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A
President,
thank
you.
Madam
secretary
assemblyman
ellison
is
present.
All
members
are
present
and
we
have
a
quorum
good
morning.
Everyone.
I
hope
you
had
a
great
weekend
and
an
opportunity
to
spend
it
with
your
friends,
family
loved
ones
and
got
some
good
rest.
It's
going
to
be
a
rough
exhaustive
week
so,
but
I
know
we're
up
for
it.
So
I
appreciate
the
upcoming
week
and
the
work
that
we'll
be
engaging
in
we're
going
to
take
the
agenda
slightly
out
of
order
we'll
be
hearing
assembly
bill.
A
271
first,
followed
by
assembly
bill
437
will
then
enter
the
presentation
by
the
city
of
north
las
vegas,
which
I
know
they're
not
going
to
have
it
all
that
long
so
that
we
can
focus
our
energy
on
that
assembly,
bill
55
and
then
we'll
do
a
public
comment
at
the
end.
For
those
of
you
joining
us
virtually
good
morning
and
welcome
to
you,
I
want
to
remind
you
that
we'll
be
doing
public
comment
at
the
very
end
members.
I
want
to
ask
you
to
please
keep
your
microphone
on
mute.
A
Unless
you
are
speaking,
and
should
you
have
to
turn
off
your
camera?
Just
give
us
a
quick
heads
up,
so
we
understand
what's
happening
on
your
end.
So
with
that
we'll
go
ahead
and
open
up
the
hearing
on
assembly
bill
271
good
morning
and
welcome.
I
I
Ab271
is
a
bill
designed
to
require
primary
law
enforcement
agencies
in
certain
nevada
counties
to
to
provide
an
adequate
number
of
uniformed
first-line
supervisors
to
oversee
the
work
that
police
officers
do
in
the
patrol
environment,
as
policing
has
seen
an
increased
call
for
enhanced
accountability
and
rightfully
so.
We
must
remain
vigilant
in
this
effort,
based
on
a
pattern
of
action
by
the
department
of
justice.
We
can
be
confident
that
span
of
control
is
an
integral
component
of
meaningful
police
reform,
as
is
evidence
in
the
several
consent.
Decrees
in
various
police
agencies
around
the
country.
I
Patrol
officers
are
typically
the
first
responders
on
calls
that
that
can
turn
into
a
critical
incident
in
a
moment's
notice.
Studies
have
shown
that
the
mere
presence
of
a
first-line
supervisor
on
call
such
as
these
can
greatly
reduce
the
frequency
of
a
use
of
force
from
occurring
understanding.
This
police
agencies
in
nevada,
like
lvmpd,
have
adopted
policies
that
require
first-line
supervisors
to
acknowledge
and
respond
to
calls
where
certain
details
are
provided,
such
as
when
a
subject
is
armed.
I
I
Ensuring
that
agencies
have
the
appropriate
ratio
of
uniform
first
line
supervisors
to
uniform
piece
of
uniform
peace
officers
is
a
step
this
body
can
make
to
achieve
achieve
these
efforts.
Now
I'm
going
to
go
over
the
parts
of
the
bill
and
then
open
it
up
for
questions
from
the
committee
to
myself
and.
I
Chairman
this
bill
will
be
added
to
chapter
289
and
it's
going
to
read
as
follows.
I
One
and
b,
first
line
supervisor
will
or
excuse
me,
shall
assist
in
the
de-escalation
of
any
volatile
situation,
provide
supervised
supervision
and
direction
as
necessary
in
circumstances
in
which
non-supervisory
peace
officer
employs
the
use
of
force,
respond
as
necessary
to
circumstances
in
which
a
non-supervisory
peace
officer
employs
use
of
force
and,
if
required,
by
law
or
the
policy
of
the
law
enforcement
agency.
Investigate
each
circumstance
in
which
a
non-supervisor
peace
officer
employ
the
use
of
force
and
ensure
that
there
is
documentation
of
each
circumstance.
I
Two,
the
requirement
described
in
paragraph
a
of
subsection
one
applied
to
first-line
supervisors
and
non-supervisory
peace
officers,
whose
primary
duties
include
routine
patrol,
consider
a
field,
training,
peace
officer
and
the
assigned
trainee
of
the
peace
officer
to
be
one
peace
officer
for
the
purpose
of
any
such
requirement.
Within
the
ratio,
as
used
in
this
section,
first
line
supervisor
means
any
peace
officer
who
supervises
other
persons
and
who
is
on
an
organizational
level
immediately
above
non-supervisory
peace
officers
at
the
bottom.
It
gives
an
explanation
the
pro.
I
What
a
primary
law
enforcement
agency
means
a
police
department
of
an
unincorporated
city,
the
sheriff's
office
of
a
county,
or
if
the,
if
the
county
is
within
the
jurisdiction
of
a
metropolitan
police
department,
the
metropolitan
police
department
section
two
provides
nrs
three
five,
four,
five:
nine
nine
do
not
apply
to
any
additional
expenses,
a
local
government
that
are
related
to
the
provisions
of
this
act
and
then,
finally,
we
did
remove
the
effective
date
of
july
1,
meaning
the
intent
of
this
bill
is
to
go
effective
on
october
1
of
2021
and
the
purpose
behind
that
was.
I
Should
this
bill
become
law,
it
would
give
police
agencies
enough
time.
Should
they
see
the
need
to
promote
or
need
to
promote
additional
supervisors
and
get
them
trained
prior
to
going
on
the
streets
with
that?
That
is
the
completion
of
the
amended
bill.
Language
myself
and
chairman
hudler
are
open
to
any
questions.
A
Thank
you
for
that
walk
through
in
the
presentation
members.
I
want
to
make
it
clear
that
we're
going
off
of
the
mock-up
that
is
under
our
exhibit
list,
not
the
original
language
itself,
with
that
we'll
open
it
up
for
questions
and
we'll
start
off
with
assemblywoman
thomas
thank.
J
You
cheering
good
morning
and
thank
you
officer
may
for
your
presentation.
I
appreciate
it
and
with
the
conceptual
amendment
that
you
submitted,
I
was
just
wondering
why
the
change.
Originally
you
had
the
ratio
of
one
and
ten.
Why
the
one
in
twelve
now.
I
We
had
some
meetings
last
week
with
some
stakeholders.
One
of
the
stakeholders
has
had
presented
that
restrict
a
ten
to
one
ratio
or.
I
Oh,
I'm
sorry
for
the
record.
This
is
choice.
Croomey,
the
original
intent
of
the
ten
to
one
was
to
be
in
a
restrictive
manner.
I
However,
this
is
gonna
be
the
first
time
something
like
this
is
gonna
appear
in
law,
and
one
of
the
stakeholders
suggested
that
that
might
be
a
little
bit
too
restrictive
and
if
they
could
allow
a
little
bit
of
room
since
the
legislature
only
meets
for
two
years
and
if
they
identified
some
potential
issues
that
they
would
have
to
wait
two
years
so
based
on
that
on
top
of
reading
some
of
the
fiscal
impacts
it
looked
like
if,
if
we
went
to
12
to
1,
which
currently
matches
the
lvmpd
policy,
that
it
would
provide
some
fiscal
relief
to
those
agencies
providing
the
fiscal
note
and
then
allow
a
little
bit
of
leeway
as
we
work
into
this
mission.
E
Thank
you,
mr
chair.
I
thank
you.
Thank
you
for
bringing
forward
this
language
on
the
amendment
when
it
comes
to
section
one
point,
one
three:
the
schedule
of
in
a
matter.
That
is,
if
you
could
expand
a
little
bit
more
of
what
you
mean
by
in
a
manner
that
ensures
that
the
first
line
supervisor
is
physically
available,
does
not
mean
that
they
do
not
need
to
physically
be
there
but
can
get
someplace
quickly.
I
just
I
was
confused
by
that
language
and
what
exactly
that
would
mean
in
reality
versus
policy
language.
I
I
understand
that's
a
great
question
that
was
actually
one
of
the
changes
that
came
up
through
our
stakeholder
meeting
and
for
the
record.
This
is
troy's
currently
in
chair.
If
I
could
go
directly
to
the
assembly
assembly
one,
please
do
yes,
so
the
on
the
original
language
it
appeared
as
if
the
supervisor
assigned
to
the
officer
would
have
to
always
be
at
work,
and
obviously
that's
just
not
the
case.
I
Supervisors
are
allowed
to
take
vacations,
sometimes
they're
out
on
sick,
and
we
wanted
to
craft
this
language
so
that
if
agencies
wanted
to
use
overtime
supervisors
to
call
in
and
cover
those
shifts,
where
there's
not
a
sergeant
available
or
on
some
of
the
larger
agencies,
if
they
opted
to
promote
a
cadre
of
centralized
assigned,
sergeants
that
aren't
necessarily
assigned
to
squads,
then
that
cadre
of
supervisors
could
be
used
to
backfill
any
supervisors
in
the
field
that
are
off
so
that
language
was
was
changed
to
pick
some
of
that
up.
E
Thank
you
for
that
clarification,
so
I
think
I
understand
that
one
and
then
does.
That
also.
Is
that
also,
where
section
one
two
a
is
coming
from,
where
it's
only
applying
to
the
first
line
supervisors?
Is
that
for
that
same
reasoning
as
to
why
that
language
was
added
or
was
there
another
reasoning
for
that.
I
For
the
record,
troy
that
is
correct,
our
intent
to
this
bill
is
to
address
the
patrol
environment.
Some
of
the
larger
agencies
have
detective
bureaus
which
do
a
lot
of
their
work
out
of
the
office.
I
So
we
wanted
to
ensure
that
the
language
in
the
bill
addressed
what
the
intent
was,
which
is
in
the
patrol
environment,
and
then
additionally,
there
were
some
concerns
that
the
stakeholders
of
the
original
language
of
the
bill
picked
up
correctly
corrections
environment,
and
that
is
not
our
intent.
Corrections
has
already
has
some
oversight
that
provides
minimum
staffing
levels,
so
we
didn't
need
to
pick
that
up
in
this
bill.
H
Thank
you,
miss
chair,
you
know
I
I
don't
know
how
many
washoe
heads
on
the
force,
how
many
now
police
deputies
and
everything
what
about
las
vegas,
what
I'm
trying
to
figure
out
this
is
going
to
have
a
large
impact
back
on
your
budgets.
Is
it
not.
I
Well
it
when
excuse
me
for
the
record.
This
is
choice,
crummy
part
of
the
stakeholder
meetings
that
we
did
have
there's
little
doubt
that
there
is
going
to
be
some
some
fiscal
impact.
I
I
I
believe
the
fiscal
impact
lessons
on
some
of
the
smaller
agencies,
such
as
henderson
north
las
vegas,
mesquite
from
the
change
of
one
to
ten
to
one
to
twelve,
but
some
of
the
larger
agencies.
It
will
have
an
impact,
I
believe,
when
washi.
If
I
remember,
reading
washoe
county's
fiscal
impact
correctly,
it
sounds
like
they
might
already
be
meeting
the
mark
and
then
they
that
they
had
some
some
concerns
that
I
don't
really
remember
exactly
how
they
worded
their
concerns.
I
But
I
believe
for
for
washoe
was
already
meeting
the
mark.
There
were
some
questions
about
what
it
would
take
for
reno
to
get
there,
which
is
again
one
of
the
reasons
why
we
massaged
from
10
to
12.
H
Follow
up,
sir,
follow
up
please!
Oh!
So,
can
you
give
me
an
idea
how
many
police
officers
are
in
las
vegas.
H
I
Chair
for
the
record,
this
is
choice
croomey,
I'm
going
to
bring
in
chairman
hudler
to
assist
on
this
point.
Thank
you.
M
Mr
william
huddler
for
the
record.
So
to
answer
your
question,
I
I
think
a
couple
assumptions
are
lying
there,
that
all
of
those
police
officers
work
uniform
patrol
and
if,
if
you
guys
can
just
recall
some
of
the
the
incidents
that
have
been
sort
of
centralized
in
our
media
lately
associated
with
civil
rights
violations,
it's
it.
M
It
usually
has
to
do
with
officers
that
are
first
responders
or
in
patrol
or
even
a
special
weapons
and
tactics
or
like
a
swat
environment
and
so
of
the
of
the
3
000
plus
police
officers
that
are
in
a
large
agency.
Like
las
vegas
metro.
You
consider
that
there
are
10
about
10
area
commands
within
the
within
las
vegas
within
each
area
command.
You
have
right
around
150
police
officers,
so
you're
looking
at
1,
500
patrol
personnel
and
then
the
assumption
is
okay.
M
So
let's
take
that
100
1500
patrol
personnel
or
right
about
there
and
divide
that
by
12,
and
that's
how
many
patrol
sergeants
and
the
the
numbers
can
be
inflated,
and
we
could
use
that
algorithm
to
try
to
to
fill
this
gap,
which
is
which
is
a
crucial
gap.
But,
quite
frankly,
that's
not
the
solution
that
is
required
and-
and
let
me
just
give
you
an
example-
the
reason
why
we
made
the
amendment
to
move
away
from
a
sergeant.
M
The
traditional
model
of
a
sergeant
leading
a
group
of
officers,
team
policing,
is
what
we
do
usually
on
the
west
coast,
so
leading
a
group
of
officers
working
those
that
same
shift
in
that
same
hour.
So,
essentially
you
could
say
hey.
You
would
have
to
double
this.
The
this
amount
of
sergeants
or
first-line
supervisors
in
patrol
will
you
don't
need
to
do
that,
and
and
what
my
colleague
mentioned
earlier
is
a
is
a
feasible
solution.
It's
it's
been
employed
in
other
agencies
around
the
country.
M
Currently,
if
I
can
just
paint
the
picture
for
you
and
I'll
be
as
brief
as
possible,
but
currently
large
agencies,
not
unlike
las
vegas
metro,
has
a
they
have
a
watch
commander
program
where
there
are
lieutenants
who
cover
the
valley
24
hours
a
day,
seven
days
a
week.
