At the opening ceremonies of Silverado Ranch, Little League, it was a wonderful morning celebrating their start of another season for their players, families, coaches and volunteers who make this league such an important part of the Silverado Ranch community and beyond.
The following morning, I joined the Walk for Friendship hosted annually by the Friendship Circle.
This event brings together the community each year to celebrate inclusion, friendship, and support for individuals with special needs.
Thank you to the organizers, participants and volunteers who made the day meaningful and successful.
My office, along with the incredible Parks and Recreation teams in Laughland and Searchlight, hosted two movie and the park events,
First, at the Spirit Mountain Activities Center, and the following week at the Search Light Senior Center.
I want to thank everybody who joined us and helped make these events so special.
Looking ahead, I'll be kicking off the great chef, Ron, at James Regional Sports Complex on Saturday, March 21st,
hosted by the Nevada Hotel and Lodging Association.
This annual event raises funds to support hospitality students across Nevada.
It's a great way to enjoy a fun run while investing in the next generation of hospitality
professionals.
Then, on Saturday April 4th from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., I'll be hosting my annual Echo Trail
Park Day of Play.
Join us at our beloved district day part for a fun-filled day of games, music, food, and
a part cleanup in partnership with Get Outdoors Nevada and learn more about the coming
soon Echo Trail Community Center at that park.
To stay up to date on all things happening in District Day and across Clark County, connect with us on Instagram, Facebook,
X and LinkedIn at Commission Aft. Until next time, I look forward to seeing you all around A.
Good morning. Welcome to the March 17th meeting of the Clark County Commission. We'll begin today's meeting with the
invocation led by Reverend Will Rucker of the Intersection Spiritual Community.
Good morning Reverend, please stand if you're able.
Good morning and
let us pray.
Spirit of grace, source of wisdom, compassion, and truth, we ask that you lead us today.
We pause in this moment out of reverence for the responsibility carried in this room.
And for the lives beyond these walls that will be shaped by what happens here today.
We invite your presence among us in every thought, every word, every decision.
Grant us clarity, where there is complexity.
Grant us courage, where there is hesitation.
Grant us kindness, where there is contention, and grant us humility to listen deeply,
especially when it's hardest.
Remind us today that leadership is not about being right, but about being in right relationship with one another and with the community that we are called to serve.
Help us to set aside ego, assumption and self interest, and to center the well-being of us all.
May we lead with compassion, decide with integrity, and act with a deep awareness that what we do here today matters.
And they we leave today not only having made decisions, but having strengthened trust.
We are grateful for this opportunity to serve.
In the name of all that is sacred, all that is good, all that is holy and all that is
human, blessed be so it is.
And we say amen.
Good morning, Mr. Schiller.
Good morning, Chair and commissioners.
Your first item is to recognize and present a proclamation honoring Irish American Heritage
month and acknowledging the cultural contributions of the Irish Americans and Clark County Commissioner
Becker.
Okay, normally we move all the chairs out of the way for pictures, but it's a smaller group
today.
I just wanted to say good morning to everyone.
Today we are proud to recognize Beth Mollini for her remarkable contributions to education,
the arts, and cultural enrichment in our community.
Beth has dedicated her professional life to shaping young minds as a third-grade teacher with
the Clark County School District. Inspiring students and helping them build strong foundations
for the future, educators like Beth play a vital role in our community and her commitment
to her students reflects the very best of public service. Beyond the classroom, Beth has also been
featured performer in Las Vegas since 1994. Sharing her passion for music in the arts with audiences
throughout the valley for more than three decades. Her dedication to the arts has helped enrich
the cultural life of Southern Nevada. Beth is also a founding member of the musical group,
Killian's Angels, where she has helped preserve and celebrate Celtic music while introducing
diverse musical traditions to audiences across our region. Through her performances,
original compositions and community engagement, Beth has worked to expand access to music,
education and meaningful cultural experiences for people of all ages. Perhaps most inspiring
is the way Beth has bridged the worlds of education and the performing arts. Showing students and
community members alike, how music can serve as a powerful tool for learning cultural understanding
and creative expression.
Her ongoing dedication to both education and cultural preservation embodies the spirit
of service, creativity, and community that helps make Clark County such a vibrant and inspiring
place to live.
Today we are proud to recognize Beth Molini for her outstanding contributions and
And to thank her for the many ways she continues
to inspire students, audiences in our entire community.
Congratulations, Beth, and thank you for everything you do.
And before we get to present you with that,
we are just honored to recognize and listen
to a performance from Killian's Angels today.
Thank you, and happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone.
By the way, I hope I live up to that.
That was beautiful.
I really appreciate it. My name is Beth Malaney, this is Nenette Fortier, Marlos Amartas, and we are a part of
Killian Stangels. And once again, thank you so much.
Thank you so much. That's called Cat Scott, the measles.
Oh no, you don't need to. You can stand sit, lay, whatever. We have a long night. We're getting ready to play from 6 to 9 at Freemann Street, speaking of wonderful things in Las Vegas. Come join us.
As some of you may know, Irish music has been around for many, many years and you cannot keep the
Irish from singing and dancing. Even though there was a time in history when dancing and musical
instruments was not allowed. So there's a workaround for that if you're Irish, that's right.
Nothing will keep them from singing us from singing and dancing, and so a couple things happened.
And one is Irish step-dancing, which last year you saw right here, with the arms are not moving
and the heads are staying straight, but guess what, waste down, we're dancing, right?
I say, we're not me, don't, don't, that's not me.
But that is what happened because people wanted to dance, and they wanted to be able to dance freely
in their houses, and they wanted to be able to make music in their houses.
But instruments were also not allowed for religious reasons, so does that stop the Irish?
No, we have a way to deal with that as well, and it's called
mouth music or shun of singing.
This is called a baron, it's a traditional Irish
frame drum. And here's a little real called the Dunmore Lassies.
If you ever have played Grand Theft Auto for,
some of you, yes, and if you make it as far as
a little area where the avatars are throwing things in a New York City pub, that song,
the Celtic High Step, otherwise known as the High Reels, is us playing.
Now we're not the actual avatars.
And then to take it as step further, if you do go to see the first episode of Elementary
on CBS, we're also on that song, but the people playing it are not us.
But the music is us, this is the song, it's called the High Rails.
Thank you so much, and Happy St. Patrick, say everybody.
Awesome. I just want to thank all of you here for being here today to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in the Irish American culture that has contributed so much to our community.
Also, before you leave, make sure you pick up four leaf clover. You just plant this and you can bring the luck of the Irish home with you today.
So, come on up here, Pat, Gillian's Angels.
Where are you going?
I'm here.
This is probably when I should have read your introduction, but I don't follow directions
well.
So,
this is for Beth Mollony and Gillian's Angels, and thank you for everything you do.
Thank you,
South.
You can stay.
Commissioner, you're next items.
Do recognize and present a population to the grassroots girls for the contributions to youth programs
and opportunities for young women in the community.
Okay, so it's me again.
Where are the girls?
Come on up here.
I just want to say that I have the opportunity to meet these young women
earlier last week with Commissioner Nav.
And I just want to say how impressed I am.
They got to quizzes.
They all set up here to learn a little bit more about this level of government.
And, you know, these are smart women and this is the future for our community.
When I have the opportunity to talk with our youth and they ask the questions that they do,
I know that they are on point and we're going to be okay as we go forward because the wisdom
the kids this age have now is just so impressive.
So, these are yours.
So, today I'm proud to
join Commissioner Naffton, recognizing grassroots girls in organization dedicated to empowering
young girls to advocate for healthier lives, stronger communities, and a more sustainable planet.
Grassroot Girls creates opportunities for young women to share their experiences directly with
policy makers and connect with other non-profit organizations and community leaders.
Through these efforts, the organization ensures that the youth voices are included in conversations
that shape our communities.
By introducing girls to advocacy and the policy making process at an early age, grassroots
girls helps participants understand the importance of civic engagement and the role they can
play in shaping the future.
Through this work, the organization builds confidence, leadership skills, and civic awareness,
helping to cultivate the next generation of community leaders.
Grassroot Girls Strengthens Clark County by amplifying young voices and inspiring positive
change across our community.
We are proud to recognize grassroot girls for their dedication to empowering youth and strengthening
our community.
Congratulations and thank you for the important work you do and how you are inspiring the next generation of leaders.
When Commissioner Becker and I got the opportunity to visit with them a couple weeks ago, they all had great questions.
They had a lot of good answers to the problems which I think is so important.
But that's why I feel comfortable putting any of them on the spot to say a few words.
They weren't shy the other night.
They were grass root girls.
We're very happy to be here.
We are an organization that empowers young women
to sort of take their role in politics and the future.
We've been learning about, we've learned a lot of terms like
ordinances and all the things like specifics to and yeah it's been very, very wonderful it's been a wonderful experience for me and does anybody else want to speak
you did great and I know
Mr. Kirkpatrick will appreciate this.
All of the ladies can explain the difference
between cities and unincorporated counties.
Rebecca, thank you for your leadership
and one more time for these wonderful exceptional talented ladies.
Commissioner's our next item is to recognize
Clark County employees who have been selected
as our Clark County Value Champion.
Hi, I'm Crystal Simon.
I am an employment records technician
with the onboarding team.
I am nominating Carla Benjamin as a value champion.
Carla goes above and beyond to get the best results.
I enjoy working with Carla because she inspires me every day to put my best foot forward.
She's a great asset to the team and a great community.
Congratulations, Carla.
Hi, I'm CJ Moore. I'm a management analyst with Park County Social Services.
I would like to elevate Jennifer because she embodies service in that she elevates others
and is totally willing to do the unglomerate work without needing to credit.
She is malleable and puts others first and when she shows up she's completely consistent
and all the way there for everybody she's serving in our community.
Hi, I'm Rachel Glace and I am a submission analyst for Commissioner Michael Math.
I have nominated Jennifer Russo with social services to be a value champion.
I work with Jennifer regularly.
Jennifer is not afraid to get into the weeds when it comes to helping people and be very
detail oriented about what that means.
Multiple occasions, she has gone to somebody's house, she has met people on site that we've
been working with and she really takes the time to learn their story and really make sure
they understand the process they need to take to get the assistance.
As
you're morning, my name is Brandon Kaiser.
I work with the Clark County Accessors Office.
Today, I'm nominating President Kelly for value champion for resistance.
Vint Springs Creativity, patience, and a willingness to take on whatever comes
this way.
Always going above and beyond.
He explains all procedures to clarity and hold himself to a level of excellence
that naturally inspires people around him.
His genetic development of PP tools, the appraisal program
that we rely on every day to computer our work,
has greatly enhanced the number of counts
we can process in one day.
Vince, we'd thank you for the example you said
and the leadership we bring to the work group
every day.
Congratulations, Vince.
How about a half for these Clark County employees?
They just had our Clark County Gallif or our value champions
just recently, so we got to honor all those that became our value champions and our such
representatives of everything we do every day. When I look at these departments and some fun
facts, I want to talk about the assessor a second, and in addition to developing that program,
which I'm sure they utilize regularly, they have to assess and manage 850,000 parcels across the
county. You go to the Comptroller. I think they do our responsible for doing over 700,000 transactions
annually. That's your paychecks. That's everything we deal with every day and all the money that's
coming and going and then in social service. Always dear to my heart. I know a little bit about
this one. Our chairman had called me. She was working hard on a case trying to get an individual who
was essentially homeless and went through every effort known to man to do that and in social services.
They're putting out services upwards of almost half a billion dollars a year to sort of our
even more needed now. So with that, I'll hand it over to Commissioner.
Thank you, Kevin. I want to add my thanks on behalf of the board to each of you for being so reflective of the best of this county, which is the best of this country.
The three of you are exemplary members of this team as Kevin indicated each in different areas you are each expert in your fields.
And that's something that I think is so exceptional about this county.
the wide swath of departments and agencies that we work with and run,
really improve, have the potential of improving people's life every single day,
and the three of you do that.
So on behalf of the board, we thank you so much for what you do to make the work up.
Local government function so well. Thank you and join me in congratulating our value champions.
Now that everyone is so quiet, we're going to take a five minute recess to reset some of the equipment that's in front of us, but it'll be a brief one.
