
5. Order of Business and Agenda
5.1 Agenda: The order of business of each meeting shall be as contained in the agenda in accordance with NRS 241 prepared by the City Clerk and approved by the City Manager. The agenda shall be delivered to members of the Council at least three (3) working days preceding the meeting to which it pertains.
5.2 Special Interest/Presentation Items: Unless otherwise approved by the City Manager, and in order to provide for the effective administration of City Council business, a maximum of four (4) items of special interest or presentation shall be scheduled on one agenda. Special Interest/Presentation items must appear on the agenda and it is not appropriate for presentations to be made during the public comment portion of the meeting.
6. Creation of Committees, Boards and Commissions
6.1 Resolution: The Council may by resolution create committees, boards, and commission to assist in the operation of the City government with such duties as the Council may specify, which shall not be inconsistent with law.
6.2 Membership and Selection: Membership and selection of members shall be as provided by the Council if not specified by law. Any committee, board, or commission so created shall cease to exist upon the accomplishment of the special purpose for which it was created, as provided in the initial resolution, or when abolished by a majority vote of the Council. No committee, board or commission shall have powers other than advisory to the Council or to the City Manager, except as otherwise provided by law.
6.3 Removal: The Council may remove any member which they have appointed to any board, committee or commission by a vote of at least a majority of the Council. Such appointed members will be removed automatically if they fail consistently (three or more unexcused absences) to attend meetings.
7. Voting
7.1 All voting procedures shall be in accordance with Parliamentary Authority.
7.2 Point of Order: Any Council member may raise a Point of Order if s/he perceives a breach of the Council’s procedural rules and insists on the enforcement of the rule by the Presiding Officer. A Point of Order take precedence over any main motion, is not debatable, is not amendable, but may be superseded by a motion to table the item over which the Point of Order was raised, and is ruled on immediately by the Presiding Officer.
7.3 Point of Information: This is a request by a Council member, directed to the Presiding Officer or appropriate individual for information relevant to the pending item. A Point of Information takes precedence over a main motion, is not debatable, is not amendable, is not superseded by other motions, and is ruled on for appropriateness by the Presiding Officer.
7.4 Abstentions: A member may abstain from voting for any reason s/he deems appropriate.
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7 7.5 Failure of Affirmative Motion: The failure of a motion calling for affirmative action is not the equivalent of the passage of a motion calling for the opposite negative action. The failure of such affirmative motion constitutes no action.
7.6 Failure of Negative Motion: The failure of a motion calling for a negative action is not the equivalent of the passage of a motion calling for the opposite affirmative action. The failure of such a negative motion constitutes no action.
7.7 Lack of Passage of a Motion: In some instances (maps in particular, per NRS) lack of passage of a motion may result in the item being “deemed approved.” In other instances no action may result in confusion and complication for the applicant. In all cases the City Council will strive to achieve a decision or action.
8. Citizens’ Rights
8.1 Addressing the City Council: Any person desiring to address the Council by oral communication shall first secure the permission of the Presiding Officer.
8.2 Time Limit: Each person addressing the Council shall step to the microphone, shall give his/her name and residence address in an audible tone of voice for the record and, unless further time is granted by the Presiding Officer, shall limit the time of his/her comments to three (3) minutes.
8.3 Public Comment Content: The presiding officer or the majority of City Council may prohibit comment if the content of the comments is a topic that is not relevant to, or within the authority of, the public body, or if the content of the comments is willfully disruptive of the meeting by being irrelevant, repetitious, slanderous, offensive, inflammatory, irrational, or amounting to personal attacks or interfering with the rights of other speakers.
8.4 Disruptive Conduct: Any person who willfully disrupts a meeting to the extent that its orderly conduct is made impractical may be removed from the meeting by order of the Presiding Officer or majority of the City Council. A person willfully disrupts a meeting when s/he (1) uses physical violence, threatens the use of physical violence or provokes the use of physical violence, or (2) continues to use loud, boisterous, unruly, or provocative behavior after being asked to stop, which behavior is determined by the Presiding Officer or a majority of the City Council present to be disruptive to the orderly conduct of the meeting, or (3) fails to comply with any lawful decision or order of the Presiding Officer or of a majority of the City Council relating to the orderly conduct of the meeting.
8.5 Written Communications: a. In General: Interested parties or their authorized representatives may address the Council by written communication in regard to any matter concerning the City’s business or over which the Council has control at any time by direct mail to Council members, email, or by addressing it to the City Clerk and copies will be distributed to the Council members. b. At City Council Meetings: Except as provided in subsection c, written communications will not be read at City Council meetings, but will be attached to the item as part of the record, tallied, and reported by the City Clerk as generally in favor of or against the proposition. c. Exceptions: A written communication to the City Council may be read by City staff at a City Council meeting when (1) the person making the written communication has asked it be read aloud, (2) the person is unavailable to be at the meeting due to emergency or illness, (3) the written communication can be read in an ordinary cadence within three minutes, and (4) the person’s name appears on the written communication and will be read into the record.
9. Suspension and Amendment of These Rules
9.1 Suspension of these Rules: Any provision of these rules not governed by law may be temporarily suspended by a majority vote of the City Council.
9.2 Amendment of these Rules: These rules may be amended, or new rules adopted, by a majority vote of all members of the City Council, provided that the proposed amendments or new rules have been introduced into the records at a prior City Council meeting.
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8 City Council Agenda Item 1
Submitted by: Tracy Beck Submitting Department: City Manager Meeting Date: April 24, 2018
Subject: Public Comments
Recommendation:
Petitioner: Andy Barton, City Manager
Is this a budgeted item? No
Fiscal Impact:
Background:
Attachments:
9 City Council Agenda Item 2
Submitted by: Tracy Beck Submitting Department: City Clerk Meeting Date: April 24, 2018
Subject: Consideration for approval of the Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting agenda; the March 13, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting minutes; the March 27, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting minutes and the April 3, 2018 Technical Review Meeting minutes.
- Public Comments - Discussion and Possible Action
Recommendation: Approve the Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting agenda; the March 13, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting minutes; the March 27, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting minutes and the April 3, 2018 Technical Review Meeting minutes.
Petitioner: Tracy E. Beck, City Clerk
Is this a budgeted item? No
Fiscal Impact:
Background:
Attachments: m03-13-18 RCC.doc m03-27-18 RCC.doc m04-03-18 TRM.docx
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Mesquite Regular City Council Meeting Mesquite City Hall 10 E. Mesquite Blvd. Tuesday, March 13, 2018; 5:00 PM
Minutes of a scheduled meeting of the City Council held Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 5:00 PM at City Hall. In attendance were Mayor Allan S. Litman; Council members David Ballweg, Rich Green, George Rapson and Brian Wursten. Also, in attendance were City Manager Andy Barton, City Attorney Robert Sweetin, Finance Director Dave Empey, Public Works Director Bill Tanner, City Clerk Tracy E. Beck, other City Staff and approximately 50 citizens.
Mayor Litman called the meeting to order at 5:00 PM and excused Council member W. Geno Withelder. (Note: A recording was made of this meeting and will be retained for one year in the City Clerk’s Office).
Below is an agenda of all items scheduled to be considered. Unless otherwise stated, items may be taken out of the order presented on the agenda at the discretion of the Mayor and Council. Additionally, the Mayor and Council may combine two or more agenda items for consideration and may remove an item from the agenda or delay discussion relating to an item on the agenda at any time. Public comment is limited to three minutes per person.
Ceremonial Matters
The Invocation was offered by High Council Member John Noel, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.
Public Comments
1) Public Comment
Minutes: Mayor Litman opened up the meeting to Public Comments.
Minutes: Mary Nelson: I am a resident of Mesquite. I am here in behalf of the 2018 Sr. Mesquite Pageant. The pageant is not a beauty pageant, rather a celebration of women who have reached that age of elegance, 55 years and older. It acknowledges their life’s accomplishments and shares the women they have become with their family, friends and community. Sr.
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Mesquite Pageant is a 501C3 non-profit organization, and that raised money for charity. Past pageants have so far granted over $40,000 to local community organizations. At this time, I would like to introduce the gracious ladies who have agreed to participate in this year’s pageant. First, we have Colleen Nielson. Next, Sandra Ramaker, LE Ann Elder Kalstein, and Teri Nehrenz. These accomplished ladies have been working tirelessly, selling ads for the program book, rehearsing their talents, stage presence and philosophies of life. We invite you to attend the pageant to support them in their endeavors. Wish them the best on Saturday, April 7th, 2018, 4pm at the Mesquite Community Theater. Tickets are $15.00 and are on sale at the Chamber of Commerce Art Gallery and the theater. See you there. Thank you.
Minutes: Adam Leverenz: At the previous two regular Council Meetings, Bill and Ordinance number 535 was discussed and passed unanimously. By forbidding derogatory comments about city employees, it seeks to prevent people from speaking about specific city personnel who have engaged in various forms of misconduct even when there is ample proof of it. This isn’t the first attempt to restrict speech in this way. Resolution 922 was another effort by Mr. Ballweg back in the spring of 2017. Various Nevada attorney general opinions have also been referred to which the city claims justify its intent to forbid speech about specific public employees who have acted improperly. I personally find hypocrisy very objectionable. I think however most people are hypocrites in one way or another, but you folks seem to take it to the extreme. Here you have each sworn to support, protect, and defend the Constitutions of the United States of Nevada and bear true faith in allegiance to any ordinance, resolution, or law. Yet you multiple times claim there are AG opinions that allow you to specifically forbid speech during public comment period about identifiable bad actors within the city. On the other hand, Attorney General file 13- 021 says that Mesquite Regional Business is required to comply with the open meeting law due to the fact that it is funded primarily by tax payers, over three quarters of a million dollars so far. You all conveniently ignore that AG opinion. Interestingly, there is a Mesquite local news article from May 2nd of 2016 that says MRB works in coordination with local realtors to provide support when they meet with clients. Doug Wreath of Premiere Properties is quoted as saying MRB is a valuable resource for realtors. Printed online advertising shows the smiling faces of Councilman Withelder and Councilman Rapson as agents of Premiere Realties. How can you disregard an AG opinion related to that much money and then want to enforce other ones that say I can’t talk about public employees that have broken the law. Then there are Councilman Ballweg’s close ties with Mesquite Regional Business. A founding and funding member, a past board member, how much of your own or your company’s money have you put in? How invested are you? At the September 12th, 2017 Council meeting you spoke of an award’s ceremony occurring earlier that day in Vegas where MRB was recognized. You said we were down at UNLV. Is we, you and MRB? At that meeting too, I asked if you received a complementary meal or if tax payers paid for your transportation. You didn’t respond. Do you still benefit from your title with MRB? Should you too recuse yourself from voting to allow so many tax dollars to be spent there lacking the government oversight or public oversight, the AG says is appropriate? I would really like to know what process you use to determine which opinions you are going to abide by and which you are going to disregard. Thank you.
Minutes: Kathy Bussman: I am a Mesquite resident. I am here on behalf of Wolf Creek Golf Club. I just would like to say we would have appreciated a heads up for all the construction on Paradise
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Parkway. The whole road has been torn up. This is our busiest time of year. A lot of our guests have missed their tee times or been late because they were following the signs that said keep right which led them to the airport because you can’t see our sign because it is blocked by equipment. All we are asking is that when there is that much of construction going on on our only entrance way into our business, that someone just pick up the phone and call us, so we can let our customers know and just make it a little easier for everybody.
Minutes: Linda Faas: I am here representing the Mesquite Community Education Foundation this evening. The foundation and the students of Virgin Valley High School are putting on a dinner concert next Wednesday night, March 21st at 5pm. This is a benefit to raise money for scholarships for our 2018 graduates of Virgin Valley High School. We hope all of you can be there. I have tickets with me this evening in case you would like to purchase them right now. If that’s not possible, please stop by either Danielle’s Chamber of Commerce Office, the Rec Center or the Senior Center or outside of Ace Hardware on Saturday and Wal-Mart on Saturday will be selling tickets. I hope you will all be there. This is a fund that is so important because it is a way that we can help give our students a leg up as they go to college and trade school. Thank you very much for attending.
Minutes: Terry Ogden: I am representing Utah Youth Soccer. I am here with a giant thank you to this community. This year Utah Youth Soccer is celebrating our 40th anniversary. It’s our 9th year in Mesquite. We began in 2010 with 30-16 Tournament here that has now grown to an annual 3 weekends of President’s Cup and one week of an additional tournament because we can’t get everybody in the President’s Cup. This year we have had over 500 teams participate and in that 9-year span we have had over 36,000 children under the age of 18 come to Mesquite over those 9 years. 24 weekends of tournaments now. We started off with one then went to two then went to 3 and then 4 and grew very quickly down here. A large, large reason for that is the hospitality that is shown by this town, the general population, the restaurants, the hotel industry, but mainly because of the city staff that takes care of us when these people come to town and I would like to personally thank Nick Montoya, Randy Laub, Lonnie Veldt, and the guys that run, they are the boots on the ground for all of you at the city facilities. They do a tremendous job for us. With that said, this might be a little out of the ordinary, but Nick would you mind coming up here real quick. I am going to give Nick a task to give out some of this stuff. We got some things that we would like to give to the Council as kind of a thank you. Trust me they are not anything that is bribery worthy. If you are this desperate you probably need the city council job really bad. I will leave these up here. Nick, I want to make sure and get you and Randy and Lonnie each a scarf as well please. Thank you very much. You guys do a great job and the facilities are awesome. A lot of people are talking about wanting the city council to add more. We’d be in favor of that, but we would also need the businesses to provide more hotels because we are already at capacity on the hotels. Every time we have a tournament here there is more for them to sleep in town. What I understand is our last couple of tournaments we had people sleeping in cars in Wal-Mart and a few things like that in the parking lot because they did not think ahead. That’s no one’s fault but their own. Thank you very much and appreciate all that is done especially from these great guys. Thank you.
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Consent Agenda
2) Consideration for approval the Tuesday, March 13, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting agenda; the February 13, 2018 Redevelopment Agency Meeting minutes; the February 13, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting minutes and the February 20, 2018 Technical Review Meeting minutes.
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
3) Consideration of approval of: a) Notification of Budget Transfers b) Notification of Budget Amendments c) Notification of Bills Paid d) Purchase Orders e) January 2018 Financial Statement
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
4) Consideration of Bid Award for the Town Square Park Project.
- Public Comments - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman asked if there were any questions or comments for Items 2-4 on the Consent Agenda. There were no speakers.
Council member Ballweg moved to approve Items 2 through 4 of the Consent Agenda. Council member Rapson seconded the motion.
Passed For: 4; Against: 0; Abstain: 0; Excused: 1 (Withelder)
Special Items
5) Presentation by the Rising Start Ranch regarding sports tourism and other matters properly related thereto.
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
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Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and informed the Chamber that the Consultant scheduled to give the presentation was stuck on the East Coast due to weather and this item will be rescheduled for March 27, 2018 Regular City Council meeting.
6) Solicitation of the General Public, Non-Profit and Businesses for input regarding the FY 18-19 budget and other matters properly related thereto.
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and deferred to Council member Ballweg,
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: I did put this one on, so we could solicit comments from the Public on where they think the city – we are starting our budget process and in the past sitting in the public being out there. The public did not get a formal time to come up and say here’s what we like the city to maybe think about doing whether it’s new facilities, some new adventure, some whatever it may be. This is I think a lot of cases where we get good ideas in what to pursue and how to evolve them into what makes Mesquite better. I put this on the agenda to give the opportunity for the public to present a public nonprofit business to put on their ideas. That way with being on the agenda the council can engage back and forth and we have a discussion that way. So that was my intent of this item.
Minutes: Mayor Litman opened up this item to Public Comment. There were no speakers.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: All I can say is we try to give the opportunity to everybody to come up and voice their opinion and if you do have something that you want to present or an idea that you necessarily didn’t want to stand up in front here and put on, please feel free to contact me and I think probably all the other council man would feel the same way to get that input so we can try to give some good policy direction to the staff when we start creating this next year’s budget.
7) Presentation of an Update on Mesquite Regional Business, Inc. regarding economic development services and other matters properly related thereto.
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and Introduced Courtney Sweetin.
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Minutes: Courtney Sweetin: Thank you for giving us this opportunity to give an update on Mesquite Regional Business and talk about what are plans are for going forward in the future. I am Courtney Sweeting. I am the interim CEO for MRB. Our former CEO Rachael Dahl took a job in northern Nevada and so I stepped in in the interim to head up the search for a new CEO and to keep our clients served while we are doing that recruitment of finding a new CEO. I do have a PowerPoint; a short one I promise. It’s just easier to put the information up there. I don’t know if you all have the packet in front of you. Our board members are here tonight. We have Dan Wright who is our chair, Dave Bennett is our vice chair, Kathy Bussman is our secretary and our treasurer, and Justin Teerlink is one of our board members as well. We have a new board member. We wanted to take this opportunity to introduce you to him. Ty Wakefield is the CEO of Mesa View Homecare and we have been talking for quite some time about getting someone in the healthcare industry on our board and Ty was our really obvious choice here. He has been working in healthcare in Mesquite for over a decade. He is very involved and active in the community and was excited to come on board and to work in economic development and help us pursue our goals there. Burton Weast who resigned from the board, he is focusing on his health and I hear he is taking up yoga, so we are wishing him all luck with that. I know we have been talking for quite some time about expanding our board, recruiting more board members in the near future so we will be advertising for that and pursuing that. Like I said our major focus right now is CEO recruitment and talking with some of you I know this is a big focus for you as well and you want to know what we are doing with that. I have including the job posting in all of your packets for CEO as well as an advertisement that we put out so if you have people that you think might be interested we would invite you to circulate that. We are looking for a dynamic and motivated leader, someone with strong business sense who understands the needs of the business clients that we are serving and excellent interpersonal skills as they are working with many people in the community. We have posted in both the local newspapers and I think that should all hit this week. Chamber of Commerce, we have sent through our networks, our professional networks at LVGEA, the governor’s office of economic development and IEDC, and also the economic development organizations in Utah, Arizona and California. So, we are trying to cast a wide net to get a large pool to try to choose from. As a board, we are also working our personnel and professional networks. That is kind of why we gave you guys the job description. We really want to try to get as much as we can people who we know. I have been talking to my network down in Las Vegas Valley Train to get the word out about this. I think it is a really exciting opportunity for someone who is already working in economic development but maybe in a bigger organization wanting more freedom. Mesquite is an exciting place to be right now since we are the fastest growing city in the state, so we are really trying to leverage that. Our timeline as we are collecting applications through April 30th and we plan on closing the posting at the end of that month. May, we are setting aside for interviews and a selection process and June 1st we plan on having our new CEO take over and maybe a little bit of transition time in May. We think this is a realistic timeline to get a big enough pool to choose from, but also gets us moving forward quickly in the near future. Like I said we posted last week after we got approval from the board on the job description we’ve already had over half a dozen just since Thursday come in. So, we are hoping we will have a good selection in that process. To clarify, when I stepped in when the board asked me to step in as interim I am not on the board anymore. I anticipate returning to the board once we have hired a new CEO just for clarification. I know you guys all are very aware of our winds and so I am not going to spend too much time on this but just highlight need for the benefit of the community what MRB has had a hand in in dealing with Mesquite and of course this isn’t all of
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them. These are the ones that I think are the most prominent. So, the REV group, that’s probably the one that I get asked about a lot because it has been a while since they purchased their land. They are still anticipating breaking ground in August of this year. So, we are here to support them in any way that we can. It is up to them to kind of take it from here. The Aleman land fill and MRB was integral in that process and because of that we have Mission Senior Living that is now going to be coming to Mesquite. From what we understand, they are breaking ground in May and anticipate about a year of construction. Then they will have about 80 employees that will start there. Eagles Landing, I actually went through all of the old city council minutes and all the presentations that MRB has done before city council and one of the very first goals that MRB put out was to get exit 118, this exit that trucks could come in off of so that we can make that NTCC, city land in the Mesquite Technology & Commerce, to make that more accessible and more marketable to businesses and we have already seen that when we are talking to businesses coming to town, that fact along having exit 118 and knowing that that is a truck stop and that’s traffic that’s going to be coming off there has made it so much more attractive to our business prospects. Rising Star spoke with Jerry Chasko earlier this week and kind of getting a background on – I wasn’t part of the board when this happened, but she related to me that MRB and George Gault specifically were integral in making this happen here in Mesquite. I know that it is such a visible because it is so prominent right there off the freeway. It’s such a visible sign of progress and development to see that and to see the buses coming in, the tournaments filling up, Desert Dogs. It’s an awesome thing to watch. Deep Roots, Keith Cappuro and I’m going to ruin his name, anyway they came up in a previous city council meeting talked about how MRB helped them to – they were (indiscernible) in getting their business started here in Mesquite and we know that the tax revenues that we see from Deep Roots coming in far surpassed what the city expected so that’s a great success. We are hoping to see – I know they are planning an expansion, hoping to see more from that. Natural gas, that was another one of the initial goals that MRB identified when it was in its founding state. Now we are getting really close to that goal. MRB is still continuing to help that process. We have compiled a list of business prospects that have come in but maybe haven’t passed on Mesquite because there is not access to natural gas. So, we are continuing to do that. We also helped write a statement on that that Councilman Ballweg asked MRB to make a statement about the economic impact that we would see coming from natural gas and we submitted that as well. We want to be active partners in that process. This last one is kind of a smaller project, but I think it has interesting implications. So, ACT auto care used a loan from MRB revolving loan fund from MRB to move their location not very from where they were, but it ended up being a better location that fits our needs better. As a result of that, they added 3 new employees. They were able to add services. They bought a paint bay. As a result of that, the building that they vacated was a company called Liquid Health that is a manufacture in California. They do health supplements, came in, took that old ACT building and the old Do It Best Building and after that that was all of our, the rest of our industrial inventory. So, we do not have any more industrial space, we are at capacity, which is a good thing. It is a good indication of economic development, but it’s also a challenge and I’ll address that with some of our projects that we have coming up.
Looking at our active prospects, and I would say that these are not all of our active prospects. I chose the ones that I thought would be of most interest to the council and also ones that I think illustrate the range of things that we are working on and doing at MRB as well as taking into account, some of the prospects are a little more confidential and we don’t feel totally comfortable bringing them up in a public meeting even with a code name. Most of these will
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have code names. Project 12 is a manufacturer that is coming to Mesquite. They are looking at purchasing city property of about 30 acres. They had a letter of intent. I think they are submitting a new letter of intent because they have their financing and everything in order now. With that letter of intent, we will have two letters of intent on the two large city parcels. So, there are two big parcels and there are letters of intent on both of those about 30 acres each. MRW Design and this council is all familiar with this group, Greg Mathis is a developer that was coming in to do workforce housing and there is a little bit of a road block with the particular property that he chose but he is still interested in moving forward and working on an existing property that already his partner owns. They are looking at affordable senior housing on one end, work force housing on the other end, and that’s moving forward. Rebar Baskets, and this was talked about a little bit at the PUC hearing and I think it is such an interesting chase of why people love Mesquite and want to be here. This company wanted to come years ago but without natural gas, they can’t make it pencil out. It doesn’t make financial sense to move their business here to Mesquite, but because they love Mesquite and because they really liked what we had to offer here, they are still interested in coming and so with natural gas coming down the pike we are hoping that this is something that we can finally make a reality. Project Pots is another interesting one. It came through – a real estate agent in town that brought them to Mesquite Regional Business and then in showing them around town they recognized that one of their suppliers actually is in Mesquite and so they started talking about that supplier and possibly buying or leasing space from that supplier and being able to bring their manufacturing business here from California. So, we are still in talks with that. Project Tuxedo I know Rachel updated you or told you about this initially at the last MRB update last year. This is a large distribution company, over 100 employees. They had some reorganization in their company but are still waiting for that to kind of calm down. Those are changes that are going on internally and then they are still looking at Mesquite. Same thing, the particular executive that came here just really fell in love with Mesquite and thought that this would be a great place to retire and it made sense to bring their distribution here as well. Project Surf is actually a really interesting one that’s come across just this last couple of weeks. Since I have been in, we got through a board member, through Justin Teerlink. This particular person is out of California. He has few businesses. It’s kind of turned into 3 projects really. So, one is they manufactured surfboard fins and they did their manufacturing in China. He has a partner that lives in China that is Australian, and I have spent my days talking to the American partner and my evenings talking to the partner in China because he is about 16 hours ahead. They have made the decision to leave China. They don’t feel like it is stable. They don’t feel like they can count on things for the long term there and they decided to come to the United States. The American partner had been here looking actually and Brian looking at property, was thinking about southern Utah. He happened to be in (indiscernible) when I called him, so he asked if he could have a meeting in Mesquite. We got people to meet at 8 am so he could meet before he got on the road back to California. It was a great meeting. I really like the feel of it here. He said everybody is just really responsive and we have been talking almost every day since. He’s really excited about moving that project from China. As a result of that, he also has a construction company that he runs out of California and Utah, but he wants to start in Nevada. He’s planning on doing that over the next 4 to 6 months. He likes some of the business incentives we have to offer but he would need industrial space or warehousing space which we don’t have. He works with a developer in California who does pop up kind of warehousing and he’s talking about bringing that partner in to create the type of warehousing that he would need but also create maybe more warehousing that they could lease or sell. So, it’s kind of an exciting project. We are talking with them every day. He’s talked with Aaron Baker and coming in April to look at land.
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He’s looked through the cities available land. He’s really excited about it, really likes Mesquite, really likes – I think it is one of the strengths of MRB that we are able to be really responsive. We are able to be really quick with people where he said you know everything in California is just – it takes a few days to even return an email, so I think this is a strength for Mesquite. We are excited to see where that goes. Project pacifier is a local, a small, but I think it is instructive seeing what MRB is involved in. These are two individuals who want to open a child care facility in Mesquite. They see a huge need for this. There are not a lot of options here. They are going through the process with getting licensing and certifications down in Vegas and we are working with them to try to end with locale realtor to try and think outside the box, and find some space. That would make sense for this. We know this a barrier to employment for a lot of people in Mesquite, not having adequate or affordable child care. So, we think this is a critical project that we want to help out on. Even though it is smaller than some of these other things we are talking about, we really feel like it is vital to the economy of Mesquite overall. This last one came to us through our Mayor. We have a local business that wants to stay in Mesquite but is losing some storage space and needs more square footage, so we are going through the process of deciding if it will be more cost effective for them to build a new place from scratch that meets their specifications or if they need to look at existing property that might need to be refurbished. We are working with them on that to try to keep them in town. We feel like it’s our – we need to try to keep businesses in town. Our focus is on bringing people from outside of town, but we also need to be focusing on our local entrepreneurs and our existing businesses to make sure they are healthy and thriving because that is going to affect economic development overall.
A quick comparison of the in-house cost to the city compared to MRB contracting cost and I know you probably all know this information. If not, it’s out here for the public too. This is the average cost per year for the city of Mesquite to do economic development in-house and the average cost per year funding MRB. Obviously, it makes financial sense to outsource economic development. We also feel strongly that it makes organizational sense. That it makes sense to have an organization that is dedicated solely to advocating for new businesses that are coming to town and that way a city employee doesn’t have to strike a balance between what is best for the city versus what is best for the client. We can kind of have that conversation together and work out solutions that are mutually beneficial rather than having one person trying to balance that. This is how a lot of bigger cities do it. Not all bigger cities. Some of them have it, but they usually have some sort of separation in their (indiscernible). Like the city of Henderson has a large economic development arm but it’s really kind of independent from the rest of the city. In a small city is it hard to do that. It is hard to isolate people, so we really think that having Mesquite Regional Business operate as a separate entity makes the most sense.
This last one is one that I have been focusing on, that we have been focusing on as a board, but we really wanted to get a better idea of MRB’s return on investment. When we talk to the Council we hear this a lot. How can we calculate MRB’s value and what it is contributing to the community? When I started in as interim and started making calls to try to see how we could really quantify this, I realized it is a trickier thing than I thought, than I anticipated. For example, we track through LVGEA and governor’s office of economic development; we check leads inquiries, and prospects. While I think those are instructive, I don’t think they give us the whole picture of what is really happening here in Mesquite. Also, they have special requirements for tracking those like they don’t count restaurants or certain projects or things that probably would be considered economic development in Mesquite because it is smaller but maybe don’t meet
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the cuts at that state level or the county level. LVGEA will do an economic impact assessment. They will do that for each specific client or each specific win. We can fill out this form that kind of has number of jobs, average salary, percentage of insurance paid by employers, lots of facts and they will run it through an algorithm and I know that has been done for big projects like Deep Roots. They have run that analysis for us. Sherry and I are working on getting these done for our major wins and for our current major prospects. The other issue with this is, is that it is based on an algorithm that is tailored to Clark County and so it won’t be as accurate for Mesquite since Mesquite is different. We are part of Clark County, but we have a very different structure and set up. So, thinking about this we want to create a better system for tracking critical metrics. I think this is where we are going to focus some of our energy in the next few weeks and months. We want to look at the number of new jobs coming into Mesquite, the average wages. We want to have a database of maybe building permits, what people are paying in new business licensing fees that is coming in. Increases in tax revenue and I have talked with a lot of city employees about doing this. It is tricky. It is not all cut and dry and straight forward. What I think because we are small and because we have good communication we can do this. We can compile these numbers or make good estimates especially in the case of like Deep Roots, we can look specifically at the marijuana tax and that gives us information right there or property taxes. We can extrapolate some information there. Also, capital investments, if they are making any changes or any investments in buying new equipment, new properties, what have you. So, this is a goal that we are pursuing, and I know Gaye Stockman used kind of a database, spreadsheet and we are kind of going with that idea, but adding more to it, adding these other metrics to it. Whether something is categorized as a win, a lead, or a loss, what their needs are for square footage, employees, that kind of thing, but also putting these other metrics in, and like I said I am meeting tomorrow over at the city to find out what is the best way, not to create any burden on the city to create this, but what’s the best way MRB can start tracking this. I think we want to be able to use it for communication purposes when we talk to the city and when we get updates about what we are doing, but also for a measure against ourselves of how we are doing and what we are creating and actually adding and putting a monetary value on that the best that we can. Like I said, we don’t want to have to rely on LVGEA or somebody down in Las Vegas to give those metrics to us. We want to be able to do that ourselves.
Like I said, number one is recruiting a CEO and have somebody come in here that is ready to take the position and move forward like we need to. Last year, Rachael informed you of our IRS audit. I don’t think we had gotten the report back on it at that time that she gave her presentation. When the report came back, the only thing we had come back was that we were missing some W-9’s for some of our contractors which were subsequently found after that, and we send it back to the auditors. So, there was really nothing, no penalties or anything like that found from the audit, but it did make the board stop and think about establishing some financial controls for the future. So, we have contracted, and this has been since December we have been working with David Waite who is a CPA. He is also a professor of Accounting in Hawaii and he’s given us a really great rate. He’s performing a review of our financials and giving us some consulting on how we can move forward and establish better financial controls that can kind of last between leadership and carry forward. Like I said priority is working with the city and doing whatever we need to do to support for that natural gas thing. We know this is such a critical thing for Mesquite and for the future of economic development here. So, we are happy and willing to do whatever we need to do. Like I said we are keeping that spreadsheet up to date for those missed opportunities. We are also working hard in the office to create complete
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active files for the new CEO in order to streamline the transition. I am coming in trying to play catch up. I have been on the board for a little over a year and looking at things from a high level is very different than looking at things and trying to figure out when the last point of communication is. So, we are really creating these comprehensive files that somebody can come in and they can see when the last point of contact is. They have all the information there at hand. They don’t have to go scouring through emails to try to find information. We also are leveraging technology to identify leads. Every month MRB provides a report to the city. We were providing the report from the service that we paid for with Multi-View that uses some internet targeting, targeted marketing. We are trying to find the best way to leverage that. I was just speaking with the person at the company today and trying to find the way that is going to make the most sense for Mesquite. A lot of our leads come more organically through talking with people in the community, through just somebody knowing somebody or somebody hearing something. But we do think that moving into the future this could be really helpful for Mesquite especially when we are growing so quickly. This might be a new place and especially because we see a lot of people wanting to come from California, a lot of movement there. We do have a small business development center. We do not have a dedicated council right now but MRB is acting as - we are serving those clients. Like I said before, I think it is important that we do pay attention to those local entrepreneurs, those local businesses to try to give them the support and to encourage economic development that way as well. So, we are keeping that going. Like I said we are using some targeted marketing because there are a lot of manufacturers in California that are not happy with the state of their state, I guess. They are looking to make changes. So, this is a project that Sherry took on and has really identified some perspective clients. She sends out our community profile and follows up with phone calls and working that angle. We are looking at upgrading our monthly reports to the city and changing the format a little bit using those metrics that I talked to you about starting to give real numbers that we think would be more instructive to the city council and to the city staff.
The last one is something we have been working on for a while. It is kind of being pushed to the back burner with everything else going on but I think it is still important to mention. We have talked with an attorney about transferring over from 501-C6 to a 501-C3. So, we have an attorney that is experienced in tax and these kinds of transitions. One thing the auditor did note is that we didn’t really look like a 501-C6. If we transition to a 501-C3 we will be able to apply for grants and that is the big impotence for that is that we can apply for grants that might be able to fund marketing projects, incentive programs and so we think this might make sense for MRB going forward in the future. So, we are going to continue that, down that path.
With that I will open it up for any questions that you have for me or the board.
(PowerPoint slide presentation).
Minutes: Council member Rapson: I would like to thank you for the presentation, very informative. I am looking forward to the financial analysis because what I think a lot of people miss is when you score a win and I’ll speak to that for just a moment. You hear people say well they were coming anyway, they were doing this anyway. Well you talk to anyone of these people that run these businesses whether it is Deep Roots, whether it is REV, whether it is Exit 118 where you pick, they will tell you that without MRB’s help at the minimum and without their existence at the maximum, they would not have been here or been here in the capacity that they are today. So,
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you either call the businesses owners a liar and say well that is nonsense, or you accept that as fact and I frankly accept it in the most cases. I sat in with the meeting with REV and I am thrilled to hear they are coming, sat in with REV and MRB did a great job at pulling everybody that was relevant together including members from the Council, the Mayor, contractors, CCSN that was talking about employment and workforce specific training specific training. I mean it was a large group of people and it was very well organized and as she mentioned, it was on the fly. I mean this happened quickly and got pulled together quickly. I think that the gentleman, I can’t remember his name, it’s been a couple of years now, but he flat out said without that meeting and these people in this room, we probably would have picked Scottsdale or wherever else they were looking. So back on to the topic, the financial ramifications of these wins are not just simply hey they come, that’s great. They employ people like Deep Roots, 80 people or whatever it is now for years and years and years, and that payroll is circulated in this town. That’s part of the analysis I assume that is coming now. Property tax increases. Those buildings sat vacant for 10 years. Now they are actually a functioning business and paying taxes, property taxes. We get some of that. They are paying business license fees. They are paying for the permits, the gross receipts tax. These things are recurring revenue streams to this city as long as they exist, so it’s not just say, hey we got a win, they employ 50 people oh boy. That’s what your $190,000 is going to. It’s these wins that perpetuate the cash flow to this city over a period of years, a long period of years. So far none of these have failed. They have all been pretty strong businesses. I just think she spoke to the responsiveness and that REV was a perfect example. I sat in on that one and I heard the guy say it. So, it’s real and they do a good job, and I appreciate the audit. I appreciate the financial controls. I appreciate the expansion of the board. I appreciate what you are doing and how you are going about getting this to be a grown-up organization with accountability and controls. That’s very helpful. Thank you.