There
are
five
full-time
watch
commanders
and
they
work
12-hour
shifts
well,
instead
of
doubling
the
amount
of
sergeants
in
patrol
you
could
take,
which,
which
could
be
in
excess.
M
Well
over
a
hundred
sergeants,
you
could
promote
a
small
group
of
sergeants
assign
them
to
the
watch
commanders.
Those
sergeants
could
float
throughout
the
valley,
east
and
west
side
of
the
valley,
and
they
can
be
and
they
can
be
assigned
at
the
beginning
of
their
shift
as
necessary.
For
example,
if
a
sergeant
is
quarantined,
he
or
she
is
now
down
for
several
days.
M
One
of
these
watch
commander,
sergeants
or
whatever
the
agency
decides
to
designate
them
as
can
be
assigned
for
their
for
that
operational
period,
to
supervise
those
officers-
and
you
know
it's
not
just
use
of
force-
we're
talking
about
here
and
and
the
cost,
and
that's
what
I'm
going
to
try
to
address
here.
M
Let's
take
a
look
at
the
cost
right.
What
what
was
the
cost
this
summer?
You
know
when
we
were
having
our
protests.
What
was
the
cost
fiscal
impact?
What
was
the
impact
on
public
trust,
because
that's
the
true
measure
of
police
efficacy
is
public
trust.
You
know
we
shouldn't
be
looking
at
tickets
and
arrest
numbers.
We
should
be
looking
at
whether
or
not
people
feel
good
about
dealing
with
their
police
agency
and
and
just
like.
M
A
Thank
you,
assemblywoman
next,
we'll
go
to
and
I'm
checking
through
the
chat.
A
A
Seeing
none
at
this
time
I'd
like
to
invite
those
wishing
to
testify
in
support
of
assembly
bill
271
if
we
could
go
to
the
phone
lines
to
please
broadcast.
L
L
N
N
I'm
not
aware
of
any
public
body
or
government
agency
that
has
a
state
statute
that
requires
a
certain
number
of
supervisors
per
their
personnel.
This
is
clearly
a
management
right
to
allocate
our
resources
and
every
shift
is
different
and
may
require
different
resources
based
on
the
job
that
that
shift
must
perform.
N
This
bill
would
result
in
adding
a
lot
of
additional
supervisors
which,
due
to
financial
concerns,
we
would
probably
have
to
pull
from
our
workforce
to
fill
those
positions,
so
it
would
result
in
a
decrease
in
actual
officers
working.
The
street
handling
calls
because
we
would
have
to
shift
some
of
those
officers
to
supervisory
positions,
and
then
we
have
a
testing
process
in
place
for
supervisors,
so
there
would
be
a
concern
about
getting
supervisors
tested
and
meeting
the
criteria
to
become
a
supervisor.
N
I've
heard
comments
that
this
is
a
reform
issue.
If
it
is
a
reform
issue,
why
is
there
a
pop
cap
on
it?
Certainly
if
it
is,
if
the
unions
are
trying
to
claim
that
this
is
a
reform
issue,
it
should
apply
equally
to
all
agencies
across
the
state.
N
I
also
have
concerns
with
the
section
1b
that
says
a
supervisor
shall
assist
in
de-escalation.
Sometimes
this
is
impossible.
A
supervisor
may
be
on
another
priority.
Call
officers
are
trained
in
de-escalation
and
saying
that
a
supervisor
shall
assist
in
any
case
of
de-escalation
is
literally
impossible
and
could
result
in
liability
against
the
agency.
N
Again
this
strips
the
department
of
its
ability
to
manage
our
resources,
and
we
currently
have
three
thousand
three
hundred
and
one
police
officers
on
the
agency.
N
N
This
was
an
issue
of
collective
bargaining
in
other
issues,
where
we,
for
example,
wanted
officers
to
carry
the
I'm
sorry.
I
forgot
what
it's
called,
but
the
substance
for
opioid
overdose.
They
said.
Well,
that's
a
matter
of
collective
bargaining.
We
want
officers
to
wear
bulletproof
vests,
that's
a
matter
of
collective
bargaining.
We
want
officers
to
wear
body
cameras,
that's
a
matter
of
collective
bargaining,
but
in
this
case
the
union
wants
to
put
something
that
has
been
collective
bargained
into
statute,
so
we
are
clearly
opposed.
Thank
you,
mr
chair.
A
L
C
Thank
you,
chair
members
of
the
committee
for
the
record,
mike
cathcart
c-a-t-h
c-a-r-t,
representing
the
city
of
henderson.
The
city
of
henderson
is
a
full-service
city,
which
means
we
provide
all
municipal
services,
including
police,
fire
parks
and
recreation,
water,
wastewater
and
planting
and
zoning
among
others.
Each
year
we
are
required
by
state
law
to
submit
a
balanced
budget
to
the
department
of
taxation
and
on
an
annual
basis.
We
have
a
robust
discussion
on
staffing
needs
in
all
service
areas
and
make
determinations
based
on
resources
available.
C
The
city
is
opposed
to
ab271
because
of
the
mandated
staffing
ratio.
It
is
our
belief
that
these
discussions
should
be
at
the
local
level.
This
bill
would
limit
the
city
council's
ability
to
determine
the
best
use
of
city
resources
on
an
annual
basis,
but
I
also
want
to
thank
mr
kumay
for
for
spending
time
with
us
last
week
and
listening
to
our
concerns,
and
that
is
all
I
have
thank
you.
L
C
L
C
Good
morning,
chairman
flores
and
members
of
the
assembly
government
affairs
committee,
I'm
eric
spratley
s,
p,
e-r-I-c,
a
t,
l
e
y,
the
nevada,
sheriffs
and
chiefs
association.
We
oppose
ab271
outright,
as
the
staffing
ratios
for
public
agencies
needs
to
rest.
With
the
elected
or
appointed
administrator
for
the
agency.
C
The
agency
head
should
be
the
one
determining
the
proper
span
of
control
and
scheduling
within
the
agency
based
on
staffing
assignments,
emergency
operations
and
utilization
of
resources.
C
You've
heard
testimony
that
agencies
are
already
doing
this,
so
this
is
a
solution
in
search
of
a
problem
and
we
submit
to
you
that
there
is
not
a
problem,
so
we
ask
you
to
not
consider
this
bill
little
to
what
chuck
callaway
testified
to
and
ditto
to
what
mike
kafkart
testified
to.
Thank
you,
mr
chair.
L
K
K
Government
affairs
manager
for
clark
county,
mr
chair,
we
filed
a
fiscal
note
on
this
bill
that
was
on
the
original
language,
which
would
have
been
a
cost
of
over
69
million
dollars
to
clark
county
in
each
year
of
the
biennium.
With
the
amendment,
we
believe
that
we
could
revise
that
fiscal
note,
because
the
original
language
would
have
required
us
to
have
the
staffing
ratio
with
our
juvenile
justice
division.
Clark
county
also
funds,
a
hundred
percent
of
the
cost
of
the
clark
county
detention
center.
K
We
believe
that
the
amendment
does
narrow
down
the
scope
of
this
bill,
but
there
are
some
things
that
were
discussed
on
the
hearing
today
that
that
ideas
identified
by
mr
callaway
about
floating
and
things
like
this
that
are
not
specifically
stated
in
the
amendment.
We
are
still
trying
to
work
out
the
fiscal
impact
to
clark
county,
but
I
will
note
that
that
we
are
responsible
for
63
of
the
costs
for
las
vegas
metro
police
department,
and
so
there
will
still
be
an
impact
to
clark
county,
regardless
of
how
the
bill
is
amended.
K
I
echo
the
concerns
of
mr
cathcart
about
the
balanced
budget
that
must
be
submitted,
and
that
is
we
will
continue
to
work
with
the
proponents.
We
did
speak
with
sergeant
crummy
about
the
amendment
and
the
intent
and
thank
you
for
his
time,
but
at
this
time
we
are
opposed
based
on
fiscal
impact
to
the
county.
Thank
you.
L
K
K
We
meet
the
staffing
ratio,
but
do
not
have
supervisor
supervising
deputies
on
the
same
shift
and
in
the
same
location,
100
of
the
time
as
a
result
of
our
8,
10
and
12
hour
shifts
our
supervisors
share
in
the
jobs
of
supervising
deputies.
We
have
submitted
a
fiscal
note
on
this
and
remain
opposed
to
ab291.
Thank
you.
L
C
L
K
Chair
flores
and
members
of
the
committee
for
the
record,
callie
wilsey
with
the
city
of
reno,
that's
c-a-l-l-I-w-I-l-s-s's
and
sam
e-y.
We
thank
mr
kumay
for
meeting
with
us
last
week
to
discuss
the
intent
of
this
bill
and
listen
to
our
concerns.
The
city
of
reno
is
still
opposed
to
this
bill.
Even
with
the
amendment.
The
city
expects
to
continue
to
see
a
significant
fiscal
impact.
Additionally,
it's
critically
important
that
a
local
government
maintain
its
ability
to
manage
its
budget
in
the
best
way
to
address
the
needs
of
each
local
community.
L
C
C
Thank
you,
nacj
supports
ab271
police,
violent
and
police
violence
and
other
misconduct
are
persistent,
ongoing
problems
in
nevada.
A
lot
of
this
misconduct
is
talked
about
in
terms
of
isolated,
bad
apples
who
don't
represent
police
as
a
profession
or
their
department
as
a
whole.
C
I
Thank
you
chair
first
we'd
like
to
thank
speaker
fryerson
for
sponsoring
this
bill.
We'd
also
like
to
thank
the
chair
and
the
members
of
the
government
government
affairs
committee
for
your
time
in
listening
to
this
bill.
In
closing,
we
need
to
acknowledge
that
we're
currently
living
in
the
age
of
police
reform,
police
agencies,
police
leaders,
police
officers
and
police
associations
in
nevada
are
not
against
reform.
I
I
Effective
reform
must
be
evidence-based,
designed
from
best
practices
and
have
the
intent
of
building
public
trust.
The
evidence
shows
that
an
appropriate
number
of
uniform
first
line
supervisors
to
lead
uniform
patrol
officers
decreases
uses
of
force,
lessens
the
possibility
of
misconduct
and,
by
doing
so
will
increase
public
trust.
This
is
why
this
issue
is
a
reform
idea.
I
A
You,
sir,
I
appreciate
the
presentation
and
hopefully
we
can
get
some
dialogue
to
continue
throughout
the
week
and
maybe
we
can
get
somewhere
where
maybe
a
few
folk
can
jump
on
on
the
neutral
or
support
side.
With
that
we'll
go
ahead
and
close
out
the
hearing
on
assembly
bill
271
again,
thank
you
both
for
presenting
this
morning.
Next
we'll
open
up
the
hearing
on
assembly
bill
437
good
morning
and
welcome
whenever
you're
ready.
F
Hi
jennifer
kant,
I
am
the
executive
director
for
the
funeral
and
cemetery
services
board.
We
actually
sat
before
the
sunset
subcommittee
recently
and
they
were
generous
enough
to
entertain
a
few
changes
that
had
come
to
our
attention
needed
to
occur.
F
I
did
include
some
very
basic
information
on
the
transportation
across
state
lines
that
came
to
us
through
an
email
has
to
do
with
basically
transporting
bodies
across
state
lines
when
the
nearest
funeral
home
resides
across
that
state
line.
So,
as
you
can
see
from
that
email,
I
included
specifically
referencing
laughlin
and
bullhead
city.
F
A
body
would
typically
travel
all
the
way
to
boulder
city.
The
family
is
then,
has
to
pay
two
different
funeral
homes
and
the
body's
traveling
great
distances,
simply
because
the
nearest
funeral
home
resides
over
state
lines,
the
the
language
that
came
about
in
the
bill,
it
you
know,
references
the
coroner
approving
that
transfer
and
we
certainly
don't
have
any
issues
with
that.
I
assume
that
maybe
they
were
contacted
because
there
is
a
significant
amount
of
language
in
there.
F
The
second
part
of
what
we
had
originally
asked
for
has
to
do
with
our
embalmers
and
with
embalmers.
We
have
had
situations
where
someone
has
graduated
from
mortuary
school,
but
because
we
have
a
requirement
for
the
apprenticeship
that
they
have
60
semester
or
90
quarter
hours
of
non-mortuary
science
coursework
before
they
can
begin.
The
internship
we've
actually
had
instances
where
someone's
graduated
from
mortuary
school
and
then
we
have
to
require
them
to
take
a
few
more
credits
because
they
didn't
quite
meet
that
credit
requirement.
F
So
I
did
submit
an
amendment
that
still
has
to
do
with
our
original
request,
which
was
that
60
semester
90
quarter
hours.
It's
just
that
I
had
hadn't
seen
any
draft
language
before
the
the
bill
dropped.
If
the
committee
will
entertain
a
couple
more
changes
that
have
come
to
our
attention,
we
would
certainly
appreciate
that
one
has
been
because
of
the
pandemic.
F
We've
had
several
embalmers
that
want
to
come
out
of
retirement
who
are
residing
in
vegas
and
but
because
they
haven't
been
working
the
past
two
years
as
an
embalmer
we
would
have
to
have
them
do
an
apprenticeship
again,
which
is
doable.
It's
fine.
I
mean
they're
basically
working
under
someone,
but
it
certainly
would
be
friendlier
to
not
have
to
require
that,
and
so
you
can
see
on
this
section
in
there
in
nrs
642
100.
F
Who've
wanted
to
come
out
of
retirement
to
assist
in
the
pandemic
and
then,
lastly,
it's
our
understanding
that
the
college
of
southern
nevada
had
been
working
on
a
mortuary
science
program,
and
it
came
to
my
attention
that
we
may
need
to
allow
them
to
be
in
the
embalming
room
observing,
but
they're
currently
would
have
to
get
families
to
sign
off
on
that
based
on
the
current
language.