Thank you.
Good afternoon. Thank you very much. We can now move on to the first time set aside for public comment. Anyone wishing to speak on items on today's agenda can please come forward at this time.
Speak for up to three minutes and state your first and last name for the record along with the item on the agenda to which you're speaking.
Morning, my name is Rashana. I'm a resident. I just want to comment on the same Patrick's day.
Performers that was fantastic to see, and I was interested in that Beth Malaney mentioned that there were restrictions for dancing because of religious religious reasons, which I would like to address.
First of all, I'll support a agenda item 47 and I strongly oppose praying and any from a religion that is continually on this agenda.
I ask that you please eliminate the invocations and let's stop pretending this is appropriate because it is not.
This is a government meeting, it is not a church service, it is not a house of worship and it has no business being treated like one.
I'm not asking, I'm insisting, that this commission put an end to prayer in these meetings.
70% of cities and counties in Nevada are smarter than us here.
They don't have invocations, because they know it doesn't belong in government.
They understand that mixing or religion with government is completely unnecessary and improper.
When you open meetings with prayer, you send a message whether you admit it or not.
That this government is endorsing religion.
People can believe whatever they want, it doesn't matter, but it shouldn't be in this building.
That message that we endorse religion excludes people.
It tells anyone who doesn't share these beliefs that they are outsiders in their own community, and that is unacceptable.
And let's be honest, you do not need prayer to do your jobs.
Your duty is to serve the public, not to perform religious rituals.
So end it, stop bringing religion into this chamber.
Stop using government proceedings to endorse personal religious beliefs.
The government body should be neutral and should be inclusive, and it should be accountable to everyone, not just people who believe in this Bible, the most gruesome book I have ever read, and I encourage you to read it, it's online for free.
The obsession, this God has, over Virgin girls similar to the Epstein files, the amount of incest, the rape, murder, boiling, moiling and eating of children, the mass murders, the mass drownings, polygamy, slavery, torture.
burning of women, ripping open, pregnant women, gangwriping a woman and cutting her
up into 12 pieces, cutting off a woman's hand and so on, not a shout out to women's
history month is it, which is currently what it is. This is the worst if you're bringing
into this form and it needs to stop now. We, the people support the absolute separation
of church and state and I urge you to stop invocations and to stick to government business.
Thank you very much.
Have a great day.
Thank you very much just to the reminder to everybody the agenda begins on section four
We've extended some courtesy, but in the future anyone wishing to speak on the first public comment period would be section four and later
Next speaker place
Good morning morning. My name is Miguel canales. I can only reside in 59. 46 and a field court
Let's weigh us in battle
I'm here to comment in item 19 with the airport expansion at the Harry Reid International Airport.
We also have a couple of cohort workers that want to do an update in DB negotiations and they're also in speaking in comment in item 19.
Good morning, kind of commissioners. My name is Adrian Cossery. I currently reside at 309. 50, mountain vista.
and I work at SP Specialistices at the Barista.
Today I want to talk to you about the fact that I cannot afford basic necessities,
such as groceries and rent, and with the current wages and SP Specialistices,
and I have to pick up multiple jobs that's to be able to afford my basic necessities.
And we want the DBE companies to provide liable wages for our workers.
Thank you for your time.
Hello. My name is Jacob Ramos.
I live at 2312 North Korean Valley Parkway, unit 3113.
I worked for the day one group,
most for over five years now as a fast food attendant.
I've spoke to you previously about how the last
wage increase we received was in 2022,
and that now many co-workers, including me,
are struggling to survive in today's economy.
Yeah, I recently found out that the average worker at HMS hosts,
who the average fast food worker at HMS hosts,
who does roughly the same job as us,
who works in close proximity to our stores,
makes more now than the company is willing to give us
with yearly raises for the next three years.
You know, a lot of people I work with have, you know, two to three jobs, just to support themselves, let alone their families.
As my belief that one job should be enough. Thank you.
Thank you.
Good morning.
Morning commissioners, Brian Ayala, 41, 49, wagon trail, have Las Vegas and about 8, 9, 1, 1, 8, on 19 always, also number
one with representing all the 9 DBE companies.
What I wanted to say is that we have always been 100% responsive 100% of the time.
We're going to continue to do so, hopefully we're able to find a scenario where small business
can continue to preserve union workers and union representation.
We don't view this as acrimonious at all.
And fortunately, after all the requests that we've had,
we do have a negotiation scheduled for next Tuesday, March 25th.
So I also wanted to put into the record.
Mr. Schiller, the letters that we have sent up to this point.
Thank you.
Good morning.
Morning, commissioners.
For the record, my name is Andrew Powell, 240 South Water Street in Henderson, and I serve as the planning manager in the Community Development Department for the City of Henderson.
I'm here today to express my support for item 62 on your agenda.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Kimberly and Marcy and the entire team from DCP that put a significant effort into advancing the avoidance and mitigation measures to the stage.
As a member of the AAMM working group, I want to voice my support for the adoption of the final AAMM
including the continued inclusion of the brewing owl as a covered species.
Well, I recognize that this inclusion can present challenges, particularly given this species's prevalence here in Southern Nevada.
I believe that those challenges are outweighed by the regulatory uncertainty and potential for gradient burdens in the future if it were not to be included.
So again, thank you for your time this morning. I respectfully encourage your approval of the AAMM so that we can continue working collaboratively,
to ensure a smooth and effective implementation.
Thank you.
Thank you for being here.
Anyone else wishing to speak?
This is the final call for the first public comment period.
Seeing none.
Good morning.
Manager Schiller.
Can I move to your agenda?
Your next item is approval of the minutes of the regular meeting on February 17th,
2026.
Mr. Chair, I'm approval of the February 17th meeting minutes.
Thank you.
There's a motion for approval.
Please cast your vote.
The motion passes.
Commissioner Jenner.
Sorry, Mr. Schiller, just for the clerk's record.
Commissioner McCurdy is excused absent today.
Mr. Schiller, I'm going to be your next item,
which is approval of the agenda with the inclusion of any emergency items
and deletion of any items.
Staff is requesting that item number seven under the consent agenda
be deleted from your agenda.
Staff is also requesting that item 19 under the consent agenda
to be taken separately.
If there are no other changes, Mr. Chair, I move approval of the agenda as noted.
There is a motion for approval. Please cast your vote.
Motion carries.
Mr. President, move to the approval of your consent agenda.
Consisting of items number 7 through 49 as a reminder item 7 has been deleted.
And number 19 will be taken separately.
Mr. Chair, if there are no questions or comments, I move approval of the consent agenda.
with item number 7 deleted number 19 to be heard separately.
Thank you. Please cast your vote.
Motion passes.
This is now moved to item 19. Item 19 is authorized the director
of aviation to sign the second amendment to the
contract between Clark County and Landryman Brown
Incorporated to prepare an environmental impact statement EIS for the
Southern Nevada Supplemental Airport or take other action has appropriate.
Good morning. Good morning, Mr. Chair.
Jim Chrissley, Director of Aviation for the record, the item before you is the phase 2B for
our environmental impact statement preparation for the Southern Nevada Supplemental Airport.
In previously, we approved phase 2A about a year ago and this phase will now take the project
to do the biological field studies as well as publication of the draft EIS next summer in July,
which also includes the public outreach meetings and responses to those comments received.
And then following that will interface three, which will be the next portion of this contract where we will respond to those comments as well as publish that final environmental impact statement.
Thank you.
There may be some other conversation.
I just want to confirm for the record 75% of these funds are federally reimbursable.
Absolutely.
So yes, with phase 2B and this phase we plan on requesting federal aviation funds in the not a 75%
Okay, great.
Thank you.
And then I just wanted to make clear, well, we all understand the importance of moving this project forward.
It continues to be, I think, our priority, my priority.
I know yours too, the LIS, continues to move forward with modernization.
We've heard it loud and clear from the community and stakeholders and the airlines.
And so, I believe...
We need that'll be a priority for DOA to continue to move that modernization forward on LAS.
Yes, yes, Mr. Chair, absolutely. And as you know, we have a consultant on board, we're working through the planning phases of that project.
But certainly anyone that's been to the airport recently has seen modernization has started.
Either with construction walls or lanes blocked, we are pursuing those preliminary projects.
But the larger program is moving forward. We do have a meeting with our airline partners in April,
where we plan to present our efforts today, as well as get some approvals, and then we'll be back here in hopefully June to present to the board on our status and where we're at.
And planning, we're expecting, you know, we are, as a priority, we're expecting that planning to finish this fall.
Great.
Thank you very much.
Commissioner Jones?
Thank you, and I just wanted to emphasize that as part of this EIS, the consultant is required to consult with both the regional transportation commission.
and endot with regards to access to the supplemental airport on IF-15 and other corridors and to
consider any traffic mitigation and environmental mitigation which would include transit alternatives
that accurate.
Yes, Mr. Jones, that is accurate.
Okay, and I just want to re-emphasize and we talked about this for five years now that transit
is the priority for this board for access to the supplemental airport, not just
cars driving on that 15.
Absolutely, and we have worked with our community partners and we will continue
through this process to come up with that solution, so thank you.
Thank you, any other questions or comments, or motion on item 19?
If there isn't anything more, I move that we authorize the director of aviation to sign
the second amendment to the contract.
Thank you.
There's a motion for approval.
Please cast your vote.
The motion passes.
Great.
Thank you, Mr. Board.
Thank you.
Commissioners, it's not yet 10 a.m.
So we will move to introduction of ordinances.
Item 57 is an ordinance to amend Clark County Code.
Title 8, Chapter 8.20, to modify the requirement for a structural barrier.
Separating minors from barn and lounge areas and restaurants and tavers by allowing
in lieu of such barrier written security plan approved by the Department Director that effectively
prevents miners from entering the bar area and providing for other matters properly related
there to and set a public hearing.
Thank you all, Introduce the ordinance and set the public hearing for Tuesday, April 7th,
2026 at 10 AM.
Your next item is to identify emerging issues to be addressed by staffer by the Board of
Future Meetings, receive updates on the activities of various regional boards and commissions
and direct staff accordingly.
Thank you.
Commissioner Kirkpatrick?
Sure, I can come up with something.
So I just want to bring a couple things.
So one on the health district,
Commissioner Beckler and I serve as everybody
should know that the septic regulations went away
and I hope not to see them in my lifetime ever again
and I'm sure Commissioner Beckler agrees.
And then secondly, it would be irresponsible
If we as the health district representatives didn't remind people that this week, we're going into an unprecedented heat wave.
And with that heat wave, our body is not quite acclimated to it, we're still thinking it's spring.
So I just encourage people to spring break on top of it that even if your kids are outdoors, they do need to drink plenty of water, no matter what.
if there's they're already swimming, they're in the splash areas, they still need to
see hydrated. So this is a hard time on our older population as well. So we want to
ensure that they are getting all the nutrients. So I just ask that people stop and check
on their neighbors to make sure, you know, we know that many of them won't be turning on
the air conditioning. And it's too soon really for any of us to turn on the air conditioning,
but we need to make sure our neighbors are doing well.
And then lastly, I just want to say thank you
for the safety fair.
I had a good time myself and thank all the staff
that came out.
So I appreciate everybody.
Mr. Chairman, thank you.
Commissioner Seger-Billman, I sponsored our spring job fair.
Friday the 13th.
And it was a lucky day.
We had over 6,500 job seekers show up at the Convention Center and interview in many cases
for a job on the spot and many were offered jobs.
Others will be back grounded and interviewed over the course of the coming weeks and will
surely be hired.
By all accounts, as we pulled folks who were leaving the West Hall, they were happy with
offering 133 employers. I think was the number wasn't it Commissioner Segerblum with lots of jobs.
I want to thank the LVCVA for making the Hall available to us, making the loop transportation
system available to us because parking is always an issue particularly when you have 6,500 people who tend
to come one per car. The Monorell was available. People could buy two. One way tickets for a
each if they were in a better resident. We appreciate that accommodation. Our staff's
worked overtime to get the thing done and they deserve a lot of credit for the
success that we had. And of course working with theater is always a good experience
because they know so well what the jobs are that are in demand. We had 16 health care
companies that were hiring and filling many incredibly fun and exciting
challenging opportunities in health care.