Minutes: Mayor Litman opened up this item to Public Comment. There were no speakers.
Department Reports
8) Mayor's Comments
Minutes: Mayor Litman: I just want to make a quick comment about something that I did last week that would interest probably a great number of the senior citizens in here and including myself. Fire Chief Andros and I went to by invitation the mayors of southern Utah and the County Commissioners of southern Utah to preview some of the new facilities at Intermountain Medical which is Dixie Hospital and we were just amazed at what we saw. Now this is not anything that would be done in Mesquite because of the size and cost of these facilities is astronomical, but we were able to preview the latest in aortic stenosis. I wouldn’t call it replacement. It’s more of a repair where they actually take an aortic valve manmade and place it into the current aortic valve that is diseased without cracking a chest, without doing anything of that nature. Not everybody is eligible for this particular procedure, but they have done 55 of them in the past year, not in the fancy facility they have now but in their facilities, not one individual and the average stay in the hospital 2 days or less. Average age 82 years of age. We were just
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amazed. We also got to see a new MRI facility where you go right from the MRI right into surgery. No transferring through the hospital, just straight on in. So just absolutely state of the art facilities. I will make everybody aware that these are available should anybody need these types of things in St. George without having to go all the way to Las Vegas. There are very few places that do this type of surgery. Very, very enlightening.
9) City Council and Staff Reports and Comments
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item and asked City Council and Staff if they had any comments.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: Not that I can address Mr. Leverenz directly because it is not an agenda item, but you referenced some things you said in the past and he had sent us written requests for information and I would like to – and this information was passed on to him. I would like to read Mr. Sweetin’s letter or email back to Mr. Leverenz on the information because we keep getting questioned on our ability to – some limitation of free speech. So, I am just going to read Mr. Sweetin’s response to him and there was documentation attached. He says the AG opinion file number is 00-047. It is attached for your review along with the excerpts of the relevant provisions of the open meeting law. I think you will see our policies are actually more liberal than those constraints provided by the Attorney General in that the city does allow personal attacks on public figures, allows comments that are repetitious and allows comments that have been established or outside the (indiscernible) or control of the city government. The city of Mesquite is committed to ensuring any member of the public as a forum to share their concerns both to their duly elected officials and to the listening public. It says please let me know if you have any other questions. There was an AG opinion provided with details of what we are allowed to do and well within the – and actually as Mr. Sweetin said very much more liberal and allow much more latitude to public comment. One of the things that typically the AG doesn’t require us to do which we do and I pass that by actually resolution first and now it’s in the form of an ordinance is actually allow public comment on each agenda item. That’s not done, and if you really go to any other public meeting anywhere in Las Vegas, that’s not done. You get very controlled comments in the beginning, very controlled comments at the end. I think everybody in this council when they voted for that, were voting to allow the public, so we could hear what they want. So, there’s no effort on my part or by the action of this council to restrict anybody from giving us relevant comment. Thank you.
Minutes: Council member Rapson: Just like to mention back to the presentation of MRB real quick, I know you guys all saw that, but it was an average of $275,000 a year that the city spent on economic development from 2007 to 2012. I am not aware of any wins for that money. We can count NCS. That was a major failure. Desert Falls, Amateur Sports Complex, failure. So, we can’t do it. So, we have demonstrated for $100,000 less somebody else is doing it better than we did, and I applaud them for that.
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Minutes: Andy Barton: The Next City Manager forum is going to be held at Mesa View Hospital a week from Thursday, the 22nd of March at 8 am. So, we hope to see this many people there as possible.
Minutes: Nick Montoya: I just wanted to update you on the noise ordinance. We’re working diligently with Sun City residents, and the HOA and Sea Breeze Management to inform them of all the events and to keep an eye on the sound ordinances that are happening up there. So, I just wanted to inform you all of that. Administrative Items
10) Mid-year Budget Update and other matters properly related thereto.
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and deferred to Andy Barton and Dave Empey.
Minutes: Andy Barton: The council directed staff to prepare a major budget review and the intent of doing this was to determine if we are on track for both revenues and expenditures in this year’s coming budget. Staff prepared a mid-year review the same we prepare for our annual review which is to have the finance director and myself and some staff meet with some of the departments heads individually and evaluate the numbers on the respective budgets. The results overall were positive. The departments have been spending very conservatively, and we are well within budget parameters and we anticipate finishing the year under budget. Revenues are up as well. We are still predicting a shortfall which the finance director will get to in his report. We didn’t include in this review were staffing and equipment request for the coming fiscal year. Those will be presented. Those recommendations will be presented in May when we have our annual budget review the council. So, with that, I’d like the finance director to address this.
Minutes: Dave Empey: It is an honor to share with you some of the financial highlights that have been and are occurring in the city. I trust that each one of you have just a brief overview of each of the 24 funds on that summary. You see the fund balance or the equity balance for each one of those 24 funds. At the end of February, the cumulative total of combined equity of those 24 funds amounts to $63,400,000. In January, that combined equity balance was about $62,900,000. So, over a one-month period of time equity among all 24 funds is increased by approximately $600,000. On the front page of that summary that you have before you the general fund leads that listing of the funds, and I would just like to touch upon some of the highlights there. Property tax for example, property taxes received as of February 28th for this year exceed prior year by approximately $225,000. It’s difficult at this point in time to give how
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we stand budgetarily because there is a seasonality issue with respect when those property taxes are paid and then remitted back to the city but on the most recent financial statement for February that I believe each one of you received a copy of the end of last week, the property taxes show we are above exceeding budget at this point and that’s significant. I would also point out that as you receive monthly financial statements, we can gauge how we are doing, revenue wise as well as expenditures for the benefit of the public. For example, through February which is about 67% of the year that is expired now, taxes which include property taxes and room taxes are about 80% of budget for the 8-month period. If we were on budget, we would be about 67% of budgets. So, any of these percentages I mentioned above 67% are beneficial. So, in the revenue category of taxes were at 80%, licenses and permits were at 88% of budget as compared to – if we were right on budget that would be 67%. Our governmental revenues that is right on, 67% chartered for services, category is 81% of budget and from there on out it is about right on budget so in significant areas our general fund revenues are at or slightly ahead of budget which is good. We will wait to see how the rest of the year pans out, but at this point things look very favorable. With regard to another one of our major general fund revenue sources is the c-Tax revenue. For this current year, c-Tax revenues exceed the prior year actual c-Tax revenue allocations by about $191,000 or almost 5% so that’s good. In terms of how that compares with the budget, we show a favorable variance of $127,000 or just slightly over 3%. So, we are just slightly ahead of budget with regard to c-Tax revenues. Again, a favorable report there. The other thing I wanted to point out to you is the expenditures as we watched those every month is financial statements, monthly financial statements are generated. Of course, we watch the expenditures. That’s an extremely important component of the budget formula. As of the end of February, most of the general fund departments are at or below that 67% threshold. There might be one or two that slightly exceed that 67% but for the most part all departments are below that 67% budget threshold which is good. Now the challenge is to continue in that vein. We are going through now the very early stages of our budget cycle and we are capturing as much information as we can as to what projected is going to be through this current fiscal year. So that will be the key, but honestly from what I see over the course of 8 months, I see we are consistently at or below budgeted spending so that’s good. I don’t anticipate or have any of the department managers; directors indicate that they would be exceeding the appropriations limitations within the budget. So, I think their general fund we are going to end up in healthy shape. We have had a few additional revenue sources this year, marijuana. Through March collections which we received on March 5th, we show about $400,000 that’s been received and that’s against a budget of $240,000 so we will be receiving a little more than anticipated on the marijuana revenues. Also, there was an ambulance study that was done where we recovered some Medicaid ambulance fees from several years ago that amounted to about a little over $250,000. So again, revenues weren’t anticipated or budgeted at this point. So, this all helped to create a healthy financial environment for the city. Again, I think things are financially sound, stable. Our department directors are to be recognized for that and I’d like to share with you as we share these monthly financials statements with you then this final paragraph I think in that accompanying letter described pretty well how we regard what we do as an organization. Principles of good financial management are the business of the entire organization and also that we should all be mindful of our roles in protecting Mesquite citizens money, resources by ensuring that it is spent in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. I think monthly financial statements that you receive are indicative of that basic philosophy that organizationally I believe that we all subscribe to. I would be happy to entertain any questions or comments if there are any.
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Minutes: Council member Ballweg: I would like to comment to the public also that all these financials that Dave is referring that he sends to us they are also posted on line so anybody that wants to jump into them and read the incomes and the expenditures and every check that is sent and every PO that is issued is online. If you are interested in looking at where the money is going and where it comes in from and what percentages were under and over, it’s all there to go and look at. We have to really do thank our staff for being very prudent with the funding, with their expenditures, buying things that we do need by keeping our equipment up to date so we are pulling out of the Great Recession or whatever you want to call it, however you want to describe it. We have to still watch it and watch our spending, but I think we are getting to the point where we might be looking at being able to do some things with a little bit of capital expenditure, a little bit more of some delayed maintenance. It’s not too bad, but some of those things that will catch up with are things at the rec center. There has always been Rec Center needs and things. I think it is a very good report.
Minutes: Mayor Litman opened this item to Public Comment.
Minutes: Linda Pergolski: I wanted to talk about a couple of things. First of all, the library is beautiful. I love that thing. I am so happy that our community is giving that. It’s absolutely gorgeous. The second thing is I wish that there was a plethora of information on your website about why you chose to back energy choice. I said it before, I know MRB ---
Minutes: Mayor Litman: Excuse me ma’am. This is item is a public comment item on the item.
Minutes: Linda Pergolski: Oh, beg your pardon. I thought it was done. I thought we were at the end. I am so sorry. Thank you. Public Comments
11) Public Comment
Minutes: Mayor Litman opened up the meeting to Final Public Comment.
Minutes: Linda Pergolski: The Energy Choice, I feel like MRB and the Chamber of Commerce of course, yes they should support percent, but I feel like you guys didn’t research enough on how this is going to impact the citizens. I think bringing business here is great, but I think for the city to have a resolution saying that they support something without having any kind of data that says why you are supporting it besides business. Yes, business is important, but the citizens that are here that are senior citizens that can barely make ends meet right now are more concerned with
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their bills going up. Virtually every single one I looked at in my research, bills have gone up. My relatives in Texas pay more to have their energy brought to them than they do pay for the energy. So, I just feel like you guys do really good having little committees and so forth. I have seen on your website to review this or that or this before you put forward a resolution. I just wonder why Energy Choice wasn’t looked at like that in that vein. I understand 70% approved last voting because they didn’t understand what they were reading I feel, but I still feel like it’s such a huge issue that some input from the public as citizens not as businesses should have been considered in that. Thank you. Adjournment
12) Adjournment
Minutes: Mayor Litman adjourned the meeting at 6:07 PM
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Allan S. Litman, Mayor Tracy E. Beck, City Clerk
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Mesquite Regular City Council Meeting Mesquite City Hall 10 E. Mesquite Blvd. Tuesday, March 27, 2018, 5:00 PM
Minutes of a scheduled meeting of the City Council held Tuesday, March 27. 2018 at 5:00 PM at City Hall. In attendance were Mayor Allan S. Litman; Council members David Ballweg, Rich Green, George Rapson, W. Geno Withelder and Brian Wursten. Also in attendance were City Manager Andy Barton, City Attorney Robert Sweetin, Development Services Director Richard Secrist, Public Works Director Bill Tanner, IT Director Dirk Marshall, City Clerk Tracy E. Beck, other city staff and approximately 36 citizens.
Mayor Litman called the meeting to order at 5:00 PM (Note: A recording was made of this meeting and will be retained in the City Clerk’s office for one year).
Below is an agenda of all items scheduled to be considered. Unless otherwise stated, items may be taken out of the order presented on the agenda at the discretion of the Mayor and Council. Additionally, the Mayor and Council may combine two or more agenda items for consideration, and may remove an item from the agenda or delay discussion relating to an item on the agenda at any time. Public comment is limited to three minutes per person.
Ceremonial Matters
A Moment of Silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Public Comments
1) Public Comment
Minutes: Mr. Leverenz: With Council member Withelder being away at the last regular meeting, I want to review some of what I said so it would be on the record of what is being said in front of every elected official, the City Manager and the City Attorney. Most of you heard this last time, so you can tune out. I pointed out that Bill/Ordinance number 535 was discussed and passed unanimously by Council and that by forbidding derogatory comments about city employees it seeks to prevent people from speaking here about city personnel who have engaged in various forms of misconduct, even when there is ample evidence of it. I noted that Resolution 922 was another effort by Mr. Ballweg, back in the spring of 2017, to do the same thing and the various Nevada Attorney General Opinions have been mentioned which the city claims justify its intent to forbid speech about public employees who have acted improperly. I mentioned hypocrisy and pointed out that you have all sworn to support, protect and defend the constitution of the United States and Nevada and bear true faith and allegiance to any ordinance, resolution, or law, yet multiple times claim there are AG Opinions and laws that allow you to specifically forbid
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speech during public comment period about identifying period bad actors within the city. Alternatively, you conveniently disregard AG file number 13-021saying the Mesquite Regional Business is required to comply with the open meeting law due to the fact that it is funded primarily tax payer dollars to the extent of a little over three quarters of a million dollars so far. I noted that a Mesquite Local News article from May 2, 2016 saying MRB works in coordination with local realtors and provide support when they meet with clients, and the article quoted Doug Reath of Premier Properties saying that MRB is a valuable resource with realtors. I mentioned that advertising for Premier Properties shows Geno Withelder and George Rapson as working there. How can you two councilmen not recuse yourself from voting to fund MRB when your agency clearly appears to benefit? I also discussed Councilman Ballweg’s close ties with MRB. I did not receive response when I asked how much of his own or his company’s money he has put into it. I noted that of a September 12, 2017 meeting he spoke of an awards ceremony occurring earlier in the day in Vegas. He said we were down at UNLV. I asked if “We” was him and MRB, if he received a complimentary meal and if tax payers paid his transportation expense. Those questions also went unanswered. I asked if you, too, recused yourself giving your close ties and given that the Attorney General of Nevada says they are required to comply with the open meeting law. And at the last meeting, Courtney Sweetin, MRB CEO and interim President gave a presentation of its activity. If you Google her name, Robert Sweetin is identified as a relative and if you Google his name, she’s identified as a relative. If Bob Sweetin, City Attorney who, overseeing you ignoring AG file 13-021 saying MRB has to comply with the open meeting law, related to a board member of MRB? That would be very concerning.
Minutes: Sara Stevens: I am new to Mesquite. I moved here after the products I bought at Deep Root Harvest cured me of cancer after chemo and radiation had failed and also because of the way that city Council allowed it to happen, allowed the dispensary to be here. I came from LA where they fought us, fought us, fought us. If you guys aren’t answering questions just from what that guys said this is like an employee/employer meeting where we are coming to you guys because you are employees. There is a lot of innovative and creative stuff that can be done with the marijuana plant, not just smoking it. If you guys wanted to get more involved in the hemp industry since you can grow it here, just step forward. Now is the time. Someone is going to be the first person that does this. Someone is going to be the first people who cut seizures in half by 50%. That is something we couldn’t have thought to do 5 years ago, but we literally can reduce seizures but like 50%. Homes can put themselves out when they catch on fire made of Hemp-crete. Why would we not be at least using it to fill pot holes to test it? Also, we’d like gun regulation stuff. Again, if you guys step forward, finger print scanners on triggers, easy things like that that can happen that need to come from our representatives. It’s not from corporate or anything like that. I’m just excited to be here and to see what you guys do. I would like for the Cambian financing issue like if a city just allowed all the representatives to have a blog, a free blog. That was the only campaign financing that could be done. Things like that is where it is a more interactive government to where, a site where we help set agenda items, where the top 3 most voted will be on the agenda and a website proxy as a vote or something; – just get crazy with it. Please. Obviously, we are ready for that at this time in our culture, and the change is going to happen really, really fast on both sides. So, I am excited to be here, but I will be watching.
Minutes: Paul Benedict: The lights dim, and the audience settles. As the curtain rises months of preparation come through fruition and the story comes to life. Since 1962 World Theater Day
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has been celebrated by theater professionals, theater organizations, theater universities and theater lovers all over the world on the 27th of March, that’s today. This day is a celebration for those who can see the value and importance of the art of theater as it continues to move, entertain, educate and change us. World Theater Day acts as a wakeup call for governments, politicians and institutions which have not recognized its value to the people and to the individual and have not yet realized his potential for economic growth. The Virgin Valley Theater Group is proud to present our contribution to the arts with our final performances of Neil Simon’s hilarious comedy, “Last of the Red-Hot Lovers” this Friday and this Saturday evenings at 7pm. If you have seen the play already, we thank you for your laughter and for your applause, and of course you are welcome to come and see it again. Word of mouth has helped our audiences continue to grow at each performance. If you have not seen “Last of the Red-Hot Lovers” you have two more chances, this Friday and this Saturday evenings. Please fill the seats in the Mesquite Community Theater this weekend. Let us entertain you. Thank you.
Minutes: Mayor Litman: Before we do the Consent Agenda, I do have a presentation that Mr. Tanner is going to make.
Minutes: Mr. Tanner: I just want to take a few short minutes and make a presentation to a gentleman that volunteered for the Public Works Department in 2013. That year he was nominated as volunteer of the year. Since that time, he has worked 4 years off and on for the Public Works Department. We would like to recognize Mr. Linberger if he would come forward. He is relentless in his efforts to work diligently in our community. I think everyone knows him and has seen him out in the community chopping weeds, spraying weeds, cleaning up weeds and we just want to recognize that for Mr. Linberger. He is relentless in that job. I think everyone realizes that.
Minutes: Mr. Linberger: And if you want to join me, I’ll always have one or two extra sprayers in the truck, extra rakes, extra shovels. Raise your hand.
Minutes: Mayor Litman: When I see the back of that truck, I avoid it quickly.
Minutes: Mr. Tanner: (Reads the plaque); We have had a little difficulty over the years trying to explain to Don the difference between public property and private property. He finally figured it out. He has to work on his own time on private property and for us on public property. Right, Don?
Minutes: Mr. Linberger: I work whenever the weeds are growing and wherever they are growing. Thanks to Mr. Tanner and his staff this is possible. I remember six years ago I went to his office looking for some of those orange plastic bags that you can put trash in. So well how many do you need? Well give me a fist full. So, by the end of the day, I had about 20 of those orange bags across the street from Maverick and sure enough the street department crew came by with a truck and they hauled it all away. So, I have been doing that kind of thing ever since and it’s because he has such good people on the staff particularly the street department, it is easy and
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kind of fun to do. It’s just that some days not as easy to get up and get the motor running. Do you know what I mean? Thank you.
Consent Agenda
2) Consideration for approval of the March 27, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting agenda; the February 27, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting minutes and the March 6, 2018 Technical Review Meeting minutes.
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item and deferred to Tracy Beck.
Minutes: Ms. Beck: I have erroneously left out a line from the February 17, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting Minutes which is up for approval tonight. I would like to include that line in the final minutes that will be posted on line and signed after approval.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: The agenda item doesn't say anything about the February 17th meeting.
Minutes: Ms. Beck: I'm sorry, it's February 27th.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: I think the one that was in question was the 17th.
Minutes: Ms. Beck: There was no meeting on the 17th.
Council member Withelder moved to approve the amended February 27, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting minutes. Council member Wursten seconded the motion.
Passed For: 5; Against: 0; Abstain: 0; Absent: 0
3) Consideration of approval of: a) Notification of Budget Transfers b) Notification of Budget Amendments c) Notification of Bills Paid d) Purchase Orders e) February 2018 Financial Statement
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- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
Council member Ballweg moved to approve Items 2 and 3 of the Consent Agenda. Council member Wursten seconded the motion.
Passed For: 5; Against: 0; Abstain: 0; Absent: 0
Special Items
4) Presentation by the Rising Start Ranch regarding sports tourism and other matters properly related thereto.
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and introduces Andre Carrier.
Minutes: Andre Carrier: I am the COO of the Eureka Casino Resorts and Rising Star Sports Ranch. So, I do not go on too long and give the floor quickly to my honored guests, I even wrote down my comments, so I will try to be brief. Thank you for the opportunity to present. Our now employee owned family business has consistently made significant investments in this community for more than 20 years. Our investments are not only in our own business but in causes and programming for the broader benefit of the community with significant direct investment in education and essential community programs. In our most recent investment, we built the Rising Star, Mesquite’s first new resort in more than a decade and likely one of the larger new non-housing investments in that same period. In opening more hotel rooms in the market, we work diligently to not only find a positioning that was unique from the existing hotel offerings, but to generate a unique demand by identifying and attracting new events to the market and not cannibalizing from existing hotels. In the development of the Star, we identified that travelers continue to evolve, and the profile of the Mesquite visitor continues to evolve as well. Mesquite is not immune from the changing spending patterns and interest of the Nevada visitor. A decade ago we would have not have believed that Las Vegas would have a professional hockey team and further that the raiders would be moving to a new stadium there and two years ago, we would not believe that Mesquite would be home to a professional basketball team. Yet all those things have occurred. In both of those examples, sports have been the center of the evolving story of the economy and culture. Finding effective ways to attract new visitors is essential to the long-term success of our employee owned family business. I am pleased to report that after just 18 months of operation, the Rising Star Sports Ranch business model is growing. Visitation and room revenue and introducing new visitors to the Mesquite market. When the Rising Star opened on October 1st of 2016, the average nightly available room inventory in Mesquite increased from 1695 available rooms to 1905 rooms per night. I say this for a specific reason. Since opening in October of 2016, the city of Mesquite has increased its occupied monthly room night totals ever single month. During 2017, the city of Mesquite had 44,400 more occupied hotel room nights than in 2016. Year over year room revenue grew
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$2.9 million or 10.4% in 2017 with occupied room nights growing 9.1% with an average daily rate of $58.62. I say this as that rate is 52% below the national average of $122 and more than $50 below that of neighboring St. George. What statistics don’t show is that the related growth and trips to our local restaurants, our grocery stores, and other business and the tax phase implications as well. The Rising Start added 200 rooms, and we filled more than what capacity we grew. We are killing what – we are eating what we kill. The growth in large part is coming from new sports events. They are not just regional draws, but national. In fact, on the last several event weekends, if you reviewed our registrants, the participations in teams are more from outside the tri-state region than they are from within it. Mesquite is now a legitimate contender as a national destination for sporting events, more than we had ever considered. Why? Our favorable weather, our existing inventory of rooms, and most importantly our past investment in sports fields and diamonds that have been expertly maintained. The Star is showing that there is an even greater potential for sports travel, to be substantial economic driver for Mesquite. As Las Vegas enters the stadium era, and the Las Vegas visitors and convention facility are expanding more pressure will be put on already peak weekends. Smaller groups with different demographics will get pushed out of Las Vegas, and with the right planning Mesquite could benefit from this shifting visitor pattern. For this reason, I have invited nationally recognized sports facility advisory to speak with you tonight to tell you what communities around the country are doing to compete for this new sports travel economy. What an incredible position Mesquite is to become a national leader in this space. With that and the most composed I think reading of my remarks I have ever done since the 8th grade I turn over the presentation to the capable hands of my friend, Eric Sullivan.
Minutes: Eric Sullivan with SFA/SFM: We have the privilege and opportunity to help communities around the country develop, fund and operate sport fitness recreation entertainment complexes. We have been doing this work since 2003. Since that time, we have served over 1600 communities and we currently operate and manage over 26 facilities across the country and server 120 communities on a full-time basis. What is really exciting about what is happening in the industry right now is the space race and the evolution that is sports tourism. So as Andre shared, there are some real-world examples of communities generating a tremendous amount of impact, heads and bed through the hosting of different types of sport and recreation events. Just some of the facilities that we are directly involved in you can see here are generated on annual basis, over $120 million of direct new spending into the market. That’s not talking about job creation. That’s not talking about construction impact. This is talking about new spending through tourism, in retail, hotel, lodging and commercial behavior while in the market. So, what’s happening right now is we have created a market where there are more kids playing sports than ever before. You can’t tell from this graph which would be a nice trend upward, so I’ll explain the data that would typically be on here. What we are seeing is that right now the youth and amateur sports industry is a $15 billion industry. In the next 7 to 10 years, it is expected that that is going to grow and double to over $30 billion. What that means is that more and more families are taking the opportunity to experience what we call a “Tournication”. That’s where they are going to a destination for a tournament and also experiencing everything that the community has to offer as it results to natural resources, different attractions, and different amenities. What is really interesting about that is that as we see more and more communities go after this opportunity that is youth and amateur sports, there is also a large segment of the market that is currently underserved. Mesquite is ideally positioned to serve this clientele. That’s the adult sport and social recreation opportunity that exists as well as the youth and amateur. So inside of that $15 billion industry, a large component of that is youth and amateur sports when we think about the competition for youth football, basketball, baseball, soccer, so 33 Mesquite Regular City Council Meeting Minutes Tuesday, March 27, 2018; 5:00 PM Page 6
on and so forth. Don’t forget about the opportunity like the senior games, the distance runs, obstacle challengers. Just for example, college and club’s sports non-NCAA, it is easy to get enamored and enthralled with March madness right now but there are over 4,500 universities and colleges that participate in IRSA which is the intermural and recreation side of college sports. They are actively looking for homes across the country and we think that Mesquite could be a great destination. We will talk about why in just a moment. One of the things that I want to share with you just real briefly is why there is an opportunity here that is probably going to be overlooked by some communities. Midsize markets and pre-established vacation destinations are who are currently dominating this industry. The reason for that is the classic scenario of the chicken and the egg. If we have the inventory of fields, but we don’t have the hotels to host and accommodate the guests, we have to bring in development partners to build multi-million-dollar hotels and other infrastructure to support them. So, when you think about what is happening in Las Vegas, their focus right now is on the major professional league banners. When you look at what is happening at other parts of the tri-state area and across the region and across the country, it’s the smaller midmarket’s that have the opportunity to really stake their flag in the ground and say we are the destination for youth, amateur, and adult recreation sports in our areas. So, when you look at those markets on the move those are just some of our projects and clients that we had had the privilege of serving. We are not looking at the big Las Vegas type markets, New York type markets, we are looking at the middle smaller markets that have the infrastructure to support this type of development. So just some real straightforward specific examples: The Shields-Overland soccer park complex is in Kansas. Currently, they are hosting a number of different events and in this one complex alone generating over $5 million in direct economic impact. Memphis, Tennessee over $8 million across 16 fields with one small scale, 2500 capacity stadium at the micro soccer complex. In Duncan, South Carolina they have made their investment into baseball and you can see they generated over $8.8 million dollars on an annual basis. When we look at the experience, the Ripken experience in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, they are currently generating a tremendous impact in that community over $28 million. Now if you look at what these different facilities have in common, it’s the number of fields that they have to accommodate large enough events that put the heads and beds that move the needle. Last but not least Elizabethtown sports complex, this is a good example of when you look at this facility they have a combination of diamond fields that are 300 feet for softball and youth baseball, 400 feet for our older age baseball with flexible fields and multipurpose long fields where we can do soccer, lacrosse, football and all sorts of different types of activities. So, what our friend did with the direction of Rising Star and understanding what’s happening in Mesquite is we looked at what would be incremental impact be to Mesquite if we were to develop additional fields in the market. So, the factors that we looked at are very straightforward economic impact factors specific to Mesquite and what we found is with an incremental investment into fields, we can make a tremendous economic impact. So, what we are looking at right now is the impact in a high and a low range for long fields. Long fields would be a rectangular field for hosting soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, multipurpose type sports. What you can see with the addition of 4 fields to get us to 8, we could drive an economic impact per event of $5 to $750,000. With some flex field opportunities that I will talk about here in a moment, we can potentially increase the inventory to where we could get to even 12 to 16 fields, but I think what we will demonstrate is that with an additional 3 to 4 fields on the long field side and the diamond side we can really move the needle locally. If we look at the direct economic impact of the diamond configuration, this is with a flex field for three or four hundred-foot base paths. What we have currently is the opportunity to generate another three to eight hundred thousand dollars per event weekend in direct economic impact. So again, this is just on new spending for those different events. So, to leave you with some different food for thought; If you look at what’s happening across the country, again Mesquite is 34 Mesquite Regular City Council Meeting Minutes Tuesday, March 27, 2018; 5:00 PM Page 7
ideally positioned because of the existing sports stores and market, what you are currently having happen with the Rising Star, with the long drive championship, and with other opportunities here in the market, the proximity to Las Vegas and to St. George makes an attractable regional destination. You have the inventory of hotel room nights. That gets you in the door to be able to host the type of events that we are talking about anywhere from 70 to 90 tournaments and events in the 1100 room nights. You have private partners here that are working to promote. For example, Rising Star being at teams and connect and the different booking shows. Those are often held by convention and business bureaus in sports commissions. You have a private partner who is out there promoting the destination already. Certainly adult and family friend family destination that we talked about. There is an existing inventory. So, we are not started at 0. We are talking about the addition of 3 to 4 diamonds, 3 to 4 plus long fields. That is an incremental investment to what you already have. One of the designs that were really gaining a lot of attraction to is this right here which is a 400-foot flex field and while it looks a little bit confusing when it is on paper there when you are on the actual field with movable fencing and with predetermined striping, we can actually make a couple of different great opportunities here. As you can see we have got the opportunity of 2 softball diamonds or youth baseball on one programmable space, one large diamond for high school and above baseball. Then we also have a multipurpose recreational rectangular field that is in the middle. So, we think about the flexibility of space. There are a lot of different ways to go out and attack this. What I want to leave you with is the ideal position that Mesquite is in and with that, we welcome the opportunity to explore different ways to potentially bring those incremental fields on line.
Minutes: Andre Carrier: In summary, there is obviously a great deal we can speak to on this topic. Here’s what I would say. Many of the examples that Eric just brought forward are small towns. We didn’t talk about pigeon forge in one of these, but these are towns of less than 18,000. The next point I bring forward is most of those towns like Elizabethtown, they had to go and do it from zero. So, when they decided they wanted to get to 9 fields, or 12 fields, they did it from zero fields. We are only talking about the final third. Every one of these national destinations is competing effectively for some of the same business we are and they all have seasonal disadvantages and seasonal advantages. So, to tell you the truth most of the national championship games that are played in Orland, Florida at the ESPN Wide World of Sports are still played from June through September. It is pretty dog gone hot in Orlando, Florida June to September. What we are talking about is looking at an off peak advantage for this market place. Think about Las Vegas for those of you can before NFR and what those first 10 days of December look like. In recent memory, think about what the city of Las Vegas looked like in July before NBA summer league. Now we are not looking that grand, but Las Vegas is going to displace some groups that have traditionally gone there because frankly the demand cycle has increased so dramatically by the addition of not only 12 to 18 additional stadium weekends, that will be anchored by stadium events, but the expansion of the convention center and the addition of the arena. Hockey itself, we never thought, they made the playoffs yesterday. We never thought it would be developing the kind of demand that it already is. There are other cities nationally. There are other cities in our region that are going to compete for this business. If you don’t think the city of Henderson wants this business, you are wrong. You don’t think North Las Vegas wants this business, you are wrong. You don’t think St. George wants this business, you are wrong. We are just farther along than they are. You have a willing private partner who goes out there every single day and sells it. Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious. Greg and I wouldn’t stand before you on behalf of
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our employee owned business and ask you to do anything we haven’t already done. We already spent the money. We spend it every day. We are going to be here forever. This is a good forever investment. So, what I would ask is that we continue to demonstrate our commitment to this community, to diversify visitation, to find ways to grow new cash registers. These customers ring some different cash registers than we have rung historically. Ring them during times of year where we have not. We just finished having a camp in here every day mid- week for 2 solid weeks in March, they would like to go to 3. We are selling dates in June and August that we have never sold before. We have got remarkable promise as a destination. We are this close to being nationally, remarkably relevant. So, I am hopeful that the city will consider an investment in additional fields and diamonds so that we might continue to diversify and grow the economy. Thanks for the time. I will answer any questions as well as Eric.
Minutes: Council member Rapson: Thank you for the presentation. I am not sure how to articulate this. Last week, well it was on the agenda that we were going to talk later about some capital possibilities, what are we going to budget for, and I think one of the examples was for ball fields and long fields. My comment to Mr. Barton, I came and visited him, and I said okay when I was at Solstice, we had a consulting firm called PKF Consulting. I don’t know if you guys ever heard of it. I think they were highly reputable at the time. I have no idea where they are now. They did a very, very in depth study about the potential for solstice as a program. The program that we advised at the time which included a large hotel casino – actually the product was used to entice a letter of intent from Sheraton to be the operator and the manager of the property. The retail outlets were huge in getting commitments from the Polo’s and the coaches and the Ann Taylors and those. The economy took a dump actually at the wrong time, but still it was a very productive exercise in my opinion. I guess what I am getting at, this is very useful, and it’s very helpful and clearly demonstrates what the economic impact of a field is. My concern is without some vehicle I feel that we should be responsible to produce that is a PKF document that we could give any hotel operators that are sniffing around Mesquite. We can get our economic development team, MRB and whoever else, to distribute that, to put it on our website. I mean this is what this town projects out for the next 10 years. Then couple that with what we have done, what you guys have done already with the fields, and the alternative drivers that we have not had in the past or haven’t maximized that opportunity. My concern with is just starting out and saying okay no question we need 8 more fields. I say 12 personally but without the hotel rooms back to your catch 22 where you are whatever you want to call it is. We are sending a lot of that economics to back up that road because we don’t have the hotel rooms. We Max-out. You know that. You are turning away hundreds I imagine on these busy weekends. So is Virgin River. At some point those turn a ways have to turn into demand for a new hotel. Somewhere.
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: You are right, and you are saying how to shape it.
Minutes: Council member Rapson: Right, I mean how do you pull these two things together?
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: Revenue. It really comes down to revenue. Revenue is driven by average daily rate and occupancy. We are leaving a lot of revenue on the table, on peak and we have a lot of off peak opportunities to create some revenue. When you look the Delta between our average 36 Mesquite Regular City Council Meeting Minutes Tuesday, March 27, 2018; 5:00 PM Page 9
daily rates in the fifties and sixties, and St. George 90 to 110, look at the amount of hotel development that is happening in St. George adding 1300 room nights just this year in comparison to Mesquite.
Minutes: Council member Rapson: What is their occupancy?