F
If
we
could
just
add
that
students
of
an
accredited
mortuary
science
program
would
be
allowed
into
the
prep
room,
that
would
be
helpful
as
well
and
with
that,
if
there's
any
questions,
I'm
happy
to
take
those.
A
And
thank
you
for
joining
us
this
morning
with
that
we'll
open
it
up
for
questions
and
we'll
start
off
with
assemblyman.
A
H
Oh,
it's
it
I'm
sorry
it
jumped
back
on
the
to
mute.
I
s
on
the
highway
last
night,
I
spent
some
time
on
the
phone
with
the
coroner
from
elko
county
on
this
bill
and
what
he
told
me
that
it'd
be
only
two
counties
in
elko
want
to
be
up
in
hawaii
and
the
other
jackpot
would
be
the
only
thing
that
this
bill
would
pertain
to.
H
But
he
said
the
way
this
bill
is
written
right
now
and
I'm
hoping
he's
going
to
call
in
either
under
neutral
or
opposed.
H
F
In
terms
of
the
language
that
was
drafted
here
for
the
transportation
across
the
state
line,
section
I
mean
there's,
you
know
it
references
the
coroner
authorizing
the
transportation,
but
they
would
be
doing
that
prior
to
a
removal
permit
being
issued,
which
is
usually
what
would
happen
so
typically,
a
funeral
home
in
nevada
would
go
into
the
electronic
death
registry
system
and
they
would
basically
submit
information
that
goes
to
vital
records
to
get
a
removal
permit
to
take
the
body
out
of
the
state.
F
F
You
know
we
don't
think
that
this
is
going
to
be
a
coroner
case
and
then
allow
them
to
take
it
across
state
lines
and
then
have
the
coroner
issue
the
death
certificate
after,
but
if
certainly
if
there
are
concerns
from
the
coroner's
office
with
how
this
part
is
written,
I
would
certainly
defer
to
them,
because
you
know
this
is
not
in
terms
of
the
funeral
board
really
having
a
say
in
this:
we
just
we
just
don't.
F
I
mean
this
is
vital
records
in
the
corner,
but
it
is
an
issue
that
we
had
brought
to
the
sunset
subcommittee's
attention
based
on
that
email
that
I
included
as
part
of
my
exhibit.
H
Follow
up
mr
chair
follow
up
please.
So
if
you
have
a
body,
that's
not
determined
if
it
was
natural
or
homicide,
it
would
still
go
back
to
the
state
nevada
crime
lab,
usually
in
washoe
from
every
every
place,
but
but
clark.
So
if
that
is
the
case,
then
the
body
wouldn't
be
transferred
to
idaho
or
whatever
it'd
have
to
be
transferred
back
to
washoe,
to
determine
the
cause
of
death.
Is
that
not
correct.
F
It's
my
understanding,
based
on
reading
this,
that
that
this
would
only
apply
to
cases
that
would
not
be
coroner
cases.
So,
if
there's
any
understanding
that
this
would
have
to
be
a
case
that
would
have
to
go
to
the
coroner's
office
for
any
type
of
autopsy,
this
would
not
apply.
They
would
still
initially
they
get
transported
to
a
funeral
home,
typically,
especially
in
those
rural
counties,
and
then
they
go
from
the
funeral
home
to
yeah,
usually
washoe
county
me
or
clark
county
coroner's
office.
H
A
A
I
don't
see
any
additional
questions
at
this
time
at
this
time
broadcast
if
you
can
go
to
the
phone
lines
and
invite
those
we
should
testify
in
support
of
assembly
bill
437.
L
A
Thank
you.
It's
my
understanding
that
a
few
folk
are
trying
to
call
in.
Should
you
be
in
opposition
or
support
during
the
neutral
testimony.
Please
still
call
in.
A
I
want
to
make
sure
that
we
give
you
an
opportunity
to
get
on
the
record
so
for
now
we'll
move
to
those
wishing
to
call
in
the
neutral
position,
but
again,
if
you're
listening
to
this
hearing
and
you
are
either
in
support
or
opposition,
I
still
want
you
to
call
in
we'll
get
you
on
the
record
so
make
sure
you
please
call
in
we'll
go
to
those
calling
in
the
neutral
position.
L
L
K
Good
morning
this
is
joanna
jacob
clark,
county
government
affairs
manager,
j-o-a-n-n-a-j-a-c-o-b,
I'm
calling
in
neutral
chair
flores
and
my
brazil
committee,
based
on
the
testimony.
I
was
just
listening
to
this
bill
and
I
would
like
to
work
with
ms
kant
on
this,
because
when
this
bill
did
drop
very
quickly
as
assemblyman
ellison
noted-
and
I
apologize
to
ms
kant,
because
we
actually
have
flagged
this
with
our
coroner's
office.
E
K
As
a
potential
fiscal
impact
to
clark
county
so
would
like
to
work
with
her
on
the
clarification,
as
she
stated
on
the
record
on
this,
and
so
just
testifying
neutral
on
this.
Mr
chair,
with
apologies
to
ms
kant,
to
say
that
we'd
like
to
work
with
her
on
this.
Thank
you.
C
K
I
guess
I'll
just
clarify
mr
chair.
I've
just
clarified
that
the
physical
impact
when
we
read
this
bill,
we
thought
that
it
may
impact
the
coroner's
office
and
we
have
approximately
about
1600
cases
that
we
on
average
that
this
may
impact.
So
that's
that
was
our
fiscal
concern.
Sorry
to
interrupt
you,
mr
chairman,
I've
neglected
to
put
that
on
the
record.
Thank
you.
A
And
I'll
put
this
out
there
one
more
time:
if
there
is
anybody
wishing
to
testify
and
support
opposition
or
neutral
to
assembly
bill
437,
if
you
could
please
call
in
at
this
time,
I
know
that
you're
trying
to
get
on
the
record.
So
I'm
trying
to
give
you
some
time
to
call
in
one
just
came
to
chair.
We
have
some
folk
from
from
elko
calling
in
please.
L
L
L
C
H
Yes,
mr
chairman,
we
had
your
office
trying
to
get
a
hold
of
him
because
when
he
called
me
last
night,
but
what
I
would
like
to
do,
if
I
could
mr
chair
is
if
I
can
get
a
written
statement
from
the
coroner
and
then
maybe
get
it
to
you
and
get
it
in
the
record.
But
one
of
the
issues
was
also
is
a
issue
pertaining
to
one
of
the
areas
that
pertains
to
clark
and
elko
is
indian
reservations,
and
you
know
a
sovereign
nation
issue
and
out
of
state.
H
So
there
was
some
concerns
there.
Also.
So
I'm
hoping
that
I
can
get
at
least
get
it
in
writing
and
and
get
it
to
you
prior
to
the
appeal
going
to
work
session.
A
Understood,
I
think,
thank
you
assemblyman
and
I
just
let
the
record
reflect
that.
We
do
know
for
a
fact
that
the
coroner
from
elko
was
trying
to
call
in,
but
we'll
make
sure
that
we
get
the
written
statement
submitted
up
on
nellis
and
that
all
members
receive
that
in
their
inbox.
Ms
cann,
thank
you
any
closing
remarks.
You
may
have.
F
Yeah
I'd
thank
you,
jennifer
camp
for
the
record.
Thank
you,
chair
flores
and
members
of
the
committee.
I
just
certainly
want
to
state
that
we
would
defer
to
the
coroners
in
all
situations
that
are
related
to
this
bill,
so
if
they
are,
however,
they
want
to
make
changes
that
they
think
are
suitable.
F
We
certainly
would
think
that
it's
it's
their
right
to
do
so
in,
and
this
was
more
an
attempt
to
help
families
with
crossing
state
lines
and
not
having
to
pay
to
funeral
homes
in
the
process
and
and
having
bodies
transferring
long
distances.
But
if
the
coroners
have
issues
with
how
this
is
written,
we're
open
to
whatever
language
they
they
would
suggest.
So.
Thank
you.
A
Thank
you,
so
I
I'm
confident
that
you
have
a
week
to
to
work
with
a
lot
of
different
stakeholders
and
that
we'll
get
to
a
place
where
everybody's
comfortable
and
thank
you,
assemblyman
ellison,
for
getting
elko's
concerns
on
the
record
and
I'm
sure
mrs
campbell
will
reach
out.
Thank
you,
mr
thank
you
with
that.
We'll
go
ahead
and
close
out
the
hearing
on
assembly,
bill
437
and
next
we'll
open
it
up
for
the
presentation
by
the
city
of
north
las
vegas
members.
A
I
want
to
remind
you
to
please
refrain
from
asking
any
questions
pertaining
to
the
bill
itself
would
do
that
during
the
bill
hearing
this
time.
It's
just
for
us
to
get
our
feet
wet
and
get
a
general
understanding
of
what
the
city
of
north
las
vegas
is
doing,
plans
on
doing
and
has
been
doing,
and
then
afterwards,
we'll
we'll
go
into
the
hearing
itself.
A
So
with
that,
for
those
of
you
joining
us
from
city
of
north
las
vegas
good
morning,
welcome
to
you
and
we'll
go
ahead
and
open
up
the
presentation
whenever
you're
ready.
C
Good
morning,
chairman
flores
and
committee
members,
my
name
is
rebecca
gibson
and
I'm
the
chief
of
staff
for
the
city
of
north
las
vegas
joining
me
today
is
councilwoman
pamela,
boynes-brown
city
manager,
ryan,
juden
assistant
city
manager,
alfredo
malesio
and
finance
director,
william
hardy.
We
appreciate
the
opportunity
to
give
this
committee
a
closer
look
at
the
city
of
north
las
vegas
and
brief
you
on
our
efforts
to
both
mitigate
the
current
health
crisis
presented
by
covet
19
and
combat
the
economic
challenges
presented
as
a
result
of
the
pandemic.
D
Judy
morning,
chairman
and
committee,
my
name
is
ryan
juden
for
the
record
r-y-a-n-n
j-u-d-e-n,
I'm
the
city
manager
for
the
city
of
north
las
vegas.
I
want
to
thank
chairman
flores
for
accommodating
us.
I
did
hear
him
when
he
said
not
all
that
long.
I
appreciate
that
guidance
and
we'll
try.
We
will
try
and
follow
that
as
we're
sitting
around
at
the
table
here
today.
I
also
want
to
thank
lbc
lcb
for
the
very
structured
and
seamless
process
for
this
hearing
today.
D
I
do
know
with
all
the
changes
they're
having
happening
during
the
pandemic,
being
able
to
communicate
having
these
kind
of
public
conversations
is
not
an
easy
thing
to
accommodate,
so
I
do
want
to
recognize
them
and
let
you
know
chairman
that
they
have
done
a
tremendous
job
in
making
sure
this
is
very,
very
easy
for
us
to
do
so,
going
to
our
slide
presentation
a
lot
of
it,
especially
following
the
chairman's
council
to
keep
it
short.
You
know
a
lot
about
the
city
of
north
las
vegas.
D
We,
our
city
council,
is
made
up
of
four
awards
they're
each
elected
individually
in
their
ward.
We
also
have
a
mayor.
That's
elected
at
large
city-wide,
one
of
the
things
you'll
notice
in
the
map
on
page
two
of
your
pres
of
the
presentation,
as
there
are
there's
a
lot
of
space
left
in
north
las
vegas
for
growth,
and
that
is
really
where
you'll
see
a
lot
of
the
growth
in
southern
nevada
will
be
happening
within
the
city
of
north
las
vegas.
D
As
we
continue
to
grow
that
city,
we
have
similar
to
other
incorporated
cities
in
nevada.
We
don't
we're.
We
have
a
council
manager
structure
of
government.
The
city
council
provides
direction
for
the
city
city
manager,
hires.
All
the
staff
approves
prepares
the
budget
and
staffing
plan
and
makes
recommendations
on
police
policy
decisions.
We
have
a
very
good
working
relationship
between
management,
our
elected
officials
and
in
concert
with
the
city
attorney's
office.
This
that
relationship
was
was
on
display
as
we
work
through
the
pandemic
hand-in-hand
with
our
elected
officials.
D
We're
able
to
be
very
nimble
in
addressing
the
immediate
concerns
that
that
our
community
was
facing.
Some
of
the
highlights
you'll
see
on
slide
four
from
this
past
past
two
years
is
one
very
large
one.
D
The
members
of
this
committee
that
have
been
on
the
committee
for
a
while
know
that
the
city
of
north
las
vegas
has
worked
very
hard
to
get
apex
industrial
park
open
and
for
business,
and
so
with
the
approval
of
a
250
million
dollar
water
and
sewer
pipe
water
line,
going
out
to
apex
sewer
line
coming
back
to
apex.
This
really
prepares
a
bread
basket
for
economic
development
for
southern
nevada.
D
We've
also
seen
18
million
square
feet
of
new
construction.
That
has
happened
this
year.
There's
it
is
definitely
a
lot
of
growth.
That's
happening
north
las
vegas.
If
you,
if
you
drive
north
on
the
I-15
from
craig
road,
going
out
towards
apex,
you
will
see
the
growth
on
either
side.
This
has
been
a
priority
of
council
mayor
we've
implemented
a
policy
called
gronomics
where
we
sought
to
address
the
fiscal
challenges
we
inherited
in
the
city
of
north
las
vegas
in
2014
by
growing
a
new
tax
base.
D
D
Chairman
flores
remembers
well
that
that
bill
allowed
us
to
really
start
to
change
the
credit
of
the
city
of
north
las
vegas,
and
we
just
saw
an
example
of
that
this
past
week,
where
we
were
able
to
go
to
bond
and
refinance
some
bonds
that
saved
the
city
almost
to
on
that
particular
bond
cell
was
about
four
hundred
thousand
dollars
a
year
in
total
by
refinancing
bonds.
D
Now
we've
been
able
to
increase
our
credit
rating
thanks
to
the
legislature's
work
working
with
us,
we're
saving
ratepayers
millions
and
millions
of
dollars
a
year
that
was
just
in
interest
payments
going
to
banks.