It was a very successful day.
I would like you, Dave.
Right, Commissioner Sagerblown.
And if I can just follow up, thanks also to Pinkbox,
who gave us their parking spaces.
And found blue a lot of the people that park there.
And I just want to say, we had a great turnout,
but the truth is that the job market is very nervous right now.
So we all need to call our breath and make sure we're pushing forward.
Thank you.
Thank you, and I would just add my thanks.
Mr. Speaker, Patrick, congratulations to you on the safety fair you held.
My family had a great time and learned something new at it.
And I, commissioners, Sacred Bloom and Gibson, that job fair has, I think, become a
real tradition for this community and something that clearly there's a need for, so thank
you for leading on that.
And both of those events, I know, required significant input from county management and all
departments.
I think all of both of those events really showcased so many departments in the county.
So add my thanks to Kevin Yuen, the entire teams who made that happen.
If I might Mr. Chair, we shouldn't have neglected this.
A couple of years ago, our manager showed up at the job, the spring job fair.
And we had a couple of tables and we're handing out pamphlets.
And he saw that at a time when we really needed to be more aggressive.
And the last couple of years, but especially this year, it was an incredible turnout.
The county had, I don't know how many departments did you take a count?
Yeah, a bunch, as many fingers as we have, were represented.
And they were busy the entire day, explaining the people what the job opportunities were,
and what that might mean to each of them individually.
So, thank you very much, Kevin, and everyone who works with you, John, and others.
who were responsible for getting that all together.
Commissioner, your next item is to appoint one qualified individual, Daniel Bartlett,
to the Air Pollution Control and Hearing Board as the License Professional Engineer
Member for a three-year term commencing on March 17th, 2026, and continuing through March
16th, 2029.
I move the appointment of Daniel Bartlett to the Air Pollution Control here on board for
the three-year term as noted.
Thank you, please cast your vote.
Mr. Chair, can we go back to emerging issues because they forgot to bring something up?
You know that we started the rural alliance committee that we have out there and so we
off to a, it was off to a slow start because we couldn't get enough people to participate.
now we have a steady group but the rule lands was given a couple of tasks. One as rule
communities talk about what the planning around you need to look like, what kind of
amenities that you want so that we can ensure that they can stay rule because in many
cases they were there first.
And so one of the major tasks was for them to go into
identify neighborhoods which are rural because you wouldn't necessarily know that if you stay on the
main stretches but there might be a pocket of rural somewhere back. So they did that and they were
supposed to meet with commissioners to determine if those names were what they wanted or how do you
delineate them because I think as a county as a whole what used to be all rural is not many areas
is surrounded by the cities, but they've been getting some pushbacks, so I'm just trying
to figure if this is something that we need to, because we need to go out and recruit
for a couple more seats because people have stepped off for whatever reason, like most
boards, but is it something that we want to keep going or we just want to take their basic
map that they gave us? I feel like they haven't gotten as far as I would have liked
to get because we've approved you know 500 zoning applications since they started in some of that
rule component has been lost and so I just I need to know from the board is it something that I
should continue to beat the drum at or is it just a lost art and stick to it in my district and
I don't have to have an answer today but I do have to tell for recruitment purposes if we want to
So, they need to start that the first of April.
So, I just need to know whether or not we go that.
So, if so, when you could let me know, so sorry.
Thank
you.
Yeah, we have a vote on the last item.
We did.
Okay.
Commissioner, next item is to approve and authorize the chair to appoint one additional member,
including one at large member at the Community Development Advisory Committee.
Otherwise, I'm going to see DAC for a two-year term from the list of the following nominees.
Dancini Dancini Dekman, Mithini.
I'm from the appointment of Dancini Dekman, Mithini, to the CDAC.
There's a motion for approval.
Please cast your vote.
The motion carries.
Commissioners, your next item is to approve adopt and authorize the chair to sign District
Resolution 26-002 making a finding that no increase in havalorum taxes anticipated for the
payment of the Clark County Water Reclamation District and Nevada General Obligation Limited
tax refunding bonds, additionally secured by pledge revenues, Series 2,026, the bonds
2,026 bonds in the maximum, principal amount of 196,525,000 for the term thereof and
requesting the debt management commission convened to approve the binding or take
other action as appropriate. Good morning. Mr. Chair, members of Board of
Good Morning, Tom. Minwheel again with the Clark County water
The Department of Information District, the district is advancing the process as well as the schedule to refund the amount that Mr.
Schiller just stated, $196 million, $525,000 of our existing debt.
And if we consider today's market conditions, we are hoping and anticipating savings of about $10 million on that refunding of those conditions.
Thank you.
I would move for approval.
Also, put out.
I've looked at this very closely.
I know where I will.
Look at it very closely on the debt management committee.
Thank you.
There's a motion for approval.
Please, guests.
You know, hold the public hearing.
We do need a public hearing.
This is a public hearing.
Anyone wishing to speak on item 61, please come forward at this time.
Seeing that, I'll close the public hearing.
And there is a motion still.
I believe.
I don't know my motion.
Sorry, that was my thought you didn't need a public hearing on that one.
I've never heard to have it.
Please cast your vote.
A motion carries.
Thank you, members of the board.
Thank you.
Christian, your next item is to receive a presentation on the
of the waitants and minimization measures,
AMM work group process for the multiple species,
habitat conservation plan amendment,
approved final AMM's including retention of the burden,
out as a covered species and direct staff accordingly.
Good morning, commissioners.
Kimberly Goodwin, principal, environmental specialists,
further does our conservation program within the Department of Environment and
Sustainability.
Last year, we received direction from the Barroward to proceed with convening
an avoidance and minimization measures work group to finalize and refine
avoidance minimization measures for inclusion in the Clark County
multiple species habitat conservation plan amendment application package.
That work group took place from summer through fall of 2025.
Seven total of seven meetings were held multiple interviews were taken place.
The meetings consisted of representatives from all of the local jurisdictions within Clark County.
Major Home Builder associations, commercial and industrial development representatives and several utility companies.
Key outcomes from that work group process included achieving consensus on all of the proposed
avoidance of minimization.
Members are just as refined, except for one. That measure is for clearance surveys regarding burrowing
owls in the question that I bring to you today, as whether or not we should continue to include
burrowing owls of proposed card species in the application package. The work group identified
several avoidance minutes in the age and measures that require supplemental implementation documents,
such as specific design guidelines or code, change language,
best management practices, et cetera.
And these would be developed collaboratively with jurisdictions and developers in a subsequent process.
And importantly, the process strength and relationships between
desert conservation programs, jurisdictions, and the developers
and helps bring about a greater understanding of why these measures need to be
included in the application package.
So, on the matter of the burrowing owl decision, the question and hand is should the burrowing owl be retained as a proposed covered species in the MSHTP amendment.
One work group member suggested removing the burrowing owl due to the prevalence in the plan area that may potentially cause project delays in increased costs.
The avoidance minimization measures are related to the burying else, specifically require
for clearance surveys to occur before development activities begin on a parcel.
And also an additional rationale included uncertainty about future federal protective measures,
so the burying owl is currently not included as a list of species under the Indian Dundra species act,
but it is protected by another law called the Margotary Bird Treaty Act,
to those undergone interpretation changes over the last decade or so.
So most other work group members that were just participated in the process,
preferred retaining coverage for the Burrowing Owl to avoid potential delays for construction
and costs to the program and the development processes should the species need to be added later on
if a federal listing does occur or if a migratory barred treaty act interpretations change again.
However, they did stress that they would prefer some flexibility and the survey timing to help prevent potential project delays.
So, some of the rationale for continuing to retain the burning owl includes that it will help us provide regulatory certainty to the development community.
Again, migratory bird treaty act interpretations have changed multiple times in recent years, and without coverage under the multiple species habitat conservation plan, developers would bear full compliance bird and should interpretations shipped again, to horrific incident will take.
And there is risk that burrowing owl could be listed under the Endangered species act in the future.
So, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service currently lists the Burrowing Alice Board of Conservation
Concern, and then the Nevada Department of Wildlife has identified it as a species of
greatest conservation need in the most recent state wildlife action plant.
So, the species has also experienced 30 to 50 percent population declines over the Western
U.S. over in recent years.
And so, if it becomes federally listed and we don't have coverage under the MSHCP for it,
Development would halt in areas we're growing out potentially occur until either an emergency
amendment can be implemented to the MSHDP or developers can obtain their own individual
permits by working with the Fish and Wildlife Service. And amending our MSHDP would put
both the county and the permitties at risk for potential litigation. We believe the cost benefit
ratio of retaining the burying owl is favorable, survey requirements are relatively modest compared
to the risk of an endangered species act listing that would disrupt developed activities.
And in most cases, burying owl surveys would occur concurrent with desert tortoise clearance
surveys, which are also included measures with the application package.
And it would also demonstrate proactive conservation to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
show should the species be petitioned for future listing. The service would take into consideration
what the county is doing proactively for the Burring Owl and would be less likely to
become listed in the future as result.
There is however counter argument to be made.
Burring Owl is prevalent within the plan area. They are common, especially around the
if there is nesting activity to discover it on a parcel.
There are some survey timing challenges.
We've worked in close coordination with developers
and jurisdictions to come up with a notification process
to try and reduce this potential.
And then there's also a current uncertainty
about the federal protection status.
Again, interpretations continue to change
and we don't know whether a potential future
listing could occur, not occur.
And there is the option to add it later through an amendment, but again, that puts the county and the
communities that litigation risk by opening up the permit.
So staff has some recommendations for the board's consideration today.
Staff recommendation number one is to retain the burying all those recovered species under the
application package to maintain regulatory stability.
Reduce potential long-term risk to development activities and the county and to strengthen
in our conservation credibility under the MSHDP.
We recommend approval of the final avoidance
of minimization measures, which was included as a report attached
to the agenda item for our submission
to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service later this year.
And we recommend directing the Desert Conservation
program to continue working with jurisdictions and developers
to develop those supplemental implementation documents
that we're developing during the work group process.
Thank you, and any questions?
Thank you very much.
We appreciate your presentation in the work
that went into it, including the collaborative effort
that you went through.
Are there any discussion, Commissioner Gibson?
This was probably as good a report as we've ever seen,
because we understand exactly what the risks are.
We understand what the delays could mean.
We understand the challenges that we might all face
as we go forward and it makes it so that it is easy for me to follow the recommendation of the staff
even understanding the concerns that have been expressed.
So, if there are no other concerns to be expressed.
Can I just ask one question?
And I'd probably should ask a question that I don't know the answer to you.
Bear with me and if you don't have the answer that's fine too.
So, when it comes to development costs, right?
We hear that a lot these days, but don't we set the fee on what it is for the burrowing
now, much like the tortoise, right, because we have to justify that we can provide the right
habitat for them and do all those things, right?
So we, we is the commission, set that fee, and it doesn't have to be crazy, right, because
we know.
Correct.
So part of the process that we are proposing is that
Desert Conservation Program will handle all of the clearance survey work,
and that will be covered under the per acre fee that developers paid by their permit coverage essentially.
So that will be included in the fee the process to go out and do the clearance surveys.
Won't be something that developers have to secure and pay for on their own.
And yes, you are correct, the commissioners will, when the time comes, we'll receive a report on an analysis of what that will cost to implement, and we'll vote on what that periodic or fee should be.
Okay, so we do have, so the development cost, we have an issue, we can, our judgment, we can figure out what that looks like.
Okay, thank you.
Anything, Commissioner Becker?
What are the protections under the Migratory Bird Act for this species?
The Migratory Bird Treaty Act prohibits take, which is essentially the same definition
of take under the Endangered Species Act, which is to harm harass, pursue, hunt, shoot,
wound, trap, kill, capture, collect or attempt to engage in any such activity.
The interpretation that continues to change is whether or not incidental take is prohibited
or not.
So, under the Endangered Species Act, you can get a permit for incidental take.
That's what this permit application will be doing.
Under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act,
there is no such permit process at the time.
So you cannot get a permit for incidental take.
So the current administration has said
that their legal interpretation is that incidental take
is not prohibited.