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: Their occupancy is still in the 70's. Actually, it has been as high as 84 which has caused the rebuilding. I’ll get you that data. So, first things first; data sets. Clearly, we did a lot of data before we did the Star. City is welcome to all of that. As a matter of fact, some of them already have it. We chose SFA because they were a hybrid between PKF and a hotel consultant. They are doing the hotel demand analysis, and they are doing the event demand analysis simultaneously which is why I want to make Eric available. He’s a unique expert in this space. Revenue opportunity, that gap that $50 delta, we are already showing we are chipping away at that. When you look at a $6 million gain, and I am saying the bottom of this market is maybe 14 to 17. We are showing $6 million gains on the hotel side. That move is like a 3 to 4 dollar move in ADR. A 10 dollar move last year, every 10 dollar move in this market with a trickle down in occupancy is worth about 3 ½ to $4 million in revenue. Revenue cures all. Why does it cure all? If we have an average daily rates and revenues back to buildable levels, and I mean by that north of $95. So, you can build a new hotel room at $135 a key or so and maintain the occupancy and rate necessary to pay for it, get return on invested capital, we will see hotel investment. We have to aggregate demands to aggregate revenue. So, we have plenty of opportunities off peak still to put revenue in pockets where it wasn’t living before, and we have more revenue opportunities on peak by continuing to raise rates. We would rather be the center than the bedroom community. St. George builds a sports complex first and we become the bedroom community, our rates are lower, they’re spending most of their time and money in St. George. If we have the complex our rooms get sold first. At the higher rate, they spend more of their time here and they go to sleep there. So, we want to make sure we win that war in a sense. And it’s not a war, it’s a friendly game that we are playing. How about that?
Minutes: Council member Rapson: So, I get that, and I understand the ADR and occupancy completely. What I am suggesting is what’s being presented is not by your guys necessarily but by staff, is the potential of us investing or bonding for some serious fields. And I haven’t seen the data that would support the long-term program here.
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: You got to do the data. We have a data set that is 24 months old, but I think we want to do a new data set that is now in ten years out. You have to do that data set.
Minutes: Council member Rapson: Before I entertain a bond issuance for anything I want to understand the economics that will impact this and where we get at the end of the day.
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: Essential part of the process. I concur.
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Minutes: Council member Rapson: That was my point in this whole thing. And I would like to make it something that is available widely so if a Quality One or Marriott Suites or somebody says you know what, I’m used to about a 60 to 65% occupancy nationwide. If I can get to 90, and yes, I take a 30% cut in the ADR I can deal with that. That’s the kind of thing I want to see publicly distributed so we can – the more rooms in this town, the better off you guys are too.
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: Yes, providing that we don't dilute, that we are creating incremental demand. I concur. That work has to be done and you have to market it. You have to do both pieces.
Minutes: Council member Rapson: And I would personally be welcome a private public partnership in funding something that will be meaningful that we can both use. I think we all have the same goal.
Minutes: Council member Wursten: I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you guys earlier and I do want to say I would love to see us get to a position that we have everything that you are talking about there, but I want to echo my concerns that I mentioned to you earlier. The biggest things that I am concerned about is the fact that right now we had two weeks ago someone come up front and say that people are sleeping in their cars because there is just not enough hotel rooms to support just what we have in town right now.
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: On peak.
Minutes: Council member Wursten: On peak, but it gets worse off peak too because of the fact that if we have more hotel rooms at that point we are going to split that pile up.
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: I will pick a date, July 7th; my guess is that there are a lot rooms for sale in Mesquite, Nevada on July 7th. If you can bring an incremental event around July 7th to July 10th we have more rooms to sell based on our existing demand cycle.
Minutes: Council member Wursten: I do agree with that. The thing is that we have the fields right now is what I am understanding from talking to people that we can still fill all those rooms with what we currently have.
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: If we had had more time we would have actually been more specific. There are events that have as their minimum 9 fields to get to the baseline requirement of the tournament operator. There are events like junior college world series, the NIAA softball championships which have as their baseline very specific requirements on the size of the field. These are the kind of incremental events that building the incremental fields to (indiscernible). So, we say we have empty fields, yeah that’s because we couldn’t sell an event with only 6. We can sell an 38 Mesquite Regular City Council Meeting Minutes Tuesday, March 27, 2018; 5:00 PM Page 11
event with 9. That’s what we are running across. I wouldn’t be standing here before you if I hadn’t already tested the waters. You want to speak more to that?
Minutes: Mr. Sullivan: The things I will add is essentially you are looking at events that move the needle. The reason we picked 8 is the minimum threshold for both of those scenarios. That is essentially what you need to have enough density in fields to be competitive on a regional/national level. So, 8 get us really in the game.
Minutes: Council member Wursten: So, in other words to be competitive, we need to build more fields before we can bring in the events that we want to. I do want to bring up my other concern because my partners in golf have also – multiple have expressed to me that part of the problem that we have to is and I echoed this a little earlier today is that we bring on these great weekends that we have for golf and there are a lot of groups that right now we don’t have the availability and rooms to even bring these groups in. I talked a little bit about some of these groups that have stopped coming because of the fact that they can’t find rooms to stay in the gold industry and some of my partners have brought that to me as well.
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: And that is called sales. Right? We have to line up revenue when we have opportunity. So, the sales the process is now on peak about presenting people with the opportunity is are these dates more important to you or are these rates more important to you. I can offer you the same rates but no long on those dates. I can let you keep those dates but no longer at those rates. That’s revenue management. That’s the sales process. There are certainly times in Mesquite, Nevada where there are both rounds and rooms still available. We just need to bring people together around those dates and those rates.
Minutes: Council member Wursten: I do think there are a lot of those times and basically you are right. It sells. If we feel like we can bring in on those times, but I haven’t seen that in the 26 years I have been here, I have not seen the ability to bring in on those off times to be able to fill the rooms that we need to fill. This is something new. I would like to see, and you say when we talked earlier you say that we do have a ton of those times that we could probably fill and sell. I would actually like to – everything that I’ve dealt with, those weekends that are very strong, we are so strong, but there are so few.
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: I wouldn't put a soccer tournament on the best weekend to sell golf and I wouldn’t add on top of it a baseball tournament on the same weekend that you have a soccer tournament and they are good for golf. That is just yield management. You got to move the people to where you have the availability. That is the job of a hotelier. That’s the job. New Year’s Eve is going to be a pretty good night most years.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: From a layman’s sense - point of it on George and Brian have a quite a bit more hotel experience, but aren’t you able to yield more revenue during these peak times when there are demands. I know personally we have had friends and associates in town for the
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last three weekends and trying to find a room was just a nightmare and they were full, but aren’t you able during those times to demand a higher room rate.
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: Yes, asterisk. Yes, I think your greatest opportunity to grown incremental revenue is when you have incremental demand. However, you can take a period where we have expiring inventory, so if I don’t sell a hotel room tonight, I will never make that money ever again. If we can create opportunities through events to make a dollar incrementally off peak, it’s still an incremental revenue dollar. So, whether I made it on peak by taking the rate from $130 to $131 or I made it because I sold one room off peak more at $45, I still made $45 incremental dollars off peak. So, it is easier to drive incremental revenue when you have your highest demand, but what we are also talking about is finding events to give off peak periods unique demands.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: I understand with off peak it’s always been a challenge here. So, you are telling me that there are disadvantages to a big Delta and room prices depending on demand. Is that what you were -
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: There are disadvantages?
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: I said there is a disadvantage to a large delta between high demand times and off-peak times.
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: That is a good question. So, when a consumer looks at the same hotel room off peak and they can see that they can buy it for $27. Then they want to come on New Year’s Eve and they see that same hotel room is going to cost them $135 I think you have what is called a crisis of value.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: The people feel like, ok community is gouging us because -
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: Right. The example I would give you is River Run Weekend in Laughlin, Nevada. That’s like the classic Southern Nevada example where you can buy a hotel room in Laughlin, Nevada most of them for between $27 and $35 but yet if you want to come for River Run Weekend its $165. My contention is it is a great example for us in a way because that was all about finding new cash registers to ring and bringing new eye balls to the destination. So, for more than 20 years now in Laughlin, Nevada, you run an entirely different business model for 4 days a year where you actually different menus, there are menu prices, when you welcome a different hotel customer. So, I think that is right. I think you don’t want to have consumers be frustrated with the change in value proposition so much. So, the tighter, the better opportunities are opportunities.
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Minutes: Council member Ballweg: I didn't understand not being in the market but understanding what the productive delta change is from peak and off peak. You get somebody to come in off peak and says well you know it’s going to be great to come to Mesquite because their rooms are only X dollars and then they show up and it’s 2X for a peak time that is unexpected. I am trying to just wrap my mind around how you look at your revenue.
Minutes: Mr. Sullivan: I think that is a really important question because if were just talking about driving the off peak time, it is really easy to just talk about it, but it’s different to know how do you actually control it. One of the important data sets, is most of the events that we are talking about are booked between 9 to 18 months and some as far out as 24 to 36 months before the actual event itself. So, when we are talking about booking off peak weekends we are not doing that on speculation we are doing that because we are selling the inventory well in advance. So, we are controlling that price point and yield management.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: So, most times you would sell that in advance. You almost have to put a housing package together at the time.
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: You have the blocks. So that also allows us, by having the base of your hotel revenues filled. Let’s say you start at 0 rooms, you have a 100 room hotel. If you can bring in an event that sells 100 rooms, so you are going to start a year out knowing you are going to be 50% occupancy, clearly now Expedia and what we call the free independent traveler, we can continue to raise rates because I don’t need to sell all 100 of my rooms right now. I only need to sell 50. It builds upon itself. The other thing I would say to Eric’s point is the other thing about these events that are great is that if we can do a good job with them in one year, many of these events stay, and they turn to you and want a 3 year agreement and so they are great. You can institutionalize these events in a way.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: In closing, I don't have any more questions, but I want to just state that I also have the same concerns as Councilman Rapson and Councilman Wursten do is the chicken and the egg.
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: I’ll stand right before you. We would be more than happy to build more hotel rooms in Mesquite, Nevada; we just got our average daily rate from $65 to closer to $95.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: The big 800 pound gorilla in the room that’s the target that we all have to work together to figure out how we are going to handle it.
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: That is it, and it takes demand to get there.
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Minutes: Council member Green: With Revenue management, yield management, inventory I hear a lot of terms that I am pretty comfortable with in the air transportation industry because when they are gone, they are gone. What I hear you saying is if you have 8 fields to work with as a city that offer 8 fields, you have got a bigger population that you can reach out to then bring those revenue management and yield management concepts into play. Is that right?
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: That's right. The tournament operator has the same issues Councilman. The tournament operator is saying hey I have to go through all the same efforts with which to throw my tournament. I have got to do the marketing, I have got to set up blocks, I have got to have transportation systems, and advertising and infrastructure. So, if I can scale my event from 60 teams to 90 teams that extra 30 percent is my margin. To get to those 90 teams, I need 3 more pitches. So, the larger more professionalized operations is that hey if I can run this event at full scale at 90 teams in these 3 cities in America, I am not going to look at a city where I can only do 60 teams because it takes me the same effort.
Minutes: Council member Green: You're running it; you’re handicap if the product is based on a four field event. You’re handicap verses St. George verses other places and then your population on which you can apply your yield management, your revenue management techniques is much smaller therefore, it is a much harder thing to do. The larger your possible client base is, the more opportunities to use these techniques to say if it is Tuesday in July, anything above zero is incremental.
Minutes: Council member Rapson: Just real quick, and I don't mean this sarcastically. If you had a golf course would you look at this any differently? I mean we have several – we have a gaming company that owns a couple of golf courses. Their assets, their fields, - that’s what their booking engine if you will in a lot of respects, and when a large soccer whatever comes into town and starts booking rooms, and now their asset has been rendered useless in a certain respect because they don’t have the rooms to accommodate the demand for their golf course. I am just wondering if you would look at that differently if you owned the golf course. It becomes more complicated.
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: I would say this, and I am always self-reflective enough to answer correctly which is perhaps. But I would say this. We have not yet done the work we need to do to cross sell the customer the way we need to do it. The fact is we need to encourage the parent of a player to get an 18 while they are here. We need to give them permission to have a vacation while their child is having their tournament. I think we are maturing in our ability to do that. It is the show that we have to sell. We have beautiful golf courses; make sure you bring your clubs. The more professional the operators we have on these tournaments, the more they are partners in selling that incremental experience. Poignant, perfect example. It’s on our instant gram page today. Group came in from all across the country to do their spring training for girls’ lacrosse. What picture did they want us to share? The picture of them at Zion because if you are a girl coming for high school lacrosse training from Maryland or Pennsylvania or Ohio what your parents wanted for you and what you wanted for yourself was to do something you had not done in your life. You had lacrosse practice. You had not seen Bryce. You had not seen Zion. 42 Mesquite Regular City Council Meeting Minutes Tuesday, March 27, 2018; 5:00 PM Page 15
When we talk to our national clients and we say that is one of the bolt ones that we are going to be able to do for your kid, your child, the discussion changes. We are just growing up and trying to sell our customer their experience whether it’s a camel ride or shoot and skeet or riding a Segway through the desert, or playing blackjack, we’ve always done that pretty well or enjoying 18 holes, we need to be able to bring in the kind of customer who is available to buying it all.
Minutes: Council member Rapson: Don't take the Segway out for Real Road in Gold Butte. You will get shot. (Laughter) Just one last comment, has anybody done any research on the climate control facility? I mean significant where soccer, baseball -
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: It's a great question. They are being built across the country now. Eric can certainly talk to you about the size and scope of facilities that are being built. It’s a lot of money. I mean I think we put our tow in the water with the barn. We are a year in. We got some momentum. Why don’t we hold that until the next go around while we grow up and learn a bit more? Again, I wouldn’t ask anybody to do anything we weren’t prepared to do, so I would say we still – I think the addition of the new high school gym plus the barn, plus the rec center there pretty nice. On a national basis of 10 courts that are in that good of condition, give us a year to sell that a lot better than we are. We will come back and talk about that.
Minutes: Council member Wursten: I can tell you and I think I can speak for all the Council people there is nothing we would like more than to be able to quantify building like this. I can assure that golf is only an amenity to that other entity that you were talking about and they do appreciate the soccer people that come in and feel there is a real value to that. Unlike me and golf. Anyway, I’m just kind of curious. I just have to ask this question. I actually am going to ask it of Nick later when I talk to him. But you’ve talked about some of these entities that you feel like would come in and take a look at Mesquite. Have you been approached, or have you been in contact with some of these types of people talking about Mesquite? Now I know that is far off, but I am just kind of curious if there has been any discussion and Nick I will ask you later, has there been people that approached you that won’t come because we won’t have enough fields.
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: I will say this so that you know. I would not be in front of you having this conversation if I was not in active and constant discussion with exactly that type of business. Wouldn’t do it. What we have in our books today, the numbers of customers that would just take the incremental fields and bring more teams or add additional – they have the men’s tournament, they are going to bring the girls’ tournament and run in it together because the economies of scale are so efficient for them. I would not be having these conversations if we didn’t specifically have companies there were looking for this incremental field to make the difference.
Minutes: Council member Withelder: I'm sure you are aware of the short-term rental market in town. It is absolutely booming, and I am sure you are aware of that. Has that had any effect on your hotel or room rates or occupancy?
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Minutes: Mr. Carrier: ADR is growing. Room revenue is growing. Clearly those are reporting into the room revenue statistics at well. You can see, I mean it’s no mystery. We continue to reinvest in our hotel. I am not in the business of taking money and spending it on improvements merely to flush it down the proverbial toilet. I mean we do it because there is incremental money to be made. I actually think of the growth engines and differentiation from Mesquite. That’s a fantastic one. What VRBO and Perfect Places and the long term rental market is meant to the industry in a city like Mesquite I think that can’t be talked about enough, particularly for this customer. Someone who travels in larger groups, values having the additional living area can’t be talked about enough. I think it is a pretty important part of this discussion.
Minutes: Council member Withelder: Richard, can you tell me how many licensed rooms we have for short term rentals approximately?
Minutes: Ms. Russo: (hard to hear - not at the podium)
Minutes: Council member Withelder: Can you give me a number off the top of your head?
Minutes: Ms. Russo: I really can't.
Minutes: Council member Withelder: As I mentioned the short term rental market is absolutely going off the charts and MR Property Management, department at Premier Properties we have got like 300 units and they are full all the time. That has got to have – there has got to be some correlation between short term rentals privately and your business on a regular basis.
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: Most hoteliers nationwide would stand in front of you and give you some argument against it. You got a hotel you are sitting in front telling go, go. So, God bless people who made bi-homes in Mesquite, Nevada for the specific purpose of having 16 weekends a year that they are going to rent and that’s the reason that they bought here and not somewhere else, terrific for us. I mean we are selling more units, we are putting more people in the city, and it’s kind of answer to that gap period between getting to economies of scale to build new hotel room wings.
Minutes: Mayor Litman: I have a question for you. Back about 10 years ago, I don’t know if it was rumored or not that Eureka was going to expand with another tower in and around the same time that at that time Black Gaming was going to build another facility added on. Is there anything in the plans or as much as you are already in the market and you are already in Mesquite?
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appoint where average daily rate is high enough produce return on invested capital. When you look at the differentiation and the way money is being made in the casino industry it is evolving pretty rapidly. Whether we make a dollar in our hotels, or we make a dollar in a slot machine, turns out it is still a dollar. There are those customers who go on vacation and love to play slots or love to play Caribbean stud, or love to play keno. God bless them. We are thankful for all those visitors. There are those that go on vacation and spend money on hotel rooms and steaks and burgundy. God Bless them and we love them. There are also those who want to buy popcorn and burritos. God bless them and we love them. So, it’s just creating enough of a diversified visitor and a diversified spend at the right, spend per occupied room night so we can build more hotel rooms.
Minutes: Mr. Leverenz: I just have a couple quick questions for you gentlemen. I believe one of your graphics said that sports tourism was a recession resistant industry and I am wondering if you could give a brief explanation on why that is and then also giving the valuable nature of the water resource here, would marketability be the same for natural turf as opposed to synthetic turf fields? Thank you.
Minutes: Mr. Sullivan: I will take that in reverse order. The synthetic turf fields are actually more marketable because we don’t have to rest them. We can play more games with more consistent conditions, so you don’t have to rest fields for adverse conditions, things of that nature. As it is related to the recession proof, that statistic is measures by two things. Throughout the recession it was the fastest growing segment throughout that the period of time and it was the only segment of tourism to not have two consecutive quarters of decline during the 2008/2009 recession.
Minutes: Council member Rapson: That is bolstered by the great depression. Movie theaters did well.
Council member Rich Green moved to receive the Presentation. Council member George Rapson seconded the motion.
Passed For: 5; Against: 0; Abstain: 0; Absent: 0
Minutes: Mayor Litman: Very excellent presentation. I am sure there will be a lot more questions down the line.
Minutes: Mr. Carrier: And we will be around for all of them. Thanks for this much time tonight. It is really appreciated.
Resolutions & Proclamations
5) Consideration of Resolution No. 949, adopting an Inter-Local Agreement between the City of Mesquite and the State of Nevada Department of Transportation
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(NDOT) to allow communication equipment on the City’s Scenic Tank Communications Tower and in the Communications Building located at the site.
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and deferred to Dirk Marshall.
Minutes: Mr. Marshall: This is an extension of an existing agreement that allows NDOT to put radio equipment on our tower at the scenic tank site, so they are just asking for an extension on that agreement.
Council member George Rapson moved to Adopt Resolution No. 949, adopting an Inter-Local Agreement between the City of Mesquite and NDOT to allow NDOT to place communication equipment on the City’s Scenic Tank Communications Tower and in the Communications Building located at the site. This is a renewal of the agreement with NDOT that was adopted June 25, 2013. Council member David Ballweg seconded the motion.
Passed For: 5; Against: 0; Abstain: 0; Absent: 0
6) Proclamation - GO PURPLE! - Crime Victims’ Rights Week - April 8 - April 14, 2018
Minutes: Mayor Litman read the Proclamation: Go Purple – Crime Victims’ Rights Week April 8 through April 14, 2018
WHEREAS, it is the privilege and pleasure of this Council to recognize efforts and organizations that benefit our community; and
WHEREAS, the City of Mesquite joins with local law enforcement, local and state victims’ advocacy groups, assistance organizations and efforts including Marsy’s Law for Nevada, and the Office for Victims of Crime in the U.S. Department of Justice, to call for support for victims of crimes; and
WHEREAS, more than 95,000 instances of violent crimes or property crimes were reported by law enforcement in a recent year (per the Nevada Uniform Crime report of 2016); and
WHEREAS, in Nevada, a violent crime occurred every 26 minutes and 32 seconds, a property crime occurred every 4 minutes and 38 seconds during a recent year according to the UCR of 2016; and
WHEREAS, Crime Victims’ Rights Week serves to recognize the needs of crime victims and the importance of securing their voice and rights, which Marsy’s Law for Nevada strives to accomplish; and
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WHEREAS, this sentiment is embodied in this year’s national theme, “Expand the Circle, Reach All Victims:” and
NOW THEREFORE, we do hereby declare Sunday, April 8, through Saturday, April 14, 2018 as
National Crime Victims’ Rights Week and do join representatives from local law enforcement, advocacy and assistance agencies statewide, and Marsy’s Law for Nevada victims’ rights effort, seeking to provide assistance and a stronger voice for Nevadans who have been a victim of crime. Adopted this 27th day of March, 2018.
Minutes: Mayor Litman presents the Proclamation to the Go Purple Representatives.
Minutes: Will Batista: I am the State Director for Marsy’s Law for Nevada. We are Question I on the November Ballot this year. Victims of Crime have traditionally, a lot of times just been part of the evidence during the judicial process. What we as an organization aim to do is to make sure that they actually feel that they are part of that process and that they have constitutional rights recognized by the Nevada Constitution and so we are grateful for the recognition from the city for Crime’s Victim’s week. This week we are observing it the 8th through 14th and that’s a national recognition. In Nevada our efforts started in 2015 where we passed a legislative session there and in 2017 subsequently now it goes to the voters in November for a final vote. We feel very very strongly that these rights for victims of crime are past due and we again appreciate your efforts in supporting so. We also as an organization would like to ask for the official endorsement from the city of Mesquite whether at this meeting or subsequent meeting. I know that we have the official endorsement from Mayor Litman and Councilman Withelder. We would invite all the rest of the city Council to also join us. We also have your Mesquite police chief who also served as the Nevada Sheriff and Chief’s Association past president who has also endorsed. So again, we thank you. We think it is a very, very important issue to talk about. A lot of people don’t even understand that victims of crime don’t have constitutional rights and we want to make sure to fix that on November 6th. So, thank you again. Any questions I can help answer.
7) Proclamation - H.O.M.E. (Help Our Moral Environment) Week - March 26 - 31, 2018
Minutes: Mayor Litman read the Proclamation: H.O.M.E. (Help Our Moral Environment) Week March 26 - 31, 2018.
WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that obscenity is not protected speech under the First Amendments; and
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WHEREAS, pornography has been linked to wrecked homes, rising crime, incomprehensible perversion and a growing explosion of sexual assaults; and
WHEREAS, in the fall of 1993 and illegal business opened in Mesquite that disseminated pornography; and
WHEREAS, a few stalwart community organizers, followed by about 7000 picketers, stepped forward in response to the battle against the secondary effects of pornography and this business; and
WHEREAS, in this effort these organizers sponsored the organization called H.O.M.E. – Help Our Moral Environment; and
WHEREAS, during the last week of March in the year 1996, H.O.M.E. and its supporters won this one battle against pornography and this mentioned business closed its doors; and
NOW, THEREFORE, in honor and respect of the H.O.M.E. organization and all its supporters who fought openly from October 1993 to March 1996 and won the battle against this business’ efforts to disseminate pornography, the Mayor and City Council of the City of Mesquite, Nevada do hereby proclaim the week of March 26 through 31, 2018 as:
H.O.M.E. (Help Our Moral Environment) Week Adopted this 27th day of March, 2018.
Department Reports
8) Mayor's Comments
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item and stated he had nothing at this time.
9) City Council and Staff Reports and Comments
Minutes: Mayor Litman asked Council if they had any comments or reports.
Minutes Council member Withelder: I would like to remind everybody that on Easter Monday April 2nd is the opening of our fifth annual Little League and we are going to have a gala ceremony opening Color Guard National Anthem singing. Mayor is going to throw out the first pitch; hopefully he will get it to me this year. It’s going to be just a fabulous, fabulous event. We have it every year and big crowd, good time. Thanks. Come on out.
Minutes: Mayor Litman: You don't realize what a target he makes.
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Introduction of Bills
10) Consideration of Introducing Bill No 534 as Ordinance 534, amending Title 2, Chapters 14 and 16 of the Mesquite Municipal Code for Licensing of Medical and Recreational Marijuana.
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and deferred to Richard Secrist.
Minutes: Mr. Secrist: Last fall, Deep Roots Harvest Management approached the city administration. They wanted to talk to us about a couple of issues related to business licensing for their medical and recreational marijuana facilities. Basically, they are seeking the city’s help. One had to do with the term of the license. They were set up on quarterly basis for the payment of their business license fees. They wondered if that could be extended out. They really saw no reason why it couldn’t. One of the other things they wanted to discuss was the business license fee for marijuana distribution companies or facilities. When they saw what some of the other jurisdictions in Clark County what fees they were adopting, they just wanted to make sure it was a level playing field. They could stay competitive, etc. So, we told them we would take a look at it, and that we would come back and bring something to Council. So that is what this bill is. It addresses those two issues. We propose changing the term of the license from a quarterly payment of fees to semiannual and propose changing the business license fee for distribution facilities from the 3% of gross revenues to a flat annual fee of $200. When we looked at what the other cities were doing Mesquite’s fee was higher than everybody except Clark County. It just seemed like for this type of facility, it is a cost to Deep Roots rather than a money maker. It makes sense to just have a flat fee and treat it the same as a delivery business which is what we charge for other delivery businesses here in Mesquite. So, with that, we recommend introducing this Bill 534 as Ordinance 534 and setting a public hearing for April 10th.
Minutes: Council member Rapson: For the public’s iteration here, this sounds like oh my god, we are going from 3% of these bazillions of dollars to a flat fee of $200. This is a fee that Deep Root pays its own self or its owners, principal owners monthly to be the license distributor if I am not mistaken. I am not sure of the proper phraseology. So, this amounts to a change from $360 a year to $200 a year. This isn’t changing the 3% on the grow and distribution of marijuana or sales of marijuana. This is the license to drive it down to wherever they go.
Minutes: Mayor Litman: That is the correct analysis.
Minutes: Council member Rapson: I looked at this and it said no fiscal impact. Well it’s relative none.
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Minutes: Council member Ballweg: On our liquor sales, do they pay some annually or they pay quarterly now?
Minutes: Ms. Russo: Liquor licenses are semi-annual licenses.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: They pay twice a year the same way. Richard, when this comes back forward will you please put a list together in the next agenda item, when it comes back for a final approval, to list what each of the different jurisdiction in Clark County do charge just for reference points on the distribution side.
Minutes: Council member Secrist: It is in there.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: Is it in there now because I didn't see it. Okay. That’s all I had to say. Thank you. Minutes: Mayor Litman opened up this item to Public Comments.
Minutes: Sara Stevens: I was a little worried too. I was hoping you are not going to turn Deep Roots into a delivery only type of thing. Delivery operations just hurt the medical patients. They are going to be way less likely to have people come to their home and stuff. So, it is still staying as like a facility right, a building. I can’t ask a question during comment that is fine. Thank you very much for that. The knowledge that can be gained by patients from actually going into the building versus then trusting a delivery person to know how to use it or what method to use is completely different. I cured my cancer with the Rick Simpson oil under my tongue, but I was just squeezing on my tongue until the dispensary people told me put it on parchment paper, put it in the freezer all that type of stuff. I work with Friends of Parkinson’s and Epilepsy Foundation. I take the free samples of the product bought there. In a month over 50% of them have notices differences, reducing time in seizures and stuff like that which decreases trauma to the body. You guys are doing a great job by allowing them to be just, so we do gain that knowledge. So, I look forward to it and thank you guys for all the support.
Council member George Rapson moved to Introduce Bill No 534 as Ordinance 534 amending Title 2, Chapters 14 and 16 of the Mesquite Municipal Code for Licensing of Medical and Recreational Marijuana. and set a public hearing for the regular City Council meeting on April 10, 2018. Council member Withelder seconded the motion.
Passed For: 5; Against: 0; Abstain: 0; Absent: 0
11) Consideration of Introduction of Bill 536 as Ordinance 536, an Ordinance amending Mesquite Municipal Code Title 9 "Unified Development"; Chapter 7 50 Mesquite Regular City Council Meeting Minutes Tuesday, March 27, 2018; 5:00 PM Page 23
"Zoning Districts" Article F "Single -Family Residential (SF)"; Section 2 Permitted Uses" and Section 3 "Conditional uses" and other matters properly related thereto.
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item and deferred to Robert Sweetin.
Minutes: Mr. Sweetin: I think that is inadvertent that I am the petitioner. It is actual Councilman Withelder, but I am happy to talk about it if Councilman Withelder wants. What this ordinance would do is simply clarify language that is currently in the code to make vacation rentals, make it easier for potential proprietors of vacation rental businesses to understand which neighborhoods they can establish a vacation rental and so I’ve drafted the ordinance on behalf of Councilman Withelder and he’s asking that it be introduced at the next council meeting.
Minutes: Council member Rapson: Once again for public iteration, somehow this thing was not drafted or did not come out the say Council intended it. It was intended because if I remember correctly I voted on this. I thought we were voting for if you are in an HOA the CCR’s or the controlling documents of the covenants or restrictions control. They decide. If you are not in an HOA you can do it. That’s the way I thought we drafted it. Apparently, it somehow didn’t get drafted that way. This puts it back to that way. So, the city essentially allows it and approves it if you are properly licensed and collects the room tax revenue, but if you are in an HOA the HOA is the controlling entity.
Council member Wursten moved to Introduce Bill 536 as Ordinance 536 and set a date of Public Hearing for April 10, 2018. Council member Withelder seconded the motion.
Passed For: 5; Against: 0; Abstain: 0; Absent: 0
Administrative Items
12) Proposed Council Policies.
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and deferred to Andy Barton.
Minutes: Mr. Barton: The staff is recommending that the City Council discuss any policies that it may wish to implement in the coming fiscal year. This would give the staff time to do related research and provide information to Council. Part of the Council making final determination on policy and
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implementation when we do the final budget in May. Councilman Rapson gave an example of something that would be helpful to staff if Council were to discuss and that is a discussion regarding the development of sports fields and bonding for it. Staff would have the time to do the appropriate research and provide any information regarding rates and debt service part of the Council making a decision again in May. This is a slight departure on how we we’ve done the budget in the past, but we feel that early planning and a discussion along these lines would make for more focused budget product.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: I will kick off with a few things. On the bonding ever since I was elected I wanted to – I have been advocating for some kind of bonding and we need to do some investigation on what kind of bonding there is. There are several different types of whether general revenue or pledge by tax revenue which can go kind of low, but I think what we need to do is there are different bonding which act more like a line of credit than for a fixed purchase. I would like to see whatever scale we can look at saying can we bond for a line of credit per say or do we have to go to specific projects, what’s the difference? I would like to see what those differences would be. That way we could go after to see what projects we’ve got because we don’t have the time to necessarily identify the big projects. I know the ball fields and the long fields are something that we are very interested in but first of all we have to work through all the variables that the Rising Start and Eureka just presented to us. So, if you could try to look at something like that if that makes sense. The second thing I would like to put in the budget is taking our rec center and senior center and prepare those for emergency generator connection. Right now, the rec center is designated as our emergency evacuation or location and we have no power there. So, we have cots. We have a lot of facilities there to house these people, but we would have no power in that area so if we lose power or some type of disaster we would have people going to a hot building with cots and no lights, so I think we really need first stage, second stages. We can get the building connected or rewired for temporary connection of emergency generator. And the second phase would be actually installing the emergency generators and hopefully we will have natural gas like that and we can run and be natural gas type generators something that would need less fuel maintenance and things. I think that is important and also, I think the senior center is important to tie in with that, the proximity plus if we do that we also have ability to feed people and service them besides just housing them. So, I think that old complex needs to be a source of emergency readiness for our community. The third thing I would like to look at is making our animal shelter a no kill shelter. I have had some conversations with the police department that oversees that. We are very close to being there now. There is some funding being needed to get us over the hump. We are not a grossly kill shelter. They do a very good job with animal control, but I would like to see us go and officially become a no kill shelter which besides they will take some funding to support some policy changes that we will have to implement to actually be able to claim a no kill shelter in Mesquite.
Minutes: Council member Rapson: I agree with all of those and I would like to give staff some direction. This will all come back in the budget, so this isn’t anything that’s other than conceptual discussion at this point is my understanding, but after the presentation from Rising Start, it was evident that what I was proposing to Andy has been partially if not substantially done. I would like to direct staff to get with them and find out and I would be happy to meet with staff and give them some of the things that I would hope to find in a study, a comprehensive study that gives Council enough information to make a budgetary decision with respect to future bonding for this and other things. I like the idea of bonding. I don’t have anything fundamentally against it, but it
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has to be something that provides the city of Mesquite a return on its investment. It’s not just fun money. I would also like to be able to understand what do we have in the RDA, 6 and ½ million bucks or something like that, 5 and ½ million bucks. I mean that has been sitting there for a hundred years. I mean since the cop shop was built and we bought the library land and gave Solstice 2 and ½ million. We haven’t done much with our RDA money and that’s available for things like this as well. So, we need to quantify what it is we want to do. What the economic return on that investment is and then looks for the proper funding mechanism. I am sure to have a line of credit as Mr. Ballweg is suggesting. I think that is a great idea, but with flexibility typically comes costs as opposed to finite bonding amount for a finite project. So anyway, I would like to see what the results of those types of things are as well.
Minutes: Council member Green: I would like to get some guidance on the bonding thing. First of all, in my opinion that is not necessarily a bad thing. I know there are some of those, the Dave Ramsey we are debt free thing, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. If you are building assets that will create income or assets that are going to save you an expense. So, you do have a return on investment situation taken into account there. Its early days on this, but just to put our hands around some numbers a little bit. If we go from 4 ball fields to 8; that’s 4 ball fields. Nick’s estimated those cost about $1.1 to $1.5 apiece. So that’s 4 and ½ million dollars. If we did 8 ball fields at 1 and ½, the high end of the estimate, that’s about $12 million dollars. So, a 4 to a $12 million bond issue would have an annual debt service for that $4.5 million of about $250,000 a year, and about $675,000 a year interest and principle over a 25 year period. We are already generating about $90,000 annually of fees on the existing fields. So, I would like to see staff finance and park and recs work with each other to look to see what it would cost to do this, therefore how much bonding would we have to do. What are the incremental fee revenues we might be able to get on top of the $90,000 we already have, and that’s the approach I would take to look at the return on investment. Remembering that our fees will most likely increase with inflation over that 25 year period where our interest will be fixed. That’s the guidance I would like to give and again as Councilman Rapson said I would be glad to lend my assistance in any way I can. I think this is a very important project.