That's
resulted
in
that
increase
in
services
allowed
us
to
bring
things
back
into
the
city,
such
as
our
community
corrections
facility.
D
You
will
notice
the
consolidated
taxes
is
a
large
portion
of
our
budget
when
the
pandemic
hit,
as
well
as
with
all
local
and
state
government.
That
was
a
big
impact
to
us.
At
that
time
we
were
looking
at
a
three
year:
shortfall
of
107
million
dollars
because
of
projections
have
been
a
little
better
than
what
we
initially
projected.
D
We've
seen
that
cut
in
half
we're
still
looking
at
a
structural
deficit
over
three
years,
but
we
believe
that
we're
with
the
efforts
that
we
took
as
well
as
with
the
federal
relief
dollars
that
are
coming
in
we're
going
to
be
able
to
continue
doing
all.
We
can
to
make
sure
that
our
services
to
our
residents
are
not
impacted
on
slide.
Six
you'll
see
the
public
safety
like
other
local
governments
is
a
very
large
portion
of
our
budget.
D
If
you
ask
most
of
our
residents
when
they
look
towards
our
municipal
government,
what
they
look
towards
us
to
provide
services
is
police
and
fire.
That's
one
of
the
primary
roles
that
we
play
and
as
a
local
government
directly
there
with
the
people.
Yes,
we
have
libraries
and
parks
and
all
kinds
of
other
wonderful
services
for
our
residents,
but
at
the
end
of
the
day,
public
safety
is
something
that
they
expect
from
local
government.
D
We
took
a
much
different
approach
than
a
lot
of
other
jurisdictions
that
you've
talked
with
when
it
comes
to
cares
dollars
as
as
just
a
quick
time
timeline
as
states
began
receiving
these
funds
in
mid-april
it
wasn't
until
june
29th
that
the
governor
announced
the
funding
plan
of
how
these
dollars
would
be
allocated
to
local
governments.
D
Many
of
the
people
on
this
committee,
many
of
the
members
on
this
committee
worked
with
the
city
of
north
las
vegas.
When
we
learned
that
we
were
being
excluded
from
direct
allocations
of
dollars.
Thankfully
clark
county
stepped
up
and
provided
a
sub,
a
grant
award
of
23.7
million
dollars
and
right
away.
Council
prioritized
getting
these
dollars
into
the
community
to
shore
up
the
tax
base
and
to
make
sure
that
we
could
avoid
the
economic
crisis
that
the
city
weathered
during
the
great
recession
and
they
set
a
goal
for
over
80
percent
of
these.
D
This
was
in
concert
with
working
with
our
employees
and
our
unions
and
labor
groups
to
make
sure
that
we
were
able
to
facilitate
this
goal
and
that
17
percent
that
went
to
the
city
that
went
to
the
city
and
four
in
the
form
of
mitigating
direct
effects
of
covet
from
ppes
to
vaccination.
Efforts
to
changes
we
need
to
make
within
city
hall
in
order
to
accommodate
social
distancing.
So
really
the
cares
dollars
that
we
received,
we
use
them
as
direct
relief
dollars.
D
You
can
see.
I
just
want
to
highlight
a
couple
things
on
these
cares
dollars
and
then
we're
going
to
dive
in
just
real
quickly
into
koba
testing
and
to
snooma.
We
train
one
of
the
things
we
did
early
on.
D
If
you
all
recall
it
was
the
13th
of
march
friday,
the
13th
that
there
was
a
statewide
declaration
of
emergency-
and
I
haven't
been
through
a
lot
of
statewide
declarations
of
emergency,
but
I
think,
generally
speaking,
when
they
happen
on
friday,
the
13th
they're
not
going
to
be
good
news
and
as
we're
still
operating
within
a
state
of
emergency
in
the
state
we've
seen
that
this
is.
This
has
truly
been
the
case.
D
One
thing:
that's
that
I
wanted
to
highlight
is
how
our
staff
responded
to
kova
directly
and
a
great
example
of
this
is
looking
at
our
library
staff,
so
that
declaration
was
on
friday
by
tuesday
morning
our
library
staff
was
at
three
three
square,
providing
and
packing
lunches
for
students
that
had
just
on
sunday.
Schools
were
closed
and
many
of
our
students
were
concerned
about
where
they
were
going
to
get
their
next
meals.
D
D
They
were
packing
food
at
three
square.
They
then
were
trained
later
on.
They
were
trained
by
southern
health
district,
with
contact
tracing
they're,
actively
contacting
and
calling
to
help
with
the
early
efforts
of
contact
tracing.
In
fact,
they've
been
trained.
Other
people
on
contact
tracing
as
southern
valley,
health
district
became
overwhelmed
with
the
challenges
they
worked
with
our
grant
coordinator
to
stand
up
a
call
center
that
was
dedicated
to
business
owners
and
provide
assistance
to
help
our
residents
navigate
through
all
the
different
changing
things
that
were
happening
at
a
federal
level.
D
We
spoke
with
thousands
of
people
directly.
We
send
out
thousands
of
robo
calls
thousands
of
emails
weekly
to
update
our
residents
on
information,
as
it
was
changing
to
make
sure
we
were
connecting
them
to
both
federal
resources
and
as
state
resources
started
to
come
on,
we
wanted
to
make
sure
we
were
connecting
them
with
state
resources.
Also.
D
We
also
provided
rentals
and
more
mortgage
assistance
to
a
number
of
our
our
homes,
our
households
in
in
southern
in
north
las
vegas.
We
also
one
of
the
first
entities
that
led
out
on
on
working
with
nb
energy
to
provide
utility
assistance
to
over
4
000
residents.
I
think
the
nevada
what
we
did
with
the
cares
dollars
really
highlights
a
lot
of
the
efforts
that
we've
spent
definitely
during
the
last
year,
but
also
just
underscores
the
dedication
that
we
have
of
our
employees.
D
J
Good
morning,
chairman
and
members,
pamela
goings-brown
for
the
record.
J
P-A-M-E-L-A-G-O-Y-N-E-S-V-R-O-W-N,
when
this
pandemic
began,
we
knew
that
our
kids
or
I
like
to
call
them.
My
babies
would
see
a
tremendous
negative
impact,
so
students
in
north
las
vegas
have
been
historically
disproportionately
impacted
by
the
pandemic
and
resulting
closure
of
schools.
So
one
example:
just
the
data
from
ccsd
related
to
law.
J
North
las
vegas
only
makes
up
about
10
percent
of
the
county's
population,
so,
as
our
schools
have
been
historically
underfunded
and
as
the
state's
largest
minority
majority
city,
we
see
the
impact
that
has
exacerbated
here.
Our
families
don't
have
the
same
access
to
technology,
high-speed
internet
or
other
resources
that
other
areas
in
the
county
have.
J
J
In
the
fall
semester,
we
had
around
50
kids
in
the
micro
school
program
based
on
their
initial
assessments.
Many
were
falling
behind
before
coming
to
us,
so,
for
example,
78
tested
way
part
below
grade
level
in
reading
in
august,
not
just
a
little
bit
behind,
so
we
had
to
step
in
and
do
something
by
the
time
this
semester
ended.
We
saw
that
kids
were
making
tremendous
gains
and
it
was
the
same
results
in
math.
J
J
Snooma
has
been
featured
in
usa
today
for
innovative
thinking
locally,
shade
trees
set
up
their
own
program
based
on
snooma,
so
this
spring
semester
is
on
pace
just
to
be
as
successful,
if
not
more
so
than
the
fall.
Our
kids
have
embraced
the
program
and
we
are
excited
to
continue
watching
them
grow
and
to
make
great
strides.
J
C
Thank
you
councilwoman,
mr
chairman,
members
of
the
committee
for
the
record.
I'm
alfredo
malesio.
C
A-L-F-R-E-D-O-M-E-L-E-S-I-O,
I
am
the
assistant
city
manager
for
the
city
of
north
las
vegas.
Our
vaccination
efforts
began
in
early
january
and
we
were
very
quickly
ramped
them
up.
We
were
able
to
over
a
weekend,
stand
up
a
robust,
robust
and
popular
appointment
system
at
baxtenlv.com
or
our
pod
for
just
six
thousand
eight
hundred
dollars
with
no
crashes
or
slow
downs
for
the
public.
C
We
also
didn't
want
to
forget
about
those
who
are
we're
showing
very
quickly
that
we're
getting
under
vaccinated,
so
we
reached
out
and
did
pop-up
registration
sites
at
neighborhood,
grocery
stores,
gas
stations
and
other
businesses.
We
did
bilingual
phone
calls
to
residents
and
targeted
zip
codes,
bilingual
emails,
and
once
the
state
system
was
up
and
running,
we
redirected
vacsnlv.com
website
to
the
actual
state
appointment
system
in
cooperation
with
them.
C
We
also
did
public
service
announcements
in
english
and
spanish,
on
community
radio
and
in
grocery
stores
and
for
social
media
and
the
television
some
of
the
more
latest
things
we're
doing
this
week.
We
have
100
appointments
for
homebound
residents,
and
we've
stood
up
a
hotline
for
that
and
also
a
hotline
to
help
folks
who
need
transportation
to
the
different
vaccination
sites.
C
This
weekend,
the
councilwoman
and
I
volunteered
at
the
mlk
center,
where
we
did
over
400
vaccinations
and
this
saturday
we're
going
to
be
doing
a
drive
up
vaccination
site
here
outside
at
the
north,
las
vegas
city
hall.
To
date,
we
have
done
about
67,
000
vaccinations,
different
staff
have
volunteered
at
the
state
and
on
a
personal
level,
my
wife-
and
I
also
volunteered
at
a
vaccination
site
this
weekend.
C
So
it's
also
it's
a
professional
obligation
and
also
a
personal
thing
for
us
to
get
our
communities
going
again
and
I'll
turn
it
back
over
to
the
city
manager.
D
Thank
you
so
on
the
final.
Well,
not
the
final
yeah,
almost
final
slide.
Some
upcoming
challenges,
we're
looking
at,
are
not
anything
really
different
than
what
the
state
is
looking
at.
Also,
we
are
very
concerned
with
what
we
call
the
masking
effect
of
so
far.
There's
been
about
20
billion
dollars
in
federal
elite
dollars
that
have
come
to
the
state
of
nevada.
That,
of
course,
is
dramatically
increasing
with
the
latest
round
of
federal
elite
dollars,
we're
concerned
of
what
impact
that
has
as
far
as
masking
some
of
the
true
pain
in
our
community.
D
While,
yes,
we
believe
the
relief
dollars
are
helping
to
kind
of
fill
in
some
of
the
trough
that
we
expected
with
the
with
the
downturn
of
the
economy.
We
also
are
looking
very
closely
at
what
impact
the
do
the
moratoriums
on
on
rental
and
mortgage.
What
impact
are
those
having?
We
do
know
that
nationally
delinquencies
that
are
at
a
two-decade
high,
the
highest
they've
been
in
over
two
decades?
That's
of
concern
to
us.
D
We
think
that,
while
we're
not
seeing
high
numbers
of
foreclosures
at
this
point,
we
do
believe
that
that's
something
that
we
see
on
the
horizon
that
we
need
to
be
preparing
for
north
las
vegas
was
particularly,
we
led
the
nation
in
home
foreclosures
during
the
great
recession.
We
do
not
intend
to
repeat
that,
so
we're
looking
very
closely
at
that,
because
we
know
that
that
is
something
that
tracks
very
closely
to
unemployment.
D
But
it
is
something
that
we're
looking
closely
at
we're
looking
and
trying
to
identify,
despite
not
having
we
at
this
point,
as
well
as
the
state
does
not
have
treasury
guidance
on
what
to
do
with
the
latest
round
of
relief
dollars.
But
the
city
of
north
las
vegas
is
slated
to
receive
47
million
dollars.
D
With
that,
we
are
now
open
to
any
questions
that
the
committee
may
have
but
try
to
keep
it
as
brief.
As
we
could
chair
employers,
I
will
have
you
know
we
did
scratch
out
a
lot
of
stuff
and
drop
some
some
thoughts
and
notes
to
keep
it
brief
for
this
committee.
A
Thank
you
for
the
presentation
and
that
overview,
and
I
appreciate
you
trying
to
walk
through
that
as
quickly
as
you
can.
I
know
it's
just
so
much
to
cover
that
it's
difficult
to
make
that
any
shorter.
So
again,
thank
you.
I
know
we
do
have
a
couple
of
questions
members.
I
do
want
to
ask
that
you
please
try
to
focus
your
energy
on
the
actual
bill
itself,
but
there
may
be
something
very
pressing
that
you
need
to
get
on
the
record
now.
A
Should
that
be
the
case,
we'll
give
you
the
opportunity
to
do
so,
but
I
would
like
to
ask
that
most
of
us
I
try
to
focus
our
questions
on
the
bill
itself.
With
that
will
open
up
for
questions.
Please
feel
free
to
unmute
yourself
and
ask
a
question
at
this
time.
Otherwise,
we'll
move
on.
A
Thank
you
again
for
for
the
presentation.
I
know
that
we'll
have
some
members
who
are
going
to
directly
message
you
requesting
some
additional
breakdowns
and
information
that
they
just
want
to
have
as
they
navigate
through
this
legislative
session.
So
with
that
we'll
go
ahead
and
close
out
the
hearing
or
better
set
of
the
presentation
of
the
city
of
norfolk
las
vegas,
and
at
this
time,
we'll
open
up
the
hearing
on
assembly
bill.
55
welcome
back.
B
B
This
was
also
a
bill
to
amend
the
city's
charter.
We
received
several
comments
and
feedback
from
this
committee
last
session
on
sb464,
so
we
did
make
a
lot
of
changes
to
to
ab55
or
the
bill
draft
for
ab55
and
brought
it
back
this
session,
and
the
purpose
of
the
bill
is
just
to
clarify
language
of
the
charter
and
city
procedures
to
allow
for
smoother
city
operations
and
clarity
in
the
charter.