Previous administrations and going all the way back to 1918
when the act was enacted,
have all interpreted that incidental take is prohibited?
So would that mean that by including this species,
it would actually provide more
more protection for the builders because they wouldn't be subject to incidental taking,
they would be covered by that?
It provides protection by allowing us to get on site before development activities to remove
owls so that there is no incidental take of current.
Thank you very much.
So I just one thing, we've been through this with it was a learning curve when the desert
tortoise protections became a real important piece of the approvals that we do and all
of the other work that we do in site exploration and preparation.
And we figured it out, and I think we'll figure this out too, and I appreciate the questions
that have been asked because in reality, it isn't worth having an unknown risk out there
for anybody who is in business, but in particular, as we have a housing shortage and we have
an affordability issue that we face right now, we don't need to expose people to something
that is really undefinedable right now.
And that's principally why I've come to the conclusion
that we need to follow the recommendation of the staff
and so my motion is to do that.
I guess I'm uncomfortable going forward with this
without hearing from the other people
that have a stake in this.
For me, I haven't heard anything about this until yesterday.
So I would prefer to hear from Neop from the, you know, homebuilders and just get their
take on this and exactly what the cost might be, because it's more than just permitting,
it's slowing down development, it's slowing down their work sides, it's slowing down,
you know, who, you know, it puts everything on hold.
So to me, I would just prefer to hear from everyone before I make that type of decision.
And if
I find my Mr. Chair, I understand that, I appreciate that.
I guess from reading all of the material, I thought that NAAP and the Home Builders had
been innimately involved in all of these discussions.
Do we not have a fair representation of their position?
I haven't heard from one person, but I haven't heard from the typical people who call us when
really concerned about something. So help us understand how deeply involved those
developers have been. Yes, NAAP was represented in the avoidance minimization measures
workgroup and in fact that is the one representative that buries this concern. They were
the homebuilders groups supported continued inclusion and all of the workgroup participants
were notified that this meeting would be taking place today and that there was an opportunity
to provide comment if they so wish?
I don't know.
I guess Commissioner Baker's asking if anyone's here.
This isn't a public comment period.
If someone wanted to identify themselves from the industry,
I'd be happy to extend a public comment period to them.
So I will open a public comment period if anyone's wishing to speak on this item.
Seeing none, I'll close that public comment period.
And I guess I would just echo those comments that I think this has been a really extensive process
process with industry. I believe that. I think the documentation back set up. So I'm comfortable
moving forward with the recommendation. Is there anything else that we should know about
that process?
No, I don't think so at this time. In terms of how the process went or next step.
Just the stakeholder involvement. I think it was pretty sufficiently noticed. Today's meeting was
We made every effort to reach out to a diverse group of representation from the development community and through all the local jurisdictions that would be responsible for implementing some of these measures.
Okay. Anything further for discussion?
I would just ask how common is this species here in Clark County?
It is relatively common, but the reason for the concern having been brought up.
So when you say there's a particular around the fringes of the urban valley, especially in the north, there are
Documentive occurrences around the valley.
So when you say there's a 30 to 50 percent decline, is that not occurring here in Clark County? Is that in other areas?
No, it is occurring. It's development continues to encroach on the Habitat and other impacts occur as well.
And if we're going to go forward with this, what was the determination for just some of these groups, if you could just tell me so that you mentioned home.
Some builders, naipo, what were there?
Every other group that was represented either expressed strong support to fairly neutral support for
inclusion.
Nobody else expressed desire to see their borrowing all removed.
When you say removed, what does that mean?
Removed as a proposed covered species from our application package.
So everyone wanted it included.
Yes, okay.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I believe there's a motion for approval.
The approval would be with staff's recommendations,
inclusive of the three recommendations,
including the borough of owls as covered species.
Please cast your vote.
Thank you very much, the motion passes.
Commissioner, is it's now 10 a.m.
so we can now move to the public hearing of your agenda.
Public hearing section of your agenda.
Item 50 is to conduct a public hearing
to review the request for waiver
for a package of liquor store for Latino liquor,
located at 2885 East Charleston Boulevard Suite 100,
Las Vegas, Nevada 8904,
and accordance with Park County Code 8.20.450
location restrictions.
Good morning.
Morning Mr. Chair, members of the Commission,
Vince Keyon, a director of business license.
February 3rd, 2026, Latino liquor submitted a request
to wave the 1,500 foot distance restriction from a church.
The proposed business is approximately 1,100.
193 feet away from the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses Church located at 1, 3, 3, 5,
South Mojave Road, Las Vegas, Nevada, 8, 9, 1, 0, 4, and the church was notified of Latino
liquor on February 26, 26. Thank you.
All right. This is a public hearing. Do you want to
speak on this item?
Let's fight over who's going to speak?
The fight was over who speaks second.
Hi, my name is El Rojas, I'm a resident of Sunrise Manager and I'm very active in the
safety of the community.
We've been involved in trying to keep the community clean and control the homeless problem
and the crime that's associated with it.
There's an ordinance like it said that we're asking the commissioners to uphold the ordinance
and not give the slicker store the right to just put liquor on the area there.
That's a high home was area, the statistics say that 38% of the homeless people are suffering
from Bob Hall of B.S. and there are two liquor stores already. There are around 2711s.
There's a market which shall sell heavy liquor and I went down there to that Latino liquor.
First of all, I'm Latino. They don't even have any Latino liquor in there. Okay?
I'm for really all of you who know what Rompope is. There's no Rompope there. So I don't know how
We can call yourself a Latino liquor store and other doing selling liquor and potato chips.
And there's a bunch of homeless people over there.
So I'm asking that one of the problems that we're having here on the east side is too
many of these liquor stores congregated in these high crime high homeless areas.
I'm asking that you uphold the ordinance and reject their license.
Thank you very much.
Next,
he mentioned about other two liquor stores.
They are for a part.
Can you stay your name for the record?
Oh, Joe Maine, from the Chandler Liquor.
So he was mentioning of the other two liquor stores I believe.
They are very far apart than where we are.
We are also far from them.
If he has an issue with his story,
I think something from his 10 or 11 or other things.
We are branding, we don't see an issue.
We even have a market in the same plaza.
We just call it the Chandler Mercado.
We have a meat market. We have a grocery store in there. It's 4,000, almost 4,000 square feet store with of course beer and wine tobacco and gaming
So and that's been there for over 15 years. That's store location. I don't feel that's the homelessness issue is from our stores
This is my belief. I believe it helps the community and it gets more jobs and tax big
Thank you much
those that we're hearing, and this is like 1200 feet away from a church, which is no requirement
of 1500 feet.
It's Keanu for the record.
Yes, it's approximately 1,193 feet.
So the board may wave down to 500 feet.
And that's why it's on the side of it because we can wave down to 500.
So anyway, I've looked at the store, I know the area well, and I support the application.
So I would move for approval.
Motion for approval, please cast your vote.
Motion passes.
Commissioners, your next item is to conduct a public hearing and approve adopt and authorize
the chair to sign an ordinance to amend Clark County Air Quality Regulation Section
12.0 applicability and general requirements for permitting stationary sources to remove
applicability language and edit formatting to create a new section 131.
B.O.C. emissions control for a multiplied asphalt as a contingency measure for the 2015
ozone standard to regulate owners or operators that may cause or contribute to the emissions
of volatile organic compounds. By implementing VOC content limits, container labeling, registration,
record, keeping at compliance requirements and providing for other matters properly related
there too. And to authorize the control officer to compile and submit the approved ordinance
and all related documentation, including the technical support document, to the Nevada Division
of Environmental Protection for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approval into the Nevada
State Implementation Plan.
Thank you. Good morning.
I'd lend this time the planning manager for the Department of Environment and Sustainability.
Today's public hearing is for two separate rule-making.
The first one involves a revision to air quality regulation 12.0,
intended generally to update some applicability language that's addressed in subsequent
regulations. And secondly, we are promulgating a new regulation, air quality regulation,
section 131. This is to satisfy Cleaner Act obligations regarding our state implementation
plan for the 2015 ozone standard.
The Air Quality Regulation 131 is a contingency measure to be triggered if our area
does not achieve certain milestones, primarily whether we attain the ozone standard by August
of 2027. Both of these regulations underwent public participation. Additionally, we held a workshop
with industry to address the requirements in Section 131. I do not have a presentation
for you today, but I'm happy to address any questions that you may have.
Thank you very much. This is a period for public comment. Anyone wishing to speak please
come forward at this time. Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing. Are there any questions or comments from the commission?
If there are not, excuse me, I move approval which would include the revision to Reg 12.0 and the creation
of a new
county's FY 2022, 2023 annual auction plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
in order to reprogram $900,000 of community development block grant funds to the Southern Nevada
Children's Advocacy Center, approve and authorize the community housing administrator or her
designate submit the amendment to approve and authorize the county manager or his designate designate
as Sarah Documents related there too.
Thank you, is there a presentation on this item?
Good morning.
Good morning, Mr. Chair, commissioners.
Dagny Staples and Community Housing Administrator.
Excuse me, this is a public hearing to accept a change to our HUD annual action plan
from a few years ago to reallocate or reprogram funds to the county for tentative improvements
to the Southern Nevada Children's Advocacy Center.
would be happy to answer any questions.
Thank you very much.
This is a public comment period.
Anyone wishing to speak can come forward at this time.
We're on item 52.
Seeing none, I'll close the public comment period.
Open up for discussion.
If there is another discussion, I move the approval of the
Reallocation.
Thank you.
There's a motion for approval.
Please cast your vote.
That motion passes.
Thank you.
There are presentations.
Commissioners, this represents FY fiscal year 25 budgetary savings that are recommended to go to capital for pay go funding.
Excellent.
This is a public hearing.
Anyone wishing to speak?
Please come forward at this time.
Seeing no one, I'll close the public period on item 53.
I'm over approval.
Can you take that motion for approval? Please cast your vote.
The motion passes.
Your next item is conduct a public hearing to receive objections from the public
concerning the granting of an amendment to the telecommunications franchise agreement
to Metro FibreNet LLC, DBA Betronet, MetroNet to provide for telecommunications services
and certain uncorporated areas of Clark County, and to approve and authorize the
to sign a first amendment to the telecommunications
franchise agreement between Clark County and Metro Fibranette
to expand MetroNet service area to provide subscription service
in certain unincorporated areas of Clark County to Vata
and for providing for rather matters properly related there too.
Thank you. Good morning. Good morning chair commissioners.
Mike Harwell for Business License. MetroNet was issued or is granted
a franchise agreement for telecom services last year last April
for the Spring Valley area.
They've since requested to expand that area to Sunrise Manor.
That's what this first amendment is doing.
And pursuant to NRS 709, we had to go through the process
of posting or publishing the notice in the local newspaper
and posting it in the town that's being affected
for any comments or complaints that anyone might want
We received not as far as I know, and this is ready for your approval and I have here for any questions.
Thank you very much.
This is a public hearing anyone wishing to speak.
Please come forward at this time.
If you could just state your name for the record.
Jill Cortes, and I am with Metropolitan Faberaptics.
Good morning.
Chairman and commission.
I would be able to answer any questions if you have them.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Seeing no one else wishing to speak.
I'll close the public hearing, turn it over to the board.
May I ask one question, and maybe this is for the applicant.
So you're moving into sunrise manner, so we do have an internet issue anywhere.
I'm going to share a single room will agree with me, right?
Anywhere east of Hollywood, and I see in your map you're going to cover that area, where is that on the plan?
because we've been trying for years and years and years,
and I'd rather see you start there and work
to the inside of town.
So right now we are in the permit process with Clark County
and working to obtain our first permits.
And the map is designated today,
but we are able to work in real time
and make moves or shift where we start or where we end if needed.
So. But we should this pass. I guess maybe Commissioner Sagar Blumen, I would like to sit down with you because it's a public safety runs into a situation between the unconformity and the training center and, you know, so should this pass and you get expanded. We'd like the opportunity to maybe sit down with you and kind of what happens is people want to start where there's the most people around.
And I would bet you're going to start the Boulder Highway in Pico, Syria, but we need more of the service in the far east.
Yes, we would absolutely sit down and chat with you and work on the maps and show you exactly our intentions.