Minutes: Council member Rapson: I just want to make sure we don’t lose the connectivity here between the study of need before we go out and bond for something. Let’s find out if we need this and what it produces. Not only is it just the fees for the use of the fields. This is about is it going to generate enough demand for somebody to build a hotel. In which case that is room tax revenue, that’s sales tax revenue, that’s property tax revenue. Those are all indirect benefits for growth in this community. I don’t want to focus simply on the very obvious return which is the fields which is true. It is a sizable amount. There is ancillary benefits that I think progressive entities can look at and say okay in the next 10 years we will have 500 more incremental more hotel rooms which generate this much more visitation which generates this much more room tax revenue so on and so forth. This is not a back of the napkin study. This is something that is going to have to be very comprehensive and integrated. One produces something and the other produces something else, so I hope it’s clear.
Minutes: Council member Green: I think that is well stated because there is all sorts of incremental revenues that could come to the city plus there is those dollars that come to businesses in the city too. That’s the economic impact of that. We probably can’t get our hands around that
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totally but certainly what comes to us and remembering that with our triple AAA rating now our cost of funding is going to be quite low especially if we could actually pledge field revenues to cover part of the debt service. That’s a fixed cost. The things like Councilman Rapson is talking about in the fees, those could rise over time with inflation so the city’s in position to capitalize on our strong situation now from a standpoint that we could issue bonds that are relatively low rate and that is something that I think needs to be taken into account overall. So, I am 100% in agreement with Mr. Rapson’s comment about looking at it broadly.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: We were talking up here with adding the new hotel room versus the fields. I think it is also a possibility of – and I sit on the Clark County debt commission. I am not an accountant. I am an engineer, but I sit there. It is absolutely fascinating to me to listen to the finance directors and the other people from all the other big organizations, the LVCVA and Water Districts and all the cities and everything else, their structures, how they structure some of their debt. One of the things we might be able to do here if we use some imagination is to actually come up with a commitment on financing or commitment on bonding that we can then market as a package that we could say hey, we have got bonding here. Do we have a hotel operator that wants to come in because it would take us a fraction of the time to put ball fields in than it does to construct a hotel, motel, or other structure? So, if we would have the actually bonding, the commitment from Council to go forward with ball fields or something to support them, maybe we could then convince one of our local operators, recruit. So maybe there is some advantage there to tie that down that we have a package now to market. I think we need to use some imagination on how we possible present this. I am not looking to spend money just to spend money, but we have got to come up with coming over the proverbial chicken and the egg, which comes first. A lot of times when you go out and buy a house, Councilman Rapson knows this, he sells houses. You walk in and you are pre-approved, they are going to talk to you a lot more than if you come in and say how much is it going to cost and then you go out Chase financing. So, if we maybe use something like that to do something.
Minutes: Council member Withelder: I know and maybe I am a little ahead of myself here, but I know we did that study on transportation and I haven’t heard anything since we did that transportation study. I would like to see us move forward on that some because I know that can affect the budget and I know it’s been longer than we have talked about coming up with some things that were currently being worked on by the fire department. I just don’t want that one to die.
Minutes: Mayor Litman opened up the meeting to Public Comment. There were no speakers.
Council member Rapson moved to accept the presentation. Council member Ballweg seconded the motion.
Passed For: 5; Against: 0; Abstain: 0; Absent: 0
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13) Consideration of the Creation of a Charitable Trust for the City of Mesquite benefiting local education, and other areas of local interest and other matters properly related thereto.
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and deferred to Robert Sweetin.
Minutes: Mr. Sweetin: This is brought back to Council after discussing with a couple of you. I think there was a need for that. Resolution 941 which was passed by this Council a few months back allowed that certain funds would be placed into a charitable trust if one existed for the purpose of benefitting education. As we looked into that process and I looked into it with Adam Anderson over at Barney-McKenna who specializes in trusts and complex trusts, kicked around some ideas with him and he was going to be here tonight, but he had a mediation in Seattle he had to be at. So essentially, I think what I would like to propose to Council is if you are all amenable we would like to move forward with a charitable trust, but that charitable trust would have different I guess for lack of a better term tronches in it. So, what would happen is we would have a charitable trust and over-arching Mesquite City Charitable Trust and then there would be a sub trust for education, and a sub trust for parks, and a sub trust for senior services. That would allow community members, which this has only come up a few times since I have been city attorney, but there have been situations where folks have bequeathed certain parts of their estates over to the city with direction that it be used for purposes x or y. This would make clear in our community that is a very giving minded community that if they are interested in giving to the city there are very specific trusts they can use to do that. My thinking on how this process will work is we will draft an initial trust. We would bring it back to Council to discuss the details because some of the details that will have to be vetted are who is the trustee of the trust? Would it be the Council as a whole? Would it be the city manager? Would it be the city attorney working at – would it be one of those people working at the direction of coming back to Council for approval on certain actions related to certain things? Would it be boards or commissions like some other cities have done it? Or they are the trustees of the sub trusts and they report to the main trustee of the trust as a whole. It is a little complex but not too big of a deal. If Council has no objection I just want to ask your permission to move forward in that process of getting that trust created likely retaining the assistance of Barney McKenna, their law firm since they do have expertise in that area and moving forward that way.
Minutes: Council member Rapson: My first question is weren’t we supposed to get a presentation from CEAB at some point about what they were going to do and who’s going to direct the funds and how much they need.
Minutes: Mr. Sweetin: My understanding on that Councilman Rapson is I attend as many CEAB meetings as I can because I am legal counsel for the CEAB and I was at a meeting where they were debating that policy to bring to Council, so I know that is there plan. I know they are planning on doing that before the budget. City Clerk is nodding her head, so she may have more information than I do.
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Minutes: Council member Rapson: Then my question is the trustees, and you answered that. Thank you.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: That is what we have been discussing on the CEAB and it started with the education. I think the discussions have come to come up with a trust shell, so we can put different sub trusts in there. My suggestion would be that you know we have trustees that are appointed maybe they are appointees – the council members appoint them over-arching independent ones, but the idea is or my thought would be the money once it is donated and especially in the city can be given but basically the council has somewhat of an arm’s length control over who the trustees are so we don’t get political and yank somebody out. Some of the things that we can do, education I think is very, very important. Another one that was brought up to me by an attorney in town, I have done animal control or animal rescue and things. It is kind of one of my passions for years of people want to endow money out of their wills or trusts for support of protection of animals or whatever it may be, donate to our animal shelter. There is a lot of structure we can do but those are the kind of things I think we should look at doing with this trust is put a shell together like we have talked about and do the sub trust or the sections within it.
Minutes: Ms. Beck: To answer Council member's Rapson question, CEAB will be meeting April 12th. They will probably – the last meeting in April do a presentation at the latest, the first meeting in May, but they have a good draft and it is getting fine-tuned and Cliff I hope you are listening. No, he is not. We will have something in front of Council before budget.
Minutes: Mayor Litman: Mr. Sweetin, just one question, on the creation of the Trust, I don’t know what these things costs. I know we are not budgeted for it in this fiscal year; can you throw a ball park figure at us?
Minutes: Mr. Sweetin: We are technically budgeted for it. Yes, because I have a professional and technical budget that we talk about in the next agenda item, but there is a professional and technical service’s legal budget for things like this. That account has approximately $50,000 left in it for the balance of this budget year. My expectation in talking with Adam is that it will cost a few thousand dollars. It could be slightly more than that. It shouldn’t in any case exceed $7000 or $8000 dollars. I don’t see it costing that much. I will keep Council apprised of that at all times.
Minutes: Mayor Litman opened up this item to Public Comment. There were none.
Council member Ballweg moved to approve the creation of a Charitable Trust for the City of Mesquite benefiting local education, and other areas of local interest and other matters properly related thereto. Council member Rapson seconded the motion.
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Passed For: 5; Against: 0; Abstain: 0; Absent: 0
14) Consideration of moving City Attorney services to a Contract with the Law Firm of Davison Van Cleve.
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and deferred to Robert Sweetin.
Minutes: Mr. Sweetin: I have been approached by a law firm and this happened a couple of months ago about potentially going over to work for them as of counsel. Well I was actually offered an initially a more permanent position with the firm to transition over and leave the city. I did not want to leave the city at that time. I explained to them that that was not – you know I wasn’t really interested and they came back with the potential structure where I would essentially remain the city attorney, bring the city as a client, but help them on some issues that they thought I could lend some expertise too. I have presented here and it’s in the back up materials, a 4 page memo which essentially details what the structure would look like under a city attorney contract. I note just as a broad view for the public’s benefit that the services that I would provide would be the same that I would still continue on as the appointed city attorney like all of you are elected officials and have jobs that you go to during the day. It would be a similar set up though the other work that I would do is much less than the full-time job that you would have. This would essentially be about 75 to 85% of my time. I would be able to spend time on other items as well. I would note that city attorney contract is not unusual in cities the size of Mesquite, I think especially where we are at, in looking at the alternatives moving forward, this is a cost savings measure as I have presented in the memo. I think just moving over to it immediately becomes a cost savings measure because as we have looked at the litigation budget that’s been set aside the last few years, it hasn’t been expended, and adding additional attorneys to the team which is essentially what would happen because I would be working with three other – the law firm has two other associate attorneys, 3 partners and then another member of the firm who is of counsel. They are primarily an energy law firm as what their expertise is in, but they have also crossed over to municipal and lobbying issues which are why they have asked me to join up with them for municipal issues. I would note that as the appointed city attorney, the contract and I have presented to you and I have copies tonight what retainer agreement would look like, the Council would be able to cancel that at any time if they were unhappy with the services. That is written in there. This is just a draft agreement. We obviously will talk further details at another meeting as long as Council is conceptually good with this idea. But if that were to happen essentially what it would look like is the law firm would be – the contract with the law firm would be terminated. By doing a contract with the law firm, essentially my employment agreement with the city would be significantly altered or erased altogether. There would be a new agreement in place related to the appointment. I would return to the appointment and then I guess Council if they were unhappy at that point, they could fire me pursuant to the charter under the appointment, but the law firm is not getting any money in that time frame. There are no issues with going today at MRB if that were to happen. So, I would ask the Council’s support. I think – one thing I would like to note, and Cliff Grivet is
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here, part of this would be bringing on a contract prosecutor. That is a system that has worked in other jurisdictions. Boulder City for example, their recent city attorney contract that they signed allows their city attorney to continue practicing law on the side. He is the full-time city attorney. He had a law firm that he left, but they have a contract city attorney. One difference will be that I will work with Cliff. I will still do criminal cases. We will kind of just share that caseload because at the amount we are looking at compensating him, it would not be fair to him to ask him to take the whole caseload. In any case, even if this were not to happen I had talked with Mr. Barton. The plan was to bring that in the next budget, a contract prosecutor because with the boom times coming back to Mesquite and not so much Mesquite, but St. George, that is where most of our criminal element comes from, I guess I’ll call them. Now that things are booming up there, I mean just to give you a for instance. When I started with the city 5 years ago, in custody calendars which are arrests the police make the night before, we would have 4 to 5 in custody folks a week that we would have to see in the morning, maybe 1 a day, maybe 2 a day sometimes. Now it is unusual if we don’t have 4 or 5 people every morning that we have to go over and see. In addition to that, our caseload and that’s in the memo is projected to be nearly 3 times what it was last year on the criminal side. That’s excluding all the traffic stuff which is not work intensive, but still requires some time and some work. I think what this does overall; it does save the city money right out of the gate. It will definitely save the city a lot of money long term and eliminate the need to hire a deputy or a deputy and a litigation budget which is what has been done in the years past. So, I will submit on that and answer any questions that you might have.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: We look at some of the organizations in the county, big organizations that don't have their own inside counsel, one of them I am on the RTC board and they hire counsel out. So, I think the LVCVA has internal inside counsel, but it’s not unusual because what it does is it provides us with the ability of expertise to look at what we are doing. Potentially if we had this contract set up it could potentially do the trust and we would not have to go outside so there are different advantages to that. I am in favor of pursuing the concept. The devil is going to be the detail so we have to work out the details, but the one thing I do want to make sure we get into this contract and I have mentioned this to Mr. Sweeting because this information was given to us earlier, that the integrity of our contract and of the attorney is in line with what our current charter is. So, it would not be a simple administrative contract cancellation. It would have to come in front of the council for the majority vote to terminate anybody basically the attorney and the city manager reports directly to us. So, I would want those terms to be carried through on this contract, so the Council has that control over, instead of an administrative contract cancellation.
Minutes: Mayor Litman opened up this item to Public Comment.
Minutes: Mr. Leverenz: Probably not going to make people happy with my observations. As Deputy City Attorney, Mr. Sweetin made about $65,000 a year. Last year as city attorney he made that was in regular pay, $114,000 and total pay and benefit value of over $171,000. I didn’t see the contract you put up here. I was just going off the stuff on the website, your 4 page memo. I think contracting out the city attorney to a law firm in Vegas for $200,000 per year and contracting as city prosecutor at an estimated $30,000 a year, having Mr. Sweeting work at the firm in Vegas and do the city’s work may benefit him but I ask if it is really in the best interest of
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the city. The proposal notes and initial savings of a little over $3,000 in the current city attorney’s salary benefits litigation budget. I support saving money, but I also know that it is important to consider potential down sides too. The materials “it is estimated that the city attorney would have a reduction of office time in Mesquite of about 20%.” With a 5-day work week that is one less day a week you have in-house city attorney in the city. The materials also state that city attorney will be present in his office 3 or 4 days a week, sometimes more. Now do you think it is a good bargain to pay virtually the same amount for 20 to 40% less in house city attorney? I’m just asking that. Didn’t the previous city attorney get to work from her home in Utah and did that turn out very well? The city attorney would also be conducting about 20 hours of additional work for the clients of the Vegas firm and 20 hours a week typically in America is a half of a work week. I know attorneys work a lot more than that. Having billable hours, I understand the desire to make more money every year, but you are a valuable guy. I think part of civil service is civil service and you are so much more talented than the previous person, and you are like the third highest paid person in the city, 4th highest overall pay and benefits, and I encourage you to just be here. You know rather than – I am afraid you will go down there and billable hours, oh this is pretty nice, at some point the city winds up with no city attorney because it is too lucrative being down there. You have talked about your love of community, your colleagues the city, and then what if the place in Vegas at some point decides not to renew the contract or the contract goes up substantially. How do you forecast that? Thank you.
Minutes: Bob Shively: 8 to 10 years ago, I brought in some information that really sparks light bolts with the presentation you heard from the Rising Star Ranch. All the different things that you can use to try to make these decisions, but I brought the information in from Blaine, Minnesota. Minnesota has the highest return on investment doing sports marketing. It’s a statewide machine.
Minutes: Mayor Litman: Bob, this is not final public comment.
Minutes: Mr. Shively: I thought it was Final Public Comment.
Minutes: Mayor Litman: This is the Public Comment for this item.
Council member Ballweg move to consider services for a contract with the Law Firm of Davison Van Cleve for attorney services for the City. Council member Rapson seconded the motion.
Passed For: 5; Against: 0; Abstain: 0; Absent: 0
Public Comments
15) Public Comment
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Minutes: Bob Shively: I can start a little different here. It’s a timing thing. 8-10 years ago, I provided information here as to what was done in Blaine, Minnesota which would go with everything that our sports people here are talking about with the Rising Star and all those different organizations that are running around organizing these events. The thing of it is, is that 8 to 10 years ago I was standing in Blaine, Minnesota with similar key people in the state of Minnesota that kind of runs this machine, and it’s a government driven machine. I was standing there looking out over 50 soccer courts, not soccer courts, fields, 50 soccer fields. In running around in that maze of people were over 1300 players. In addition to that, just in the 10 years before, it was a bedroom community, and they had to grow from something and they actually had people staying at each other’s houses. What I am saying is, it is time for you hopefully relook at this Minnesota outline because it did in fact go so much in line with everything that they were talking about, only you got your sophisticated ways of doing the math. I guess I would just encourage you if timing is everything, that you take the data that you have been doing, instead of giving examples of how bad things were in ’08 and forward because we couldn’t get a (indiscernible), but I would like for you to say okay today is 2018. I got more things to look at. Look at this data with the Rising Star people and see if we can’t find some of those answers to some of your questions that you came up with because it is a viable thing. 50,000 fields in one area – you know what the value is Blaine, Minnesota 10 years ago now? Multiple billions of dollars with hotels, businesses and more infra-structure and it’s trying to out-grow Minneapolis, St. Paul. I just encourage you – let’s look forward this time because I think the timing is better. Not only look at their presentation but the data. I think it could put us on a little faster track because I think the time is now to get our toe in the water with some of the data instead of looking backwards and saying oh man that was a bad time. So, thank you.
Adjournment
16) Adjournment
Minutes: Mr. Secrist: Council member Withelder asked earlier in the meeting how many vacation home rentals we have, and I have just received information, we have 120 licensed vacation home rentals that are paying room taxes.
Minutes: Mayor Litman adjourned the meeting at 7:01 PM.
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Allan S. Litman, Mayor Tracy E. Beck, City Clerk
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Mesquite Technical Review Meeting Mesquite City Hall 10 E. Mesquite Blvd. Tuesday, April 3, 2018; 1:30 PM
Minutes of a scheduled meeting of the City Council held Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 1:30 at City Hall. In attendance were Mayor Allan S. Litman; Council members David Ballweg, Rich Green and W. Geno Withelder. Also in attendance were City Manager Andy Barton, City Attorney Robert Sweetin, Development Services Director Richard Secrist; Public Works Director Bill Tanner; Athletics and Leisure Services Director Nick Montoya, City Clerk Tracy Beck, other City Staff and 6 citizens.
Mayor Litman called the meeting to order at 1:30 PM and noted that Council member Rapson was not present and Council member Wursten was on a business trip. (Note: A recording was made of this meeting and will be retained in the Clerk’s Office for one year.
Below is an agenda of all items scheduled to be considered. Unless otherwise stated, items may be taken out of the order presented on the agenda at the discretion of the Mayor and Council. Additionally, the Mayor and Council may combine two or more agenda items for consideration, and may remove an item from the agenda or delay discussion relating to an item on the agenda at any time. Public comment is limited to three minutes per person.
Public Comments
1) Public Comment
Minutes: Mayor Litman opened the meeting with Public Comment. There were no speakers
Minutes: Mayor Litman: Before Consent Agenda, we have a number of items to add.
Minutes: Jesslyn Russo: I would like to add a catering liquor license for to the Consent Agenda item for next week for Las Lupe’s for Clash in the Canyon, April 21st through the 24th. The next Council meeting would be too late, and we got the application today.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: I would like to ask a question. I thought they had a conditional catering license?
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Council member Ballweg moved to include the catering liquor license to the April 10, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting Agenda. Council member Withelder seconded the motion.
Passed Yes: 3; Against: 0; Abstain: 0; Absent: 2 (Rapson and Wursten)
Minutes: Nick Montoya: I would like to add a Resolution for an Inter-local agreement with Clark County for the Outside OAG funds to assist with the Sr. Center nutritional lunch and also the Mesquite Recreation Center. It is $60,000, $30,000 thousand each.
Council member Green moved to include the Resolution for the Inter-local Agreement with Clark County for OAG funds on the April 10, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting Agenda. Council member Withelder seconded the motion.
Passed Yes: 3; Against: 0; Abstain: 0; Absent: 2 (Rapson and Wursten)
Minutes: Ms. Beck: I have an item I would like to place before Grant Hanevold speaks. It is the CEAB report regarding the Disbursement of Funds.
Council member Ballweg moved to include the CEAB report regarding the Disbursement of Funds on the April 10, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting Agenda. Council member Green seconded the motion.
Passed Yes: 3; Against: 0; Abstain: 0; Absent: 2 (Rapson and Wursten)
Minutes: Ms. Beck: Next item. I probably can do this as a blanket vote. Council member Rapson has asked for two Proclamations. One declaring the Rossi Ralenkotter Day on March 19th.The second is Global Meetings Industry Day on April 12th and the third is National Service Recognition Day.
Minutes: Council member Withelder: What's the date on the Rossi thing?
Minutes: Ms. Beck: It says March 19th and I got that from Aaron. I will check with Aaron.
Council member Ballweg moved to include the three Proclamations on the April 10, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting Agenda. Council member Green seconded the motion.
Passed Yes: 3; Against: 0; Abstain: 0; Absent: 2 (Rapson and Wursten)
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Minutes: Mr. Sweetin: I have one Mayor. It is just adding the contract; I thought this was placed on there. My Retainer Agreement and also an Employment Agreement as to the appointment issue that had been raised, so there will be two agreements and I am working right now with Gina and Dodie to figure out the specifics. There will be something to be uploaded that will be on the agenda for your review.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: When will we get the backup for that?
Minutes: Mr. Sweetin: Once the agenda is uploaded.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: Will it be next week?
Minutes: Mr. Sweetin: No, it would be before that. I don't know when Tracy...I think she is posting on Wednesday night.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: I just want to get it the day before. I would like to get it before the weekend.
Minutes: Mr. Sweetin: Oh yeah.
Council member Ballweg moved to include the Retainer Agreement and Appointment Agreement between the City of Mesquite and Robert Sweetin. Council member Green seconded the motion.
Passed Yes: 3; Against: 0; Abstain: 0; Absent: 2 (Rapson and Wursten)
Consent Agenda
2) Consideration for approval of the Tuesday, April 10, 2018 Regular City Council Meeting agenda; the March 20, 2018 Technical Review Meeting minutes.
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and asked if there were any questions or comments. There were no speakers.
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3) Consideration of approval of: a) Notification of Budget Transfers b) Notification of Budget Amendments c) Notification of Bills Paid d) Purchase Orders
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and asked if there were any questions or comments. There were no speakers.
Special Items
4) Quarterly report from Clark County School District Associate Superintendent Grant Hanevold.
- Public Comments - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and asked if there were any questions or comments. There were none.
Minutes: Mayor Litman: Has he confirmed he will be here?
Minutes: Ms. Beck: Yes.
Resolutions & Proclamations
5) Consideration of Approval of Resolution No. 952, adopting Supplemental No. 2 to Inter-local Agreement (MES04A15) for the Virgin River Flood Wall between the City of Mesquite and the Clark County Regional Flood Control District
- Public Comments - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and asked if there were any questions or comments. There were no speakers.
6) Consideration of Approval of Resolution No. 953, adopting Supplemental No. 1 to Inter-local Contract between the City of Mesquite and the Regional Transportation
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Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) for Construction and Engineering Project 191D-CSF; Complete Streets Program
- Public Comments - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and asked if there were any questions or comments. There were no speakers.
7) Consideration of Approval of Resolution No. 954, adopting Supplemental No. 1 to Inter-local Contract between the City of Mesquite and the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) for maintenance and reconstruction of City of Mesquite Roads, 2018 Street Reconstruction Project – Phase I.
- Public Comments - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and asked if there were any questions or comment. There were no speakers. Department Reports
8) Mayor's Comments
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item and stated he had particular at this time.
9) City Council and Staff Reports and Comments
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and asked Staff if they had anything.
Minutes: Mr. Sweetin: I will have a comment that night and I will actually send something out in a Litigation Summary to council. We got a order, the order has not been filed yet, but on the Clark County School District law suit, the judge has ruled in our favor. Mesquite has essentially created an avenue for every parent in the district to sue the district if their school is not following AB394 or 469 which ever you look at it. It is a really big deal. The district is dragging their feet on getting that order submitted. I think they would like to work out some agreement with us and we are supposed to see those school budgets pretty soon. I will talk to Mr. Hanevold when he comes to see if he addresses it. If not, I will have a comment that night.
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Minutes: Mr. Sweetin: Oh yeah, I plan on calling one for next Tuesday. The problem we are in right now is that the School District has submitted an Order that omits certain parts of the Judges Minute Order and also creates other things that don't exist, so we are fighting back and forth and we don't know which Order the Judge will sign yet and we don't know what it will look like. We can get an attorney-client and I will brief you on it.
Adoption of Ordinances
10) Consideration of Adopting Bill No 534 as Ordinance 534, amending Title 2, Chapters 14 and 16 of the Mesquite Municipal Code for Licensing of Medical and Recreational Marijuana.
- Public Hearing - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and asked if there were any questions or comments.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: I have some questions. I have been reading this here, let me try and get these in logical order. So basically, right now, the distribution is charging Deep Roots Harvest a Thousand Dollars a month for transport.
Minutes: Mr. Secrist: Deep Roots Harvest is paying GPR a thousand dollars to cover the license.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: So right now, the way ordinance is written, we would collect 3% of that thousand dollars monthly is the way it works.
Minutes: Mr. Secrist: Right.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: Now, Theoretically that thousand dollar a month could go down to one dollar a month, because it’s within the same building so there is no restriction on how low that could go. Is that correct?
Minutes: Mr. Secrist: Correct.
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Minutes: Council member Ballweg: If we go with the flat rate, it would protect us from them doing something whether it would be nothing. Looking at the other ones, I don't know what the percentages are, but it looks like we are kind of falling if we do two hundred dollars annually for the fee of delivery, we will kind of fall toward the low end of the range. It looks like Clark County charging a thousand dollars a year.
Minutes: Mr. Secrist: We would be lower than everybody except Clark County. Probably would be the same.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: This distributor licenses we would offer them. Would this include…if they wanted this distributor group....first of all, can they, and would this be inclusive of this fee if they decided to do an in-town delivery service where they would deliver from the dispensary to residential locations, can they do that now under this license, if we gave them this distributors license?
Minutes: Mr. Secrist: They could, but I don't think they want to. Ms. Russo: I think they would be able to. They are allowed to by the State, but I don't think they have plans to.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: Under this they could.
Minutes: Ms. Russo: Yes --- (unclear)
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: They have not expressed a plan, but under the terms, they could deliver under a flat fee of two hundred and fifty dollars so we would have no way of collecting a thing on that profit back and it would be a flat amount no matter what was happening.
Minutes: Ms. Russo: Yes, they could do that on the 3%.
Minutes: Council member Ballweg: Because we are capped at 3%. Can we limit this or revise this resolution to say this is only for distribution between the grower and the dispensary? Could we do that within this Ordinance?
Minutes: Ms. Russo: I would defer to Bob on that.
Minutes: Mr. Sweetin: You would be able to structure that---
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Minutes: Council member Ballweg: I just would like to see that if all of a sudden it becomes a delivery service and distributor in town and they are delivering goods which are a possibility and we should look at...the way I look at it now...I got my question answered.
11) Consideration of Adoption of Bill 536 as Ordinance 536, an Ordinance amending Mesquite Municipal Code Title 9 "Unified Development"; Chapter 7 "Zoning Districts" Article F "Single -Family Residential (SF)"; Section 2 Permitted Uses" and Section 3 "Conditional uses" and other matters properly related thereto.
- Public Hearing - Discussion and Possible Action
Minutes: Mayor Litman read this item by its title and asked for questions or comments for Council member Withelder.
Minutes: Council member Withelder: I will defer to Mr. Sweetin on this since he dealt with it the last Council meeting.
Minutes: Mayor Litman: And that will be a Public Hearing.
Minutes: Mr. Sweetin: Correct. There are no changes from last meeting.