B
I'm
just
going
to
go
through
it
section
by
section,
and
then
I
will
take
any
questions.
You
may
have
section
1
of
the
bill.
This
is
just
updating
language
to
section
2.020
of
the
city's
charter.
I'm
changing
the
word
let
to
entered
into,
which
is
more
updated,
updated
language
and
it's
clearer
section
2
of
the
bill
makes
changes
to
section
2.035
of
the
city's
charter.
Again,
this
is
just
updating
language
for
clarity,
changing
the
word
papers
to
documents
and
data
just
to
encompass
electronic
data
and
various
other
forms
of
communication.
B
The
city
attorney's
office,
in
in
working
with
council
and
management
at
the
very
beginning
of
the
pandemic
realized
when
we
were
trying
to
call
emergency
meetings
that
the
charter
was
not
specifically
clear
on
emergency
meetings,
and
so
we
did
have
to
conduct
research
with
open
meeting
law
and
the
ag
manual
on
open
meeting
law
and
to
determine
what
what
steps
we
could
take
to
take
and
get
an
emergency
meeting
of
council,
and
so
the
language
that's
in
here
is
a
combination
both
of
the
bill
we
brought
last
year
and
the
research
that
we
did
this
year
for
emergency
meetings,
and
it
is
similar
to
other
city
cities
charters.
B
It
clarifies
the
process
for
calling
an
emergency
meeting
and
and
calling
special
meetings
and
how
those
must
comply
with
nrs
241,
open
meeting
law,
but
again
just
provides
an
avenue
for
us
to
to
know
what
to
do
when
emergency
meetings
need
to
be
called
more
clearly
section
4
of
the
bill
makes
changes
to
section
2.100
of
the
city
charter
regarding
the
enactment
procedure
for
ordinances,
and
this
is
just
clarifying
language
and
clearing
up
how
council
introduces
amends,
approves
and
postpones
ordinances,
and
there
were
some
different
interpretations
throughout
the
city
about
how
how
this
process
worked.
B
Currently
a
bill
is
introduced
to
the
city
council
at
one
meeting
and
then
at
the
next
meeting,
it's
heard
by
council
again
and
that's
when
it
can
be
adopted
and
voted
upon,
and
this
just
clarifies
that
at
that
second
meeting
council
can
amend
the
bill
postpone
voting
on
the
bill.
They
can
vote
on
the
bill
at
that
time
and
then
the
next
meeting
of
council
if
the
bill
was
postponed.
B
This
clarifies
that
at
that
next
meeting,
council
can
then
vote
on
that
bill
rather
than
having
to
reintroduce
the
bill
section
5
of
the
charter.
This
is
again
just
a
clarifying
language,
amending
section,
2.120
of
the
city
charter,
changing
corporation
to
city
and
just
clarifying
some
of
the
language
in
some
subsection
1b.
B
B
When
we
were
reviewing
the
charter
for
updating
language,
we
realized
that
this,
it
just
needed
to
be
in
there
that
there
are
parameters
to
how
council
can
regulate,
help
regulate
certain
things
in
public
places,
and
it
does
have
to
be
constrained
by
the
nevada
constitution
and
the
u.s
constitution,
which
it
is
currently,
but
this
language
was
added
in
just
to
make
sure
that
that
provision
isn't
taken
in
a
vacuum
at
some
point
and
that
everyone's
understands
that
this
has
to
be
done
in
it
has
to
be
done
in
accordance
with
the
nevada
constitution
and
the
united
states
constitution.
B
Section
seven
of
the
bill
again
is
updating
and
clarifying
language
really
just
to
make
it
sound
a
better
and
more
understandable.
In
section
seven
section:
eight,
we
changed
animals
and
poultry
to
just
animals.
B
B
This
is
just
to
ensure
that
this,
the
administration
of
the
city
is
conducted
efficient
and
properly,
and
this
would
be
determined
by
council.
Council
is
the
body
that
appoints
the
the
city
manager
and
has
control
over
that.
So
it
would
be
up
to
them
to
make
sure
that
that
administration
of
the
city
on
all
affairs
is
efficient
and
proper.
B
Section
10
of
the
bill
again
is
some
some
cleanup
language
really
in
in
section
10..
This
is
changing
section
3.040
of
the
city's
charter
regarding
the
city
clerk
provisions,
a
lot
of
the
responsibilities
in
there
were
duplicative,
and
so
this
is
just
consolidating
that
language
and
also
updating
that
language.
B
We
spoke
to
the
city
clerk
and
went
through
and
made
these
changes
so
that
it
was
clearer
what
the
city
clerk's
duties
are
and
the
record-keeping
measures
that
she
has
to
take
and
everything
to
make
sure
that
that
section
just
just
looks
better
and
is
easier
to
understand
and
interpret.
B
Section
11
of
the
bill
revises
section
3.050
of
the
charter,
adding
and
adding
in
a
phrase
about
removal
of
the
city
attorney
being
in
accordance
with
the
terms
of
the
city,
attorney's
employment
contract
and
the
city.
Attorney's
employment
contract
would
necessarily
discuss
termination.
So
this
this
was
included
to
ensure
that
that
is.
B
B
Section
12
of
the
bill
is
just
clarifying
language
to
bring
this
closer
to
other
surrounding
jurisdictions
charters.
This
was
specifically
taken
from
henderson's
charter
because
these
positions
all
necessarily
have
the
ability
to
try
to
collect
debts
and
taxes
on
behalf
of
the
city,
and
so
this
is
an
amendment
to
section
3.090
regarding
the
collection
and
disposition
of
monies
to
include
the
city
manager
and
city
attorney
and
their
ability
to
bring
legal
actions
and
collect
those
debts
and
and
taxes.
On
behalf
of
the
city.
B
Section
13
of
the
bill
amends
the
municipal
court
section
of
the
charter.
This
adds
an
entire
new
subsection,
which
would
be
section
4.025,
and
this
was
modeled
after
the
las
vegas
city
charter.
The
language
was
taken
from
there
and
just
the
ordinance
references
were
changed
to
match
the
city's
ordinances,
and
this
would
allow
council
the
flexibility
to
appoint
hearing
commissioners
to
the
court
so
that
commissioners
could
hear
traffic
cases
and
free
up
the
judicial
departments.
B
Las
vegas
currently
has
traffic
commissioners,
and
this
would
be
the
same
thing.
The
majority
of
the
cases
that
are
heard
in
municipal
court
are
traffic
traffic-related
matters,
but
the
court
also
hears
domestic
violence,
dui,
petty
larceny
and
other
violations
of
municipal
code.
So
this
would
be
an
option
for
the
court
to
to
have
somebody
else
to
to
hear
a
lower
lower
level
of
offenses,
and
it
would
be
less
of
a
cost
to
the
city
than
opening
up
additional
judicial
departments
and
as
the
city
grows,
it
may
be
necessary
to
have
this
this.
B
B
Section.
14
of
the
bill
is
just
a
conforming
change
with
section
13.,
so
that
language
was
added
in
there
to
section
4.030
to
reference.
The
hearing
commissioner,
in
that
section,
as
well
sections
15
through
section
20.,
I
won't
go
through
each
of
those,
but
they
are
changing
updating
language,
changing
the
words
situate
to
situate
it
again.
B
This
is
just
to
make
the
charter
clearer
and
there
were
a
few
grammatical
and
consistency
changes
that
were
made
in
that
in
those
sections,
so
I
won't
go
through
each
one,
but
if
you
do
have
any
questions,
please
let
me
know
other
than
that.
That
concludes
my
presentation
and
thank
you
again
for
for
letting
us
present
this
bill
this
morning.
A
And
thank
you
for
joining
us
this
morning,
so
I
know
we
have
a
quite
a
bit
of
questions
so
I'll
try
to
take
them
in
the
order.
I
see
them,
and-
and
thank
you
for
doing
that
section
by
section
walkthrough
you'd-
be
surprised
how
many
bills
we
hear
where
that
doesn't
get
done.
So
thank
you.
We'll
start
off
with
the
summit
matthews.
Please.
C
Miss
thank
you
chair.
Thank
you,
ms
jarvis
denman,
for
the
presentation.
I've
got
questions
regarding
the
sections
of
the
bill
have
to
do
with
record
keeping
particularly
sub
section
10
and
then
subsection
a
1c.
I
believe
it
is
strikes
provisions
that
allowed
a
record
of
papers
filed
by
the
clerk
to
be
admitted,
as
evidenced
in
court,
I'm
just
kind
of
wondering
if
you
could
speak
to
what
what
the
intentions
here
the
objectives
why
this
is
necessary.
I
get
raises
sort
of
some
concerns
regarding
transparent
government
and
access
to
information.
C
B
Thank
you,
rian
jarvis
denman
for
the
record
chairman
flores
through
you
to
assemblyman
matthews.
Thank
you
for
your
question,
assemblyman
matthews,
so
that
what
subsection
or
I'm
sorry,
I'm
under
section
10
of
this
of
the
charter,
subsection
1c
of
section
3.040
of
the
city
charter.
Those
changes
were
just
made
because
they
were
sort
of
duplicative
throughout
the
charter,
so
the
the
city
clerk
right
now
she
keeps
track
of
all
records
that
are
official
records
of
the
city.
She
keeps
all
transcripts
of
city
council
hearings
and
of
other
meetings.
B
Meeting
minutes
agendas
that
kind
of
thing
any
lawsuits
that
are
filed
with
the
city
official
orders.
Those
would
be
kept
with
the
city
clerk's
office,
so
she
she
keeps
all
of
that
as
public
records
and
it
does
all
get
consolidated
by
her
office
so
that
she
can
respond
to
public
records
requests
and
she
has
a
specific
method
of
keeping
all
records
all
records
together.
B
That
language
was
just
taken
out
because
there
were
other
areas
that
referenced
that
language.
So
if
you
go
through
that
section,
we
haven't
deleted
anything
specifically.
We
have
just
rearranged
it,
so
all
of
that
information
would
still
be
kept
by
the
clerk's
office.
It
would
just
it's
just
changed
the
wording
and
so
that
it
is
a
little
bit
clearer
and
more
concise
in
that
provision.
C
Me
know
yes,
thank
you.
Thank
you.
A
quick
follow-up,
mr
chairman,
please
follow
up.
Thank
you,
I'm
also
in
in
section
ted
sub
section
eight.
This
deletes
the
actually
delete
subsection
eight,
which
made
the
clerk
the
custodian
of
records,
who
would
become
the
custodian
of
records
under
this
bill.
Thank
you.
B
Thank
you
for
your
question.
Ryan
jarvis
denman
again
for
the
record
chairman
flores
through
you
to
assemblyman
matthews,
the
the
city
clerk
is
still
the
custodian
of
records
and
there
are
other
provisions
that
that
still
elaborate
on
that
subsection
or
one
yes,
sorry,
subsection
one
b
would
include
that
the
the
clerk
keeps
the
official
city
records
and
then
let
me
see
if
it
says
it
specifically
in
the
bottom
of
that
provision.
B
Yes,
so
in
subsection,
two
of
section
3.040,
it
says
that
all
copies
of
all
papers
are
kept
on
file
with
the
city
clerk,
so
again
that
that
provision
was
taken
out
just
to
consolidate
the
duties,
but
the
duties
are
still
listed
in
there
and
the
city
clerk
would
still
be
the
official
record
keeper
of
the
city.
A
E
Thank
you,
mr
chair,
and
thank
you
miss
jarvis
for
the
presentation.
It's
a
lot
of
stuff
going
on
here.
So
I've
got
three
questions.
The
first
is
actually
from
section
of
four
subsection,
two
or
yeah
section
2.2,
where
it
says
on
line
of
35,
that
if
there's
any
amendments
that
may
be
proposed
and
the
post
proposed
ordinance
may
be
finally
voted
upon
at
any
future
meeting.
But
yet,
when
you're
presenting
that
you
set
up
the
next
meeting
future
and
next
are
very
different,
which
one
should
it
be
because
futures
got
me
concerned.
B
Thank
you
for
the
record
again.
My
name
is
rian
jarvis
denman,
chairman
flores,
through
you
to
assemblywoman
anderson.
Thank
you
for
your
question.
Yes,
so
I
I
did
say
next
meeting.
I
think
that's
just
generally.
What
happens
is
that
a
bill
is
postponed
to
the
next
meeting
because
generally
council
is
either
raising
there's
been
concerns
raised
at
a
meeting
or
they're
trying
to
address
something,
and
it
usually
only
takes
till
the
next
meeting
to
get
it.
B
But
yes,
the
way
that
the
language
is
drafted
does
say
just
any
any
future
meeting,
so
council
would
need
to
postpone
and
either
say
that
it
would
be
going
to
the
next
meeting
or
that
it
would
be
going
to
a
future
meeting
of
the
council.
E
Thank
you.
So
thank
you
for
that
clarification.
I
do
think
it
needs
to
be
much
firmer
than
just
future.
Unfortunately,
I
think
many
of
us
have
been
caught
up
in
other
things,
which
three
four
or
five
meetings
later
it's
brought
back
up.
E
So
my
next
question
is
both
in
new
language,
but
also
in
the
current
language
under
section
six,
I'm
very
concerned
about
the
freedom
of
speech
and
the
ability
to
like-
and
this
is
not
new
language-
and
I
realize
that
it's
not,
but
this
4a
any
practice
tending
to
annoying
person's
passing
in
such
public
places.
E
B
B
At
the
last
session,
the
city
attorney's
office
was
reviewing
the
charter
changes
and
we
thought
that
that
was
pretty
interesting,
that
that
that
language
had
already
been
in
there
and
that
it
did
need
to
be
it
needed
to
be
reined
in,
because
anything
that
council
does
regulate
in
public
places
regarding
speech
is
governed
by
the
first
amendment
and
the
nevada
constitution
first,
amendment
as
well,
so
that
was
what
that
was
our
concern,
and
that
was
why
that
language
was
added
in.