And like I said, we can make moves in real time to accommodate.
Okay. Perfect.
Thank you very much. Any more discussion from the board?
Mr. Chair, I would note that we did not receive any objections, and I would move approval
of the expansion.
Thank you very much.
There's a motion for approval.
Please cast your vote.
A motion passes.
Thank you.
Your next item is to conduct a public hearing and approve adopt an authorize the chair to sign ordinance to amend Clark County Code Title 7 by adding chapter 7.220.
I'm sorry, Minister Schiller, we were going to advance the following item if we could, which would be item 56.
Okay, item 56 commissioners connect public hearing to approve or deny a special event preliminary approval application from Insomniac Holdings LLC to hold a special event on May 14th,
2026 at 2880 South Las Vegas Boulevard Las Vegas Nevada 8909 and providing for other matters properly related there too.
Good morning again Mr. Chair, members of the Commission, Vince Kiano, interim director of
Clark County Sports and Special Events.
So this special event is an outdoor music festival featuring a parade along Las Vegas Boulevard.
The estimated attendance is approximately 30,000.
The parade is going to commence at the Las Vegas Fairgrounds head south on Las Vegas Boulevard.
Make a huge turn on Genting by Resorts World, head north on Las Vegas Boulevard, and conclude
at the festival grounds.
In attendance, we have the representatives of the Fire Department,
Comprehensive Planning, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department,
Public Works and RTC.
We also have, in Somniac, we have Alexander Bear sitting down,
Nate and Armstrong.
We have Zach Alpin and Vanessa Anthus.
And now I'll turn it over to them for their presentation.
Thank you.
Thank you. Good morning if you could just stay your names again for the record.
Good morning, Chairman and Board members. My name is Zach Alpine. I'm with Insomniac.
Good morning. My name is Vanessa Antis with Insomniac.
I'm going to start this with just going a little background on the idea behind this. So EDC and event you guys know very well.
It's having it's 30 year anniversary for this upcoming event. And we couldn't be more excited by commemorating that 30 anniversary here.
here in the area that embraced us,
we moved that event in 2011.
And as with the support of the county
that we've been able to grow this event
and to being the largest music festival in the world.
And we thank you very much for welcoming us
and continuing to allow us to grow our experiences here.
Throughout our time in the county,
we have started with a festival.
We have moved into an EDC week experience.
We have added Camp EDC to accentuate the experience.
And we also are doing a hotel EDC experience
over at the Virgin Hotel and in this year we have worked on the idea of doing a parade for
a long time. Our CEO is a huge fan of Disney and the electrical parade has always been
an inspiration for many of the things that we have done and so as we look into this 30 year
moment we wanted to come up with something that would really put a flag down here so all eyes would
be on Las Vegas for our 30th anniversary and so what we're looking to do with this event is
When we first will actually, when we back up, we came out here to solicit ideas and feedback on what that might mean and what would be valuable here for the county.
And there are two pillars that we are really trying to prop up with this event.
The first being community engagement.
So it's really unique about this event.
Our event is free and open to the public and meant to be family friendly.
This parade.
It's also unique in and of itself.
It's not a fourth day of EDC.
It's actually a world-party parade, which is going to have its own identity, its own look and feel, and its own acceptance.
And we hope that will invite everyone within the community who has an interest in coming down,
to experience the celebration of this event, to be able to come down here.
And the idea is to be able to make this fully engaging for everyone.
The other one is for us to do community impact, and we're looking that on the form of tourism.
And, as you guys know, most of our activity, we do have everyone staying throughout the properties and the hotels all throughout the county and the city, but we're also doing a lot of our frequency of foot traffic and everything is happening during the festival hours over at the speedway.
Here, by doing a parade within the strip, we're able to do additional foot traffic, which we're hoping that will naturally transition to having engagement and hospitality and gaming and food and all the wonderful things that the strip has to offer.
We'll also with adding the extra day on the front end have an increase of heads and beds for the hotels so that way we're having additional ways for the all the properties and everyone else to have economic benefit from our effect.
So just a little bit of a high level which way do I go.
I'm sorry.
I don't like that.
Could we advance that for him?
Sorry about that.
Thank you very much, Vincent.
All right, so just at a high level what we're looking to do here is the event will take place on Thursday in the latter part of the evening.
It will start at 6 p.m.
And as I said before, it's going to be a free event.
It's going to work its way down in Vanessa.
We'll tell you about the route in a little bit more specificity, but it will terminate in the Las Vegas Festival grounds in an area which we'll have a culminating celebration that will last for a few hours.
The vessel grounds capacity in and of itself is approximately 65,000, but as Vince had mentioned before art anticipated attendance for this event is going to be about 30,000.
The parade and the exact particulars are still being worked on to its like final specs, but we're loosely looking at around 15 floats that will be in different groups that will have performers and various other type of activities that you would see.
Think of, like I said, the Disney electrical parade mashed up with kind of the rose ball.
Let's see here.
We think the parade for its termination is going to go for about one mile an hour and about
last about two and a half hours before it pulls into the festival grounds.
As I mentioned, it's going to take place in the festival grounds.
It's going to be in front of these properties, all of which we have spoken to.
And we're in the process or have already submitted all the required permits as we're going through to get final approval.
This is just representative of just kind of the imagery and this look and feel for those of you haven't been to EDC of what we're hoping to be able to deliver to all of everyone who comes in the families and the friends.
And then with that I'll turn it over to Vanessa to kind of walk you through what the parade route will look like.
Mr Chairman and commissioners, so as noted, the parade will be approximately two and a half hours in length.
It will start at the RV and transportation
lot of the festival grounds.
It will then pull out onto the boulevard at 6pm.
Head southbound, you turn on getting.
Head back northbound, you turn on Sahara,
and then pull back into the festival grounds.
With that, once the parade pulls into the festival grounds
as noted, the art cars will link up and have different pods.
So those cars, those will serve as the stages.
There will not be a separate stage that
is going to be built all the musical emanate from those cars where areas will have different
types of music. As the Headliners move back into the festival grounds, that is where they
will go through an open gate security screening as well as we will be able to then monitor capacity
within that lot since it is a free event. We are in the process of continuing our small group working
sessions with various public agencies and entities to ensure all of our permitting and safety
items are addressed and issued accordingly.
We have our next planning session with those various groups tomorrow, and those have been
ongoing meetings up into this point.
With that, we will also be working with Pat G and other agencies to do the closures for
this area, who is familiar with closing different entities from other large events that happen
in the resort corridor.
With that, if there are any questions, we are happy to answer and address any items that the
board may wish to discuss.
Thank you very much.
This is a public hearing. I'll see my questions after that.
Yep, I'm going to go ahead and open the public hearing on this item.
Anyone wishing to speak, please come forward at this time.
My name is Al-Rohos, I'm a resident of Sunrise Matter, which contains the speedway
and they have the electrical show.
It's an event that everybody here in Clark County should go and visit.
It's a fantastic event and some people don't even know about that.
have this every year during Christmas season and this would be a great opportunity for the
people who never got to see it to see it and it's a great family event. I totally support
this. It appears to be well managed. It's safety. It shows how to run a proper event. I like
these people that are just going out there and doing all kinds of crazy stuff, putting everybody
at risk. So I totally support this and if you haven't seen the electrical event over at the
everybody go with it and check your family,
every Christmas, it's a fantastic event.
Thank you very much.
Anyone else wishing to speak?
Please come forward at this time or on item 56.
Good morning.
My name is Brian Mills,
B. R. I. A. N.
I'm here today.
I, the president of the Vegas wedding chamber of commerce.
As many of you know, also I have a,
in addition to working one of the wedding chapels here.
I also work with different sporting events
and music festivals to put weddings at their events.
And I've worked with Formula One.
We do all the weddings for them, NASCAR.
The Viva Las Vegas Rockability Convention, and since 2013,
I've been in charge of putting on all of the weddings
at the Electric Daisy Carnival.
I can personally tell you that when they plan something,
it is very thorough.
We put everything together for the wedding
chaplains in 2013, and now we've grown it so much
that we're doing 150 weddings over three days.
And the fact that they come here and continually look for ways
to give back to our community is an amazing thing.
I know every year with Commissioner Kurt Patrick,
you organize all of the trees and the greenery
that's out there to get donated.
And we have a chapel of nature out there.
We're my wife and I are so excited to see every year
when you donate those trees.
Also, the insomnia is very kind and generous
to let us have access to their key art with their work with the marriage bureau and when
we do the commemorative marriage certificates, we actually put the artwork from that year's
EDC on there.
And then they gather every year when they have kids come for a bring your child to work
day, they will have the kids get together in a conference room and they make these little
candy bracelets and we give these out to our wedding couples and we tell them it's from
the children of Clark County and they're so excited every year that they post them on social
media.
And that's another great idea too, because I know those of us that were at that LVCVA board meeting the other day, they're investing a lot of money to try to get people from, especially Canada to come back.
And I work with them a lot to give them content about how we can promote Las Vegas as a world destination for the weddings with a wedding capital of the world.
And so the fact that they give us such a platform,
this event would provide an amazing amount
of free publicity.
Four Las Vegas to be promoted to all over the world.
So as we become the entertainment,
we'll be the entertainment capital world,
the wedding and the capital world.
By the time this thing is over,
we're probably gonna be the parade capital world.
So I just wanted to express my support and say thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Anyone else wish you to speak during public comment?
Please come forward at this time.
Seeing no one I'll close the public hearing, Commissioner Sigurdlin.
Yeah, I think we can ask those questions of Director Kiano if you'd like.
Director Kiano, maybe you could just remind us this is a preliminary approval for the
closures on the Boulevard.
Maybe you can also advise us on the continued collaboration with the Metropolitan Police
Department and with the Clark County Fire Department and what their role will be
Moving forward.
Vince Cano for the record.
Yes, so we've been working with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, along with the other safety agencies.
So we generally pre-screen all of these events prior to coming to the board for the pre-approval to move forward.
And I do have all the representatives of the public safety agencies here if you want more detailed answer on specific questions.
Thank you.
We'll go ahead and open for discussion, Commissioner Jones.
Yeah, I would just say this is just the parade.
So I need permits that are necessary for the festival and all that.
That's going to go through the normal process.
Correct, Mr. Chair.
That's coming up, Commissioner.
And so I was just going to say, there's a couple things.
So and I appreciate you recognizing because those plants give me great hair,
I think, sometimes.
But 600 people from around the valley love it,
and we have a good time doing it.
But this is, so the reason that they're here today is because of the special events department that we created and one of the triggers is if they should close any portion of our roadways.
We want to be able to see to ensure that everybody is working all on the same page, just why the true reason that we haven't seen them in the past.
but this is why we're here today,
because it's a new process that we put in place,
just so that commissioners used to read about it in the paper
or on Twitter or wherever, and we would have tons of questions.
I for one am supportive of this,
because I know that the one thing that I know about EDC and I,
I was probably not on the same side as them when we were in the legislature,
But we've worked over the years to do great things, but I know that safety is a top-notch
piece. They never cut corners on safety and in fact I like to use them in my district as
whatever video should be like because they go that extra step.
So, whether it's the wind that happens, almost every other EDC that they can navigate real quickly, and they can make it work.
And I'm assuming that if with the parade, we always know that's a crazy weekend that there might be some wind, and I'm sure you guys are taking into consideration some extra weight in those floats that you're having.
And I know that we've also talked about we've revised more than once the parade route,
because we want to ensure that end of the strip is typically a little less busy,
especially on a Thursday night, so it makes sense to help those businesses try and have something,
but for me, the one thing that I really appreciate giving back to our community,
because the East Side will tell you and really this is how bear and I started, they get the
brunt of the buses that come in the music and when we said, we asked you all, how can the East Side
feel a little more loved? Doing that, the plants in who would have ever known that it takes up like
it does, right? So last year we had people waiting five hours for one plant to it's crazy thing,
but so I appreciate that the families get to be part of it.
I also appreciate that you guys have reached out
to the school district for not only a workforce component
for the kids to see what it takes
to put on the electrical stuff, but at the same time,
to have them participate in it.
So it means a lot to me when the community gets involved
because what happens so many times,
people come here make their money and split
and we don't see them until they come back.