Public Comments
12) Public Comment
Minutes: Mayor Litman opened up the meeting to final Public Comments. There were not speakers. Adjournment
13) Adjournment
Minutes: Mayor Litman adjourned the meeting at 1:43 PM
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Allan S. Litman, Mayor Tracy E. Beck, City Clerk
70 Mesquite Technical Review Meeting Minutes Tuesday, April 3, 2018 Page 9 City Council Agenda Item 3
Submitted by: Dodie Melendez Submitting Department: Finance Meeting Date: April 24, 2018
Subject: Consideration of approval of: a) Notification of Budget Transfers b) Notification of Budget Amendments c) Notification of Bills Paid d) Purchase Orders
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
Recommendation: Approval of Budget Transfers, Budget Amendments, Bills Paid, and Purchase Orders
Petitioner: David Empey – Financial Director/City Treasurer
Is this a budgeted item? No
Fiscal Impact: See Attached
Background: See Attached
Attachments: Check Register - City Council Agenda 03.26.18 to 04.28.18.pdf Combined Budget Trsfrs & POs for Council.pdf
71 CITY OF MESQUITE Check Register - for City Council Agenda Page: 1 Check Issue Dates: 3/26/2018 - 4/8/2018 Apr 09, 2018 02:46PM
Report Criteria: Report type: GL detail
GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
04/18 04/05/2018 172716 12694 3M TRAFFIC SAFETY SYS. DIV. TP21087 1 10-65-610 .00 3,000.00 3,000.00
Total 172716: .00 3,000.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172717 10442 ACE FIRE SYSTEMS, INC. 27062 1 10-63-310 .00 220.00 220.00
Total 172717: .00 220.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172718 1007 AHERN RENTALS 18804855-1 1 10-66-250 .00 18.00 18.00
Total 172718: .00 18.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172719 14628 AIR CONDITIONING DISCOUNT 10061 1 13-40-625 .00 12.96 12.96
Total 172719: .00 12.96
04/18 04/05/2018 172720 8243 ALADDIN TEMP-RITE 1277782 1 10-55-610 .00 256.50 256.50
Total 172720: .00 256.50
04/18 04/05/2018 172721 8756 ALSCO LSTG786919 1 16-71-480 .00 109.66 109.66 04/18 04/05/2018 172721 8756 ALSCO LSTG787867 1 10-66-610 .00 33.08 33.08 04/18 04/05/2018 172721 8756 ALSCO LSTG788857 1 16-71-480 .00 103.22 103.22 04/18 04/05/2018 172721 8756 ALSCO LSTG788863 1 10-60-310 .00 99.80 99.80 04/18 04/05/2018 172721 8756 ALSCO LSTG788867 1 10-66-610 .00 50.90 50.90 04/18 04/05/2018 172721 8756 ALSCO LSTG789879 1 10-66-610 .00 33.08 33.08
Total 172721: .00 429.74
04/18 04/05/2018 172722 16017 ALTERATIONS BY COLLEEN MAR2018 1 10-57-610 .00 160.00 160.00
Total 172722: .00 160.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172723 14353 AMERICAN TIRE DISTRIBUTOR S105326623 1 10-66-245 .00 264.46 264.46 04/18 04/05/2018 172723 14353 AMERICAN TIRE DISTRIBUTOR S105703312 1 52-40-250 .00 675.68 675.68 04/18 04/05/2018 172723 14353 AMERICAN TIRE DISTRIBUTOR S106035105 1 10-66-245 .00 464.00 464.00
72 M = Manual Check, V = Void Check CITY OF MESQUITE Check Register - for City Council Agenda Page: 2 Check Issue Dates: 3/26/2018 - 4/8/2018 Apr 09, 2018 02:46PM
GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
Total 172723: .00 1,404.14
04/18 04/05/2018 172724 1017 AMERIGAS - ST GEORGE 3076597343 1 10-63-280 .00 1,102.22 1,102.22 04/18 04/05/2018 172724 1017 AMERIGAS - ST GEORGE 3076598348 1 17-80-610 .00 1,305.29 1,305.29
Total 172724: .00 2,407.51
04/18 04/05/2018 172725 2430 ANDERSON HERITAGE ELEC. I 14625 1 52-40-620 .00 347.04 347.04
Total 172725: .00 347.04
04/18 04/05/2018 172726 15136 ANGEL SILVEYRA 032118 1 17-34-405 .00 50.00 50.00
Total 172726: .00 50.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172727 15600 ANN M MURPHY MAR 2018 1 17-80-310 .00 448.00 448.00
Total 172727: .00 448.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172728 15599 ANNA KATHERINA BULLOCH MAR 2018 1 17-80-310 .00 168.00 168.00
Total 172728: .00 168.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172729 13820 AQUA PERFECT 56412 1 10-57-610 .00 239.70 239.70
Total 172729: .00 239.70
04/18 04/05/2018 172730 11104 ASSESSMENT MANAGEMENT AMG 1125 1 83-82-010 .00 1,018.20 1,018.20 04/18 04/05/2018 172730 11104 ASSESSMENT MANAGEMENT AMG1151 1 83-81-010 .00 732.36 732.36
Total 172730: .00 1,750.56
04/18 04/05/2018 172731 14380 ATKINS NORTH AMERICA 1879051 1 45-40-809 .00 23,885.00 23,885.00
Total 172731: .00 23,885.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172732 12319 AUTO ZONE 2230221307 1 10-81-250 .00 16.69 16.69
73 M = Manual Check, V = Void Check CITY OF MESQUITE Check Register - for City Council Agenda Page: 3 Check Issue Dates: 3/26/2018 - 4/8/2018 Apr 09, 2018 02:46PM
GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
Total 172732: .00 16.69
04/18 04/05/2018 172733 9268 AUTOMOTIVE CERTIFIED TECH 83253 1 10-66-250 .00 62.95 62.95
Total 172733: .00 62.95
04/18 04/05/2018 172734 15974 BARRY M HECKER, LLC 032818 1 17-80-310 .00 976.00 976.00
Total 172734: .00 976.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172735 15433 BATTLE BORN GRAPHIX 3352 1 10-57-610 .00 342.50 342.50
Total 172735: .00 342.50
04/18 04/05/2018 172736 14365 BATTLE BORN MEDIA LLC M17-2627 1 10-48-220 .00 70.00 70.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172736 14365 BATTLE BORN MEDIA LLC M18-0052 1 10-48-220 .00 35.00 35.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172736 14365 BATTLE BORN MEDIA LLC M18-0298 1 10-48-220 .00 35.00 35.00
Total 172736: .00 140.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172737 15938 BETHANIE BREE DANIELS MAR 2018 1 17-80-310 .00 210.00 210.00
Total 172737: .00 210.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172738 12190 BETTY KING MAR 2018 1 17-80-310 .00 1,507.50 1,507.50
Total 172738: .00 1,507.50
04/18 04/05/2018 172739 13453 BILL A BERRETT, P.C. 031218 1 10-51-310 .00 250.00 250.00
Total 172739: .00 250.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172740 15477 BRIAN DELIGHT MAR 2018 1 17-80-310 .00 182.40 182.40
Total 172740: .00 182.40
04/18 04/05/2018 172741 13447 BSN SPORTS, LLC 901819950 1 17-80-610 .00 290.86 290.86 04/18 04/05/2018 172741 13447 BSN SPORTS, LLC 901875595 1 17-80-610 .00 178.44 178.44
74 M = Manual Check, V = Void Check CITY OF MESQUITE Check Register - for City Council Agenda Page: 4 Check Issue Dates: 3/26/2018 - 4/8/2018 Apr 09, 2018 02:46PM
GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
04/18 04/05/2018 172741 13447 BSN SPORTS, LLC 901886947 1 17-80-610 .00 164.88 164.88
Total 172741: .00 634.18
04/18 04/05/2018 172742 14618 CANON FINANCIAL SERVICES, 18464391 1 10-49-250 .00 1,633.70 1,633.70
Total 172742: .00 1,633.70
04/18 04/05/2018 172743 4755 CASELLE INC. 86880 1 10-46-310 .00 275.00 275.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172743 4755 CASELLE INC. 86880 2 52-40-310 .00 35.00 35.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172743 4755 CASELLE INC. 86880 3 10-46-310 .00 210.00 210.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172743 4755 CASELLE INC. 86880 4 10-46-310 .00 150.00 150.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172743 4755 CASELLE INC. 86880 5 10-54-310 .00 50.00 50.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172743 4755 CASELLE INC. 86880 6 10-57-310 .00 50.00 50.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172743 4755 CASELLE INC. 86880 7 10-46-310 .00 402.08 402.08 04/18 04/05/2018 172743 4755 CASELLE INC. 86880 8 83-81-610 .00 244.12 244.12 04/18 04/05/2018 172743 4755 CASELLE INC. 86880 9 83-82-610 .00 244.12 244.12 04/18 04/05/2018 172743 4755 CASELLE INC. 86880 10 52-40-310 .00 545.68 545.68
Total 172743: .00 2,206.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172744 14492 CENTURYLINK 100835022 1 10-47-310 .00 4,668.32 4,668.32
Total 172744: .00 4,668.32
04/18 04/05/2018 172745 14492 CENTURYLINK 1436090043 1 10-49-290 .00 593.84 593.84
Total 172745: .00 593.84
04/18 04/05/2018 172746 8810 CHIEF SUPPLY CORP 409196 1 10-54-610 .00 7.99 7.99
Total 172746: .00 7.99
04/18 04/05/2018 172747 1608 CLARK CO. DEPT. OF FINANCE FEBRUARY 1 10-23130 .00 26,423.28 26,423.28 04/18 04/05/2018 172747 1608 CLARK CO. DEPT. OF FINANCE MAR 2018 1 10-23240 .00 20,810.00 20,810.00
Total 172747: .00 47,233.28
04/18 04/05/2018 172748 8634 CLARK CO. TREASURER FEBRUARY 1 10-23140 .00 26,423.28 26,423.28
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GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
04/18 04/05/2018 172748 8634 CLARK CO. TREASURER FEBRUARY 1 10-23140 .00 16,514.55 16,514.55
Total 172748: .00 42,937.83
04/18 04/05/2018 172749 15648 COASTLINE EQUIPMENT 468712 1 10-66-250 .00 67.35 67.35 04/18 04/05/2018 172749 15648 COASTLINE EQUIPMENT 470568 1 10-66-250 .00 218.74 218.74
Total 172749: .00 286.09
04/18 04/05/2018 172750 14011 COMPUTER SOFTWARE, INC. 57680 1 10-61-310 .00 1,848.56 1,848.56 04/18 04/05/2018 172750 14011 COMPUTER SOFTWARE, INC. 57681 1 10-61-610 .00 30,005.54 30,005.54
Total 172750: .00 31,854.10
04/18 04/05/2018 172751 5340 DALE TOBLER 032118 1 10-61-210 .00 582.40 582.40
Total 172751: .00 582.40
04/18 04/05/2018 172752 16007 DARYL T GRAHAM 974 1 15-23200 .00 2,475.00 2,475.00
Total 172752: .00 2,475.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172753 10925 DAVID ALEJOS 050718 1 10-54-230 .00 168.00 168.00
Total 172753: .00 168.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172754 12119 DOROTHEA K. MELENDEZ 05012018 1 10-46-230 .00 494.81 494.81
Total 172754: .00 494.81
04/18 04/05/2018 172755 14672 ELECTRICAL WHOLESALE SUP 914899101 1 10-63-610 .00 303.00 303.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172755 14672 ELECTRICAL WHOLESALE SUP 914909300 1 13-40-625 .00 886.27 886.27 04/18 04/05/2018 172755 14672 ELECTRICAL WHOLESALE SUP 914909302 1 13-40-625 .00 1,197.54 1,197.54 04/18 04/05/2018 172755 14672 ELECTRICAL WHOLESALE SUP 914927822 1 13-40-625 .00 192.98 192.98
Total 172755: .00 2,579.79
04/18 04/05/2018 172756 11887 EMERGENCY VEHICLE SYSTE 1011 1 10-57-740 .00 4,730.00 4,730.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172756 11887 EMERGENCY VEHICLE SYSTE 1063 1 10-57-740 .00 1,925.00 1,925.00
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GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
Total 172756: .00 6,655.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172757 14274 FRESHAIRE/AIREMASTER 80585 1 10-63-610 .00 10.50 10.50
Total 172757: .00 10.50
04/18 04/05/2018 172758 16004 GAYLE HAAS 972 1 15-23200 .00 1,660.00 1,660.00
Total 172758: .00 1,660.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172759 13054 GENO WITHELDER 032818 1 10-41-230 .00 714.04 714.04
Total 172759: .00 714.04
04/18 04/05/2018 172760 15505 GINA R SANDOVAL MAR 2018 1 17-80-310 .00 60.00 60.00
Total 172760: .00 60.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172761 10783 GOT BUGS? 24097 1 10-63-310 .00 400.00 400.00
Total 172761: .00 400.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172762 2245 GRAINGER, INC. 9731847183 1 13-40-625 .00 86.63 86.63
Total 172762: .00 86.63
04/18 04/05/2018 172763 11934 HARRIS & ASSOCIATES, INC 35981 1 83-82-010 .00 270.00 270.00
Total 172763: .00 270.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172764 9347 HARTWELL FAMILY PRACTICE 170413XXXX 1 10-54-320 .00 125.00 125.00
Total 172764: .00 125.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172765 15883 HAYLEE BENGLAN MAR 2018 1 17-80-310 .00 994.20 994.20
Total 172765: .00 994.20
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GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
04/18 04/05/2018 172766 2452 HIGH DESERT SUPPLY IN00177126 1 10-66-250 .00 442.09 442.09 04/18 04/05/2018 172766 2452 HIGH DESERT SUPPLY IN00177376 1 10-66-250 .00 561.31 561.31
Total 172766: .00 1,003.40
04/18 04/05/2018 172767 15868 HUTCHISON & STEFFEN, PLLC 032818 1 10-50-310 .00 10,000.00 10,000.00
Total 172767: .00 10,000.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172768 14590 IAN MCOMIE 050718 1 10-54-230 .00 105.00 105.00
Total 172768: .00 105.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172769 9482 ICC, INC 1000884755 1 10-61-210 .00 712.70 712.70 04/18 04/05/2018 172769 9482 ICC, INC 1000885007 1 10-61-210 .00 90.40 90.40
Total 172769: .00 803.10
04/18 04/05/2018 172770 2435 IMAGE PRO PRINTING INC. 96806 1 10-54-240 .00 192.00 192.00
Total 172770: .00 192.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172771 15748 INDUSTRIAL COMPRESSOR & 18-1259 1 13-40-625 .00 1,097.05 1,097.05
Total 172771: .00 1,097.05
04/18 04/05/2018 172772 16019 INTERIOR SPECIALIST INC. 040318 1 10-32-100 .00 250.00 250.00
Total 172772: .00 250.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172773 14948 INTERWEST SAFETY SUPPLY I 28000 2 10-66-250 .00 47.90 47.90
Total 172773: .00 47.90
04/18 04/05/2018 172774 15013 INTERWEST SUPPLY COMPAN IN0069040 1 10-66-250 .00 357.48 357.48
Total 172774: .00 357.48
04/18 04/05/2018 172775 13552 IRIS MEDICAL, INC DEC 17 1 10-57-310 .00 7,205.51 7,205.51
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GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
04/18 04/05/2018 172775 13552 IRIS MEDICAL, INC FEB 2018 1 10-57-310 .00 7,428.47 7,428.47 04/18 04/05/2018 172775 13552 IRIS MEDICAL, INC JAN 2018 1 10-57-310 .00 5,485.95 5,485.95
Total 172775: .00 20,119.93
04/18 04/05/2018 172776 15504 ITSAVVY LLC 01017418 1 10-49-250 .00 21.81 21.81 04/18 04/05/2018 172776 15504 ITSAVVY LLC 01019254 1 10-49-250 .00 43.62 43.62
Total 172776: .00 65.43
04/18 04/05/2018 172777 13293 JAMES E. GUESMAN 032018 1 10-51-310 .00 200.00 200.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172777 13293 JAMES E. GUESMAN 17CR00618 1 10-51-310 .00 175.00 175.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172777 13293 JAMES E. GUESMAN 17CR00675 1 10-51-310 .00 350.00 350.00
Total 172777: .00 725.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172778 15884 JANET K WILKINSON MAR18 1 16-71-620 .00 64.00 64.00
Total 172778: .00 64.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172779 13257 JAYSON ANDRUS 040318 1 10-57-230 .00 96.00 96.00
Total 172779: .00 96.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172780 16005 JEFF CHRISTENSEN 032018 1 12-87-610 .00 1,000.00 1,000.00
Total 172780: .00 1,000.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172781 16011 JENNIFER WILSON 032118 1 17-34-405 .00 50.00 50.00
Total 172781: .00 50.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172782 14171 JESSICA BUCKLIN MAR 2018 1 17-80-310 .00 1,750.35 1,750.35
Total 172782: .00 1,750.35
04/18 04/05/2018 172783 16006 JOSEPH REEVES 032318 1 01-11750 .00 27.24 27.24
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Total 172783: .00 27.24
04/18 04/05/2018 172784 16010 JOSH TEDDER 032118 1 17-34-405 .00 50.00 50.00
Total 172784: .00 50.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172785 15377 KARINA COLLAZO 032618 1 17-34-405 .00 50.00 50.00
Total 172785: .00 50.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172786 15958 KEEFE GROUP, LLC 963635 1 90-26113 .00 618.24 618.24
Total 172786: .00 618.24
04/18 04/05/2018 172787 10984 KOKOPELLI LANDSCAPING 102738 1 10-76-310 .00 1,100.00 1,100.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172787 10984 KOKOPELLI LANDSCAPING 102745 1 10-76-310 .00 1,995.00 1,995.00
Total 172787: .00 3,095.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172788 3050 L V REVIEW-JOURNAL I0000974123 1 10-44-220 .00 84.48 84.48 04/18 04/05/2018 172788 3050 L V REVIEW-JOURNAL I0000974124 1 10-44-220 .00 72.96 72.96
Total 172788: .00 157.44
04/18 04/05/2018 172789 15053 LAMPPOST ELECTRIC LLC CITY18-005 1 10-47-240 .00 65.00 65.00
Total 172789: .00 65.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172790 9979 LARRY LEMIEUX 04042018 1 12-87-310 .00 2,754.86 2,754.86 04/18 04/05/2018 172790 9979 LARRY LEMIEUX 04042018 2 12-87-695 .00 252.22- 252.22- 04/18 04/05/2018 172790 9979 LARRY LEMIEUX 04042018 4 12-87-610 .00 50.92- 50.92-
Total 172790: .00 2,451.72
04/18 04/05/2018 172791 3000 LAS VEGAS CONVENTION AUT FEB 2018 1 10-23115 .00 13,211.64 13,211.64 04/18 04/05/2018 172791 3000 LAS VEGAS CONVENTION AUT FEBRUARY 1 10-23110 .00 105,693.12 105,693.12 04/18 04/05/2018 172791 3000 LAS VEGAS CONVENTION AUT MAR 18 1 10-23100 .00 41.75 41.75
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GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
Total 172791: .00 118,946.51
04/18 04/05/2018 172792 14936 LAURA RIVAS 032218 1 16-71-230 .00 20.00 20.00
Total 172792: .00 20.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172793 15806 LESLIE MENDEZ 032018 1 10-81-230 .00 100.98 100.98
Total 172793: .00 100.98
04/18 04/05/2018 172794 9516 LIFE ASSIST INC. 842699 1 10-54-610 .00 103.08 103.08 04/18 04/05/2018 172794 9516 LIFE ASSIST INC. 846187 1 10-57-250 .00 531.17- 531.17- 04/18 04/05/2018 172794 9516 LIFE ASSIST INC. 846243 1 10-57-615 .00 1,337.54 1,337.54 04/18 04/05/2018 172794 9516 LIFE ASSIST INC. 847349 1 10-57-615 .00 114.00 114.00
Total 172794: .00 1,023.45
04/18 04/05/2018 172795 15563 LIFE LINE EMERGENCY VEHICL 008865 1 10-66-250 .00 134.94 134.94
Total 172795: .00 134.94
04/18 04/05/2018 172796 8090 LINCOLN COM. POOL EQUIPME EW006540 1 10-81-250 .00 221.26 221.26
Total 172796: .00 221.26
04/18 04/05/2018 172797 9899 MADISON NATIONAL LIFE INS. 1293126 1 10-22510 .00 5,162.74 5,162.74
Total 172797: .00 5,162.74
04/18 04/05/2018 172798 12972 MANDY MUIR MAR 2018 1 17-80-310 .00 522.00 522.00
Total 172798: .00 522.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172799 16008 MARGE DANELUK 973 1 15-23200 .00 2,140.00 2,140.00
Total 172799: .00 2,140.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172800 14440 MARIA AMARILES MAR 2018 1 17-80-310 .00 192.00 192.00
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GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
04/18 04/05/2018 172800 14440 MARIA AMARILES MARCH18 1 16-71-310 .00 208.00 208.00
Total 172800: .00 400.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172801 16012 MARIANA ESPINOZA 03212018 1 17-34-405 .00 50.00 50.00
Total 172801: .00 50.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172802 696 MAXINE SHAW MAR 2018 1 17-80-310 .00 416.00 416.00
Total 172802: .00 416.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172803 3313 MCCANDLESS INTERNATIONAL X100644161: 1 52-40-250 .00 240.91 240.91
Total 172803: .00 240.91
04/18 04/05/2018 172804 11236 MEADOW GOLD DAIRIES 59612021 1 16-71-480 .00 264.86 264.86 04/18 04/05/2018 172804 11236 MEADOW GOLD DAIRIES 59612083 1 16-71-480 .00 194.56 194.56 04/18 04/05/2018 172804 11236 MEADOW GOLD DAIRIES 59612150 1 16-71-480 .00 204.74 204.74
Total 172804: .00 664.16
04/18 04/05/2018 172805 10764 MESA VIEW REGIONAL HOSPIT 425-0218 1 10-57-320 .00 721.08 721.08
Total 172805: .00 721.08
04/18 04/05/2018 172806 3344 MESQUITE CHAMBER OF COM 040318 1 10-81-480 .00 485.00 485.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172806 3344 MESQUITE CHAMBER OF COM E3342 1 10-43-610 .00 8.00 8.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172806 3344 MESQUITE CHAMBER OF COM E3424 1 10-57-210 .00 8.00 8.00
Total 172806: .00 501.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172807 11650 MESQUITE FORD 389395 1 10-66-250 .00 68.08 68.08 04/18 04/05/2018 172807 11650 MESQUITE FORD 389398 1 10-66-250 .00 .89 .89 04/18 04/05/2018 172807 11650 MESQUITE FORD 389408 1 10-66-250 .00 151.94 151.94 04/18 04/05/2018 172807 11650 MESQUITE FORD 389415 1 10-66-250 .00 66.90 66.90 04/18 04/05/2018 172807 11650 MESQUITE FORD 389430 1 10-66-250 .00 244.00 244.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172807 11650 MESQUITE FORD 389442 1 10-66-250 .00 133.16 133.16 04/18 04/05/2018 172807 11650 MESQUITE FORD 389474 1 10-66-250 .00 42.88 42.88
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GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
04/18 04/05/2018 172807 11650 MESQUITE FORD 389503 1 10-66-250 .00 8.14 8.14 04/18 04/05/2018 172807 11650 MESQUITE FORD 389514 CR 1 10-66-250 .00 99.13- 99.13- 04/18 04/05/2018 172807 11650 MESQUITE FORD 389730 1 10-66-250 .00 45.50 45.50 04/18 04/05/2018 172807 11650 MESQUITE FORD 389763 1 10-66-250 .00 92.66 92.66 04/18 04/05/2018 172807 11650 MESQUITE FORD 389764 1 10-66-250 .00 242.14 242.14 04/18 04/05/2018 172807 11650 MESQUITE FORD 389829 1 10-66-250 .00 87.42 87.42 04/18 04/05/2018 172807 11650 MESQUITE FORD 389834 CR 1 10-66-250 .00 92.66- 92.66-
Total 172807: .00 991.92
04/18 04/05/2018 172808 3500 MESQUITE LUMBER & SUPPLY MAR 18 1 10-38-900 .00 65.00- 65.00- 04/18 04/05/2018 172808 3500 MESQUITE LUMBER & SUPPLY MAR 18 2 10-61-240 .00 14.99 14.99 04/18 04/05/2018 172808 3500 MESQUITE LUMBER & SUPPLY MAR 18 3 10-63-610 .00 698.21 698.21 04/18 04/05/2018 172808 3500 MESQUITE LUMBER & SUPPLY MAR 18 4 10-65-250 .00 78.48 78.48 04/18 04/05/2018 172808 3500 MESQUITE LUMBER & SUPPLY MAR 18 5 10-65-610 .00 60.92 60.92 04/18 04/05/2018 172808 3500 MESQUITE LUMBER & SUPPLY MAR 18 6 10-66-250 .00 18.74 18.74 04/18 04/05/2018 172808 3500 MESQUITE LUMBER & SUPPLY MAR 18 7 10-76-610 .00 605.20 605.20 04/18 04/05/2018 172808 3500 MESQUITE LUMBER & SUPPLY MAR 18 8 10-81-250 .00 76.46 76.46 04/18 04/05/2018 172808 3500 MESQUITE LUMBER & SUPPLY MAR 18 9 10-82-610 .00 31.84 31.84 04/18 04/05/2018 172808 3500 MESQUITE LUMBER & SUPPLY MAR 18 10 13-40-625 .00 1,752.83 1,752.83 04/18 04/05/2018 172808 3500 MESQUITE LUMBER & SUPPLY MAR 18 11 17-80-610 .00 14.97 14.97 04/18 04/05/2018 172808 3500 MESQUITE LUMBER & SUPPLY MAR 18 12 52-40-610 .00 348.81 348.81
Total 172808: .00 3,636.45
04/18 04/05/2018 172809 10137 MESQUITE MATERIAL TESTING 8687 1 10-76-610 .00 60.00 60.00
Total 172809: .00 60.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172810 3457 MESQUITE VETERINARY CLINI 144704 1 10-70-310 .00 83.47 83.47
Total 172810: .00 83.47
04/18 04/05/2018 172811 15967 MICHELE HOWELLS 040318 1 17-80-310 .00 1,677.00 1,677.00
Total 172811: .00 1,677.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172812 15902 MICHELLE WOODS MAR 2018 1 17-80-310 .00 560.00 560.00
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GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
Total 172812: .00 560.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172813 13651 MIRIAM C FLORES 032918 1 10-51-310 .00 450.00 450.00
Total 172813: .00 450.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172814 14526 MOAPA VALLEY TELEPHONE MAR 18 1 10-47-310 .00 199.78 199.78
Total 172814: .00 199.78
04/18 04/05/2018 172815 13023 MONICA TOR 032118 1 17-34-405 .00 50.00 50.00
Total 172815: .00 50.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172816 14943 MOORE MEDICAL LLC 83461668 1 10-57-615 .00 316.71 316.71 04/18 04/05/2018 172816 14943 MOORE MEDICAL LLC 83499167 1 10-57-615 .00 316.71 316.71 04/18 04/05/2018 172816 14943 MOORE MEDICAL LLC 83501952 1 10-57-615 .00 20.76 20.76
Total 172816: .00 654.18
04/18 04/05/2018 172817 3580 MORCON INDUSTRIAL SPECIA 0019477-IN 1 10-76-250 .00 1,982.13 1,982.13 04/18 04/05/2018 172817 3580 MORCON INDUSTRIAL SPECIA 0019648-IN 1 10-63-610 .00 172.00 172.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172817 3580 MORCON INDUSTRIAL SPECIA 0019661-IN 1 10-63-610 .00 139.00 139.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172817 3580 MORCON INDUSTRIAL SPECIA 0019663-IN 1 10-63-610 .00 62.34 62.34 04/18 04/05/2018 172817 3580 MORCON INDUSTRIAL SPECIA 0019664-IN 1 10-55-610 .00 396.69 396.69 04/18 04/05/2018 172817 3580 MORCON INDUSTRIAL SPECIA 0019665-IN 1 10-63-610 .00 1,400.58 1,400.58 04/18 04/05/2018 172817 3580 MORCON INDUSTRIAL SPECIA 0019716-IN 1 10-63-610 .00 185.80 185.80 04/18 04/05/2018 172817 3580 MORCON INDUSTRIAL SPECIA 0019719-IN 1 10-63-610 .00 22.50 22.50 04/18 04/05/2018 172817 3580 MORCON INDUSTRIAL SPECIA 0019720-IN 1 10-63-610 .00 112.50 112.50 04/18 04/05/2018 172817 3580 MORCON INDUSTRIAL SPECIA 0019726-IN 1 10-55-610 .00 46.80 46.80 04/18 04/05/2018 172817 3580 MORCON INDUSTRIAL SPECIA 0019727-IN 1 10-63-610 .00 754.20 754.20 04/18 04/05/2018 172817 3580 MORCON INDUSTRIAL SPECIA 0019740-IN 1 10-66-250 .00 59.52 59.52 04/18 04/05/2018 172817 3580 MORCON INDUSTRIAL SPECIA 0019753-IN 1 10-55-610 .00 99.42 99.42
Total 172817: .00 5,433.48
04/18 04/05/2018 172818 3653 MOUNT OLYMPUS WATERS, IN 10219825-03 1 16-71-480 .00 14.49 14.49
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GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
Total 172818: .00 14.49
04/18 04/05/2018 172819 10640 MOUNTAINLAND SUPPLY INC S102517284. 1 10-76-610 .00 293.50 293.50
Total 172819: .00 293.50
04/18 04/05/2018 172820 14058 MTM CLEANING SERVICE 262 1 10-63-310 .00 1,300.00 1,300.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172820 14058 MTM CLEANING SERVICE 263 1 10-63-310 .00 940.00 940.00
Total 172820: .00 2,240.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172821 13039 MYERS TIRE SUPPLY 73512429 1 10-66-250 .00 220.74 220.74 04/18 04/05/2018 172821 13039 MYERS TIRE SUPPLY 73512874 C 1 10-66-250 .00 11.38- 11.38- 04/18 04/05/2018 172821 13039 MYERS TIRE SUPPLY 73513480 C 1 10-66-250 .00 209.36- 209.36- 04/18 04/05/2018 172821 13039 MYERS TIRE SUPPLY 73513727 C 1 10-66-250 .00 41.84- 41.84- 04/18 04/05/2018 172821 13039 MYERS TIRE SUPPLY 83503139 1 10-66-250 .00 184.52 184.52
Total 172821: .00 142.68
04/18 04/05/2018 172822 4066 NEUTRON INDUSTRIES 900416153 1 10-55-610 .00 471.41 471.41
Total 172822: .00 471.41
04/18 04/05/2018 172823 10891 NICHOLE BURNSIDE MAR 2018 1 17-80-310 .00 544.00 544.00
Total 172823: .00 544.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172824 15266 NORMAN NIELSEN 040918 1 10-57-230 .00 129.00 129.00
Total 172824: .00 129.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172825 8224 QUICK CUT CONCRETE, INC. 058526 1 10-81-740 .00 390.40 390.40
Total 172825: .00 390.40
04/18 04/05/2018 172826 13670 REDWOOD TOXICOLOGY LABO 639851 1 10-48-310 .00 138.50 138.50
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Total 172826: .00 138.50
04/18 04/05/2018 172827 15735 RELIABLE AFTERMARKET PAR 18486 1 10-66-250 .00 227.57 227.57
Total 172827: .00 227.57
04/18 04/05/2018 172828 4500 RELIANCE CONNECTS MARCH 18 1 12-87-290 .00 117.92 117.92 04/18 04/05/2018 172828 4500 RELIANCE CONNECTS MARCH 18 2 52-40-290 .00 100.34 100.34 04/18 04/05/2018 172828 4500 RELIANCE CONNECTS MARCH 18 3 10-49-290 .00 1,048.49 1,048.49 04/18 04/05/2018 172828 4500 RELIANCE CONNECTS MARCH 18 4 10-47-310 .00 1,209.27 1,209.27 04/18 04/05/2018 172828 4500 RELIANCE CONNECTS MARCH 18 5 10-47-310 .00 444.84 444.84 04/18 04/05/2018 172828 4500 RELIANCE CONNECTS MARCH 18 6 10-76-284 .00 64.42 64.42 04/18 04/05/2018 172828 4500 RELIANCE CONNECTS MARCH 18 7 10-81-284 .00 100.70 100.70 04/18 04/05/2018 172828 4500 RELIANCE CONNECTS MARCH 18 8 90-26113 .00 64.42 64.42 04/18 04/05/2018 172828 4500 RELIANCE CONNECTS MARCH 18 9 10-54-284 .00 64.42 64.42 04/18 04/05/2018 172828 4500 RELIANCE CONNECTS MARCH 18 10 10-51-290 .00 30.79 30.79 04/18 04/05/2018 172828 4500 RELIANCE CONNECTS MARCH 18 11 10-82-290 .00 29.75 29.75 04/18 04/05/2018 172828 4500 RELIANCE CONNECTS MARCH 18 12 10-57-290 .00 125.69 125.69 04/18 04/05/2018 172828 4500 RELIANCE CONNECTS MARCH 18 13 10-60-290 .00 147.71 147.71 04/18 04/05/2018 172828 4500 RELIANCE CONNECTS MARCH 18 14 10-76-290 .00 881.95 881.95 04/18 04/05/2018 172828 4500 RELIANCE CONNECTS MARCH 18 15 10-54-290 .00 965.19 965.19
Total 172828: .00 5,395.90
04/18 04/05/2018 172829 15937 RHYTHM DANCE COMPANY MAR 2018 1 17-80-310 .00 2,960.00 2,960.00
Total 172829: .00 2,960.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172830 9618 RICHARD RESNICK 032618 1 10-57-210 .00 25.00 25.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172830 9618 RICHARD RESNICK 042318-REN 1 10-57-230 .00 502.58 502.58
Total 172830: .00 527.58
04/18 04/05/2018 172831 192 RICHARD SECRIST 04112018 1 10-61-230 .00 113.00 113.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172831 192 RICHARD SECRIST 04112018 1 10-61-230 .00 113.00- 113.00- V
Total 172831: .00 .00
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04/18 04/05/2018 172832 14527 RIO VIRGIN TELEPHONE COMP 2356SZ4500 1 10-47-310 .00 1,005.28 1,005.28
Total 172832: .00 1,005.28
04/18 04/05/2018 172833 8544 ROBERT STEPP 050118 1 10-54-230 .00 323.72 323.72
Total 172833: .00 323.72
04/18 04/05/2018 172834 16013 ROMI YU 03192018 1 10-34-400 .00 47.50 47.50
Total 172834: .00 47.50
04/18 04/05/2018 172835 8117 SCOTT TAYLOR 050118 1 10-54-230 .00 109.00 109.00
Total 172835: .00 109.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172836 15836 SEVIER VALLEY OIL CO. INC. 143698S 1 10-66-255 .00 7,780.47 7,780.47 04/18 04/05/2018 172836 15836 SEVIER VALLEY OIL CO. INC. 143699S 1 10-66-255 .00 19,355.60 19,355.60
Total 172836: .00 27,136.07
04/18 04/05/2018 172837 16014 SHARON REHNKE 03192018 1 10-34-400 .00 150.00 150.00
Total 172837: .00 150.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172838 12338 SHAWN TOBLER 040318 1 10-57-230 .00 48.00 48.00
Total 172838: .00 48.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172839 14271 SHI INTERNATIONAL CORP B07887196 1 10-47-260 .00 1,034.40 1,034.40 04/18 04/05/2018 172839 14271 SHI INTERNATIONAL CORP B07958235 1 15-60-350 .00 208.00 208.00
Total 172839: .00 1,242.40
04/18 04/05/2018 172840 15611 SHRED-IT USA LLC 8124359338 1 10-54-310 .00 101.86 101.86
Total 172840: .00 101.86
04/18 04/05/2018 172841 13011 SILVERSTATE ANALYTICAL LA LV219943 1 52-40-310 .00 453.00 453.00
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04/18 04/05/2018 172841 13011 SILVERSTATE ANALYTICAL LA LV220201 1 52-40-310 .00 453.00 453.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172841 13011 SILVERSTATE ANALYTICAL LA LV220377 1 52-40-310 .00 453.00 453.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172841 13011 SILVERSTATE ANALYTICAL LA LV220644 1 52-40-310 .00 453.00 453.00
Total 172841: .00 1,812.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172842 10743 SKM, INC. 16017 1 52-40-610 .00 1,721.82 1,721.82
Total 172842: .00 1,721.82
04/18 04/05/2018 172843 11387 SOUTHERN NEVADA HEALTH D 032018 1 10-81-490 .00 290.00 290.00
Total 172843: .00 290.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172844 10962 SOUTHWEST AWNING INC 2859 1 10-70-740 .00 4,688.00 4,688.00
Total 172844: .00 4,688.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172845 13068 SOUTHWEST PLUMBING SUPP S3030508.00 1 10-63-610 .00 406.06 406.06 04/18 04/05/2018 172845 13068 SOUTHWEST PLUMBING SUPP S3035213.00 1 13-40-625 .00 391.82 391.82 04/18 04/05/2018 172845 13068 SOUTHWEST PLUMBING SUPP S3035253.00 1 13-40-625 .00 111.12 111.12 04/18 04/05/2018 172845 13068 SOUTHWEST PLUMBING SUPP S3036057.00 1 10-63-610 .00 5.83 5.83 04/18 04/05/2018 172845 13068 SOUTHWEST PLUMBING SUPP S3037994.00 1 13-40-625 .00 32.99 32.99 04/18 04/05/2018 172845 13068 SOUTHWEST PLUMBING SUPP S3038847.00 1 13-40-625 .00 277.51 277.51 04/18 04/05/2018 172845 13068 SOUTHWEST PLUMBING SUPP S3044055.00 1 10-63-610 .00 81.63 81.63
Total 172845: .00 1,306.96
04/18 04/05/2018 172846 10591 SPRINKLER SUPPLY-ST. GEOR N14915 1 10-76-610 .00 431.93 431.93 04/18 04/05/2018 172846 10591 SPRINKLER SUPPLY-ST. GEOR N18806 1 10-76-610 .00 441.00 441.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172846 10591 SPRINKLER SUPPLY-ST. GEOR N18807 1 10-76-610 .00 860.00 860.00
Total 172846: .00 1,732.93
04/18 04/05/2018 172847 10558 ST. OF NV. PUBLIC EMP. BENE MAR 18 1 10-49-130 .00 846.37 846.37
Total 172847: .00 846.37
04/18 04/05/2018 172848 8989 STAPLES ADVANTAGE 3369658255 1 17-80-485 .00 138.36 138.36
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04/18 04/05/2018 172848 8989 STAPLES ADVANTAGE 3369658256 1 17-80-485 .00 149.94 149.94 04/18 04/05/2018 172848 8989 STAPLES ADVANTAGE 3371991620 1 10-43-240 .00 18.17- 18.17- 04/18 04/05/2018 172848 8989 STAPLES ADVANTAGE 3371991621 1 10-43-240 .00 18.17 18.17 04/18 04/05/2018 172848 8989 STAPLES ADVANTAGE 3371991622 1 52-40-240 .00 652.50 652.50 04/18 04/05/2018 172848 8989 STAPLES ADVANTAGE 3371991622 2 10-61-240 .00 27.72 27.72 04/18 04/05/2018 172848 8989 STAPLES ADVANTAGE 3372071298 1 10-81-240 .00 23.07 23.07 04/18 04/05/2018 172848 8989 STAPLES ADVANTAGE 3372298056 1 10-49-240 .00 56.25 56.25 04/18 04/05/2018 172848 8989 STAPLES ADVANTAGE 3372298056 2 10-44-240 .00 108.38 108.38 04/18 04/05/2018 172848 8989 STAPLES ADVANTAGE 3372465386 1 10-54-240 .00 51.70 51.70 04/18 04/05/2018 172848 8989 STAPLES ADVANTAGE 3372465387 1 10-43-240 .00 18.17- 18.17- 04/18 04/05/2018 172848 8989 STAPLES ADVANTAGE 3372465388 1 17-80-485 .00 53.72 53.72 04/18 04/05/2018 172848 8989 STAPLES ADVANTAGE 3372465389 1 10-66-610 .00 56.04 56.04 04/18 04/05/2018 172848 8989 STAPLES ADVANTAGE 3372465390 1 10-60-610 .00 10.34 10.34
Total 172848: .00 1,309.85
04/18 04/05/2018 172849 14680 STAR NURSERY INC 1100200075 1 10-76-610 .00 299.97 299.97
Total 172849: .00 299.97
04/18 04/05/2018 172850 1800 STATE OF NEVADA FEB 18 1 10-23120 .00 9,908.73 9,908.73 04/18 04/05/2018 172850 1800 STATE OF NEVADA FEB 2018 1 10-23145 .00 79,269.84 79,269.84
Total 172850: .00 89,178.57
04/18 04/05/2018 172851 8579 STEPHEN WADE AUTO CENTE 5134861 CR 1 10-66-250 .00 105.14- 105.14- 04/18 04/05/2018 172851 8579 STEPHEN WADE AUTO CENTE 5373323 1 10-66-480 .00 88.00 88.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172851 8579 STEPHEN WADE AUTO CENTE 5373459 1 10-66-480 .00 47.12 47.12 04/18 04/05/2018 172851 8579 STEPHEN WADE AUTO CENTE 5373459 2 10-66-250 .00 65.68 65.68 04/18 04/05/2018 172851 8579 STEPHEN WADE AUTO CENTE 5373496 1 10-66-480 .00 82.17 82.17 04/18 04/05/2018 172851 8579 STEPHEN WADE AUTO CENTE 5373787 1 10-66-480 .00 16.09 16.09
Total 172851: .00 193.92
04/18 04/05/2018 172852 14500 STOTZ EQUIPMENT P20516 1 10-66-250 .00 62.08 62.08
Total 172852: .00 62.08
04/18 04/05/2018 172853 1079 SUN BADGE COMPANY 382017 1 10-57-610 .00 229.25 229.25
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Total 172853: .00 229.25
04/18 04/05/2018 172854 5224 SUNRISE ENVIRONMENTAL 84903 1 10-70-610 .00 99.85 99.85
Total 172854: .00 99.85
04/18 04/05/2018 172855 15170 SYNCB/AMAZON 031018 1 10-54-310 .00 600.94 600.94 04/18 04/05/2018 172855 15170 SYNCB/AMAZON 031018 2 10-54-610 .00 69.98 69.98 04/18 04/05/2018 172855 15170 SYNCB/AMAZON 031018 3 10-54-610 .00 88.88 88.88 04/18 04/05/2018 172855 15170 SYNCB/AMAZON 031018 4 10-54-240 .00 56.15 56.15 04/18 04/05/2018 172855 15170 SYNCB/AMAZON 031018 5 10-54-610 .00 254.03 254.03 04/18 04/05/2018 172855 15170 SYNCB/AMAZON 031018 6 10-54-260 .00 49.89 49.89 04/18 04/05/2018 172855 15170 SYNCB/AMAZON 031018 7 10-54-610 .00 62.18 62.18 04/18 04/05/2018 172855 15170 SYNCB/AMAZON 031018 8 10-54-240 .00 10.85 10.85 04/18 04/05/2018 172855 15170 SYNCB/AMAZON 031018 9 10-54-610 .00 18.77 18.77 04/18 04/05/2018 172855 15170 SYNCB/AMAZON 031018 10 10-54-610 .00 104.14- 104.14- 04/18 04/05/2018 172855 15170 SYNCB/AMAZON 031018 11 10-47-240 .00 19.39 19.39 04/18 04/05/2018 172855 15170 SYNCB/AMAZON 031018 12 10-47-240 .00 129.98 129.98