B
B
So
I
do
understand
the
concerns
there
and
we
share
the
concerns,
so
we
want
to
make
sure
that
it
is
clear
that
the
city
can
only
regulate
within
the
bounds
of
the
nevada
constitution
and
the
united
states
constitution.
Thank
you.
B
E
E
B
Thank
you,
ryan
jarvis
denman
for
the
record
chairman
flores
through
you
to
assemblywoman
anderson.
I
am
not
aware
of
of
this
language
being
in
any
other
charters.
No,
I
believe
this
is
just
in
the
las
vegas
city
charter,
but
I
my
assumption
is
that,
because
las
vegas
is
a
very
large
city
that
they
would
need
the
hearing,
commissioners
and
as
our
city
is
growing.
That's
our
concern
is
that
we
may
eventually
need
a
hearing,
commissioner,
to
assist
the
judicial
departments
in
municipal
court.
Thank
you.
E
Thank
you,
and
so
I
I'm
going
to
need
you
to
walk
me
through
it
a
little
bit.
If
I
may,
and
thank
you,
mr
chair,
for
allowing
me
this
much
time.
I
need
you
to
walk
me
through
this.
I
I
want
to
make
sure
that
our
individuals
are
still
able
to
have
a
public
defender
if
necessary
when
it
comes
to
a
hearing.
Commissioner,
I
just
don't
know
enough
about
the
hearing
commissioners
and
how
they're
utilized.
So,
if
you
could
walk
me
through
that
a
little
bit,
I
greatly
appreciate
it.
B
Thank
you,
rian
jarvis
denman
for
the
record
chairman
flores
through
you
to
assemblywoman
anderson.
Yes,
that's
absolutely.
The
hearing,
commissioner,
would
be
kind
of
taking
the
place
of
the
judge.
B
The
current,
whichever
judge
is
there
so
a
hearing,
commissioner,
would
just
be
the
same
exact
person,
especially
essentially
as
a
judge,
but
it
would
not
carry
the
additional
cost
to
the
city,
because
this
person
could
be
hired
on
a
like
part-time
basis
or
contracted
that
that
kind
of
thing,
and
so
it
wouldn't
necessarily
be
the
same,
require
the
same
things
like
a
whole
new
department
and
that
kind
of
thing.
However,
they
would
still
be
hearing
cases.
B
People
would
still
have
the
right
to
representation
on
on
certain
cases.
Now
in
traffic
tickets,
that's
a
little
bit
different,
but
it
would
be
the
same.
They
would
still
conduct
a
hearing
or
still
conduct
trials.
If
people
wanted
to
go
to
trials
on
traffic
matters,
but
other
than
that,
it
would
be,
it
would
just
help
the
city
to
avoid
costs
of
creating
an
entire
new
judicial
department.
E
Okay,
so
would
there
be
a
listing
of
where
those
public
defenders
would
be?
What
sort
of
court
cases
the
public
defenders
would
still
be
able
to
be
utilized,
or
would
that
be
an
internal
policy?.
B
E
G
Thank
you
chairman,
and
thank
you,
mrs
ms
denman,
for
the
presentation,
I'm
actually
asking
a
few
questions
in
the
same
area
that
assemblywoman
and
anderson
just
asked.
I
know
that
you
mentioned
that
the
hearing,
commissioner,
would
take
the
place
of
a
judge,
but
would
be
saving
money.
G
But
my
my
I
guess
one
of
my
first
questions
is,
but
the
hearing
masters
are
appointed
so
to
me
that
would
be
different
than
a
judge,
because
judges
are
elected
and
it
was
my
understanding
that
recently
didn't
north
las
vegas
just
expand
to
another
municipal
court
and
bring
on
another
judge,
and
if,
if
so,
I
know
you're
looking
down
the
road,
but
then
what
are
the,
I
guess
the
triggers
or
what
would
that
be
where
the
case
loads
would
get
so
high
that
they
would
then
need
someone
else
to
step
in?
G
Are
they
are
they
there
now?
Has
this
other
new
municipal
court
judge
sort
of
alleviated?
All
of
that?
I'm
just
trying
to
get
an
idea.
B
Thank
you
for
your
question.
Rion
jarvis
denman
for
the
record
chairman
flores
through
you
to
assemblywoman,
considering
thank
you
for
those
questions.
Yes,
so
the
city
of
north
las
vegas
did
recently
open.
Another
judicial
apartment
department
excuse
me
and
that
so
the
caseload
has
been
sort
of
shifted,
but
the
the
purpose
of
that
second
judicial
department
was
to
create
a
specialty
court
program
to
promote
rehabilitation
and
improve
recidivism
within
the
community.
B
So
the
focus
of
that
court
is
on
helping
defendants
to
get
or
assisting
defendants
and
getting
help
and
seeking
the
resources
that
they
need
to
stop
committing
crimes
and
to
be
able
to
be
a
productive
member
of
society,
so
that
that
is
the
focus
of
the
new
judicial
department
and
and
those
kind
of
programs
take
a
significant
amount
of
time,
because
the
judge
and
the
entire
team,
the
prosecutors
public
defenders,
everybody
has
to
be
involved
in
that
process,
and
it
can
take
up
to
two
years
even
to
get
people
through
that
program
and
to
help
them
get
the
resources
that
they
need,
and
so
so
that
that
that
court
is
going
to
be
very
busy
doing
doing
that
covering
those
matters.
B
But
the
the
traffic
that
I
guess
taking
away
traffic
cases
would
help
possibly
in
the
future.
I
think
currently,
right
now
before
we
had
two
judicial
departments,
the
court
had
been
using
pro-tem
judges
to
hear
traffic
matters
in
municipal
court,
because
the
judge
could
not
handle
all
of
the
traffic
cases
plus
plus
the
additional
matters
that
came
that
come
through
the
municipal
court.
B
As
of
now,
I
believe
that
the
two
departments
are
handling
everything
that's
coming
through,
without
the
need
to
use
pro-time
judges
to
hear
those
traffic
matters,
but
in
the
future,
if
the
city
does
continue
to
grow
and
additional
matters
are
needed
to
be
heard,
then
those
those
traffic
cases
could
possibly
go
to
a
hearing,
commissioner,
and
then
to
get
to
your
other
point
of
appointments.
Yes,
these
hearing
commissioners
would
be
appointed,
but
that's
why
we
wouldn't
want
them
to
be
taking
on
matters
such
as
domestic
violence
or
duis.
B
Those
would
be
for
the
municipal
judges
who
are
in
the
in
the
elected
positions
to
take
those
matters
and
to
to
work
with
defendants
in
those
matters.
Thank.
G
You
very
much
that
kind
of
actually
gets
to
what
I
was.
What
I
was
asking.
I
guess
it
was.
You
mentioned
the
specialty
court
program.
So
if
it
is
a
specialty
court
program,
it
does
take
a
lot
of
time
to
do.
You're
saying
that
the
hearing
commissioners,
perhaps
you're,
saying
that
the
hearing
commissioners
wouldn't
step
in
and
and
take
up
this
by
the
space
for
that
for
that
judge
in
that
specialty
court
program,
but
because
it's
so
focused
and
takes
so
much
time.
Is
that
possibly
correct.
B
Rhiann
jarvis
denman
for
the
record
chairman
flores
through
you
to
assemblywoman,
considering
I
apologize,
I'm
I'm
not
sure
if
I
understood
your
question,
but
I
just
to
I
don't
know
if
this
will
help
clarify,
but
it
would
be
so.
The
hearing,
commissioner,
would
just
be
there
to
to
take
like
the
overflow
traffic
cases
essentially,
and
I
believe
that's
how
it
works
in
the
city
of
las
vegas,
where
they
hear
traffic
cases
and
sort
of
step
in
and
take
those
matters
away
from
the
judges.
B
G
You
thank
you
for,
for
that
yeah.
I
just
wanted
to
to
make
sure
to
me
having
an
elected
judge
to
see
overseeing
the
the
bigger
cases
is
very
important,
so
I
was
just
trying
to
get
to
why
not
just
expand
if
one
was
a
specialty
court,
why
not
just
in
the
future,
expand
to
another
judge,
as
opposed
to
hearing
commissioners
who
are
who
are
appointed
and
then
just
one
last
quick
question,
and
if
you
can
just
tell
me
what
is
the
appointment
process?
Who
is
doing
those
appointments.
B
Thank
you,
rhiann
jarvis
denman
for
the
record
assemblyman
floors
through
you
to
assemblywoman,
considering
so
the
the
reasoning
for
for
the
hearing,
commissioner,
and
not
opening
just
another
judicial
department
would
be
to
to
keep
the
costs
down
for
the
city,
but
to
allow
for
still
quality
municipal
services
to
continue
in
municipal
courts,
so
that
judges
matters
can
be
heard
fairly
quickly,
but
the
cost
of
the
city
in
opening
an
entire
judicial
department,
there's
additional
staffing
costs
and
additional
prosecutors
that
would
be
needed
and
other
public
defenders
that
would
be
needed
in
that
courtroom.
B
The
traffic
commissioner
would
still
have
prosecutors
and
and
defense
counsel
in
there,
but
it
it
it
would
just
be
an
additional
staffing
issue.
I
believe,
and
then
the
appointment
process
was
your
second
question
and
that
that
would
be
done
through
by
council.
B
The
way
that
the
city
of
las
vegas
did
this
is
that
they
passed
and
adopted
an
ordinance
regarding
how
hearing
commissioners
would
be
selected,
and
I
imagine
that
council
would
do
something
similar
to
that
where
we
would
take
a
list
or
have
people
provide,
provide
different
resumes
and
that
kind
of
thing,
and
then
council
could
appoint
hearing
commissioners
through
that
method.
G
Thank
you
very
much
and
then
last
quick
question
is
then,
how
often
or
when
is
the
next
election
for
you
for
your
municipal
court
judges.
B
Thank
you,
rhian
jarvis
denman
for
the
record
chairman
flores
through
you
to
assemblywoman,
considering,
I
believe
the
next
judicial
election
is
2022..
A
G
B
Thank
you,
ryan,
jarvis
demnan
for
the
record
and
chairman
flores.
Thank
you
for
letting
me
go
direct
assemblywoman
considering
to
answer
your
question.
One
of
the
judicial
departments
is
up
for
an
election
in
2022.
B
O
Yeah
and
okay,
I
think
I'm
unneeded.
Okay,
thank
you,
chair
and
thank
you
for
the
presentation.
I
have
a
couple
more
questions
about
the
about
the
hearing,
commissioners
as
well,
and
I
I
appreciate
you
for
considering
to
answer
all
the
questions
that
we
have
on
this.
O
I
think
it's
just
a
it's
a
significant
change
to
the
charter,
and
I
just
want
to
make
sure
that
I
understand
it
a
little
bit
better,
and
so
I'm
just
wondering
what
other
cities
have
similar
language
to
this
around
hearing
commissioners
and
if
there's
a
reason
why
we
would
go
for
hearing
commissioners
instead
of
just
expanding
the
amount
of
municipal
judges.
B
Thank
you
for
your
question:
ryan
jarvis
denman
for
the
record
and
vice
chair
taurus
to
your
question
there.
The
other
charter
that
has
this
the
same
language
is
the
city
of
las
vegas.
That's
that's
where
we
got
the
the
language
from
so
we
mirrored
it
after
the
las
vegas
charter
and
just
changed
the
the
references
to
the
north,
las
vegas
municipal
code,
but
the
the
language
was
in
there,
so
that
hearing
commissioners
could
hear
misdemeanors
other
than
duis.
B
So
we
wanted
to
make
that
clear
in
here
and
it
and
to
go
to
your
second
question.
The
hearing,
commissioner,
would
be
a
lower
cost
to
the
city
to
allow
some
of
those
traffic
cases
to
be
heard
on
a
faster
basis
if
the
courts
get
clogged
up.
O
Thank
you.
I
appreciate
that
I'm
having
some
zoom
issues
today.
Thank
you.
I
appreciate
the
response,
and
so
I'm
just
wondering
how
many
cases
the
municipal
judges
are
currently
dealing
with
and
if
this
is
like
higher
than
the
average
than
what
like
other
cities,
are.
B
Handling,
thank
you
rian
jarvis
denman
for
the
record,
so
I
I
don't
have
the
specific
numbers
for
for
this
year,
but
I
can
tell
you
that
in
fiscal
year
20
or
yes,
this
fiscal
year
2018
there
were
25
928
cases
filed
20
336
of
those
were
traffic
cases.
B
In
fiscal
year
2019
there
were
28
899
cases
filed
and
23
607
of
those
were
traffic
cases
in
2020.
During
the
pandemic
there
were
21,
642
cases
filed
17
57
of
those
were
traffic
cases,
and
that
information
comes
from
the
the
supreme
court
website.
They
have
the
annual
report
of
the
judiciary.
That
includes
those
numbers.
B
So
that's
just
to
show
that
the
the
majority
of
those
cases
are
traffic
cases
that
are
filed
that
are
filed
each
year
and
the
the
court
does
hear
a
significant
number
of
cases
for
the
number
of
departments
that
are
in
the
city.
The
las
vegas
municipal
court
has
six
departments
and
a
hearing,
commissioner.
They
do
have
a
larger
population
than
the
city
of
north
las
vegas,
but
other
other.
B
Similarly,
situated
cities
such
as
reno,
which
has
a
closer
population,
they
have
four
judges
and
the
city
of
north
las
vegas
up
until
two
months
ago,
had
only
one
judge.
So
there
were
a
significant
number
of
cases
being
heard
by
one
judicial
department.
O
Okay,
I
appreciate
the
response-
and
I
guess
so
that
kind
of
answers
the
question
right.
So
if
the
city
of
reno
has
a
similar
population
to
the
city
of
north
las
vegas
and
they
have
several
more
judges,
it
just
seems
to
me
that
that
should
be
the
the
way
that
we're
moving
it's
towards
increasing
the
amount
of
municipal
judges
instead
of
the
amount
of
hearing
commissioners
present.