But you guys have truly been a long-term heart county partner, right?
So our staff, from the health district, from Metro, it's so turn-key, everything that you do because you're not asking for waivers and you're not changing this and you're not, if our staff says, you know, it has to be this, you guys are like, okay, let's, let's do it that way.
So I appreciate the collaboration.
So for me, I've been following this for a little bit of time.
I know that Lieutenant Bell has been very involved in it.
And really, he's always the first.
Because if he can't accommodate the closure on this wherever,
it's probably a no-go for everybody, right?
So and he does not, he pushes back because that's why we have him, right?
So if he's comfortable, our fire department seems very comfortable on what this could be,
or business licensing, I feel like this could be a good thing for families.
I want to make sure that when we talk about when we, at some point, and I know you guys will,
because you always do, when you turn around, so I think my initial conversation is a woof,
that's a long time, that's a slow parade, and I think you guys have addressed that,
But when they turn around and go back into the festival garden, the festival grounds, I just want
to make sure we have a really good safety plan there, and we know who's coming in there,
who's staying in there, because I do seem for many families.
If you try to go to the neon museum, it's very expensive, and here you're opening up your doors
free.
I do think you're going to get a lot of community that wants to see that, so I want to make
that we can control the flow and I'm comfortable based on what I've seen and heard that I think that you're already way ahead of me in working on that and I think this is good for our community bottom line.
So I just want to remind you, the festival ground has a notice requirement to residents. I'm not sure if you've done that enough but we can work with you to make sure you do that.
And other than that, I just want to say it's fantastic
for the North End of the Strip.
You know, we do Parades on the South End of the Strip,
but this is going to be the first up here.
So, and I call this Bernie Manders Disney
on Las Vegas Strip.
Thank you so much.
I'm sure, Commissioner Mecker.
I just wanted to see if Metro had anything
to add regarding safety precautions.
Good morning, ma'am.
Sergeant Frederick from Las Vegas Metro
special events. No, we don't. The parade route we can we can make that closure. We've
done it before for festivals for egress. And as far as safety and security within the festival
grounds itself to your point, we have had many festivals over there. The ingress and egress plan
is sufficient. Security with open gates screening is sufficient. We'll be able to staff
up police officers from Metro. We use Henderson as partners as well. And we have a long
standing working relationship with Insomniac. It's a very great partnership. We work very
well together. So we have no issues there, ma'am.
Thank you. We'll extend the invitation to Clark County Fire Department as well.
Good morning.
Good morning. Chief to few. Chief to few. Clark County Fire Department Deputy Fire Chief.
No, we don't have any current concerns. The first thing that we were going to address with Insomniac
was the attendance issue that Commissioner Cropatra came up with.
They informed her today that they're going to do
install a process to make sure that we're tracking that.
And then additionally, we're working on the floats themselves.
We are in great communication with them.
Obviously, we've had a longstanding relationship,
and it was exactly their talk to.
We have put together an extensive question here
and they're in great collaboration to make sure
that those floats are safe to go up and down the boulevard.
So nothing from the Clark County Department.
Thank you very much, then I guess I'm just confused
because I didn't know that EDC was considered a family event.
It's the world party parade, which is a new piece of it,
and it is the electrical parade for the families.
So they won't be doing half of the other stuff they do,
EDC.
Well, invite the applicant to speak.
I will just caution, this is a separate standalone event that we're talking about.
Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't make that clearer earlier.
This is the Thursday event as its own experience.
It's called the World Party Parade.
It's just leveraging EDC as an anchor so that way we can rely on the fans.
What we call headliners coming to come a day earlier to help on the economic side.
But the other idea behind this all was to make this family friendly.
There's a lot of people in Las Vegas who either don't know about it or really really know about it
and want to experience, but maybe don't want to deal with crowds
or have to go to the speedway or any other kind of reasons.
So for this purpose, we were trying to create and experience that everyone can come to.
It's free.
To your point, this is a non-revent, and it's actually the opposite of a revenue driver.
We're going to be losing a lot of money on this, but for us, it's an investment in the community
and our partnership.
And I have to say, I'm really humbled by all the kind words for everyone to come up from
the board.
And from people behind here, it makes us very appreciative of continuing to be here.
Any other questions or discussion?
I'm like a motion of motion for approval and just want to say this is very close to
commercial center so feel free to use that area too.
There's a motion for approval, please cast your vote,
that motion passes.
Commissioner's, we can move back to item 55 which is to conduct public carrying
approving adopt the authorized to chair assign an ordinance to a man Clark County Code title
7 by adding chapter 7.220 to establish regulations governing the retail sale of hemp
and have derived products, including findings, licensed application requirements, fees, operational
regulations, investigation, and inspection penalties, and enforcement into a man-clark
county code, 6.0020 to make conforming changes regarding work identification, card requirements,
and providing for other matters properly related there too.
Before you open the public hearing, I do need to read in some changes from staff related to
post-ordinates. In section one of the post-ordinates
subsection 7.220.310. Subsection F is deleted and it's
entirety and the remaining subsections G through
case shall be re-lettered accordingly. And in section
five of the proposed ordinance is amended by replacing 90 days
with 120 days. There are also available copies for this
with the public as well.
Thank you. Good morning.
Morning again Mr. Chair, Vince Keyon, a director of business license, I did bring up our
Deputy Director, Jennifer Willford, to help me answer some questions.
So the retail sale of hemp and hemp derived products in the unincorporated areas of Clark County
has expanded rapidly following changes to federal law.
hemp products, including items containing cannabinoids, compose health risks, if contaminated
in accurately dosed, misrepresented, or sold without safeguards.
Many hemp products are currently sold without rigorous third-party testing or uniform compliance standards.
The unregulated sale of such products poses risks to the health safety and welfare of the public including but not limited to inaccurate labeling and potency,
contamination, youth access, and consistent business practices.
So I'm just going over some of the highlights of the ordinance, this ordinance creates a license category called hemp retail store, which will require businesses selling hemp and or hemp products to obtain a business license for this activity.
The license fee will be a semi-annual gross revenue license.
If approved the ordinance will go into effect in 120 days.
The ordinance will require the following, lab testing for potency, microbials, pesticides and heavy metals.
All potential THC will be calculated and reported in the lab tests, and prohibition on artificially
derived cannabinoids, signage indicating that the business is not licensed, is not a licensed
cannabis dispensary, and is not licensed to sell cannabis.
You're prohibition on selling any intoxicated intoxicating products, prohibition on CBD and
food products, and the requirement for customers to be at least 21 years old.
Additionally, the ordinance will require the following.
The limit for total THC for flower will be 0.3% and 0.4 milligrams per package.
The requirement that neither advertising nor labeling may represent that the business
sells cannabis products are intoxicating or provide medical benefits.
Employees will be required to have a valid work card from the Las Vegas metropolitan police department.
I'll have to have to write products must be kept in the original, unopened container or packaging and
must clearly identify all THC concentrations on the label.
That concludes our presentation.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
This is a public hearing.
So we're going to begin with that at this time.
There are two microphones.
So we're going to ask you to line up and take turns rotating between microphones.
Please, when you come forward, stay your full name for the record.
And you may speak for up to three minutes. Good morning.
Good morning and happy St. Patrick's day. My name's Patrick Conlogue with P.X. International.
I'm here today opposed to the language in this bill.
I'm glad I got to sit in on this meeting today because I saw a lot of important things in regards to the protection of the burrowing.
And the willingness to extend that license to Latino liquor, it shows a concern, a deep concern for the nuances of subtle issues and the willingness to really support business here in Nevada.
My company has been here for almost 10 years.
We specialize in manufacturing CBD products.
We have never been a THC company, I think, a lot of you guys know that the problem here
that we're discussing is THCA and that actors that are selling THC disguised as CBD.
And that's the real problem.
You're going to see a lot of people here today, this is a very passionate, controversial topic.
And I just want to go over real quickly a few things that just don't work.
I'm a guy who's devoted his entire life to this plant.
I understand it very deeply from the chemical level,
the scientific level and the mathematical level.
I'd like to see the 0.3% because that aligns
with what exists right now at the federal level.
But when you put 0.4 milligrams per package,
it just doesn't work from a mathematical standpoint.
If we take 1 gram of CBD flour, which we've had conversations and we can agree that CBD
flour is not the problem here.
But if you take 1 gram of CBD flour at 0.3%.
That's 3 milligrams of THC in that 1 gram of CBD flour.
That CBD flour is CBD dominant.
It has 15 to 20% CBD.
But even at 0.3%, it still contains three milligrams of THC.
So if this language were to pass and we were to be limited at 0.4 milligrams per package,
we would not be able to sell CBD flour itself.
And that really encompasses the problem of this language.
It just doesn't take into account the real scientific mathematical equations that go with this plan.
You know, we talk about cannabis.
Marijuana is cannabis.
Hemp is cannabis.
So when we talk-
Talk about advertising. Not being able to use a picture of the leaf, the cannabis plant. It's also a little bit of an oxymoron.
Thank you very much.
Thank you. Good morning.
Good morning, Chairman Nath, commissioners. My name is Lori Rogish. I am a Nevada State Senator for district election, which is in the southwest portion of Valley.
And I'm also a regulatory compliance lawyer. I represent a deep roots harvest since 2014.
Thank you for your leadership in taking on this ordinance and for being willing to confront this loophole that has existed in Clark County for far too long.
I got involved in the cannabis space because my daughter Jessica's death.
She was 30 years old when after unknowingly consuming an illegal cannabis product lace with a deadly narcotic.
She experienced a sudden terrifying psychotic break, and that state of mind she committed suicide.
Jessica left behind a little boy, my grandson, whom my husband and I have adopted and raised.
So when I talk about unregulated intoxicating products, I am not speaking only as a policy maker.
I am also speaking as a mom and as a grandmother who has lived with the intense pain of losing a child.
I used to spend my time laughing and talking with my daughter Jessica.
Now instead of meeting her for lunch or dinner, I visit her grave in a cemetery on Eastern Avenue.
That is the human cost of an unregulated dangerous market.
We are facing the same kind of danger today, untested, unlabeled, intoxicating products
sold outside any real regulatory program.
Intoxicating hemp products have created an unregulated market that hides behind the
word hemp and exploits the gaps in the law for profit.
Because of what happened to my daughter, I turned my family's grief into a voice and a flight
to make sure intoxicating products are tested, labeled,
and regulated to protect other families.
That commitment is what led me into the cannabis industry,
and why I ran a good part for the State Senate.
Last session, I brought a bill to close this intoxicating
hemp loophole state on a statewide basis,
but the Senate committee chair refused to let it go to vote.
Your action here at the county level matters so much.
This ordinance is not about banning hemp.
There is a place for safe, non-intoxicating hemp products.
This ordinance draws a bright line.
Safe, non-intoxicating hemp products remain in the general market.
Intoxicating can of benoids like Delta 8 and Delta 10 belong only in our licensed
cannabis system when products are tested, labeled, age-restricted, and subject to real enforcement.
You will hear from some in the hemp industry that this goes too far.
But what this ordinance really does is protect people.
It protects our kids or grandkids, the workers who power our resort economy, our first responders and the millions of tourists who visit Clark County every year.
It also protects the legitimate tax paying cannabis businesses.
Those businesses have invested in Nevada strict regulatory framework and the tax base that funds our schools in public safety.
So thank you again for bringing this ordinance forward and for putting the safety of our families, our workers and our visitors ahead of unregulated profit.
Thank you, Senator Rogitz. Good morning. Good morning, chair and aft members of the Commission,
Chelsea Capiro, here on behalf of the Nevada Cannabis Association, and we are here
in support of the proposed ordinance to amend Clark County Code Title 7 to establish regulations
governing the retail sale of hemp. The proposed ordinance brings clarity by establishing reasonable
guardrails around intoxicating hemp products. The ordinance is aligned with the federal hemp
definitions and packaging requirements signed into law in November of 2025 that go into effect
this November of 2020. As you know, the purpose of this ordinance is not to punish legitimate
Nevada businesses, but rather to regulate the expanding marketplace of intoxicating
hemp products that currently operates with far fewer safeguards than illegal cannabis
industry. License cannabis businesses operate under a comprehensive regulatory framework
up all the state and local levels.