Total 172855: .00 1,256.90
04/18 04/05/2018 172856 13211 SYSCO LAS VEGAS, INC 117470689 1 16-71-480 .00 1,416.54 1,416.54 04/18 04/05/2018 172856 13211 SYSCO LAS VEGAS, INC 117477439 1 16-71-480 .00 1,317.88 1,317.88
Total 172856: .00 2,734.42
04/18 04/05/2018 172857 15091 TARGETSOLUTIONS LEARNING INV0000002 1 10-57-230 .00 299.75 299.75
Total 172857: .00 299.75
04/18 04/05/2018 172858 10598 TATIANA SELLNER 83678 1 10-44-240 .00 49.50 49.50
Total 172858: .00 49.50
04/18 04/05/2018 172859 14264 TAYLOR BUNDY 032918 1 10-54-230 .00 59.52 59.52 04/18 04/05/2018 172859 14264 TAYLOR BUNDY 050918 1 10-54-230 .00 96.00 96.00
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GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
Total 172859: .00 155.52
04/18 04/05/2018 172860 9127 TEAMSTERS SEC. FUND #14 033118 1 10-51-130 .00 980.00- 980.00- 04/18 04/05/2018 172860 9127 TEAMSTERS SEC. FUND #14 033118X2 1 10-57-130 .00 980.00- 980.00- 04/18 04/05/2018 172860 9127 TEAMSTERS SEC. FUND #14 MAY 18 1 10-22500 .00 66,640.00 66,640.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172860 9127 TEAMSTERS SEC. FUND #14 MAY 2018 1 10-22500 .00 86,240.00 86,240.00
Total 172860: .00 150,920.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172861 14215 TERRIE ELAINE MCARTHUR MAR 2018 1 17-80-310 .00 672.00 672.00
Total 172861: .00 672.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172862 15393 TESTNOTICE 0001353 1 15-40-420 .00 40.00 40.00
Total 172862: .00 40.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172863 5290 THATCHER COMPANY 5035172 1 52-40-480 .00 1,724.00 1,724.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172863 5290 THATCHER COMPANY 5035331 1 10-81-250 .00 546.03 546.03
Total 172863: .00 2,270.03
04/18 04/05/2018 172864 11278 THOMAS PETROLEUM 005951C-CM 1 10-66-250 .00 1,390.27- 1,390.27- 04/18 04/05/2018 172864 11278 THOMAS PETROLEUM 005951R-DM 1 10-66-250 .00 1,344.76 1,344.76 04/18 04/05/2018 172864 11278 THOMAS PETROLEUM 2005951-IN 1 10-66-250 .00 1,390.27 1,390.27
Total 172864: .00 1,344.76
04/18 04/05/2018 172865 16009 TINA JENSEN 975 1 15-23200 .00 2,000.00 2,000.00
Total 172865: .00 2,000.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 020105 1 10-66-250 .00 87.04 87.04 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 020117 1 10-66-250 .00 99.45 99.45 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 020140 1 10-66-480 .00 142.08 142.08 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 020154 1 10-66-480 .00 121.79 121.79 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 020254 1 10-66-250 .00 16.66 16.66 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 020474 1 10-66-480 .00 17.99 17.99
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GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 020531 1 10-66-250 .00 206.73 206.73 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 020706 1 10-66-480 .00 17.71 17.71 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 020726 1 10-66-250 .00 128.56 128.56 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 020741 1 10-66-250 .00 .90 .90 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 020783 1 10-66-250 .00 99.44 99.44 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 020784 1 10-66-250 .00 113.30 113.30 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 020991 1 10-66-250 .00 8.50 8.50 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 021132 1 10-66-250 .00 64.95 64.95 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 021294 1 10-66-250 .00 19.35 19.35 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 021329 1 10-66-250 .00 149.98 149.98 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 021389 1 10-66-250 .00 38.99 38.99 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 021454 1 10-66-480 .00 131.07 131.07 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 021467 1 10-66-250 .00 349.32 349.32 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 021468 CR 1 10-66-250 .00 49.50- 49.50- 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 021796 1 10-66-250 .00 855.44 855.44 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 021816 1 10-66-250 .00 82.13 82.13 04/18 04/05/2018 172866 15287 TINK'S SUPERIOR AUTO PART 021877 1 10-66-250 .00 122.90 122.90
Total 172866: .00 2,824.78
04/18 04/05/2018 172867 16003 TLC MESQUITE GAMING, INC 31418 1 10-32-120 .00 1,666.68 1,666.68 04/18 04/05/2018 172867 16003 TLC MESQUITE GAMING, INC 3142018 1 10-32-110 .00 833.35 833.35
Total 172867: .00 2,500.03
04/18 04/05/2018 172868 16018 TONA HUGHES-ZURSCHMIEDE APRIL18 1 10-34-100 .00 750.00 750.00
Total 172868: .00 750.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172869 13704 TONY TERRY, LTD 031218 1 10-51-310 .00 330.00 330.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172869 13704 TONY TERRY, LTD 3122018 1 10-51-310 .00 190.00 190.00
Total 172869: .00 520.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172870 9414 TRACY FAILS 032618 1 10-54-230 .00 50.00 50.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172870 9414 TRACY FAILS 042918 1 10-54-230 .00 454.40 454.40
Total 172870: .00 504.40
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GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
04/18 04/05/2018 172871 3499 TRADE WEST CONSTRUCTION 032818 1 12-87-740 .00 74,988.90 74,988.90 04/18 04/05/2018 172871 3499 TRADE WEST CONSTRUCTION 032818 RT 1 12-21330 .00 3,749.45- 3,749.45-
Total 172871: .00 71,239.45
04/18 04/05/2018 172872 5581 TROY TANNER 050118 1 10-54-230 .00 109.00 109.00
Total 172872: .00 109.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172873 15936 TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUN 412 1 10-65-230 .00 150.00 150.00
Total 172873: .00 150.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172874 8770 U.S. FOODSERVICE - L.V. DIV. 4880921 1 10-55-620 .00 534.95 534.95 04/18 04/05/2018 172874 8770 U.S. FOODSERVICE - L.V. DIV. 4911087 1 16-71-480 .00 1,378.98 1,378.98 04/18 04/05/2018 172874 8770 U.S. FOODSERVICE - L.V. DIV. 4911088 1 16-71-480 .00 174.11 174.11 04/18 04/05/2018 172874 8770 U.S. FOODSERVICE - L.V. DIV. 5012698 1 10-55-620 .00 1,420.73 1,420.73 04/18 04/05/2018 172874 8770 U.S. FOODSERVICE - L.V. DIV. 5043139 1 16-71-480 .00 1,296.44 1,296.44 04/18 04/05/2018 172874 8770 U.S. FOODSERVICE - L.V. DIV. 5144149 1 10-55-620 .00 522.51 522.51 04/18 04/05/2018 172874 8770 U.S. FOODSERVICE - L.V. DIV. 5170683 1 16-71-480 .00 1,564.53 1,564.53
Total 172874: .00 6,892.25
04/18 04/05/2018 172875 9920 U.S. LATEX PRODUCTS INC 94197 1 10-55-610 .00 793.45 793.45
Total 172875: .00 793.45
04/18 04/05/2018 172876 15347 ULINE INC 95709958 1 10-55-610 .00 318.91 318.91
Total 172876: .00 318.91
04/18 04/05/2018 172877 5616 UNITED PARCEL SERVICE 00009E1629 1 10-49-240 .00 13.50 13.50 04/18 04/05/2018 172877 5616 UNITED PARCEL SERVICE 00009E1629 2 10-54-240 .00 173.16 173.16 04/18 04/05/2018 172877 5616 UNITED PARCEL SERVICE 00009E1629 1 10-49-240 .00 27.00 27.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172877 5616 UNITED PARCEL SERVICE 00009E1629 2 10-54-240 .00 36.82 36.82
Total 172877: .00 250.48
04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 1 10-57-290 .00 52.08 52.08
93 M = Manual Check, V = Void Check CITY OF MESQUITE Check Register - for City Council Agenda Page: 23 Check Issue Dates: 3/26/2018 - 4/8/2018 Apr 09, 2018 02:46PM
GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 2 10-70-290 .00 156.24 156.24 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 3 10-50-290 .00 166.24 166.24 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 4 10-43-290 .00 62.08 62.08 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 5 10-41-290 .00 308.31 308.31 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 6 15-60-350 .00 29.27 29.27 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 7 15-40-370 .00 62.08 62.08 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 8 10-61-290 .00 602.34 602.34 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 9 10-57-290 .00 781.82 781.82 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 10 10-57-290 .00 263.43 263.43 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 11 10-48-290 .00 52.08 52.08 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 12 10-47-290 .00 215.51 215.51 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 13 10-76-290 .00 124.16 124.16 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 14 10-54-290 .00 2,560.39 2,560.39 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 15 10-54-310 .00 1,200.07 1,200.07 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 16 52-40-290 .00 81.36 81.36 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 17 10-63-290 .00 114.16 114.16 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 18 10-65-290 .00 104.16 104.16 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 19 10-81-290 .00 104.16 104.16 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 20 52-40-290 .00 156.24 156.24 04/18 04/05/2018 172878 9528 VERIZON WIRELESS 9803617313 21 16-71-290 .00 156.24 156.24
Total 172878: .00 7,352.42
04/18 04/05/2018 172879 12230 VIEW ON MESQUITE, LLC 5736 1 10-81-490 .00 1,175.00 1,175.00
Total 172879: .00 1,175.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172880 5900 VIRGIN VALLEY DISPOSAL 11602591 1 52-40-310 .00 4,388.19 4,388.19 04/18 04/05/2018 172880 5900 VIRGIN VALLEY DISPOSAL 11602592 1 10-73-310 .00 3,539.83 3,539.83 04/18 04/05/2018 172880 5900 VIRGIN VALLEY DISPOSAL 20183003 1 10-73-260 .00 223,033.61 223,033.61
Total 172880: .00 230,961.63
04/18 04/05/2018 172881 5901 VIRGIN VALLEY WATER DISTRI MAR 2018 1 10-49-282 .00 679.70 679.70 04/18 04/05/2018 172881 5901 VIRGIN VALLEY WATER DISTRI MAR 2018 2 10-55-282 .00 918.85 918.85 04/18 04/05/2018 172881 5901 VIRGIN VALLEY WATER DISTRI MAR 2018 3 10-54-282 .00 271.76 271.76 04/18 04/05/2018 172881 5901 VIRGIN VALLEY WATER DISTRI MAR 2018 4 10-57-282 .00 615.47 615.47 04/18 04/05/2018 172881 5901 VIRGIN VALLEY WATER DISTRI MAR 2018 5 10-65-282 .00 136.50 136.50 04/18 04/05/2018 172881 5901 VIRGIN VALLEY WATER DISTRI MAR 2018 6 10-66-282 .00 175.39 175.39
94 M = Manual Check, V = Void Check CITY OF MESQUITE Check Register - for City Council Agenda Page: 24 Check Issue Dates: 3/26/2018 - 4/8/2018 Apr 09, 2018 02:46PM
GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
04/18 04/05/2018 172881 5901 VIRGIN VALLEY WATER DISTRI MAR 2018 7 10-76-282 .00 16,431.69 16,431.69 04/18 04/05/2018 172881 5901 VIRGIN VALLEY WATER DISTRI MAR 2018 8 10-81-282 .00 2,563.62 2,563.62 04/18 04/05/2018 172881 5901 VIRGIN VALLEY WATER DISTRI MAR 2018 9 10-82-282 .00 45.15 45.15 04/18 04/05/2018 172881 5901 VIRGIN VALLEY WATER DISTRI MAR 2018 10 12-87-282 .00 833.36 833.36 04/18 04/05/2018 172881 5901 VIRGIN VALLEY WATER DISTRI MAR 2018 11 16-71-282 .00 108.83 108.83 04/18 04/05/2018 172881 5901 VIRGIN VALLEY WATER DISTRI MAR 2018 12 10-65-282 .00 395.84 395.84 04/18 04/05/2018 172881 5901 VIRGIN VALLEY WATER DISTRI MAR 2018 13 10-38-701 .00 251.35 251.35 04/18 04/05/2018 172881 5901 VIRGIN VALLEY WATER DISTRI MAR 2018 14 52-40-620 .00 427.31 427.31
Total 172881: .00 23,854.82
04/18 04/05/2018 172882 8034 WALMART STORES, INC. MAR 2018 1 17-80-610 .00 61.12 61.12 04/18 04/05/2018 172882 8034 WALMART STORES, INC. MAR 2018 2 10-81-490 .00 26.64 26.64 04/18 04/05/2018 172882 8034 WALMART STORES, INC. MAR 2018 3 17-80-485 .00 47.95 47.95 04/18 04/05/2018 172882 8034 WALMART STORES, INC. MAR 2018 4 10-54-240 .00 17.92 17.92 04/18 04/05/2018 172882 8034 WALMART STORES, INC. MAR 2018 5 10-82-610 .00 15.37 15.37 04/18 04/05/2018 172882 8034 WALMART STORES, INC. MAR 2018 6 16-71-610 .00 60.48 60.48
Total 172882: .00 229.48
04/18 04/05/2018 172883 14218 WARREN B HARDY II 1803 1 10-41-310 .00 2,500.00 2,500.00
Total 172883: .00 2,500.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172884 6115 WESTERN ROCK PRODUCTS 77857 1 45-40-802 .00 49,015.75 49,015.75 04/18 04/05/2018 172884 6115 WESTERN ROCK PRODUCTS 77857 2 11-65-740 .00 199,321.00 199,321.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172884 6115 WESTERN ROCK PRODUCTS 77857 3 11-65-740 .00 68,600.00 68,600.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172884 6115 WESTERN ROCK PRODUCTS 77857 4 11-65-740 .00 53,000.00 53,000.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172884 6115 WESTERN ROCK PRODUCTS 77857 5 11-65-740 .00 59,551.14 59,551.14 04/18 04/05/2018 172884 6115 WESTERN ROCK PRODUCTS 77857 6 11-65-740 .00 1,045,315.00 1,045,315.0
Total 172884: .00 1,474,802.8
04/18 04/05/2018 172885 16015 WILLIAM STRATTON 032618 1 10-34-400 .00 85.00 85.00
Total 172885: .00 85.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172886 15756 WITMER PUBLIC SAFETY GRO 1846433 1 10-57-610 .00 304.39 304.39 04/18 04/05/2018 172886 15756 WITMER PUBLIC SAFETY GRO 1846433 2 10-57-250 .00 305.64 305.64
95 M = Manual Check, V = Void Check CITY OF MESQUITE Check Register - for City Council Agenda Page: 25 Check Issue Dates: 3/26/2018 - 4/8/2018 Apr 09, 2018 02:46PM
GL Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Invoice Discount Invoice Check Period Issue Date Number Number Payee Number Sequence GL Account Taken Amount Amount
04/18 04/05/2018 172886 15756 WITMER PUBLIC SAFETY GRO 1846433.001 1 10-57-250 .00 137.49 137.49 04/18 04/05/2018 172886 15756 WITMER PUBLIC SAFETY GRO 1846433.002 1 10-57-610 .00 434.16 434.16
Total 172886: .00 1,181.68
04/18 04/05/2018 172887 5753 DIXIE LEAVITT AGENCY 121613 1 12-87-610 .00 1,229.00 1,229.00
Total 172887: .00 1,229.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172888 3030 LAS VEGAS METRO POLICE DE 978 1 15-21340 .00 636.00 636.00
Total 172888: .00 636.00
04/18 04/05/2018 172889 4000 STATE OF NEVADA MARCH 1 1 15-23200 .00 50.00 50.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172889 4000 STATE OF NEVADA MARCH 1 1 15-21370 .00 580.00 580.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172889 4000 STATE OF NEVADA MARCH 18 1 15-21320 .00 10,950.00 10,950.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172889 4000 STATE OF NEVADA MARCH 18 1 15-21350 .00 105.00 105.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172889 4000 STATE OF NEVADA MARCH 18 1 15-21360 .00 1,492.00 1,492.00 04/18 04/05/2018 172889 4000 STATE OF NEVADA MARCH 18 1 15-21330 .00 1,040.00 1,040.00
Total 172889: .00 14,217.00
Grand Totals: .00 2,531,349.4
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97 M = Manual Check, V = Void Check CITY OF MESQUITE PURCHASE ORDERS REQUIRING COUNCIL APPROVAL DATE OF COUNCIL MEETING: April 24, 2018
A. P.O's for Not Previously Budget Approved Items...amounts exceed $5,000 For Fiscal Year 2017-2018 Current Remaining G/L Account Po's to be Original Budget Budget Vendor Description Requested By: Department Account # Description Approved Budget Balance (Over)Under
B. P.O's for Budgeted Items amounts exceed $25,000 For Fiscal Year 2017-2018 Network equipment and service for Extreme Networks Spillman server Fed/State Grant * upgrade D Marshall Police - Admin Dept 10-54-700 Expenditures$ 41,965 $ 49,227 $ 54,727 $ (47,465) Spillman server Fed/State Grant Compunet * upgrade D Marshall Police - Admin Dept 10-54-700 Expenditures$ 103,933 $ 49,227 $ 96,692 $ (151,398) Server Operation Fed/State Grant IT Savvy System Support D Marshall Police - Admin Dept 10-54-700 Expenditures$ 7,343 $ 49,227 $ 200,626 $ (158,742) Puurchase Patrol Police- Admin Dept Captial Pro Force Rifles T Tanner Police - Admin Dept 10-54-740 Outlay$ 54,765 $ 143,000 $ 142,968 $ (54,733)
* To be paid by NIBRS Grant money 98 CITY OF MESQUITE NOTIFICATION OF BUDGET AMENDMENTS AND BUDGET AUGMENTS DATE OF COUNCIL MEETING: April 24, 2018
BUDGET AMENDMENTS FY2017-2018
Revenues Increase
Fund Account # Account Description Incr.
Fund Account # Account Description Incr.
Fund Account # Account Description Incr.
BUDGET AUGMENTS FY2017-2018
Revenues Increase
Fund Account # Account Description Incr.
TRANSFERS FROM: TRANSFERS TO:
Fund Account # Account Description Incr.
NRS 354.5980005 Budget appropriations may be transferred between functions, funds or contingency accounts in the following manner, if such a transfer does not increase the total appropriation for any fiscal year and is not in conflict with other statutory provisions: (a) The person designated to administer the budget for local government may transfer appropriations within any function. (b) The person designated to administer the budget may transfer appropriations between functions or programs within a fund, if: (1) The governing body is advised of the action at the next regular meeting and (2) The action is recorded in the official minutes of the meeting (c) Upon recommendation of the person designated to administer the budget, the governing body may authorize the transfer of appropriations between funds or from the contingency account, if: (1) The governing body announces the transfer of appropriations of a regularly scheduled meeting and sets forth the each amount to be transferred and the accounts, functions, programs and funds affected; (2) The governing body sets forth its reasons for the transfer; and (3) The action is recorded in the official minutes of the meeting. 100 City Council Agenda Item 4
Submitted by: Nicholas Montoya Submitting Department: Athletics and Leisure Services Meeting Date: April 24, 2018
Subject: Presentation of a check/grant to the City of Mesquite Department of Athletics & Leisure Services from the Southern Nevada Chapter of the International Code Council (SNICC) to cover the cost of free swimming lessons to toddlers ages 4 and younger with in our community. Ms. Terry Kozlowski board member of SNICC and with the City of North Las Vegas, will be the check presenter.
- Public Comment - Discussion and Possible Action
Recommendation: Approve Grant to cover the cost of free swimming lessons to toddlers ages 4 and younger with in our community.
Petitioner: NICHOLAS MONTOYA
Is this a budgeted item? No
Fiscal Impact: No Fiscal Impact, this will cover the expenses of staff’s time of Swim Lesson to the community for ages 4 and under.
Background: Southern Nevada Chapter-International Code Council Toddler Swim Grant Program 2018
The Southern Nevada Chapter of the International Code Council (SNICC) has approved grants of $2,500.00 to us, the City of Mesquite Athletics & Leisure Services Department and to of other local city and county government in Southern Nevada to provide free swim lessons to toddler 4 years old and younger, the following criteria is part of the award program.
1. The funds must first be used to provide free swim lessons to toddlers 4 years of age and younger. If there are insufficient number of such toddlers to expend the entire $2,500.00, then the funds can be used to provide free swim lessons to children of any age. After completion of the swim lessons, any remaining funds can be used for any activity that directly promotes pool safety, such as public 101 education materials on pool safety or public service announcements. Since we have started this program with the SNICC the City of Mesquite Department of Athletics & Leisure Services has provided over 399 local children in 10 years free swimming lessons.
2008 - 40 2009 - 38 2010 - 31 2011 - 46 2012 - 49 2013 - 38 2014 - 37 2015 - 37 2016 - 40 2017 - 43 399 youth of the valley has received free swimming lessons that the City of Mesquite Department of Athletics & Leisure Services has offered over the past 10 years, with the help of the SNICC.
We have a great partnership with the SNICC.
Attachments: 2018 Swim Grant SNICC.pdf SNICC Back Up Material.pdf 18 SNICC Free Swim Lessons PR.pdf
102
INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL
P.O. Box 400067 Las Vegas, NV 89140-0067 Ph 702-406-3719 Fax 702-933-1065
STEPHEN DiGIOVANNI Southern Nevada Chapter-International Code Council President Toddler Swim Grant Program 2018 702-455-7103 SDi Giovanni @Clark Cou qtyNV .q ov
MAJID PAKNIAT The Southern Nevada Chapter of the International Code Council First Vice President (SNICC) has approved grants of $2,500.00 to local Parks and 702-267-3657 moii d. pa kn i<1 t@cityofhenderson .com Recreation Departments of each city and county government in
SAM PALMER Southern Nevada to provide free swim lessons to toddler 4 years old Second Vice-President and younger, the following criteria is part of the award program 702-455-2791 palmer@clarkcountynv
KEVIN McOSKER I. The funds must first be used to provide free swim lessons to Secretaryffreasurer 702-455-8020 toddlers 4 years of age and younger. If there are insufficient KTM @ClarkCountyNV .gov number of such toddlers to expend the entire $2,500.00, then the
DAVID GOLDSTEIN funds can be used to provide free swim lessons to children of any Industry Representative 702-939-1626 age. After completion of the swim lessons, any remaining funds can dqo ld stein @qeotekusa.com be used for any activity that directly promotes pool safety, such NICK MORIARTY as public education m a t e r i a l s on pool safety or public service Industry Representative 702-362-9200 announcements. Nick.moriarty @lbace .com
ALAN ELLIS 2. Each jurisdiction r e c e i v i n g the grant is free to determine how Immediate Past President 702-267-3911 best to identify the toddlers and children to receive the free alan. elli s@city ofhe nde rso n.co m lessons. SN-ICC CHAPTER OFFICE PO Box 400067 Las Vegas, NV 89140-0067 3. The grant check will be presented to the appropriate official(s) at 702-406-3719 Fax 702-933-1065 a regularly scheduled meeting of the elected repres entatives sn lcc .orq oam aRcom of that jurisdiction.
4. At the end of each calendar year, and after all funds have been spent, a letter containing a brief summary of benefit indicating how many children received free swim lessons and how any remaining funds were utilized is required to be sent to SNICC:
David L. Goldstein dgoldstein@g eotekusa.com
Any questions should be directed to David Goldstein at the above noted email address or contact him at (702) 939-1626 .
www.sntcc.org
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______Department of Athletics & Leisure Services
Southern Nevada Chapter-International Code Council Toddler Swim Grant Program 2018
The Southern Nevada Chapter of the International Code Council (SNICC) has approved grants of $2,500.00 to our local Parks and Recreation Department of each city and county government in Southern Nevada to provide free swim lessons to toddler 4 years old and younger, the following criteria is part of the award program.
1. The funds must first be used to provide free swim lessons to toddlers 4 years of age and younger. If there are insufficient number of such toddlers to expend the entire $2,000.00, then the funds can be used to provide free swim lessons to children of any age. After completion of the swim lessons, any remaining funds can be used for any activity that directly promotes pool safety, such as public education materials on pool safety or public service announcements. Since we have started this program with the SNICC the City of Mesquite Department of Athletics & Leisure Services has provided over 399 local children in 10 years free swimming lessons.
2008 - 40 2009 - 38 2010 - 31 2011 - 46 2012 - 49 2013 - 38 2014 - 37 2015 - 37 2016 - 40 2017 - 43 399 youth of the valley has received free swimming lessons that the City of Mesquite Department of Athletics & Leisure Services has offered over the past 10 years, with the help of the SNICC.
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______Dept. of Athletics & Leisure Services Press Release
For Immediate Release, For Use at Will From: Nicholas Montoya, 346-8732, E-Mail: [email protected] Web Page: www.mesquitenv.gov Facebook: www.facebook.com/MesquiteNVRecreation
SNICC SWIMMING LESSONS GRANT
MESQUITE, NV (Dept. of Athletics & Leisure Services) - “FREE” Swimming Lessons, The Southern Nevada Chapter of the International Code Council (SNICC), has approved a grant, for the Department of Athletics & Leisure Services to provide free swimming lessons to children 4 years old and under. This grant has been provided in the hopes of reducing the number of toddler drowning accidents in Southern Nevada. Since the inception of this program the statistics of drowning’s have dropped drastically over the years. We must take an active part in ensuring the safety and well-being of all children around all bodies of water.
The Department will be offering free swimming lessons for the first 50 toddlers 4 and under who sign up. The classes will be a combination of Level 1, 2 and/or a “mommy and me” type class. These free classes will be a 30 minute class for each of the five days. Parents will be required to stay within the swimming area for assistance of their child if needed and parents of the mommy and me class will be required to be in the pool during the lessons with their child.
On behalf of the City of Mesquite and the Community we would like to thank the SNICC for their Grant to our Swimming Programs and to help us offer Free Swimming Lessons for the youth, stated Montoya; Director of the Dept.
For more information on this and other programs please contact the Department of Athletics & Leisure Services at (702) 346-8732. Register for youth and adult programs online at: www.mesquitenv.gov for more information and to stay connected via social media, our Facebook: www.facebook.com/MesquiteNVRecreation or at the Administrative Offices located at 100 W. Old Mill Road.
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105 City of Mesquite Department of Athletics & Leisure Services 100 West Old Mill Road Mesquite, Nevada 89027 Phone: 702-346-8732 Fax: 702-346-8678 Web Page: www.mesquitenv.gov Facebook: www.facebook.com/MesquiteNVRecreation
City Council Agenda Item 5
Submitted by: Tysha Blaber Submitting Department: Public Works Meeting Date: April 24, 2018
Subject: Consideration of Approval of Resolution No 950 revising the fee schedule for sanitation sewer services within the City for FY 2019 through FY 2025.
- Public Hearing - Discussion and Possible Action
Recommendation: Approve Resolution No 950 revising the fee schedule for sanitation sewer services within the City for FY 2019 through FY 2025.
Petitioner: Bill Tanner, Public Works Director
Is this a budgeted item? No
Fiscal Impact: Would increase sewer revenues by approximately $0.25 cents per month or $3.00 annually for each Equivalent Residential Unit every two years through FY 2025.
Background: Resolution No. 633 was approved by Council on August 11, 2009 which incorporated sewer service fee increases based on the June 2009 CDM rate study. Resolution No. 633 increased fees annually from January, 2010 through January, 2013.
On December 11, 2012 Council delayed the proposed rate increase scheduled for January 1, 2013, since January 1, 2012 sewer fees have not been increased.
Public Works is recommending sewer fees to increase by $0.26 cents per month effective January 1, 2019 – December 31, 2020 and another $0.25 per month beginning every two years January 1, 2021, 2023 and 2025 to help offset increases in operating cost for the Wastewater Treatment Plant.
The recommended increase is approximately 1% per year for the next 6 years. Hopefully, incorporating this small increase now will eliminate large increases in the future. Currently Mesquite sewer fees are some of the lowest fees in Nevada, and with a treatment plant that is currently at 33% 106 capacity, capital expenses will be kept at a very minimum for the next 5-6 years. The consumer price index has averaged approximately 1.5% over the past 7 years since the last increase in 2012.
This resolution will also change the Lien Fees from $35.00 to $40.00 reflecting the actual fees charged by Clark County Recorder’s office. The quarterly billing for sewer and garbage are combined on one billing, therefore the lien fees will only be applied once each time a lien is filed.
Attachments: ResNo950_2019-2025pdf ResNo633_2010-2013pdf CDMRateStudy_2009.pdf HistoryofRateIncreases_1989to2025.pdf LegalPublication_21Mar18.pdf
107 RESOLUTION # 950
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF MESQUITE, NEVADA REVISING THE FEE SCHEDULE FOR SANITATION SERVICES WITHIN THE CITY.
WHEREAS, the City of Mesquite is authorized by Nevada Revised Statutes and Mesquite Municipal Code to establish rates for the collection of sanitary sewage treatment and waste disposal within the City; and
WHEREAS, the Mesquite City Council is authorized by the Municipal code to amend these rates from time to time as the City Council deems necessary; and
WHEREAS, the current schedule of rates and charges requires partial amendment at this time with an inflationary rate increase;
NOW, THEREFORE, the following new rates and charges are established for the Sanitation Department debt service and operation and maintenance of the Mesquite City Wastewater Treatment Plant and disposal System and will be effective January 1, 2019;
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2012 MONTHLY INCREASE
Connection Fee per ERU $ 1,900.00 Annual Service Charge per Account 12.00 Annual Sewer Charge per ERU 155.82 Annual Charge for Parcel with Demolished Improvements Will Pay Only the Portion of the Sewer Service Cost Associated with Capital Improvements 46.35 Annual Sewer Charges, User Fees: Operation & Maintenance 109.47 Debt Service 46.35 Account Charges 12.00 ANNUAL TOTAL 167.82 13.99 Current
Lien Fees - To File a Lien 25.00 Lien Release Fee 10.00 Service Charge 5.00 Late Fee Interest - 1.5% per month, 18% Annual after 60 days delinquent
108 EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2019
Connection Fee per ERU $ 1,900.00 Annual Service Charge per Account 12.00 Annual Sewer Charge per ERU 158.94 3.12 ANNUAL Annual Charge for Parcel with Demolished Improvements Will Pay Only the Portion of the Sewer Service Cost Associated with Capital Improvements 46.35 Annual Sewer Charges, User Fees: Operation & Maintenance 112.59 Debt Service 46.35 Account Charges 12.00 ANNUAL TOTAL 170.94 14.25 0.26
Lien Fees - To File & Release Lien 40.00 Service Charge 5.00 Late Fee Interest - 1.5% per month, 18% Annual after 60 days delinquent
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2021
Connection Fee per ERU $ 1,900.00 Annual Service Charge per Account 12.00 Annual Sewer Charge per ERU 161.94 3.00 ANNUAL Annual Charge for Parcel with Demolished Improvements Will Pay Only the Portion of the Sewer Service Cost Associated with Capital Improvements 46.35 Annual Sewer Charges, User Fees: Operation & Maintenance 115.59 Debt Service 46.35 Account Charges 12.00 ANNUAL TOTAL 173.94 14.50 0.25
Lien Fees - To File & Release Lien 40.00 Service Charge 5.00 Late Fee Interest - 1.5% per month, 18% Annual after 60 days delinquent
109 EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2023
Connection Fee per ERU $ 1,900.00 Annual Service Charge per Account 12.00 Annual Sewer Charge per ERU 164.94 3.00 ANNUAL Annual Charge for Parcel with Demolished Improvements Will Pay Only the Portion of the Sewer Service Cost Associated with Capital Improvements 46.35 Annual Sewer Charges, User Fees: Operation & Maintenance 118.59 Debt Service 46.35 Account Charges 12.00 ANNUAL TOTAL 176.94 14.75 0.25
Lien Fees - To File & Release Lien 40.00 Service Charge 5.00 Late Fee Interest - 1.5% per month, 18% Annual after 60 days delinquent
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2025
Connection Fee per ERU $ 1,900.00 Annual Service Charge per Account 12.00 Annual Sewer Charge per ERU 167.94 3.00 ANNUAL Annual Charge for Parcel with Demolished Improvements Will Pay Only the Portion of the Sewer Service Cost Associated with Capital Improvements 46.35 Annual Sewer Charges, User Fees: Operation & Maintenance 121.59 Debt Service 46.35 Account Charges 12.00 ANNUAL TOTAL 179.94 15.00 0.25
Lien Fees - To File & Release Lien 40.00 Service Charge 5.00 Late Fee Interest - 1.5% per month, 18% Annual after 60 days delinquent
PASSED, ADOPTED, AND APPROVED, by the City Council of the City of Mesquite Nevada on the 24th day of April, 2018
THE CITY OF MESQUITE: ATTEST: By: By: Allan S. Litman, Mayor Tracy E. Beck, City Clerk 110 RESOLUTION # 633
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF MESQUITE, NEVADA REVISING THE FEE SCHEDULE FOR SANITATION SERVICES WITHIN THE CITY.
WHEREAS, the City of Mesquite is authorized by Nevada Revised Statutes and Mesquite Municipal Code to establish rates for the collection of sanitary sewage treatment and waste disposal within the City; and
WHEREAS, the Mesquite City Council is authorized by the Municipal code to amend these rates from time to time as the City Council deems necessary; and
WHEREAS, the current schedule of rates and charges requires partial amendment at this time with an inflationary rate increase;
NOW, THEREFORE, the following new rates and charges are established for the Sanitation Department debt service and operation and maintenance of the Mesquite City Wastewater Treatment Plant and disposal System and will be effective January 1, 2010:
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2010 MONTHLY INCREASE
Connection Fee per ERU $ 1,900.00 Annual Service Charge per Account 12.00 Annual Sewer Charge per ERU 131.88 Annual Charge for Parcel with Demolished Improvements Will Pay Only the Portion of the Sewer Service Cost Associated with Capital Improvements 46.35
Annual Sewer Charges, User Fees: Operation & Maintenance 85.53 Debt Service 46.35 Account Charges 12.00
ANNUAL TOTAL 143.88 11.99 0.89 Inc. :d: Lien Fees - To File a Lien 25.00 Lien Release Fee 10.00 Service Charge 5.00 Late Fee Interest - 1.5% per month, 18% Annual after 60 days delinquent
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·------·. ~-· - ·------···--··-·-· --- EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2011
Connection Fee per ERU $ 1,900.00 Annual Service Charge per Account 12.00 Annual Sewer Charge per ERU 143.39 Annual Charge for Parcel with Demolished Improvements Will Pay Only the Portion of the Sewer Service Cost Associated with Capital Improvements 46.35
Annual Sewer Charges, User Fees: Operation & Maintenance 97.04 Debt Service 46.35 Account Charges 12.00
ANNUAL TOTAL 155.39 12.95 0.96 Inc.