So
I
just
don't
know
that
I
can
get
on
board
with
with
having
a
hearing.
O
Commissioner,
I
just
don't
see
that
it's
necessary
and
I
don't
and-
and
you
know,
if
there's
any
data-
that
you
have-
that
there's
a
significant
amount
more
cases
in
the
city
of
north
las
vegas
than
there
are
in,
like
other,
like
how
many
cases
that
those
judges
are
dealing
with
in
comparison
to
how
many
cases
the
judges
are
dealing
with
in
other
cities
in
the
area
or
in
our
state
like
reno
or
las
vegas.
That
would
be
helpful,
but
I
think
without
without
seeing
that
data,
I
I
don't
know
that.
O
That's
something
that
I
I
really
understand,
and
then
I
I
have
another
question
regarding
section
11
of
the
legislation,
and
I
just
wanted
to
understand
the
the
part
about
making
the
city
the
city
attorney,
serves
at
the
pleasure
of
the
city
council
and
may
be
removed
at
any
time
in
accordance
with
the
terms
of
the
city,
attorney's
employment
contract,
and
I'm
just
wondering
if
this
is
standard
with
other
city
charters
or
if
this
is
something.
This
is
something
different
or
what's
the
reasoning
and
the
logic
behind
this.
B
Thank
you
vice
chair,
torrez,
rion,
jarvis
denman
for
the
record
just
to
go
back
to
your
point
on
hearing
commissioners
really
quick,
the
the
judicial
departments.
Again
they
take,
they
take
more
of
a
structural
budgetary
issue,
and
so
that
was
this
was
just
to
address
that
and
allow
another
avenue
for
cases
to
be
heard
if
necessary
in
the
future.
B
But
yes,
if
the
population
grows,
a
judicial
department
may
be
necessary
in
the
future
and
then
to
answer
your
question,
I'm
regarding
section
11.,
there
are
other
city
charters
that
point
to
employment.
Agreements
are
the
way
that
the
city
is
made
or
the
city
charter
is
written.
Is
that
this?
The
the
city
manager
and
the
city
attorney
are
both
appointed
directly
by
council
and
serve
at
the
will
of
council
and
both
of
those
positions
have
employment
agreements?
B
B
So
this
is,
I'm
not
exactly
sure
if
that
specific
language
is
in
any
other
city
charter,
but
there
are
other
city
charters
that
discuss
employment
agreements.
O
Again
I
would
like
to
before,
before
voting
on
this
pollinator.
That
obviously
will
be
pretty
quickly
with
the
deadline
fast
approaching.
I
would
like
to
see
what
the
language
looks
like
in
other
city
charters
so
that
we
have
like,
so
that
we
can
make
sure
that
it
it's
standard
and
comparable
to
what
is
being
done
so
that
it's
not
something
completely
different
in
the
city
of
north
las
vegas,
but
it's
standard
with
what
what
other
city
charters
have.
I
had
another
question
I
apologize
here.
I
have
a
couple
more
questions.
M
O
Thank
you
so
I'm
looking
specifically,
I
I
feel
like
I'm
going
like
backwards
through
the
bill,
and
I
apologize
and
now
I'm
looking
at
sections
out
of
the
of
the
bill
where
we're
changing
some
of
the
responsibilities
of
the
city
clerk
and
if
you
could
just
explain
some
of
the
logic
for
lines
18
through
21,
where
we're
removing
the
need
for
the
city
clerk
to
supervise
and
coordinate
administrative
and
responsible,
clerical
work
or
attending
all
meetings
of
the
city
council.
O
It
seems
to
me
that
you
know
I
just
know
what
the
important
role
that
our
chief
clerk
has
here
in
the
state
assembly,
and
so
I
imagine
that
they
have
a
similarly
important
role
within
the
city
council.
So
I'm
just
wondering
why
we
would
remove
those
sections.
B
Thank
you
vice
chair,
torrez,
rian,
jarvis
denman
for
the
record,
so
we
weren't
or
the
the
changes,
are
not
to
actually
completely
change
the
city
clerk
position.
This
is
really
just
a
consolidation
effort
and
cleaning
up
this
language
and
when
we
discussed
it
with
the
clerk's
office,
this
this
was
her
recommendation
for
for
kind
of
getting
this
in
line
with
what
she
actually
does
and
and
making
this
a
little
bit
clearer.
B
So
if
you
look
at
subsection
1c
and
that
that
provision
still
includes
that
it
is
her
duty
to
attend
all
all
city
meetings
of
the
city
council
and
then
the
record
keeping
for
the
city
that
is
still
part
of
her
duties
through
through,
let's
see,
I
think
it's
subsection
two
as
well
as
subsection.
One
e
includes
keeping
transcripts
so
those
those
those
subsections
that
were
taken
out.
B
They
are
in
other
parts
of
that
provision,
but
they're
just
worded,
maybe
a
little
bit
differently
to
to
make
it
clear
what
she
does.
But
we
didn't.
We
didn't
take
any
duties
of
hers,
away
that
I'm
aware
of
other
than
updating
language
just
to
make
it
make
it
sound,
more
up-to-date,
more
consolidated
and
provide
a
clearer
representation
of
what
the
city
clerk
does.
O
Thank
you.
I
I
appreciate
that
and
I
I
see
what
you're
we're,
what
you're
acknowledging
there
and
then
I
you
know.
Lastly,
I'm
I
just
want
to
acknowledge
my
colleague,
someone
anderson's
comments
on
you
know
section
six
of
legislation.
O
I
I
think
that
you
know
this
is
a
opportunity
for
us
to
kind
of
make
some
changes
to
how
that
looks,
and
I
do
have
some
fears
that
this
could
be
easily
misconstrued
or
abused
by
local
governments
in
subsection
four
of
the
section
six,
and
so
I
hope
that
we
can
kind
of
work
on
some
cleanup
language
or
removing
parts
of
that.
I
think
that
those
are
already
things
that
you
know.
Local
law
enforcement
agencies
and
cities
would
have
the
ability
to
do.
O
I
just
I'm
not
quite
comfortable
with
that
specific
language
regarding
public
demonstrations
and
processions,
which
includes
our
right
to
protest
and
our
right
to
assemble
or
preventing
riots
and
without
a
definition
of
the
word
riots
either.
I'm
sorry
I
I
just
have
a
couple
of
concerns
about
that
language
that
I'm.
B
Hoping
thank
you
vice
chair,
torrez,
rhian,
jarvis
denman
for
the
record.
We
agree,
you
know
we,
we
don't
want
this
provision
to
be
misconstrued
and
and
certainly
want
to
ensure
that
all
practices
are
being
done
inc
in
in
accordance
with
the
nevada
and
the
u.s
constitution.
So
I
I
look
forward
to
working
with
you
on
changing
that
language
to
to
meet
those.
H
Thank
you,
mr
chair
mine,
mine's
real
light,
and
it
pertains
to
section
three
one
and
on
page
four
under
special
meetings
you
removed
under
2a.
H
H
B
Thank
you,
assemblyman
ellison,
rian,
jarvis
denman
for
the
record.
Yes,
that
that
provision
was
was
very
restrictive
for
city
council
for
special
meetings,
and
this
was
that
part
that
portion
of
the
the
charter
provision
was
changed
based
on
other
cities.
Charters
to
allow
for
special
meetings
to
include
anything
that
is
included
in
the
agenda.
Special
meetings
still
have
to
be
noticed
in
accordance
with
nrs241
and
they
so
they
have
to
be
posted
and
everybody
has
to
know
what's
going
on
at
that
meeting.
B
But
this
will
allow
the
city
council
to
conduct
the
business,
that's
included
in
the
agenda
at
the
special
meeting
of
council
without
the
restrictions
that
were
currently
in
that
bill
and
that
allows
them
to
address
things
that
need
to
be
addressed
on
a
on
a
more
urgent
basis
than
the
bi-monthly
meetings
that
they
currently
hold.
H
Actually,
that's
the
only
one
I
had
in
all
my
other
ones
were
answered
in
question
four,
so
you
know
there's
a
couple
little
tweaks
that
was
mentioned
in
there,
but
other
than
that
I
thought
it
was
a
pretty
good
deal.
Thank
you.
A
Thank
you,
assemblyman,
we'll
go
back
to
assemblywoman
anderson.
Please.
E
Thank
you,
mr
chair
and
I'll
make
it
very
quick.
I
promise
thank
you,
miss
darvis
for
all
the
information.
I
I
don't
see
him
here
and
I've.
I've
tried
to
do
some
research
as
well
really
quickly
during
this
hearing.
Do
you
have
a
charter
committee,
or
is
this
language
being
brought
forward
from
the
city
council
and
is
the
appointment?
If
so,
is
the
appointment
done
and
the
nrs
statutes,
which
I
can
get
you
that
number?
If
you
like,.
B
B
The
original
changes
from
sb
464
were
brought
to
council
back
in
2018
before
the
2019
legislative
session,
and
for
for
this
legislative
session
they
were
brought
to
council
again
in
july
of
last
year,
and
so
they
were
held
brought
forward
at
a
public
hearing
and
the
city
did
not
receive
any
comments
on
on
these
changes.
E
A
Thank
you
assemblywoman
at
this
time,
we'll
go
to
assemblywoman
martinez.
C
Thank
you
chair,
so
the
question
that
I
have
is
in
regards
to
your
newly
appointed
judge.
How
long
is
his
term.
B
B
Thank
you
for
your
question.
Rian
jarvis
denman
for
the
record.
Currently,
judges
who
are
elected
serve
for
a
term
of
six
years.
B
This
was
the
so
the
appointment
process
is
a
little
different
when
a
new
department
is
created
under
the
charter
and
the
city,
the
city
council
must
appoint
a
a
judge
to
the
new
department
and
the
judge.
The
judge's
terms
need
to
be
staggered
so
that
no
two
judges
are
elected
at
the
same
time.
So
this
was
part
of
part
of
the
reason
that
council
appointed
the
judge
to
the
longer
longer
term.
B
Additionally,
this
was
in
working
with
the
courts
to
make
sure
that
this
specialty
court
program
got
off
and
was
launched
successfully,
and
so
this
was
also
public
policy
to
allow
the
judge
the
time
and
get
to
get
the
resources
and
build
the
relationships
necessary
to
make
the
specialty
court
a
success
which
it
does
take.
B
It
does
take
a
significant
effort
to
do
that,
and
so
the
judge
is
building
relationships
with
different
rehabilitation
programs
and
different
services
that
may
be
needed
for
defendants
or
people
who
come
into
the
court
system
in
north
las
vegas
and
need
those
services
and
need
that
help.
C
More
sense
to
have
the
term
up
in
2024
instead
of
2026,
it
seems
like
a
long
time.
You're
unappointed.
B
Thank
you,
assemblywoman
martinez,
ryan,
jarvis
denman
for
the
record
again,
I
think
that
was
a
public
policy
decision
just
to
make
sure
that
that
court
has
the
time
to
build
up
the
specialty
court
program
and
make
sure
that
it
can
achieve
the
goals
of
the
municipal
court
and
the
city.
B
C
A
J
J
Thank
you.
I
just
have
two
brief
questions
and
the
first
one.
Well,
let's
go
with
the
follow-up
question
of
the
specialty
court
earlier
you
had
said
that
the
specialty
court
excuse
me
by
the
way
the
presentation
was
really
good.
J
I
appreciate
your
time
and
effort
and
going
over
this
with
us
back
to
the
specialty
court,
the
cases
that
the
judge
will
be
handling
are
they
muni
cases
and
if
they
are,
why
a
two-year
program,
because
I
you
know
if
a
person
is
sentenced
in
a
specialty
court,
would
they
fall
under
cases
that
prolong
their
sentence
to
two
years.
B
Thank
you
for
your
question.
Rian
jarvis
denman
for
the
record.
Thank
you.
So
these
are
all
going
to
be
municipal
court
cases
heard
in
the
specialty
court.
So
I
apologize,
I
believe
I
said
two
years
earlier
and
I
was
thinking
of
other
specialty
courts
in
the
valley,
where
some
of
these
programs
do
take
a
long
time
to
have
people
go
through.
B
I
am
not
sure
what
the
length
of
time
will
be
for
for
the
court
cases
that
are
heard
in
the
specialty
court
program
in
north
las
vegas.
I
believe
it
will
depend
on
the
offense
and
the
services
that
are
necessary
or
needed
for
each
of
the
defendants,
so
it
certainly
would
not
go
beyond
the
term
the
term
of
confinement
or
whatever
they
would
be.
B
They
would
be
subject
to
under
the
current
penalty
system
for
misdemeanor
crimes,
but
there
may
be
some
additional
services
that
are
given
through
the
court
process
and
and
the
programs
do
take
a
significant
amount
of
effort
just
to
make
sure
that
people
are
actually
succeeding
in
these
programs
and
that
they
have
a
lot
of
judicial
oversight
to
make
sure
that
they
are
they're.
Meeting
the
goals.
J
My
second
question-
and
you
know
back
to
the
specialty
court-
I
really
would
like,
if
you
could
give
more
detail,
written
detail
about
the
specialty
courts,
how
they
would
flow,
because
this
is
something
that
really
is.
J
You
know
a
concern
to
me,
especially
when
we're
talking
about
issues
concerning
our
veterans
and-
and
my
second
question
actually
is
section
13
subsection,
one,
I'm
sorry
subsection,
two
b,
it
says
that
the
qualification
of
a
hearing,
commissioner,
has
to
be
a
resident
of
the
state,
but
how
long
I
mean
residency
could
be
six
weeks.
No.
B
Thank
you
for
your
question.
Assemblywoman
thomas
rian,
jarvis
denman,
for
the
record
for
your
for
your
first
question
regarding
the
specialty
courts.