They must obtain state and local licenses under
go extensive background checks,
comply with strict testing requirements,
track all products through a sealed seed to sales system,
and pay significant exercise taxes, sales taxes,
and fees that support Nevada schools and local governments.
In contrast, many hemp retailers sell products
that closely resemble regulated cannabis products
while avoiding these same requirements,
including testing standards, labeling rules,
and other consumer protections.
This is also a consumer protection industry, or issue, tourists on the strip encounter store
friends resembling licensed dispensaries and products package should look nearly identical
to regulated cannabis products.
Without clear guardrails, consumers often have no way to distinguish between products that
are subject to strict state and local oversight and those that are not.
It is also worth noting that while intoxicating
Temp products, intoxicating hemp products
displays regulated cannabis sales,
Nevada loses significant tax revenue
that funds education.
The licensed cannabis industry has sent more than
$800 million in exercise tax revenue
directly to the state education fund
for K-12 education.
However, exercise tax revenue
generated by legal cannabis sales
has declined year over year,
in part because of the proliferation of unregulated
and untax intoxicating hemp products.
For these reasons, we support the county's efforts
to establish clear rules governing intoxicating hemp products
and to address misleading marketing practices
that create confusion for consumers.
Thank you for addressing this issue
and we urge your support.
Thank you very much.
Good morning, Chair and members of the committee.
My name is Desjray Harmon.
I am an Nevada Head Manufacturer.
I have been operating in Nevada for nine years
complying with full state and federal regulations. I appreciate the committee's interest in ensuring
consumer safety and responsible oversight of hemp products. Responsible operators like myself share
that goal. What I would like to highlight is that Nevada already has a comprehensive regulatory
framework in place for hemp. For example, the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services requires
laboratory testing of hemp products, including canum droid testing and safety standards. These testing
requirements are equivalent to the laboratory testing standards applied to kind of
as products ensuring strong consumer protection. Under Nevada revised statute
title 40 public health and state safety chapter 439, hemp products must also meet testing
and labeling requirements ensuring transparency for consumers. The law requires that hemp
products be labelled in a manner that is not false or misleading consistent with the
585. The legislature has also addressed advertising
marketing through assembly bill 504, which regulates hemp
signage and advertising. In addition, the Nevada Department of
Agriculture administers the hemp licensing program, which requires
federal and state background checks, regulatory oversight and licensing
fees for operators. Nevada has also taken an important step by prohibiting
synthetic cannibal noise under Chapter 557, and during that
hemp products remain derived from the natural hemp plant.
Baking together Nevada already regulates hemp through licensing
and background checks, laboratory testing, equivalent to cannabis
standards, product labeling requirements, advertising,
and signage regulation prohibits synthetic cannibal noise.
As someone who has operated in Nevada for nearly a decade,
I can say responsible businesses are already
in this regulatory framework.
My request today is please recognize the regulatory system
that already has in place and ensure that responsible operators
can continue to operate within it.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you. Good morning.
Good morning, Mr. Chair and Commissioners.
My name is Ali Mangeen and I operate
at Hentmanufacturing Business here in Clark County.
I oversee compliance and daily operations,
so I'm very familiar with what it takes to stay within
Nevada's regulatory framework.
Every day, our team coordinates lab testing maintains documentation, reviews labeling, and make sure our products meet the standards required under state law.
This is not an unregulated space, responsible operators invest significant time, money, and effort into compliance.
We also understand the concern about bad actors in this industry.
We support strong enforcement against synthetic or chemically converted cannabinoids and against businesses that are not following the rules.
Nevada already has a regulatory framework in place.
Products are required to be tested, labeled, and produced under state standards.
Our concern is that adding new layers of local regulation could unintentionally burden
businesses that are already compliant, while those who ignore the law may continue operating
outside the system if existing rules are not consistently enforced.
When regulations are clear and consistently enforced, responsible businesses can operate safely
and transparently.
We respectfully ask that county policy
focus on enforcing existing standards,
and targeting non-compliant operators
while remaining aligned with Nevada's current regulatory framework.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you.
Morning Chairman, commissioners.
My name's Stephen Smith.
I represent Nevada Wellness Center
and Nevada Wellness Center West dispensers.
Right now in Clark County,
we have intoxicating products being sold all over the valley.
Gummies, drinks, evapes, they all look like marijuana.
They're being sold outside the system designed to protect the public.
They're often not tested to cannabis standards, not tracked,
not sold in licensed dispensaries, and sometimes sold in places
that confuse tourists and expose the youth.
Here's the issue. It's about intoxication.
If a product gets you high and pairs judgment or effects public safety,
it should fall the same rules as cannabis, period.
The ordinance does not ban hint, CBD fiber, and non-intoxicating products remain legal.
What it does is very simple.
If it intoxicates, it must be tested like cannabis, be tracked like cannabis, be labeled
like cannabis, and be sold through licensed dispensaries.
That protects our residents, our visitors, and your first responders.
It also restores fairness.
License cannabis to businesses follow strict regulations, pay significant taxes, and operate
under federal tax penalties.
Meanwhile, some hemp operators are selling similar intoxicating products without those
same requirements.
That is not a level playing field, and more importantly, it's not safe.
This ordinance fixes that.
It creates one clear rule, same product, same rules.
If it intoxicates, it follows cannabis law.
I urge you to support this ordinance.
Thank you.
Good morning. Good morning. My name is Edvin Frimov and I represent
retail group, Mr. Chair, commissioners and members of the public.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today.
I'm here to address agenda 55.
For more than six years, my business have operated here in Clark County.
During that time, we have employed hundreds of residents of the county
and contributed millions of dollars to the state and federal government.
Throughout this years, we have worked very hard to demonstrate what a compliant and responsible
hand-preetheller looks like.
All of our products are tested at labs approved by the cannabis compliance board.
And all of our products are manufactured at GMP certified facilities right here in Clark County
and we're very proud to support local manufacturing and local jobs.
I also want to make something very clear for the record.
My company does not sell synthetic marijuana products such as Delta 8, HHC, THCA, or similar compounds that have raised concerns in the marketplace.
The ordinance being proposed today would effectively eliminate the entire hemp industry in Clark County.
The consequences of this decision would be severe.
small businesses will be closing, thousands of jobs will be lost, and many families who depend on these jobs will face serious financial hardships.
Many of us have invested millions of dollars into our businesses under the understanding that we're operating legally and responsibly on their existing lows.
I fully respect the responsibility of this commission.
to protect the public health and safety.
If there are problematic products being sold in a market,
those concerns absolutely deserve attention.
However, the real problem comes off of incomes
from unregulated black market and online sellers.
The cheap products into Clark County without any oversight.
Responsible local businesses that follow the rules should not be punished
for actions of bad actors.
I would also respectfully point out that many of the hand businesses probably all in this community did not have the opportunity to
meaningfully participate in the development of this ordinance.
Many business owners only recently became aware of the full impact that would have on their livelihoods.
For that reason I respectfully ask the commission to consider a reasonable and constructive alternative.
The federal government is expected to release updated regulations regarding hemp products in November.
These regulations will likely provide clear guidance for state and local governments on how these products should be regulated moving forward.
Given that those federal rules are only a few months away, it would make sense for a Clark County to wait for that guidance before taking action
that would permanently eliminate an entire local industry.
Thank you.
Good morning.
Hi, Mr. Chair and members of the board.
My name is Caitlin Gatorrier.
I'm here with the retail group.
I've been with them for six years
and I'm the director of operations.
A large portion of my job is with regulatory compliance.
And Nevada does already have a pretty rigid framework
for the regulation of CBD and hemp products.
All of our products specifically are tested in labs
that are approved by the cannabis compliance board.
All of our products have the fullest of ingredients on the back.
We also have either a QR code or a batch sticker on every single one of our products that
can have the customer linked directly to the testing information so that they can see exactly
how their product was tested and what it's milder.
We test four pesticides, heavy metals, we make sure that our products are safe and that they
are hemp CBD products and that they meet federal standards.
Now, this bill will effectively eliminate non-intoxicating hemp product.
So, it is pretty much impossible, I would like to echo what Patrick said, to have one gram of hemp flour in a package, one gram, that is below 0.4 milligrams of THC. That is very, very close to impossible. It is possible to have it, below 0.3 percent of THC, which is why the mechanism is percentage and not milligram measured.
So, the changing of that mechanism and adding that 0.4mg cap would eliminate flower, broad spectrum
oils, full spectrum oils, lots of lot of lot of lot of lot of non-intoxicating products
that were not meant to be affected by this ordinance.
I understand there is a large issue in the industry with THCA, Delta 8, and Intoxicating
cannabinoids.
But there are a lot of businesses in Quart County that are not selling those products that will
eliminated by this ordinance. You will have jobs lost, you will have tax revenue lost,
you will have people put out of business, and you will also have consumers that won't be able
to get the products that they have been relying on. PRCBD non-intoxicating products that they
will no longer be able to consume. And they might look for more dangerous alternatives if they
are able to get CBD, which is non-intoxicating. So with that I ask you to hold off on this vote
to wait until federal regulations come out
to give more guidance on how we should move forward
with this industry.
Thank you, Frick time.
Thank you, good morning.
Good morning, commissioner.
Good morning, chair.
My name is John Abel.
I'm the government affairs director
for the LVPPA.
We are the union that represents all the metro
of office and town.
We support this ordinance.
It's about safety, community safety, and office
for safety.
Our officers come and contact with people every single day
that are on these types of drugs.
who had these types of bad chemicals in them, and unfortunately some times we have to use
force against them as well. So this ordinance would help keep our officers safe in the
communities safe and provide tools for our detectives to keep bad actors from selling these
products. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning. Good morning. Chair, commissioners Ryan being
representing the professional firefighters in Nevada. We appreciate the county's effort to
bring the order to an unregulated market that impacts our community and our first responders
from the public safety standpoint, this ordinance strengthens our consumer protections
and helps prevent avoidable emergencies.
At the end of the day, the ordinance strengthens public safety and reduces preventable
emergencies. Firefighters are committed to protecting the community and the safeguards do
exactly that. We appreciate your leadership on this issue. Thank you.
Thank you. Good morning, commissioners. My name is Virginia Valentine. I'm here on behalf
of the Nevada Resort Association in support of this ordinance. I want to thank you all
bring this ordinance forward. I could probably make a lot of comparisons to the legal gambling
and illegal cannabis products. But instead, I just want to say that I fully support the
comments made by Senator Rogaj, also Chelsea Kaffirrow, with the Nevada Cannabis Association,
the Metropolitan Police Department and the Board Department. I think chief among the reasons we
support this ordinance that it is about a lot, about consumer protections and level playing field.
and those, of course, are very important not just to our visitors, but also our residents.
Thank you.
Good morning.
My name is John Aquel, and I run a Cultivation Facility in North Las Vegas.
We've about 16, 17 employees, and I'm including myself.
In the last year and a half to two years, about third to a quarter of the license
Cultivation Facilities in the state have gone under, they closed.
It's a lot of jobs, a lot of tax revenue.
Some of it is hemp as a result of hemp, just to kind of give a real world example yesterday I had a meeting at the Resorts World.
And I walked up the street to a vape shop that was across the street from cookies, which is a license dispensary.
I went in and I said, oh, do you have any Seteva pre-rolls, which is a type of cannabis?
And they said, no, but you can go across the street to cookies.
But then I said, oh, but I could really use it right now.
So they took me, brought me to the front and opened up the cabinets behind the register.
As a kid, only one kid in there.
And he shows me a, like, he brings out a little plastic container that are fully
these. Now, I don't know exactly what this is, but it looks just like a pre-roll. I wouldn't smoke
this. I wouldn't recommend anyone else smokes it because we don't really know what's in it.
And we've heard already what happens sometimes when you smoke something that isn't tested.
But that's just how easy it is. I mean, it's just that easy. The other thing I asked for was
a vapen. And this is very interesting because this is actually branded cookies, which is
across the street from where I was.
Now, I don't know if this is really cookies or not,
but his first kind of sale on it was,
this is five grams for $40.
And that's, you get one or two grams
across the street for $40.
So again, I wouldn't recommend anyone have this.