Lien Fees - To File a Lien 25.00 Lien Release Fee 10.00 Service Charge 5.00 Late Fee Interest - 1.5% per month, 18% Annual after 60 days delinquent
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2012
Connection Fee per ERU $ 1,900.00 Annual Service Charge per Account 12.00 Annual Sewer Charge per ERU 155.82 Annual Charge for Parcel with Demolished Improvements Will Pay Only the Portion of the Sewer Service Cost Associated with Capital Improvements 46.35
Annual Sewer Charges, User Fees: Operation & Maintenance 109.47 Debt Service 46.35 Account Charges 12.00
ANNUAL TOTAL 167.82 13.99 1.04 Inc.
Lien Fees- To File a Lien 25.00 Lien Release Fee 10.00 Service Charge 5.00 ,·- Late Fee Interest - 1.5% per month, 18% Annual after 60 days delinquent
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Connection Fee per ERU $ . 1,900.00 Annual Service Charge per Account 12.00 Annual Sewer Charge per ERU 160.85 Annual Charge for Parcel with Demolished Improvements Will Pay Only the Portion of the Sewer Service Cost Associated with Capital Improvements 46.35
Annual Sewer Charges, User Fees: Operation & Maintenance 114.50 Debt Service 46.35 Account Charges 12.00
ANNUAL TOTAL 172.85 14.40 0.41 Inc.
Lien Fees- To File a Lien 25.00 Lien Release Fee 10.00 Service Charge 5.00 Late Fee Interest - 1.5% per month, 18% Annual after 60 days delinquent
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PAS SED, AD.9PfED, AND APPROVED, by the City Council of the City of Mesquite, Nevada on e 11th da)j'Of Augu~, 2 09. / I 1 / . · I I / ITYOF!f · ~ 0
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111 Academy, Suite 150 Irvine, California 92617 tel: 949 752-5452 fax: 949 725-3790
July 17, 2009
Mr. Bill Tanner Director of Public Works City of Mesquite 10 E. Mesquite Blvd. Mesquite, Nevada 89024
Subject: Sewer Rate Study Update Final Report
Dear Mr. Tanner:
In accordance with our agreement of April 15, 2008, CDM has updated the City’s sewer service charges. This letter report and the attached figures document the findings and recommendations of the update.
The study reviews the City of Mesquite’s (City’s) sewer utility revenue requirements to maintain the sewer enterprise fund on a financially sound basis. The City's current sewer use schedule of charges was effective July 1, 2008. The purpose of this update is to incorporate a new capital expenditure plan and debt service schedule, change the projected operating expenditures, and revised the City’s growth rates. The findings of the study are tabulated in Tables 1 through 9, and attached to the end of this report.
Summary
This study was conducted using projected values provided by the City on operating expenses, capital expenditures, project Recommended grants and reduced growth projections. The financial Residential Charge ($ evaluation forecasted the annual rate-based revenue per year) requirements using cashflow projections of the sources and applications of funds. Current $133.22
Based on the information provided by the City, CDM FY 2009-10 $143.88 recommends that the current sewer use rates be uniformly FY 2010-11 $155.39 increased by eight percent for next three years, effective FY 2011-12 $167.82 January 1 of each year. Furthermore, on January 1, 2013 a FY 2012-13 $172.85 three percent rate increase is warranted. The resulting annual single-family dwelling sewer service charges are shown in the accompanying table: 114
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CDM also evaluated the City’s costs of existing but unused system capacity and the future costs of additional capacity to serve new customers seeking to connect into the sewer system. Based on these costs and City policies, we recommend that the existing connection fee of $1,324 per equivalent residential unit (ERU) serving a single-family dwelling parcel be increased to $1,900.
Assessment of Future Revenue Requirements
The purpose of this section is to assess the rate-based revenue requirements associated with the City's future sewer utility operations. Historical and current financial statements provide a basis for establishing future revenue requirements.
Historical Revenues and Expenses. Historical income and expense values for the sewer enterprise were obtained from City financial statements for FY 2005-06 and FY 2006-07, with year-end closing values used for FY 2007-08 and the operating budget used for FY 2008-09. The historical data and current budget are summarized in Table 1, and illustrated in Figure 1.
The cash balance in the sewer FIGURE 1 enterprise has varied from HISTORICAL REVENUES & EXPENDITURES approximately $5.9 million at the end of FY 2005-06 to an $6.0 estimated $4.1 million at the end $5.0 Rates, Fees & Taxes of this FY 2008-09 in June. (excd Grants) $4.0 During that period, the rates Expenditures have generated sufficient $3.0 $ Million revenues to cover both $2.0 operating expenses excluding Reserves depreciation, but the annual $1.0 capital expenditures have $0.0 received significant funding FY 2006-07 FY 2007-08 FY 2008-09 from Army Corp grants and Fiscal Year local connection fee proceeds from relatively high growth.
As shown in Table 1, there is negative net operating revenue after depreciation for each of the audited fiscal years, which is an indication of the utility’s reliance on non-operating revenues, especially connection fees, for financial health. These connection fees have averaged more than $1 million per year, while $9 of the $14 million in capital project expenditures from FY 2005-06 through FY 2008-09 have been grant funded. The fund reserve levels have declined slowly from $5.9 to the estimated $4.1 million, but remain at a robust level compared to the annual cash flows.
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Potential Sources of Revenues. Sewer service user charges, sales tax revenues, water reuse sales and connection fees are the means of funding the sewer utility operation and capital improvement costs, and are summarized below.
User Charges. Current customers pay sewer service user charges at a rate of $133.22 per year for a single-family dwelling parcel. These charges are collected through an established set of rates for single and multi-family customers, commercial accounts and other dischargers, and total $1.7 million this fiscal year. These revenues are unrestricted in their use for both utility operations and for capital expenditures.
State Sales Tax Revenues. Sales tax proceeds are collected by the State to fund a portion of the City’s sewer utility operating and capital costs. The sewer utility is projected to receive $415,000 in sales taxes revenues this year.
Interest Earnings. Interest earnings may be significant for utilities with high reserves. While interest earnings on these funds are not an assured revenue source, they can offset inflationary escalations in construction costs. The utility receives $275,000 per year in interest earnings.
Water Reuse Sale Revenues. The utility is projected to receive revenues from the sale of reclaimed wastewater effluent. While these annual revenues are modest ($140,000), the use of water reuse revenues represents an important trend seen throughout the arid southwestern United States.
Connection Fees. Connection fees, annexation fees and permit fees are sources of funds from new customers requiring service. The historically high growth is projected to drop during the next two years, but is expected to remain significant. These growth-related connection fee revenues are budgeted at $477,000 in FY 2008-09. Connection fees should represent the value of the facilities serving a new customer. As such, it is financially unwise for these revenues to be used for any O&M costs or offsets. Instead, the City should consider dedicating the revenues solely for funding growth-related capital project costs and debt retirement funding. Although connection fee proceeds are a permitted source of debt service funding, an unplanned drop in their receipts would require the unanticipated use of cash reserves and an additional increase in customer rates to support debt service and bond coverage ratio covenants. A review of updated connection fees is provided in this study.
Reserve Funds. Net revenues from user charges or other income sources in excess of annual costs are accumulated in reserve funds held by the sewer utility enterprise. When these reserves are used for construction-related expenditures it is commonly referred to as pay-as-you- go (pay-go) project funding. This type of funding eliminates interest costs incurred for financing projects, and the cash reserves can generate significant interest earnings. Some utilities have been 116
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able to invest capital reserve funds at higher rates than the cost of borrowed money for capital improvements. If the long-term interest-earning rate exceeds the true interest cost of borrowed funds, then the City will be more financially secure to borrow funds for supporting the proposed CIP projects. The City has a $1 million minimum level for capital project reserves, and currently has a total $4.1 million in capital and operating reserve cash.
Future Rate-based Revenue Requirements. An evaluation of future rate-based revenue requirements is based on the projection of three specific areas. These areas are customer growth, capital expenditures, and increase to operating expenses.
The utility’s current customer accounts support the projection of future revenue requirements. As shown in Table 2, the City’s sewer utility customers are classified and contrasted by accounts, sewer Equivalent Residential Units (ERU) values, and projected revenues. The sewer utility service billing system is based on ERUs, with 1.0 ERU equal to the customer burden and the customer charge associated with an average single-family dwelling parcel. Also shown is the number of residential accounts as well as the number of ERUs currently billed each user class. The July 2008 summary of customer accounts represents the baseline condition for the development of growth projections. Based on the reported current number and type of accounts, the City has a customer base of 13,167 ERUs. The budgeted customer revenue for FY 2007-08, at $1.66 million, is 3.6 percent lower than would be expected for 13,167 ERUs, but this understatement of revenues is appropriate for conservative financial planning. As such, the budgeted rate-based revenues, and resulting 12,706 ERUs, are used as the baseline for the projection of future revenues.
Customer growth affects the City's revenue requirements in three ways. First, it increases the customer base, which provides additional accounts subject to user charges. Second, it increases the demands on and the costs for sewage treatment. Third, it is the source of connection fee revenues resulting from hook-ups to the system.
The projected growth in sewer system ERUs is provided in Table 3. This sewer system demand and growth in customers is based on population projection provided by the City. The projected annual growth rate incorporated herein is three to four percent, compounded annually. Typically, the actual revenues from growth-related connection fee proceeds is lower than increase in the number of customers, for a variety of reasons, including apartment unit conversions to condos. However, the anticipated connection fee revenues versus the growth in connections Citywide are not expected by City staff to follow this pattern, and instead will grow at a faster rate of up to five percent annually. With the new wastewater treatment plant coming on-line in 2010, the total sewer system capacity will increase from 3.5 to 6.0 million gallons per day (mgd), or from 21,875 to 38,060 ERUs.
Table 4 tabulates the projected capital project expenditures and funding sources, as provided by City staff. The most significant expenditure is the $22.5 million sewer treatment plant construction in this and next year; all project costs are anticipated to be funded by a Nevada State Revolving Fund 117
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(SRF) loan at a low interest rate. After FY 2009-10 routine project expenditures are projected to be between $250,000 and $500,000 annually.
Also shown in Table 4 are net fixed assets, which are expected to increase over the projection period from $39 to $47 million. By FY-end 2012-13 the outstanding debt of the utility will be $25 million with the additional SRF low-interest rate loan.
Development of Projected Expenditures FIGURE 2 FY 2010-11 EXPENDITURES (MILLIONS)
A five-year projection through FY 2012-13 of Capital Projects the rate-based revenue requirements and sewer $0.25 utility financial performance is provided in 7% Table 5. This table escalates operating expenses and capital expenditures to estimated future Debt Salaries & $1.65 Benefits dollars based on inflationary factors and 46% $0.89 increases in projected customer demands, as 25% represented by ERUs. A summary of the Services & escalated costs for FY 2010-11 is provided in Electricity Supplies $0.44 Figure 2, and a projection of the expenditures is $0.37 12% provided in Figure 3. 10%
Summaries of the key study findings are as follows:
FIGURE 3 Annual operating expenditures PROJECTED OPERATING EXPENDITURES are projected to increase from $5.0 $1.5 million in FY 2008-09 to $4.5 $4.0 Debt $1.9 million in FY 2012-13, and $3.5
annual debt service to increase n $3.0 Electricity o li from $844,000 to $2.6 million. il $2.5 M The inflationary escalations to $ $2.0 Services & costs are projected at 3 to 4 $1.5 Supplies $1.0 percent per year for the five- Salaries & $0.5 Benefits year planning period. $0.0 FY 2008-09 FY 2009-10 FY 2010-11 FY 2011-12 FY 2012-13 The capital requirements of the Fiscal Year CIP have been spread over the next five years, with the overall capital expenditures decreasing in the second half of the projection period to an average of $350,000 per year. Asset depreciation is based on a 40-year cycle, but non-cash expense is not included in the cash flow-based revenue requirements.
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FIGURE 4 In order to fund all expenditures PROJECTED REVENUES while maintaining the reserve levels, the annual rate-based $5.0 revenues of $1.7 million in FY $4.0 2008-09 must increase to $2.5 Connection million by FY 2012-13 through Fees rate adjustments and growth in $3.0 customers. The projected Sewer Service revenues are illustrated in Figure $ Million $2.0 Rates 4, and the projected revenues, expenditures and reserves are $1.0 Sales Taxes shown in Figure 5. $0.0 FY 2008-09 FY 2009-10 FY 2010-11 FY 2011-12 FY 2012-13 Development of Recommended Fiscal Year Sewer Rates
The City’s current user charges and connection fees are described in Chapter 3 of the City’s Municipal Code. The City's existing rate structure is based on applying an annual charge $121.22 per ERU and a service charge of $12.00 to all sewer system customers, resulting in FIGURE 5 PROJECTED REVENUES & EXPENDITURES $133.22 per year for a single-family dwelling parcel customer. ERUs are $6.0 developed based on the type of customer and the anticipated Rates, Fees & Ta x e s characteristics of its wastewater $4.0 discharge. The City bills for sewer Expenditures services on a quarterly basis. Million $ $2.0 Recommended Rates. Based on the Cash rate-based revenue requirements of Reserves Table 5, rate increases of eight percent $0.0 are recommended for each of the next FY 2008-09 FY 2009-10 FY 2010-11 FY 2011-12 FY 2012-13 three years, followed by a rate increase Fiscal Year of three percent in FY 2012-13. As shown, the proposed increases are needed to maintain reserves at roughly the current levels, and to maintain the proposed SRF loan coverage ratio above minimum levels.
Projected Sewer Utility Charges. The current and projected rates per year, quarter and month are shown in Table 6. The typical single-family bill, which is currently at $33.31 per quarter, will increase to $35.97 per quarter starting January 1, 2010. We recommend that the $12 per account in annual
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account service charges be unchanged, while the unit rate per ERU is escalated to develop the increases in required rate-based revenues.
Development of Updated Connection Fees
We have evaluated your current connection fees of $1,324 per ERU based on the costs associated with the proposed increase in system capacity, and recommend that the fee be increased to $1,900 per ERU.
The calculation of updated fees is based on a combination of three system assets. They are:
• The unit value per ERU of the sewer system pipeline, as valued by replacement costs; • The unit value per ERU of the Cash Reserves held by the Enterprise; and • The incremental unit cost per ERU of the new wastewater treatment plant build for new customers, net of project improvements to the existing plant.
The existing sewer system pipelines fixed asset value is shown in Table 7. When the value of the pipeline collection system assets are escalated to current replacement cost new less depreciation (RCNLD) based on the Engineering News Record Construction Cost Index, a value of $16.4 million is derived, or $431 per ERU of the system capacity. The unit value of cash reserves, as previously developed in Table 1, is $323 per ERU. Finally, the incremental cost of the new wastewater treatment plant build for new customers, net of project improvements to the existing plant, is $18.5 million. When this value is divided by the additional capacity in the plant, a unit cost per ERU of $1,168 is calculated. The resulting sum of these values, with rounding, is $1,900 per ERU. We recommend that in future years this value be escalated annually for inflation based on the Construction Cost Index changes reported by the Engineering New Record.
Rate Survey
Table 9 provides a comparison of the City’s current household sewer bills and connection fees with other communities. As shown, the recommended residential charge remains lower than many of the surveyed agencies.
Conclusions
In conclusion, we recommend that the City update the current sewer use charges with an eight percent increase effective January 1, 2010. We also recommend an eight percent increase in the next two fiscal years and a three percent rate increase in the final year, all to be effective on January 1. Finally, we recommend that the City immediately increase its connection fee from $1,324 to $1,900 per ERU, also for enactment effective January 1 2010. 120
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We have enjoyed preparing this study for you, and look forward to future opportunities to serve the City of Mesquite. Please contact me at (949) 930-7276 if you have any questions.
Very truly yours,
Grant Hoag, P.E. Project Manager Camp Dresser & McKee Inc.
Attachments: Tables
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Table 1 Historical Revenue and Expenditure Cash Flow
Historical Actual Budget Description FY 2005-06 FY 2006-07 FY 2007-08 FY 2008-09
Operating Revenues Service Fees #37-100 $1,424,475 $1,571,990 $1,661,903 $1,738,400 Misc. Revenues #38-900 $115,308 $217,460 $175,408 $178,600 Total Operating Revenues $1,539,783 $1,789,450 $1,837,311 $1,917,000 Operating Expenses Salaries #110 $406,899 $459,414 $473,560 $575,000 Benefits #130 $154,446 $174,548 $202,405 $250,000 Other Service, Supplies & Other (a) $138,584 $164,603 $786,752 $209,950 Contracted Services #310 $33,515 $78,835 $117,550 Electricity #510 $278,358 $352,024 $388,400 Depreciation #630 $625,770 $689,757 $772,955 $825,000 Total Operating Expenses $1,637,572 $1,919,181 $2,235,672 $2,365,900 Net Operating Revenue ($97,789) ($129,731) ($398,361) ($448,900) Non-Operating Revenue (Expense) Connection Fees #37-200 $1,218,458 $1,079,245 $1,053,776 $700,000 Sales Tax Revenues #31-102 $404,552 $407,730 $421,277 $415,000 Interest Revenue #38-100 $185,378 $303,415 $238,685 $275,000 Transfers out to City Services and General Fund ($100,004) ($100,000) Existing Debt Service (Incd Principal, d) ($843,126) ($843,040) ($844,083) ($844,080) Total Non-Op Revenues (Exp.) $965,262 $947,350 $769,651 $445,920 Subtotal Increase (Decrease) in Cash $867,473 $817,619 $371,290 ($2,980) Sewer Capital Projects #37-740 to 760 (f) ($7,300,000) ($4,541,857) ($2,000,000) Grant Proceeds from Army Corps/Others (c) $101,862 $5,437,780 $2,800,877 $975,000 Depreciation Adj. For Non-cash Exp. $625,770 $689,757 $772,955 $825,000 Adj. for Changes in Fin Condition (b) ($26,856) ($605,159) $3,108 Net Increase (Decrease) in Cash ($381,700) ($1,201,894) ($199,872) Beginning Cash and Equivalents $5,883,466 $5,501,766 $4,299,872 Ending Cash #52-11900 (c) $5,883,466 $5,501,766 $4,299,872 $4,100,000
New ERUs funding Connection Fees 920 815 796 529 Ending Cash Balance per Existing ERU $323
All values are from City Audited Financial Statements, budgets and other documents. (a) Total Other services and supplies includes the office supplies and charges, chemical supplies and the sewer services and supplies expenses. For FY 2007-08 Contracted Services and Electricity expenses are also included in other services. (b) Adjustments for changes in financial condition such as changes in AR and AP are based on the beginning and ending cash per the CAFR. (c) Ending Cash includes Connection Fee proceeds. The ending balance for FY 2007-08 does not include $831,746 and $515,367 in receivables from other governments. (d) The Net Income per City Reports differs from the values shown herein due to this study's recognition of debt principal repayments and other cash flows. The debt shown herein includes both Debt Interest (A/C #610) and Principal. (f) Project costs in FY 2006-07 and 2007-08 are set so that the ending cash balance in each year is per the CAFR. In FY 2008-09 $500,000 of the $23 million WWTP project have been spent. 122 Table 2 Sewer Service Charge Accounts
User FY 2007-08 Calculated Budget Class July 2008 FY 2007-08 FY 2007-08 Code User Class Description (a) Accts (b) ERUs Revenues Revenues
User Charges Annual Rate $12.00 $118.80 10, 11, 13, 14 Residential (b) 3,798 7,240 $905,688 Subtotal Residential 3,798 7,240 $905,688 18-32, Commercial Users 201 5,624 $670,543 Subtotal Commercial Users 201 5,624 $670,543
Other Users 65 1,222 $145,954 Subtotal Other Users 65 1,222 $145,954
Total Calculated 4,064 14,086 $1,722,185 $1,661,903 Total Projected Sewer Service Fees (Standard ERU) 13,167 12,706 Difference 3.6%
FY 2007-08 Avg Annual Charge (Revenue per Standard ERU) $130.80 Current Avg Annual Charge (Revenue per Standard ERU) $133.22
ERUs: Equivalent residential units. The last rate adjustment was effective July 1, 2008 per City Resolution #565. The annual rates shown above are charged quarterly. (a) Source: City Rate Schedule (b) There are multiple residential units in HOA accounts.
123 Table 3 Projected Growth
New ERUs Wastewater Flows New ERUs Making Calendar Account Annual Connection Fee Per ERU Capacity Capacity Year ERUs ERUs Rate Payments Population (b) MGD (c) (gpd) (ERUs) (MGD AAF)
2007 12,322 815 18,787 2.1 (est) 160 21,875 3.5 2008 12,706 384 3.1% 796 19,300 2.00 158 22,202 3.5 2009 13,049 343 2.7% 360 19,800 1.97(est) 158 22,202 3.5 2010 13,414 365 2.8% 360 2. (est) 158 38,060 6.0 2011 13,871 456 3.4% 425 2.1 (est) 158 38,060 6.0 2012 14,425 555 4.0% 725 2.2 (est) 158 38,060 6.0 2013 15,002 577 4.0% 800 25,000 2.3 (est) 158 38,060 6.0 2014 16, 053 1, 050 70%7.0% 1, 101 26, 750 24(est)2.4 (est) 158 38, 060 606.0 2015 17,176 1,124 7.0% 2,330 28,623 2.6 (est) 158 38,060 6.0 2020 26,652 9,475 19,649 43,000 4. (est) 158 38,060 6.0 2025 34,560 7,909 16,400 55,000 5.2 (est) 158 38,060 6.0 2030 44,446 9,886 20,500 70,000 6.7 (est) 158 38,060 6.0 2035 55,650 11,204 23,233 87,000 8.4 (est) 158 38,060 6.0 Average Growth Rate (%/yr) 4% Build Out 38,060 158 6.0
ERUs: Equivalent Residential Units (a) New ERUs providing connection fee proceeds are less than total growth-related ERUs due to densification. FY 2010 to 2014 growth rate provided by City in February 2009. (b) Source: Medium-range projection City Dept of Planning and Redevelopment 7/24/2008 (c) Source: Provided by City (d) ERU data for calendar years 2010 and 2015 are provided by the City, and the population for the years 2011 through 2014 is annualized. 124 Table 4 Projected Capital Improvement Programs and Funding Sources
Budget Projected Total Included Project Description FY 2008-09 FY 2009-10 FY 2010-11 FY 2011-12 FY 2012-13 Prior Years
Capital Projects Detention Basin - Abbott Wash $1,407,000 $1,407,000 Sewer Capital Outlay #37-740 to 760 $2,000,000 $6,541,857 Sewer Treatment Plant Construction (f) $9,500,000 $13,000,000 $22,500,000 Future Project Expenditures $250,000 $300,000 $500,000 Total Project Costs (a, b, e) $12,907,000 $13,000,000 $250,000 $300,000 $500,000 $30,448,857 Project Funding Sources from Non-recurring Sources Grant Proceeds for Army Corps Reuse $975,000 $3,775,877 Proposed SRF Loan Proceeds $10,000,000 $13,000,000 $0 $0 $0 $23,000,000 Total Non-recurring Funding $10,975,000 $13,000,000 $0 $0 $0 $26,775,877
Fixed Assets Beginning Year Net Fixed Assets (c) $26,932,524 $38,691,849 $50,219,174 $48,990,249 $47,803,824 Annual Additions to Fixed Assets $12,907,000 $13,000,000 $250,000 $300,000 $500,000 Less Annual Dep. of Fixed Assets (d) ($1,147,675) ($1,472,675) ($1,478,925) ($1,486,425) ($1,498,925) Projected FY end Net Assets $38,691,849 $50,219,174 $48,990,249 $47,803,824 $46,804,899 FY beginning Debt Outstanding (approx) $5,245,013 $14,558,258 $26,871,503 $26,184,748 $25,497,993 FYE Debt Outstanding (approx) $14,558,258 $26,871,503 $26,184,748 $25,497,993 $24,811,238 Capitalization Ratio 62% 46% 47% 47% 47%
(a) The annualized capital expenditures are estimated. Capital Improvement Projects include only projects funded by Sewer Fund. (b) These capital-related project costs are developer reimbursements for upsizing of sewer lines. (c) The sewer fund fixed assets include the value of contributed capital assets (d) The annual depreciation is based on an estimated average 40 year fixed asset service life. (e) All projects funded by Redevelopment, General Fund Transfer, Grants, Land Sales, Private, U.S. Army Corps of Engineering, Transportation Impact Fees, Regional Transportation, Capital Improvement fund, Residential Construction Park Tax and Joint Development are not included in the Sewer Funds. (f) In FY 2008-09 $500,000 of the $23 million WWTP project have been spent 125 Table 5 Projected Revenue Requirements
Escalation Historical Budget Projected Revenue Description Factor FY 2007-08 FY 2008-09 FY 2009-10 FY 2010-11 FY 2011-12 FY 2012-13
Operating Revenues Sewer Service Charges (est) Req. Revs $1,661,903 $1,738,400 $1,754,858 $1,971,789 $2,227,489 $2,451,750 Miscellaneous None $175,408 $178,600 $178,600 $178,600 $178,600 $178,600 Total Operating Revenues $1,837,311 $1,917,000 $1,933,458 $2,150,389 $2,406,089 $2,630,350 Operating Expenses Salaries #110 4% /Yr $473,560 $575,000 $598,000 $621,920 $646,797 $672,669 Benefits #130 4% /Yr $202,405 $250,000 $260,000 $270,400 $281,216 $292,465 Other Service, Supplies and Other 3% & ERUs $786,752 $209,950 $222,303 $236,758 $253,615 $271,672 Contracted services # 310 3% & ERUs $117,550 $124,467 $132,559 $141,998 $152,108 Electricity # 510 3% & ERUs $388,400 $411,253 $437,993 $469,178 $502,584 Total Operating Expenses $1,462,717 $1,540,900 $1,616,024 $1,699,630 $1,792,804 $1,891,497 Net Operating Revenue $374,594 $376,100 $317,434 $450,759 $613,286 $738,852 Non-Operating Revenue (Expense) Interest Revenue #38-100 None $238,685 $275,000 $164,000 $160,334 $161,259 $152,705 Existing Debt Service Schedule ($844,083) ($844,080) ($844,080) ($844,080) ($844,080) ($844,080) New Debt Service on SRF Loan for WWTP (c) $0 $0 ($787,111) ($805,000) ($1,733,053) ($1,733,054) Water Reuse Sales ($.22 & $.28/Kgal, b) ERUs $135,643 $139,310 $162,739 $188,465 $196,003 $203,843 Transfers out to City Services and General Fund (a) ($100,004) ($100,000) ($100,000) ($100,000) ($100,000) ($100,000) Connection Fees #37-200/300 Adj ERUs $1,053,776 $476,640 $580,377 $807,634 $1,377,729 $1,520,253 Stat te Sal S les T ax R evenues #31 -102 None $421,277 $415,000 $415,000 $415,000 $415,000 $415,000 Total Non-Op Revenues (Exp.) $905,294 $361,870 ($409,075) ($177,647) ($527,141) ($385,333) Increase in Cash $1,279,888 $737,970 ($91,641) $273,112 $86,145 $353,520 Project Expenditures ($4,541,857) ($12,907,000) ($13,000,000) ($250,000) ($300,000) ($500,000) Grants and Bond Proceeds $2,800,877 $10,975,000 $13,000,000 $0 $0 $0 Net Increase (Decrease) in Cash ($461,092) ($1,194,030) ($91,641) $23,112 ($213,855) ($146,480) Adjustments for Changes in AR & AP ($740,802) $994,158 Beginning Cash and Equivalents $5,501,766 $4,299,872 $4,100,000 $4,008,359 $4,031,471 $3,817,616 Ending Cash and Equivalents $4,299,872 $4,100,000 $4,008,359 $4,031,471 $3,817,616 $3,671,136
Rates ($/ERU) Adjustment on January 1 Historical Current 8% 8% 8% 3% Annual Sewer Use Charge per ERU $118.80 $121.22 $131.88 $143.39 $155.82 $160.85 Annual Service Charge per Account $12.00 $12.00 $12.00 $12.00 $12.00 $12.00 Annual User Charge (Residential) $130.80 $133.22 $143.88 $155.39 $167.82 $172.85 Quarterly User Charge (Residential) $32.70 $33.31 $35.97 $38.85 $41.95 $43.21 Proposed Connection Fee ($ per ERU) $1,324 $1,324 $1,900 $1,900 $1,900 $1,900 Net Op Rev as % of Total Op Revs 20% 20% 16% 21% 25% 28% New ERUs funding Connection Fees 796 360 360 425 725 800 Equivalent Residential Units (ERUs) 12,706 13,049 13,414 13,871 14,425 15,002 Accounts 4,064 4,407 4,773 5,229 5,784 6,361 3.01 2.12 2.05 1.15 1.01 1.12 Annual Operating Expense per ERU $115 $118 $120 $123 $124 $126 Annual Debt Principal Payment per ERU $66 $65 $63 $119 $179 $172
(a) It is assumed that Transfers out to General Fund and City Services is going to be $100,000 every year after FY 2008-09. (b) The Water Reuse Sales rate increases from $.22 to $.28 per Kgal in January 2010. (c) New debt service on SRF funds is based on the debt service schedule provided by City staff. (d) The Debt Coverage Ratio excludes the 2003 Medium Term Note, state sales tax proceeds and transfers out but includes Connection Fees. If ever required the cash reserves can be used (once) for coverage ratio The coverage ratio for the new debt starts after the completion of projects in FY 2009-10 126 Table 6 Proposed Residential Sewer Charges
Projected Residential Bill Class Annual Billing ($) Monthly Quarterly Annual Code Account ERU Bill Bill Bill
Current Rates $12.00 $121.22 $11.10 $33.31 $133.22 Recommended Rates Effective January 1 FY 2009-10 $12.00 $131.88 $11.99 $35.97 $143.88 FY 2010-11 $12.00 $143.39 $12.95 $38.85 $155.39 FY 2011-12 $12.00 $155.82 $13.98 $41.95 $167.82 FY 2012-13 $12.00 $160.85 $14.40 $43.21 $172.85
Residential Class codes are 10, 11, 13 and 14.
127 Table 7 Sewer System Fixed Assets
Original Year in Service Annual FYE 2007 Description Cost Service Life Depreciation ENRCCI Book Value
Sewer System and Facilities Plant from CC San Dist $1,752,987 1,989 36 $48,694 5,790 $876,492 Treat Sys from Mesquite (WWTP) $1,486,544 1,990 40 $37,164 5,995 $873,347 Phase I WWTP Expansion $7,906,258 1,997 40 $197,656 6,664 $5,930,803 Phase I MTCC Sewer Outfall $821,340 2,006 40 $20,534 8,555 $799,095 Other Assets $1,336,266 1,990 65 $20,534 6,526 $1,063,326 Total Sewer 48 Assets $13,303,395 1997 39 $339,857 6,664 $9,543,063 Land & Easements $200,056 $0 $200,056 Equipment 84 Assets $890,573 1998 10 $86,315 6,679 $417,972 Subtotal $14,394,024 $426,172 $10,161,091
Utility Line 186 Assets (a) $14,969,831 2002 50 $299,396 7,419 $13,116,077 Collection System Capacity Collection System Unit Value ($ per ERU)
Grand Total System (b) $29,363,855 $725,568 9,282 $23,277,168
Source: City Asset Depreciation Report for Year End 6/30/07 OCLD: Original cost less depreciation. RCNLD: Replacement Cost New Less Depreciation ENRCCI: Engineering News Record Construction Cost Index. This index represents inflationary escalations for fixed assets. The index uses Los Angeles area trends to represent the Southwestern USA. (a) Utility Line Assets include contributed assets. (b) This WWTP plant will add capacity from the existing 3.7 MGD to a total 6.0 MGD. It will eliminate a small portion of the existing solids handling, and will also add digester capacity. 128 Table 8 Connection Fee Update
Description Value
Seven Year Projection of System Capacity (a) Current System Capacity ERUs 22,202 Expanded Capacity of WWTP (ERUs) 38,060 New ERUs Capacity 15,858
New WWTP Costs & Capacity New Wastewater Treatment Plant Cost $22,500,000 Less Improvements to Existing Plant in Project Existing Headworks Modification $1,470,000 Existing RAS/Scum Pumping Modifications $500,000 UV Disinfection/Reuse Pumping Modification $2,000,000 Expansion-related New Capacity Cost $18,530,000 New Plant Capacity (ERUs) 15,858 Incremental Unit Value of New WWTP ($ per ERU) $1,168 Enterprise Cash Balance ($ per Existing ERU) $323 Collection System Unit Value ($ per ERU) $431 Rounding Adjustment ($22) Total Incremental Cost per New Capacity ($ per ERU) $1,900 Current Connection Fee ($ per ERU) $1,324
NRS 278B.160 Permits the imposition of an impact (connection) fee based on the estimated cost of actual construction. (a) NRS 278B.170 Section 7 limits the inclusion of capital improvement plan costs to the facility expansions required by new service units projected over a period not to exceed 10 years.
129 Table 9 Single Family Dwelling Sewer Rate Survey
Rates per Household Connection Nevada Agency Accounts Treatment Annual Monthly Fee
Laughlin activated sludge $345 $28.83 $1,600 Hawthorne Utility 1,740 aerated lagoon $315 $26.25 $920 Ely 1,961 activated sludge $252 $21.00 na Dayton 536 aerated lagoon $246 $20.50 $3,055 Fernley 2,700 aerated lagoon $232 $19.36 $1,848 Cedar City, Utah (1999) $228 $19.00 $441 Gardnerville 3,125 collection system $228 $19.00 $4,375 Battle Mountain 1,230 aerated lagoon $192 $16.00 na Clark County activated sludge $188 $15.67 $1,600 Minden 4,684 $144 $12.00 $3,800 Mesquite Proposed (2010) 4,407 activated sludge $143.88 $11.99 $1,900 Winnemucca 3,000 aerated lagoon $138 $11.50 $500 City of Las Vegas (including North Las Vegas) $139 $11.58 na Mesquite Current 4,064 activated sludge $130.80 $10.90 $1,324 Beatty 530 aerated lagoon $120 $10.00 $500 Boulder City 5,300 aerated lagoon $116 $9.65 $300 Overton aerated lagoon $107 $8.92 $1,500 Blue Diamond aerated lagoon $104 $8.67 $1,500 Searchlight aerated lagoon $104 $8.67 $1,500
Values are from USDA Rural Development, 1999 and 2000, and other sources.