If
you,
if
you
are
interested
in
seeing
more
information
there
is,
there
was
a
hearing
recently.
B
I
believe
it
was
in
march
in
front
of
city
council,
where
judge
lee,
who
was
the
appointed
judge
to
that
department,
put
together
a
presentation
of
the
specialty
courts
and
all
that
they
do,
and
there
are
veterans
programs
included
in
that,
and
I'm
sure
that
I
could
absolutely
find
you
additional
information,
written
information
for
you
to
review
regarding
the
specialty
court
programs
and
all
that
those
entail.
B
I
know
council
and
the
municipal
court
are
very
excited
about
the
program
and
doing
more
to
help
the
community
and
to
to
to
reduce
the
recidivism,
improve
rehabilitation
and
work
toward
building
a
better
community
with
the
court
system.
So
we
can
certainly
make
those
available
to
you,
assemblywoman
thomas
and
then
for
your
second
question
regarding
the
provision
be
a
resident
of
the
state
again
this
this
language
was
taken
directly
from
the
city
of
las
vegas
and
mirrored
after
the
city
of
las
vegas.
B
So
I
believe,
that's
what
they
had
in
theirs
and
we
certainly
could
amend
that
to
include
a
a
time
frame
as
to
you
know,
a
specific
number
of
years,
or
how
long
that
that
person
should
be
a
resident
of
the
state.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
J
Thank
you.
I
would
appreciate
getting
that
feedback
and
for
you
to
take
a
look
at
residency.
I
appreciate
you
thank
you.
Thank
you,
chair.
A
I
don't
believe
I
see
any
other
questions
there
and
I
echo
the
sentiment
of
some
of
our
colleagues
raising
some
of
the
concerns,
but
I'm
confident
that
we'll
be
able
to
work
together
on
on
some
of
these
sections
and
be
able
to
get
you
in
the
moving
in
the
right
direction
here.
So
with
that
we'll
go
ahead
and
open
it
up.
The
hearing.
Excuse
me,
yeah
open
it
up,
so
we
can
invite
those
wishing
to
testify
in
support
of
assembly
bill
55
broadcast.
Please.
L
A
Great
we'll
go
to
those
wishing
to
testify
in
opposition
to
assembly
bill
55.
A
Great
next
we'll
invite
those
wishing
to
testify
in
the
neutral
position
or
assembly
bill
55.
A
B
Thank
you,
ryan
jarvis
denman
for
the
record
chairman
flores,
the
members
of
the
committee.
Thank
you
so
much
for
taking
the
time
to
hear
our
bill
this
morning
and
we
really
appreciate
your
comments
and
feedback
and
we
look
forward
to
working
with
you
on
this
bill
and
and
getting
this
moving
forward.
Thank
you.
A
Thank
you
and
if
we
can
go
back
to
assembly
with
martinez
for
one
additional
question,
please.
C
Thank
you
chair.
I
just
wanted
to
clarify.
Why
did
the
judges
need
to
be
staggered?
I'm
not
really
understanding
that.
B
Thank
you,
rian
jarvis
denman,
for
the
record.
I
you
know,
I'm
not
sure
what
the
policy
was
behind
that
from
from
the
beginning,
but
I
know
that
it
is
important
to
have
some
sort
of
consistency
within
the
municipal
court
so
that
things
things
can
take
on
gradual
changes
rather
than
everything
changes
at
once,
and
it's
probably
helpful
to
have
other
people
in
there
to
help
to
help
with
new
judges
and
that
kind
of
thing.
But
I
I'm
not
sure
what
100,
what
the?
B
What
the
background
is
on
that
and
why
that
that
is
necessary.
Thank
you.
A
B
Thank
you,
assemblywoman
martinez,
rian,
jarvis
denman,
for
the
record.
I
believe
that
most
judicial
departments
are
not
like.
Not
all
the
judicial
departments
will
be
up
for
vote.
At
the
same
time,
there
may
be
a
number
of
them
at
the
same
time
in
other
courts,
but
not
all
of
them.
At
the
same
time,
for
example,
our
district
court,
that
was
a
lot
of
the
positions,
were
up
for
hearing
or
sorry
up
for
election
at
the
last
election
last
year.
B
It
was
not
all
of
the
judicial
departments,
but
there
were
several
of
them
up
at
the
same
time,
but
in
that
in
that
instance,
those
judicial
departments
would
be
staggered.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
A
Thank
you,
assemblywoman
assemblyman
ellison.
Please.
H
Oh,
thank
you,
mr
chairman.
I
just
wanted
to
add
in
that
most
like
the
city,
council
and
the
county.
Commissioners
are
staggered
and
the
judges
and
the
reason
that
is,
is
for
historical
knowledge.
It's
on
there.
So
if
you've
got
a
new
judge,
that's
coming
in
and
you
still
got
historical
knowledge
from
the
other
judges
sitting
on
the
seat,
so
that's
usually
why
they
do
that.
It's
pretty
common!
Thank
you.
A
Thank
you,
assemblyman
ellison.
I
know
we
have
another
question
from
assemblywoman
brown
made.
Please.
K
Thank
you
share
florence.
I
apologize
for
the
late
question.
I'm
just
trying
to
wrap
my
head
around
the
appointment
process
versus
an
election
of
a
judge
and
and
being
in
an
appointed
seat.
Currently
I'm
here
to
fill
an
existing
term.
So
I'm
curious
to
know
if
you
can
talk
to
us
a
little
bit
about
why
we
would
appoint
a
judge
in
north
las
vegas
for
a
longer
term,
instead
of
a
shorter
term
in
instead
of
an
election.
B
B
This
is
just
to
hear
lower
level
traffic
cases
that
could
be
heard
and
dealt
with
in
a
faster
pace,
and
then
some
of
the
judicial
departments
could
hear
it
so
again
that
that
hearing
commissioner
provision
just
takes
takes
some
burden
off
of
the
courts,
if
necessary
in
the
future.
B
G
Thank
you
sheriff
flores.
Thank
you
for
for
the
chance
to
come
back.
I
just
wanted
to
make
kind
of
a
comment
that
I'm
seeing
following
up
on
vice
chair
taurus's
coming
earlier.
G
I
seem
to
to
see
a
movement
away
from
hearing
masters
and
I
understand
that
that
there's
an
issue
about
funding,
but
if
this
court
was
created
and
it's
a
specialty
court,
that's
fantastic,
but
if,
if
that
money
can
be
found
to
create
a
specialty
court
for
something,
I
would
hope
that
the
money
could
be
found
to
to
allow
people
who
have
traffic
tickets
or
criminal
issues
or
any
of
those
issues
to
be
in
front
of
someone
who
was
elected
as
opposed
to
appointed
and
hearing
masters
having
that
appointment
instead
of
election.
G
I
just
think
that's
something
that
we're
trying
to
move
away
from.
So
I
just
kind
of
wanted
to
echo
the
vice
chairs
point
earlier.
Thank
you,
chair.
A
Seeing
none
I
want
to
thank
the
city
of
north
las
vegas
for
powering
through
that
original
presentation
and
and
coming
prepared
to
answer
a
lot
of
our
questions.
Thank
you
very
much
for
that.
I
anticipate
members
will
continue
to
reach
out
and
work
with
you.
North
las
vegas.
Thank
you
for
your
willingness
to
to
work
with
our
members
and
I'm
sure
we'll
land
somewhere
good,
where
we
can
take
care
of
all
the
issues
we
have
on
our
end
and
take
care
of
the
big
concerns
you
have
to
take
care
on
your
end.
A
So
with
that
we'll
close
out
the
hearing
on
assembly
bill
55.
next
on
the
agenda,
we
have
public
comment.
A
I
want
to
remind
those
of
you
intending
to
call
for
public
comment
that
this
is
a
time
for
you
to
speak
about
general
matters
that
fall
within
the
purview
of
our
committee.
It
is
not
a
time
to
reopen
a
hearing.
If
you
do
that,
we
will
cut
you
off.
I
don't
want
to
so
just
please,
even
if
you
have
to
phrase
it
in
in
a
different
way
whatever
it
may
be,
but
please
don't
don't
try
to
reopen
the
hearing.
A
L
J
And
I
am
a
resident
in
clark,
county
and
I've
been
resident
here
for
the
last
three
years,
and
what
I've
noticed
about
the
public
education
system
is
that
african-american
children
they
do
not
provide
the
academic
progress
for
the
maintenance
of
efforts
for
those
children
that
are
at
risk.
And
really
you
know
there
was
a
hearing
and
nevada
agreed
to
provide
services
to
the
children
in
juvenile
hall
which
they
were
not
getting
any
services.
J
But
I
don't
hear
any
conversation
about
the
maintenance
of
effort
for
the
children
who
are
at
risk
and
who
are
black
and
how
clark
county
has
a
259
percent
will
for
the
finance
issues,
but
the
year
of
money
and
the
learning
lost
money
has
to
do
with
services
for
people
who
haven't
had
any
services
and
that's
what
I
want
to
hear
what's
happening
in
nevada,
because
I
don't
hear
it
yet.
Thank
you.
So
much
for
your
time.
L
K
Today
I
want
to
read
a
little
excerpt
from
the
sparks
police
independent
investigation
regarding
the
peppermill,
because
I
know
politicians
do
like
to
take
money
from
casinos
during
the
investigation.
Peppermill
security
officer
montiel
informed
investigators
that
she
had
issues
with
the
way
some
peppermill
security
officers
treated.
Purdy
montiel
didn't
like
the
way
purdy
was
taken
down
the
stairs
and
how
purdy
was
dropped
on
the
ground.
Montiel
also
stated
that
during
the
incident
she
wasn't
sure
how
it
happened,
but
she
heard
a
smack
and
saw
russell
smith
on
top
of
purdy.
That's
the
security
security
guard.
K
Their
names
were
andrew
miller,
zachary,
seiner
kyle
von
cross,
samantha,
montiel
and
russell
smith,
a
video
that
was
provided
by
the
peppermill
depicts
smith
in
the
holding
room
at
the
peppermill
after
the
incident
at
zero,
two
four
six
hours
on
the
video,
a
female
enters
the
holding
room
and
smith
states.
You
missed
your
opportunity
this
blank
boy,
the
female
tells
smith
that
she
went
to
lunch
in
smith
states
after
lunch,
this
mf
was
fighting
and
yelling
smith,
then
lois
voice
and
looks
around
the
room
before
saying
he's
at
the
top
of
the
stairs.
K
I
pulled
his
ass
down
the
steps.
As
smith
made
this
statement.
He
pulled
his
arms
back,
demonstrating
a
tuggy
motion.
The
female
then
walks
to
a
nearby
telephone
and,
as
the
female
makes,
a
call
smith,
turns
away
from
a
camera
and
makes
another
comment
about
his
actions
as
he
motions
with
his
right
arm.
The
videotape
shot
stops
a
short
time
later.
That
video
is
on
me
no
cop
watch.
K
L
L
C
Calling
from
las
vegas
how
are
y'all
doing
today,
I
hope
that
each
one
of
you
remembered
the
lord
jesus
christ
sacrificial
death
yesterday
that
he
died
for
you
and
me
and
the
whole
world
I'm
calling
to
your
attention
voting
integrity.
One
thing
I
heard
you
guys
didn't
mention
a
fingerprint
verification.
C
We
need
to
add
security
to
our
voting
integrity.
We
need
no
internet,
no
internet
connection.
I
don't
know
why
you
guys
want
to
keep
using
the
internet
national
database
for
elections,
bad
bad
bad.
Do
not
do
that
and
also
who
else
is
in
the
government.
That's
what
I
want.
You
guys
need
to
work
on
the
unemployment
system.
C
It
is
not
working
for
us
and
that
was
before
cobus.
So
I
don't
know
who
heads
that
up.
I
can't
get
them
to
call
me
back
to
tell
me
why
you
know
they're
so
inefficient,
but
if
you
guys
want
us
to
vote
for
the
common
man,
you
all
need
to
focus
on
the
things
that
are
going
to
help
the
general
public,
not
just
like
people
with
a
lot
of
money
all
right.
Thank
you
very
much.
A
Thank
you
members.
Thank
you
this
morning
for
for
your
attentiveness
in
trying
to
power
through
what
was
a
pretty
lengthy
meeting
this
morning
tomorrow,
we
have
quite
a
bit
of
work
to
do
in
just
our
work
session,
and
then
we
have
four
hearings
for
bill
hearings
assembly
bill
331-334-335-445.
A
I
wanted
to
use
today
as
a
gauge
for
whether
or
not
we
could
power
through
everything
before
11
30-
and
you
know
we
finished
just
about
six
minutes
prior
and
that
was
with
three
bills
only
and
powering
through
one
presentation
asking
no
questions
and
not
doing
a
work
session.
So
I
don't
know
that
it's
realistic
for
us
to
achieve
the
same
tomorrow
so
based
on
just
using
today
as
a
gauge,
I
think
we're
going
to
have
to
start
tomorrow
at
8
a.m.
I
know
the
agenda
is
posted
at
9.
A
00
am
so
I
wanted
to
get
clarity,
make
sure
that
everybody
understands
that,
for
the
sake
of
getting
everything
done
and
ensuring
that
we
don't
inadvertently,
have
to
cut
a
a
bill,
presentation
short
we're
going
to
start
tomorrow
morning
at
8
a.m.
I
know
the
rest
of
the
week.
We
still
have
it
listed
as
9.
again
we'll
use
tomorrow
as
a
gauge.
A
If
we
finish
early
tomorrow-
and
we
realize
that
we
in
fact
did
not
need
all
that
extra
time,
then
perhaps
we
can
stick
with
wednesday,
thursday
friday
at
the
regular
nine
o'clock
start
time,
and
I
appreciate
everybody's
flexibility,
but
we'll
use
tomorrow
as
a
gauge,
but
we
will
be
starting
at
8
a.m.
Just
want
to
make
sure
everybody's
aware
of
that
again.
Members.
Thank
you
for
the
questions
today.