130 Appendix Table 1 Current Debt Service
Historical Budgeted Description FY 2004-05 FY 2005-06 FY 2006-07 FY 2007-08 FY 2008-09
NV SRF Bonds & CC San Debt (a) Interest Payment New Medium Term Note 3.2% (b) $44,234 $37,730 NV Revolving Loan 4% $12,941 $9,675 NV Revolving Loan 3.675% $124,029 $109,920 Subtotal Interest $181,204 $157,325 Principal New Medium Term Note 3.2% $201,600 $208,100 NV Revolving Loan 4% $80,852 $84,119 NV Revolving Loan 3.675% $380,427 $394,536 Subtotal Principal $662,879 $686,755 Current Debt Service $853,427 $843,126 $843,040 $844,083 $844,080
2003 New Medium Term Note $245,830 Debt Service for Calculating Debt Service Coverage Ratio (excluding 2003 Model) $598,250
(a) Interest and Principal Payments for FY 2007-08 are as per the Draft Audit Report for FY 2007-08. (b) 2003 New Medium term loan - JNA consulting group financial tables do not include this notes. 131 History of Rate Increases
City Of Mesquite Residential Sewer Fees 36 years from 1989 to 2025 Monthly ANNUAL Quarterly Monthly Increases Ordinance # 51 Effective Jul. 1, 1989 Residential Sewer Fees 103.32 25.83 8.61 Resolution # 212 Effective Jul. 1, 1999 Residential Sewer Fees 123.63 30.90 10.30 1.69 Resolution # 249 Effective Jul. 1, 2000 Residential Sewer Fees 126.13 31.53 10.51 0.21 Resolution # 346 Effective Jul 1, 2004 Residential Sewer Fees 128.41 32.13 10.71 0.20 Resolution # 433 Effective Jul 1, 2006 Residential Sewer Fees 130.80 32.70 10.90 0.19 Resolution # 565 Effective Jul. 1, 2008 Residential Sewer Fees 133.22 33.30 11.10 0.20 Resolution # 633 Effective Jan. 1, 2010 Residential Sewer Fees 143.88 35.97 11.99 0.89 Effective Jan. 1, 2011 Residential Sewer Fees 155.39 38.85 12.95 0.96 Effective Jan. 1, 2012 Residential Sewer Fees 167.82 41.97 13.99 1.04 Resolution # 950 PROPOSED Effective Jan. 1, 2019 Residential Sewer Fees 170.94 42.75 14.25 0.26 Effective Jan. 1, 2021 Residential Sewer Fees 173.94 43.50 14.50 0.25 Effective Jan. 1, 2023 Residential Sewer Fees 176.94 44.25 14.75 0.25 Effective Jan. 1, 2025 Residential Sewer Fees 179.94 45.00 15.00 0.25
6.39
City Of Mesquite Residential 90 Gallon Automated System
Garbage Disposal Agreement Effective Apr. 6, 1989 Residential Garbage Fees 70.80 17.70 5.90 Garbage Disposal Agreement Effective May 1, 1995 Residential Garbage Fees 82.80 20.70 6.90 1.00 Garbage Disposal Agreement Effective May 1, 1995 Residential Garbage Fees includes can rental 135.00 33.75 11.25 4.35 Resolution #636 Effective Oct. 1, 2009 Residential Garbage Fees includes can rental 141.00 35.25 11.75 0.50 Resolution #636 Effective Jul. 1, 2010 Residential Garbage Fees includes can rental 147.00 36.75 12.25 0.50 Resolution #636 Effective Jul. 1, 2012 Residential Garbage Fees includes can rental 149.52 37.38 12.46 0.21 Resolution #636 Effective Jul. 1, 2014 Residential Garbage Fees includes can rental 152.16 38.04 12.68 0.22 Resolution #636 Effective Jul. 1, 2016 Residential Garbage Fees includes can rental 154.80 38.70 12.90 0.22 Resolution # 951 PROPOSED Effective Jul. 1, 2018 Residential Garbage Fees includes can rental 157.80 39.45 13.15 0.25 Effective Jul. 1, 2020 Residential Garbage Fees includes can rental 160.80 40.20 13.40 0.25
7.50
Sewer Garbage Fuel Surcharge TOTAL April 1, 2018 Quarterly Billing 41.97 39.45 0.30 81.72
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Submitted by: Tysha Blaber Submitting Department: Public Works Meeting Date: April 24, 2018
Subject: Consideration of Approval of Resolution No. 951 revising the fee schedule for collection of solid waste 90 gallon automated services within the City effective July 1, 2018.
- Public Hearing - Discussion and Possible Action
Recommendation: Approve Resolution No. 951.
Petitioner: Bill Tanner, Public Works Director
Is this a budgeted item? No
Fiscal Impact: Would increase collection of residential solid waste revenues by $0.25 cents per month or $3.00 annually for each 90 gallon automated residential account every two years through FY 2020 and increase the residential 90 gallon automated residential second can by $0.50 cents per month effective July 1, 2018. All of the increases will go directly to Virgin Valley Disposal to help offset additional operational cost.
Background: Resolution No. 636 was approved by Council on July 28, 2009 which incorporated residential solid waste fee increases every two years from October 1, 2009 through July 1, 2016 and set the fuel surcharge based off of the west coast fuel index at the time of billing.
Resolution No. 951 would continue a rate increase effective July 1, 2018 and again in July 1, 2020; continue the fuel surcharge fees based off the west coast fuel index and increase the second can service by $0.50 cents per month.
This resolution will also change the Lien Fees from $35.00 to $40.00 reflecting the actual fees charged by Clark County Recorder’s office. The quarterly billing for sewer and garbage are combined on one billing, therefore the lien fees will only be applied once each time a lien is filed. 134 All of the increase for the residential service would go to Virgin Valley Disposal for increased operational cost and the increase in Lien fees would go to the City.
Virgin Valley Disposal’s contract option for an additional 20 years will be negotiated before June 14, 2021.
Contract Bid Expires On:
Attachments: ResNo951_2018-2020pdf ResNo636_2009-2016pdf HistoryofRateIncreases_1989to2025.pdf LegalPublication_21Mar18.pdf
135 RESOLUTION # 951
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF MESQUITE, NEVADA REVISING THE FEE SCHEDULE FOR COLLECTION OF SOLID WASTE MATERIALS
WHEREAS, the City of Mesquite is authorized by Nevada Revised Statutes and Mesquite Municipal Code to establish rates for the collection and disposal of solid waste materials within the City;
WHEREAS, the Mesquite City Council is authorized by the Municipal code to amend those rates from time to time as the City Council deems necessary; and
WHEREAS, the Solid Waste Collection Agreement with Virgin Valley Disposal Inc., the City's contractor for solid waste collection, provides for how the various fees for solid waste services will be collected and distributed; and
NOW, THEREFORE, the following new rates and charges are established for the maintenance, debt service, operation and fuel surcharge for the Mesquite City Solid Waste Collection and Landfill System.
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2018 INCREASE INSIDE CITY Ninety-gallon Container Rental $ 1.25 Per Month Ninety-gallon Residential System $ 11.90 Per Month * 0.25 Ninety-gallon Residential System Fuel Surcharge $ Fuel Surcharge Chart ** Each addt'l Residential Container Rental $ 1.25 Per Month Addt'l Residential Container Service $ 6.75 Per Month *** 0.50 Lien Fees - to File a Lien & Release Lien $ 40.00 Service Charge $ 5.00 Late Fee Interest/ 1.5% per month, 18% annual after 60 days delinquent
OUTSIDE CITY Ninety-gallon Container $ 15.00 Per Month
LANDFILL FEES Refuse Originating within the City limits $ 5.10 Per Cubic Yard
Refuse Originating from all Outside City $ 7.65 Per Cubic Yard Accounts Transporting of Refuse in Uncovered Vehicle $ 10.20 Per Cubic Yard (Twice Regular Rate) Compacted Garbage $ 15.30 Per Cubic Yard (Three times regular Rate) Compacted Garbage from Outside City $ 22.95 Per Cubic Yard (Three times regular Rate)
* 9.35 Total to Virgin Valley Disposal ** Total to Virgin Valley Disposal *** .50 Total to Virgin Valley Disposal
136 EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2020 INSIDE CITY Ninety-gallon Container Rental $ 1.25 Per Month Ninety-gallon Residential System $ 12.15 Per Month * 0.25 Ninety-gallon Residential System Fuel Surcharge $ Fuel Surcharge Chart ** Each addt'l Residential Container Rental $ 1.25 Per Month Addt'l Residential Container Service $ 6.75 Per Month Lien Fees - to File a Lien & Release Lien $ 40.00 Service Charge $ 5.00 Late Fee Interest/ 1.5% per month, 18% annual after 60 days delinquent
OUTSIDE CITY Ninety-gallon Container $ 15.00 Per Month
LANDFILL FEES Refuse Originating within the City limits $ 5.10 Per Cubic Yard
Refuse Originating from all Outside City $ 7.65 Per Cubic Yard Accounts Transporting of Refuse in Uncovered Vehicle $ 10.20 Per Cubic Yard (Twice Regular Rate) Compacted Garbage $ 15.30 Per Cubic Yard (Three times regular Rate) Compacted Garbage from Outside City $ 22.95 Per Cubic Yard (Three times regular Rate)
* 9.60 Total to Virgin Valley Disposal ** Total to Virgin Valley Disposal
FUEL SURCHARGE CHART PRICE PER GALLON FUEL SURCHARGE DIESEL FUEL PERCENTAGE $2.50 0.75 % $2.75 1.50 % $3.00 2.25 % $3.25 3.00 % $3.50 3.75 % $3.75 4.50 % $4.00 5.25 % $4.25 6.00 % $4.50 6.75 % $4.75 7.50 % $5.00 8.25 %
THIS FUEL SURCHARGE CHART WILL BE ONGOING IN THE EVENT DIESEL FUEL PRICES CONTINUE TO INCREASE. IF DIESEL PRICES DROP BELOW $ 2.50 PER GALLON THERE WOULD BE A $ 0.00 FUEL SURCHARGE.
FUEL SURCHARGE WILL BE BASED ON THE WEST COAST FUEL INDEX COST ON THE DATE OF THE RESIDENTIAL BILLING FOR EACH QUARTER.
PASSED, ADOPTED, AND APPROVED, by the City Council of the City of Mesquite Nevada on the 24th day of April, 2018
THE CITY OF MESQUITE: ATTEST: By: By: 137 Allan S. Litman, Mayor Tracy E. Beck, City Clerk RESOLUTION # 636
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF MESQUITE, NEVADA REVISING THE FEE SCHEDULE FOR COLLECTION OF SOLID WASTE MATERIALS
WHEREAS, the City of Mesquite is authorized by Nevada Revised Statutes and Mesquite Municipal Code to establish rates for the collection and disposal of solid waste materials within the City;
WHEREAS, the Mesquite City Council is authorized by the Municipal code to amend those rates from time to time as the City Council deems necessary; and
WHEREAS, the Solid Waste Collection Agreement with Virgin Valley Disposal Inc., the City's contractor for solid waste collection, provides for how the various fees for solid waste services will be collected and distributed; and
NOW, THEREFORE, the following new rates and charges are established for the maintenance, debt service, operation and fuel surcharge for the Mesquite City Solid Waste Collection and Landfill System.
EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2009
INSIDE CITY Ninety-gallon Container Rental $ 1.25 Per Month Ninety-gallon Residential System $ 10.50 Per Month * Ninety-gallon Residential System Fuel Surcharge $ Fuel Surcharge Chart ** Each addt1 Residential Container Rental $ 1.25 Per Month Addt'l Residential Container Service $ 6.25 Per Month Lien Fees - to File a Lien $ 25.00 Lien Release Fee $ 10.00 Service Charge $ 5.00 Late Fee Interest/ 1.5% per month, 18% annual after 60 days delinquent
OUTSIDE CITY Ninety-gallon Container $ 15.00 Per Month
LANDFILL FEES Refuse Originating within the City limits $ 5. 10 Per Cubic Yard
Refuse Originating from all Outside City $ 7.65 Per Cubic Yard Accounts Transporting of Refuse in Uncovered Vehicle $ 10.20 Per Cubic Yard (Twice Regular Rate) Compacted Garbage $ 15.30PerCubicYard (Three times regular Rate) Compacted Garbage from Outside City $ 22.95 Per Cubic Yard (Three times regular Rate)
* 7.95 Total to Virgin Valley Disposal **Total to Virgin Valley Disposal
138
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INSIDE CITY Ninety-gallon Container Rental $ I .25 Per Month Ninety-gallon Residential System $ ll.OO Per Month * Ninety-gallon Residential System Fuel Surcharge $ Fuel Surcharge Chart ** Each addt'l Residential Container Rental $ 1.25 Per Month Addt'l Residential Container Service $ 6.25 Per Month Lien Fees - to File a Lien $ 25.00 Lien Release Fee $ 10.00 Service Charge $ 5.00 Late Fee Interest/ 1.5% per month, 18% annual after 60 days delinquent
OUTSIDE CITY Ninety-gallon Container $ 15.00 Per Month
LANDFILL FEES Refuse Originating within the City limits $ 5.10 Per Cubic Yard
Refuse Originating from all Outside City $ 7.65 Per Cubic Yard Accounts Transporting of Refuse in Uncovered Vehicle $ 10.20 Per Cubic Yard (Twice Regular Rate) Compacted Garbage $ 15. 30 Per Cubic Yard (lhree times regular Rate) Compacted Garbage from Outside City $ 22.95 Per Cubic Yard (Three times regular Rate)
* 8.45 Total to Virgin Valley Disposal ** Total to Virgin Valley Disposal
EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2012
INSIDE CITY Ninety-gallon Container Rental $ 1.25 Per Month Ninety-gallon Residential System $ 11.21 Per Month * Ninety-gallon Residential System .Fuel Surcharge $ Fuel Surcharge Chart** Each addt'l Residential Container Rental $ 1.25 Per Month Addt'l Residential Container Service $ 6.25 Per Month Lien Fees - to File a Lien $ 25.00 Lieu Release Fee $ 10.00 Service Charge $ 5.00 Late Fee Interest/ l . 5% per month, 18% annual after 60 days delinquent
OUTSIDE CITY Ninety-gallon Container $ 15.00 Per Month
LANDFILL FEES Refuse Originating within the City limits $ 5.10 Per Cubic Yard
Refuse Originating from all Outside City $ 7.65 Per Cubic Yard Accounts Transporting of Refuse in Uncovered Vehicle $ 10.20 Per Cubic Yard (Twice Regular Rate) Compacted Garbage $ 15.30 Per Cubic Yard (lhree times regular Rate) Compacted Garbage from Outside City $ 22.95 Per Cubic Yard 139 (Three times regular Rate) * 8.66 Total to Virgin Valley Disposal **Total to Virgin Valley Disposal
EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2014
INSIDE CITY Ninety-gallon Container Rental $ 1.25 Per Month Ninety-gallon Residential System $ 11.43 Per Month * Ninety-gallon Residential System Fuel Surcharge $ Fuel Surcharge Chart * * Each addt1 Residential Container Rental $ 1.25 Per Month Addt'l Residential Container Service $ 6.25 Per Month Lien Fees- to File a Lien $ 25.00 Lien Release Fee $ 10.00 Service Charge $ 5.00 Late Fee Interest/ 1. 5% per month, 18% annual after 60 days delinquent
OUTSIDE CITY Ninety-gallon Container $ 15.00 Per Month
LANDFILL FEES Refuse Originating within the City limits $ 5.10 Per Cubic Yard
Retuse Originating from all Oul<>ide City $ 7.65 Per Cubic Yard Accounts Transporting ofRetuse in Uncovered Vehicle $ 10.20 Per Cubic Yard (Twice Regular Rate) Compacted Garbage $ 15.30 Per Cubic Yard (Three times regular Rate) Compacted Garbage from Outside City $ 22.95 Per Cubic Yard (Three times regular Rate)
* 8.88 Total to Virgin Valley Disposal **Total to Virgin Valley Disposal
EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2016
INSIDE CITY Ninety-gallon Container Rental $ 1.25 Per Month Ninety-gallon Residential System $ 11 .65 Per Month * Ninety-gallon Residential System Fuel Surcharge $ Fuel Surcharge Chart** Each addt'l Residential Container Rental $ 1.25 Per Month Addt'l Residential Container Service $ 6.25 Per Month Lien Fees- to File a Lien $ 25.00 Lien Release Fee $ 10.00 Service Charge $ 5.00 Late Fee Interest/ 1.5% per month, 18% annual after 60 days delinquent
OUTSIDE CITY Ninety-gallon Container $ 15.00 Per Month
LANDF.ILL FEES Refuse Originating within the City limits $ 5.10 Per Cubic Yard
Refuse Originating from all Outside City $ 7.65 Per Cubic Yard Accounts Transporting ofReftL<>e in Uncovered Vehicle $ 10.20 Per Cubic Yard (Twice Regular Rate) 140 Compacted Garbage $ 15.30 Per Cubic Yard (Three times regular Rate) Compacted Garbage from Outside City $ 22.95 Per Cubic Yard (Three times regular Rate)
* 9.10 Total to Virgin Valley Disposal **Total to Virgin Valley Disposal
FUEL SURCHARGE CHART
PRICE PER GALLON FUEL SURCHARGE DIESEL FUEL PERCENTAGE
$250 $2.75 0.75 % $2.75 $2.99 1.50 o/o $3.00 $3.24 2.25 o/o $3.25 $3.49 3.00 o/o $3.50 $3.74 3.75 o/o $3.75 $3.99 4.50 o/o $4.00 $4.24 5.25 o/o $4.25 $4.49 6.00 o/o $4.50 $4.74 6.75 o/o $4.75 $4.99 7.50 o/o $5.00 $5.24 8.25 %
THIS FUEL SURCHARGE CHART WILL BE ONGOING IN THE EVENT DIESEL FUEL PRICES CONTINUE TO INCREASE. IF DIESEL PRICES DROP BELOW$ 2.50 PER GALLON THERE WOULD BE A$ 0.00 FUEL SURCHARGE.
FUEL SURCHARGE WILL BE BASED ON THE WEST COAST FUEL INDEX COST ON THE DATE OF THE RESIDENTIAL BILLING FOR EACH QUARTER.
ADOPTED THIS TWENTY EIGHTH DAY OF JULY 2009
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City Of Mesquite Residential Sewer Fees 36 years from 1989 to 2025 Monthly ANNUAL Quarterly Monthly Increases Ordinance # 51 Effective Jul. 1, 1989 Residential Sewer Fees 103.32 25.83 8.61 Resolution # 212 Effective Jul. 1, 1999 Residential Sewer Fees 123.63 30.90 10.30 1.69 Resolution # 249 Effective Jul. 1, 2000 Residential Sewer Fees 126.13 31.53 10.51 0.21 Resolution # 346 Effective Jul 1, 2004 Residential Sewer Fees 128.41 32.13 10.71 0.20 Resolution # 433 Effective Jul 1, 2006 Residential Sewer Fees 130.80 32.70 10.90 0.19 Resolution # 565 Effective Jul. 1, 2008 Residential Sewer Fees 133.22 33.30 11.10 0.20 Resolution # 633 Effective Jan. 1, 2010 Residential Sewer Fees 143.88 35.97 11.99 0.89 Effective Jan. 1, 2011 Residential Sewer Fees 155.39 38.85 12.95 0.96 Effective Jan. 1, 2012 Residential Sewer Fees 167.82 41.97 13.99 1.04 Resolution # 950 PROPOSED Effective Jan. 1, 2019 Residential Sewer Fees 170.94 42.75 14.25 0.26 Effective Jan. 1, 2021 Residential Sewer Fees 173.94 43.50 14.50 0.25 Effective Jan. 1, 2023 Residential Sewer Fees 176.94 44.25 14.75 0.25 Effective Jan. 1, 2025 Residential Sewer Fees 179.94 45.00 15.00 0.25
6.39
City Of Mesquite Residential 90 Gallon Automated System
Garbage Disposal Agreement Effective Apr. 6, 1989 Residential Garbage Fees 70.80 17.70 5.90 Garbage Disposal Agreement Effective May 1, 1995 Residential Garbage Fees 82.80 20.70 6.90 1.00 Garbage Disposal Agreement Effective May 1, 1995 Residential Garbage Fees includes can rental 135.00 33.75 11.25 4.35 Resolution #636 Effective Oct. 1, 2009 Residential Garbage Fees includes can rental 141.00 35.25 11.75 0.50 Resolution #636 Effective Jul. 1, 2010 Residential Garbage Fees includes can rental 147.00 36.75 12.25 0.50 Resolution #636 Effective Jul. 1, 2012 Residential Garbage Fees includes can rental 149.52 37.38 12.46 0.21 Resolution #636 Effective Jul. 1, 2014 Residential Garbage Fees includes can rental 152.16 38.04 12.68 0.22 Resolution #636 Effective Jul. 1, 2016 Residential Garbage Fees includes can rental 154.80 38.70 12.90 0.22 Resolution # 951 PROPOSED Effective Jul. 1, 2018 Residential Garbage Fees includes can rental 157.80 39.45 13.15 0.25 Effective Jul. 1, 2020 Residential Garbage Fees includes can rental 160.80 40.20 13.40 0.25
7.50
Sewer Garbage Fuel Surcharge TOTAL April 1, 2018 Quarterly Billing 41.97 39.45 0.30 81.72
142 AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
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Submitted by: Tysha Blaber Submitting Department: Mayor & Council Meeting Date: April 24, 2018
Subject: Consideration of Approval of Resolution No. 957, pertaining to areas of critical environmental concern in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management revised draft Southern Nevada District Resource Management Plan.
- Public Comments - Discussion and Possible Action
Recommendation: Recommend adoption of Resolution No. 957 pertaining to areas of critical environmental concern in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management revised draft Southern Nevada District Resource Management Plan.
Petitioner: David Ballweg, City Council Member
Is this a budgeted item? No
Fiscal Impact: None at this time.
Background: In 2008, the BLM initiated a revision to the 1998 Las Vegas Resource Management Plan (RMP). A Draft RMP/Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was released for public review in October 2014. As a result of BLM internal review, the BLM has determined that additional public input is needed to gather more information and that a Revised Draft RMP/EIS should be developed. The BLM is required to prepare the RMP/EIS in cooperation with other local, state, and federal agencies with jurisdiction and special expertise in the land management and related issues.
The RMP includes designations and management prescriptions for Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) within the City of Mesquite Limits. A number of the ACECs designated in the draft RMP overlap with existing facilities such as roadways, the City of Mesquite Wastewater Treatment Plant and City of Mesquite Parks along with proposed master planned Regional Flood Control Facilities. At this time, The City of Mesquite Council is being asked to adopt a resolution requesting 144 BLM consider the needs of the City of Mesquite and to reevaluate the locations of the ACECs in the revised draft Resource Management Plan.
Attachments: ResNo957.docx
145 RESOLUTION NUMBER 957
A RESOLUTION PERTAINING TO AREAS OF CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN IN THE U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT REVISED DRAFT SOUTHERN NEVADA DISTRICT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN
WHEREAS, the BLM has been working since 2008 to update the 1997 Las Vegas Resource Management Plan; and
WHEREAS, in 2014, the BLM published a draft Southern Nevada District Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement for public review; and
WHEREAS, the BLM has determined that additional public comments are needed to further refine and develop the Southern Nevada District Resource Management Plan; and
WHEREAS, the draft Southern Nevada District Resource Management Plan includes a series of proposals that would create new Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) and modify existing ACECs; and
WHEREAS, ACECs are special land designations made by the BLM that require special management to protect important and relevant value; and
WHEREAS, many ACECs limit or prohibit linear and/or site-type uses that will hinder future growth within the City of Mesquite; and
WHEREAS, the designation of ACECs can have a detrimental impact on the ability of the City of Mesquite to implement future flood control facilities, roadways, trails, parks and other growth possibilities.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, by the City of Mesquite Council that:
SECTION 1. The City of Mesquite does not support the expansion of the Virgin River ACEC. Expansion of the Virgin River ACEC will impede the ability of the City of Mesquite for future growth.
SECTION 2. The expansion of the Virgin River ACEC will impede the ability to implement flood control facilities necessary to protect life and property along the Virgin River. The expansion will also impede the City’s ability to implement future trail systems along the Virgin River.
SECTION 3. The expansion of the Virgin River ACEC also shows existing City of Mesquite facilities such as the Wastewater Treatment Plant, existing roadways and existing city parks being included in the ACEC.
SECTION 4. The City Manager is directed to prepare and transmit copies of this 146 resolution to the BLM. PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED by the City Council of the City of Mesquite, Nevada on the 24th day of April , 2018.
THE CITY OF MESQUITE, NEVADA: APPROVED AS TO FORM:
By: By: Allan S. Litman, Mayor Robert Sweetin, City Attorney
ATTEST:
By: Tracy E. Beck, City Clerk
147 City Council Agenda Item 8
Submitted by: Tracy Beck Submitting Department: City Manager Meeting Date: April 24, 2018
Subject: Mayor's Comments
Recommendation:
Petitioner: Andy Barton, City Manager
Is this a budgeted item? No
Fiscal Impact:
Background:
Attachments:
148 City Council Agenda Item 9
Submitted by: Tracy Beck Submitting Department: City Manager Meeting Date: April 24, 2018
Subject: City Council and Staff Reports and Comments
Recommendation:
Petitioner: Andy Barton, City Manager
Is this a budgeted item? No
Fiscal Impact:
Background:
Attachments:
149 City Council Agenda Item 10
Submitted by: Richard Secrist Submitting Department: Development Services Meeting Date: April 24, 2018
Subject: Consideration of Tentative Map Case No. TM-18-001 (Hilltop Vistas Townhomes Phase I) to approve a 30-unit townhome development on 4.62 acres at 470 Turtleback Road, in the Mesquite Vistas Planned Unit Development.
- Public Hearing - Discussion and Possible Action
Recommendation: Open Public Hearing for comment, and Approve Tentative Map Case No. TM-18-001 (Hilltop Townhomes).
Petitioner: Richard Secrist, Development Services Director
Is this a budgeted item? No Fiscal Impact: Developing this property will put 30 town homes on the property tax rolls.
Background: The applicant is seeking approval to build 30 townhomes on this 4.62 acre site, at a density of 6.49 units per acre. The townhomes are laid out on both sides of Haley Way in the area that was Hermosa Vistas Phase III. A Reversionary Map for Hermosa Vistas Phase III has been approved by staff which has the effect of vacating the condominium map and reverting the land to raw acreage.
The townhomes are laid out in 15 duplex structures, whereas the previous Hermosa Vistas Plat had 60 units laid out in 15 four-plex structures. There are no stacked units in the proposed Hilltop project.
The townhomes will have 2 or 3 bedrooms. Each dwelling has a 1-car garage at the rear of the unit and one uncovered parking space in the angled parking along the street. And one visitor space per 5 dwellings is provided on-street
Attachments: TM-18-001_Memo.doc TM-18-001_App&Plans.pdf 150 TM-17-001_470TurtlebackRd_VicinityMap(2).pdf TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Richard Secrist, Development Services Director
DATE: April 24, 2018
RE: Consideration of Tentative Map Case No. TM-18-001 (Hermosa Vistas Subdivision Phase III) to approve a 30-unit townhome development on 4.62 acres at 470 Turtleback Road, in the Mesquite Vistas Planned Unit Development.
Background
The applicant is seeking approval to build 30 townhomes on this 4.62 acre site, at a density of 6.49 units per acre. The townhomes are laid out on both sides of Haley Way in the area that was Hermosa Vistas Phase III. A Reversionary Map for Hermosa Vistas Phase III has been approved by staff which has the effect of vacating the condominium map and reverting the land to raw acreage.
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1 The townhomes are laid out in 15 duplex structures, whereas the previous Hermosa Vistas Plat had 60 units laid out in 15 four-plex structures. There are no stacked units in the proposed Hilltop project.
The townhomes will have 2 or 3 bedrooms. Each dwelling has a 1-car garage at the rear of the unit and one uncovered parking space in the angled parking along the street. And one visitor space per 5 dwellings is provided on-street.
Key Facts The property is zoned Medium Density Multi-Family (MF-3) The total area of the site is 4.62 acres Proposed density is 6.49 units per acre Surrounding Zoning and Uses: o North – Medium Density MF; Hermosa Vistas Ph. II. 10.06 UPA o West – Medium Density MF-3; Hermosa Vistas Ph. I. 6.63 UPA o South – Low Density MF-2; Vacant Land o East – Medium Density MF-3; Vacant Land 152
2 Tentative Map Approval Criteria Please refer to Appendix “A” for the excerpt from Mesquite Municipal Code (MMC) Section 9-6-4. Subsection H sets forth guidelines and criteria for City Council decisions on tentative maps.
Lot Standards: This project is being developed as a Common Interest Townhome community. Future residents will buy the townhome and the land underneath it, and the rest of the site is held in common: common open space, shared access drive and visitor parking etc.
Open Space: Approximately 53 percent of the total site is common open space. Landscaping plans for this open space will need to be submitted and approved prior to signing of the final map. Landscaping for Hilltop Townhomes should be included in the improvement plans. The common open space is located in-between and behind the townhomes.
Circulation: Access to the site is from Haley Way via Turtleback Road. There is an access on the east side near the Falls Hillside Villas, and one on the west side through Hermosa Vistas Phase II. Haley Way is a private street with two 13’ travel lanes, and 90 degree angle parking (19.5’) on both sides of the street. Three-foot sidewalks at back- of-curb are provided on both sides of the street.
Transportation Impact Analysis (TIA): The development will generate approximately 150 to 180 vehicle trips per day (5 to 6 per household) using the ITE Trip Generation Manual rates. Vehicle trips generated will not increase the peak hour travel (15-18) enough to justify a Traffic Impact Study under the City’s development code.
Improvement Plans: New improvement plans are required. Landscaping plans are to be to be submitted with the improvement plans. Landscaping plans need to be reviewed and approved, prior to the signing of the final map.
Previous Council Action
On December 12, 2006 the City Council approved a new Tentative Map for Hermosa Vistas Condominiums Phases 3 & 4.
On May 9, 2006 the City Council approved a Revised Final Map for Hermosa Vistas Condominiums Phase III.
On October 11, 2005 the City Council approved the Final Map for Hermosa Vistas Condominiums Phase III.
On June 22, 2004 the City Council approved a Tentative Map for Hermosa Vistas Phases 2,3, & 4.
On July 8, 2003 the City Council approved a Tentative and Final Map for Hermosa Vistas Phase I. 153
3 Recommendation
Staff recommends approval of Tentative Map Case No. TM-18-001, subject to staff recommendations and Standard Conditions:
Building Department 1. Meet all applicable Building Codes and Standard Conditions.
Engineering Department 1. Waterline crossing through phase 4 needs to be located within an easement. 2. Lot 11 needs a separate sanitary sewer line from the residence all the way to the mainline. 3. A reversionary map taking the property back to acreage shall be completed and recorded prior to the new final map being recorded.
Planning and Environmental Resources 1. Meet all applicable Zoning Codes and Standard Conditions. 2. All Tentative and Final maps shall conform with the City’s Street Naming and Addressing Policy. 3. Landscaping plans to be submitted with Improvement Plans. Landscape plans must be reviewed and approved prior to signing of Final Map.
Public Works 1. Standard Conditions as applicable. Sanitation 1. Standard Conditions as applicable. 2. Sewer line will be a private sewer line maintained by the HOA to manhole located in Santa Fe Drive Solid Waste 1. All services will be provided by residential 90 gallon container automated system.
Fire & Rescue Department 1. No Concerns. Plans show a new fire hydrant just west of the western driveway.
Police Department 1. No Concerns.
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4 Appendix A – Excerpt from Mesquite Municipal Code Section 9-6-4: TENTATIVE MAPS:
H. Guidelines for Planning Commission or City Council Decision: The planning commission or city council shall consider the following criteria in making a recommendation on the tentative map:
1. Environmental and Health Laws: The application conforms with environmental and health laws and regulations concerning water and air pollution, the disposal of solid waste, facilities to supply water, community or public sewage disposal and, where applicable, individual systems for sewage disposal;
2. Water Availability: The applicant has shown the availability of water which meets applicable health standards and is sufficient for the reasonably foreseeable needs of the subdivision;
3. Public Utilities: The site is served, or will be served at the time of development, with all necessary public utilities, including, but not limited to, water, sewer, gas, electric and telephone service;
4. Location: The site is located in an area of the city that is appropriate for current development activity and which will not contribute to the need for inefficient extensions and expansions of public facilities, utilities and services;
5. Public Services: The applicant has shown the availability and accessibility of public services such as schools, police and fire protection, transportation, recreation and parks;
6. Development Pattern: The site represents an overall development pattern that is consistent with the goals and policies of the master plan, the official map, the capital improvements program and any other applicable planning documents adopted by the city;
7. Conformance: The site and application conform to all applicable provisions of these regulations. If these regulations are inconsistent with the master plan, these regulations shall take precedence; however, city staff shall be instructed to make such recommendations as will be necessary to bring these regulations into compliance with the master plan;
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5 8. Effect on Streets: The application considers the effect of the proposed subdivision on existing public streets and the need for new streets or highways to serve the subdivision;
9. Street Design: The tentative map shows the location, spacing and design of proposed streets, curb cuts and intersections, all of which are consistent with good traffic engineering design principles;
10. Access: Each lot in the map of a residential development has adequate and safe access to/from a local street. If lot access is to/from a collector or arterial street, the planning commission, or city council if there is no planning commission, shall expressly find that such access is safe and that no other lot access or subdivision configuration is feasible;
11. Site Layout: The site contains a parcel, lot and land subdivision layout that is consistent with good land planning and site engineering design principles;
12. Development Sensitive to Environment: The site will be laid out and developed in a manner that is sensitive to environmental features and/or characteristics of the tract or parcel, including, but not limited to, topography, slope, soils, geology, hydrology, floodplains, wetlands, vegetation and trees;
13. Dedications and Improvements: The applicant agrees to dedicate and improve land, right of way and easements, as may be determined to be needed to effectuate the purposes of these regulations and the standards and requirements incorporated herein;
14. Other Recommendations and Comments: The recommendations and comments of those entities reviewing the tentative map pursuant to Nevada Revised Statutes chapter 278;
15. Submission Requirements Satisfied: All relevant and applicable submission requirements have been satisfied in a timely manner.
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Tentative Map 470 Turtleback Rd TM-18-001 162 1:6,000 City Council Agenda Item 11
Submitted by: Tracy Beck Submitting Department: City Manager Meeting Date: April 24, 2018
Subject: Public Comments
Recommendation:
Petitioner: Andy Barton, City Manager
Is this a budgeted item? No
Fiscal Impact:
Background:
Attachments:
163 City Council Agenda Item 12
Submitted by: Tracy Beck Submitting Department: City Manager Meeting Date: April 24, 2018
Subject: Adjournment
Recommendation:
Petitioner: Andy Barton, City Manager
Is this a budgeted item? No
Fiscal Impact:
Background:
Attachments:
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