But interestingly, again, on the back of this,
It says it's intoxicating, it says it says don't drive, but we don't really know what's in it.
I think that this has to be prevented, unsafe, on top of that, we have the issue of cultivations
just being not being able to make it.
I very much supported this, I appreciate your time this morning for having this hearing.
And there's any questions I'm always available and open to answer them.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Boarding Harrison Vaughan from Brownstein, representing Deep Roots Harvest, we're here in support of item 55.
I want to say it's essential for both our residents and our visitors.
I also want to note that timing is important here.
The legislature, Senator Rogod, noted, did not pass anything at the last session.
We've had a wait until 2027 for the next session.
The federal landscape is also very unknown.
If you think you can guarantee anything that's going on with our federal government, you really can't.
But I want to discuss what's going on here and why this is important for us.
First off, it's the disclosure package for the packaging and the entrances.
We need to have people understand what they're buying and where they're going to buy these products.
The current confusion isn't good.
And if we are meant to be a leader in hospitality and welcoming people to our city, we have a lot of visitors who don't understand the structure.
Those disclosures are important for them to understand what they're buying and second here as many people have mentioned is really just to save the aspect
That is just so key
Consumers should feel confident in what they're ingesting and be able to reference the that packaging to understand what's going on
And the testing is also raising the floor on these products and it helps level the playing field for everyone here in Nevada
And third here is just the enforcement if we have these provisions
their clearly written out, it allows every single operator to know the rules, play by them,
and then when people are acting out and we can come in with a strong hand to get everyone
in order. So in some, we really support this measure. We want you guys to also vote in this
today. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Good morning, chair, and the rest of the committee
members. My name is Paild Elycruz, and I'm the operations manager for GreenPlanet and Bloomsdam
CBD. Thank you for your time today. I want to start with the quote here,
The CBD Edibles is a godsend from my wife and her chronic pain. You have a life long
customer. This is just one out of a thousand reviews that we receive monthly at our stores.
We understand that CBD has existed in a legal gray area for many years because of federal
regulation has not been clarified. We also recognize that everyone here is trying to approach
this carefully and responsibly. But uncertainty should not lead us towards clear,
It should lead us towards clear and consistent regulation,
not the removal of bonus products
that many people in our community rely on.
Our CBD products are non-cycle active
and widely used to support issues
such as pain, anxiety, and sleep.
Across the country, many states, including Utah, Florida,
Oregon, have addressed this by creating regulatory frameworks
for hemp derived edible products.
These systems allow the products
while requiring strong safety measures
like third party lab testing, THC limits,
Proper labeling and responsible retail practices, all items that we strongly already abide by.
I share this simply to highlight that there are existing regulatory models that prioritize consumer safety,
while still allowing access to these products.
So rather than relying only on the current interpretation that treats CBD as an unapproved additive,
Nevada may have an opportunity here to look at approaches that other states have already implemented.
While still maintaining the strong consumer protections that are very important to all of us,
We appreciate your consideration on this matter.
Thank you.
Good morning commissioners.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak today.
My name is Tommy Gruska.
I am the owner of the two CBD retail chains here in Clark County, Green Planet and Bloomston.
I start this business because of my own personal experience with CBD.
And I wanted to bring it to my own community.
Our company is employees more than 100 people here in Clark County support in many local families.
First, I want to take the commissioners for removing Section F.
I appreciate you listening to the responsible businesses.
Today, I want to speak about Section E.
People in our community are dealing with serious health problems, like cancer and chronic pain.
Treatment like chemotherapy can cause nausea and some patients struggle just to get through the day.
For many of them, edible products are the only way they can take CBD.
Section E will bend those products completely.
That means people in our community will lose one of the only ways that can use CBD and more than 100 local jobs could be at risk.
We support safety and responsible regulations.
Our product are tested and clearly labeled.
That helps keep consumers safe.
The goal of this rule is to stop bad actors and I support that.
The regulatory situation around CBD and food is still evolving.
and many states have chosen to regular those products instead of bending them.
For example, California, Minnesota, New York,
allowed those products with testing, TAC limits, and clear labeling.
This show that a safe regulatory framework is possible.
I respectfully ask the commissioners to revise Section E.
So those products can continue to be sold safety and with clear rules.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you.
Hello.
Oh, my name is Thomas Jones, welcome. Good morning commissioners. I'm representing on behalf
of Bloom STEM CBD brand family on company on a retail manager. If Section E is not amended,
no edible forms of CBD will be legal to sell, and one that can cause major disruption
to the business itself. The business might not survive if we're not able to sell any form
of CBD that is edible. With testing and regulation, we think that CBD can be safe. We do
support the regulation on the CBD industry here in Nevada, but we want to make sure that products
like a pure CBD gummy would still be available for sale. Also CBD tinctures are a very
important part of the benefits of CBD. Also that low point four milligram limit on a federal limit
of 0.3% THC in the product, which full spectrum has its benefits too, but we just want to see that
section E is amended and consider that this could be very debilitating for the business as a whole.
Thank you.
Good morning chair and commissioners.
My name is Darlene Skinner and I am the managing director of Euphoria Wellness LLC.
Euphoria Wellness has been operating in Clark County for over 10 years.
Euphoria holds cannabis business licenses in manufacturing, cultivation, distribution,
and dispensary.
Our business is always operated with compliance as our top priority and we take our responsibility
to follow regulations very seriously.
I appreciate the opportunity to speak today regarding the ordinance to amend Title 7 establishing
regulations surrounding hemp retail sales.
I fully support this ordinance as written.
This ordinance is extremely important for consumer protection.
Many of the hemp products that are currently on the market are highly intoxicating and largely
unregulated, which creates real safety concerns for our consumers.
In many cases, these intoxicating hemp products are also being marketed and sold in ways
that make them easily accessible to young people.
Clear rules that limit THC to a non-intoxicating level with clear labeling and basic
safety standards brings hemp products sold in general retail environment in line with the original
intent of the federal hemp law and the federal changes coming in 2026.
Establishing language surrounding responsible marketing helps protect consumers and youth.
Effective enforcement is essential.
This ordinance creates meaningful penalties and real enforcement tools
that will help ensure the businesses operate responsibly and in full compliance.
I respectfully urge the commission to support this ordinance to better protect our consumers and young people.
Thank you for your consideration.
Thank you. Good morning, Chair and commissioners. My name is John Marshall, Chief Operator,
officer of Deeprew, Tarvest in the Source, and President of the Nevada Cannabis Association.
I'm here with a dozen members of our organization to support this amendment to County Code Title 7.
I've been in the industry for 12 years, 11 of those in Nevada,
and have been deeply involved with the regulatory and rulemaking process since its inception here.
At the heart of the issue here is fairness and rules of the game.
We all signed up for a limited licenced framework with strict licensing criteria and consumer protections in industry processes.
Over the last several years, an estimated 200 hemp shops have opened in the valley, and there's no stop in perpetual expansion as they exploit this loophole.
Lack of zoning or distance separation from schools and community centers, limited compliance, lack of security and cameras, testing, labeling, manifesting, advertising, essentially a free for all.
The difference between hemp and cannabis is indecernable from a consumer or even a regulator.
A couple of real-world examples recently at the Champs trade show. Recently there were buckets like drywall buckets full of hemp,
you know, direct to your door, and they could ship these products, no test results, you know, interstate commerce, and it was everywhere.
and nobody knows what it is. It's half of its cannabis, half of the temp.
Another example is that one of our stores recently, a head shop is in the strip mall just two doors down.
And the proprietor of the head shop is actually smoking a joint out in front of the store. Well, we have security, hammering on our customers in front of our store for doing the same.
You know, another thing to touch on here is the declining market economics of cannabis. You know, we were a billion dollar industry a few years ago. We're down to, you know, approximately 700 million.
And as John Ackle mentioned, over 40 operators have closed their doors over the last couple of years. Just like to, you know, thank you for your consideration and thank you for your time today.
Thank you, hello.
Hearing commissioners, my name is Angie Smith.
I'm here in behalf of Thrive.
I'll keep it short.
We're here to express our support for the
Department of Card County Title 7.
Thank you.
Okay.
Everybody.
I'm Philipp Higgins.
I represent Vegas Market.
So I'm a retail store to actually sell the products.
So they're talking about all these regulations.
For us to stay in compliance,
we already have to be 0.03% under. Two years ago, it has to be lab tested. A year ago,
they went to be, it has to be only lab tested in Nevada. So for us to be legal, we already
have to have lab testing. We have to have the QR code. We have to have the medical sheets on hand
when they come in. Business license, visit us twice, access to take all of our products down.
They do a great job at regulated and already. And as our retail store in Clark County, we can't
So gummies, we can't sell drinks.
So we don't even sell any of that product except flour and smoke.
So it's regularly already regulated from the health department from Clark County.
So all I'm asking is just let Clark County that continue to do what they're already doing
with.
They're doing a good job at regulating it.
Thank you.
Morning.
Hi.
Yeah.
Excuse me.
Good morning, everyone.
Chairman, commissioners, Larry Shepler, co-founder and co-CEL, plan 13.
I know there have been a lot of talk here on the CBD hemp, loophole, and toxic
incating stores that the only sell regulated products they don't sell and toxic
caving.
Well, of course we know that's not the case.
We don't mind competition, the problem is we want fair competition.
We want to go on by the same taxes we have to pay, we want to go by the same rules
regulation that the CBD puts upon us.
We went for our license.
A few facts said, we pay, I mean, the cannabis license operators pay about $12.00 annually
for the cannabis license fee to Clark County.
We also pay a cultivation tax, 15% of mark the value.
Hamp stores do not pay that.
We pay a retail cannabis tax.
We pay about $300,000 a month, our self-belone.
We pay testing fees, we pay for inspections from CCB and audits.
About $20 million in sales per month is lost to the hemp stores.
So you can imagine they amount of taxes that are lost to the county
and the state and the state and the better.
With the top six dispensaries that really service most of the tourism industry
close to the strip. We probably represent 25 percent of those six dispensaries at a
lost. We estimate our loss alone is by $3.5 million monthly to sales to the
unlicensed hemp stores.
From 2021 to 2025, we've had to lay off over 300 people because
of the use of sales from the competition of the hemp stores unlicensed and not paying taxes
being fair with us. Of course, nobody checks on the IDs when we went to a store here just last
week. If you want to buy anything toxicating. I know there's a letter that went to the county
commissioners talking about the green planet. They wrote that they fully support removing synthetic
compounds and toxicating cabanoids. Really, that could be further from the truth. We just bought
four or five different products that says T. H. Theonate, which is double the strength and double
the volume that we're allowed to sell as we're a licensed operator. Yet nothing is done on any of this.
There is no course no standard testing. We had a group at the Texas trying to get us to carry
the hemp products. Also, we said there's no way we'll get involved. They left samples to us.
We sent them to our State License Texting Labs.
If we have one failure out of ten tests,
we have to destroy the cannabis.
They've failed on every test or was
that we gave them on all ten tests.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
If there is anyone else wishing to speak,
if you could please come forward and line up behind that gentleman.
Otherwise, he'll be our last speaker.
Hi, Craig Evans.
It's not lucky to be you guys when you have to make this kind of decision.
I'm a long-term resident here in Las Vegas, and I was very supportive of the marijuana act
that allowed us to open dispensaries because my self would get many of my friends suffer
from PTSD from our service to our country, and I felt that this was something that was really
good for being able to do it legally and get not lose your job.
Well, I would like to add one perspective to you.
I never went to a smoke shop in order to get medicine for PTSD.
I think the idea of a smoke shop is something separate than going like people say they
go to get their medicines to help themselves.
When do you go to a smoke shop to get medicines to help yourself?
We have a regulated environment that allows people to go in if there was such a demand
for these hemp products that it's going to put everybody out of work.
why aren't they sold in dispensaries?
Those people want to make money too
and sell all related products,
but they're not in their dispensaries
because the demand for that is not there.
It is clearly a sham that this is an excuse
in a way to sell tourists and unsuspecting people
unpested product.
I asked for that bit of common sense to take place
because there are regulated businesses
they can offer these products of consumer demand is there for them. I would like to just
finish with one quick thing. My mother, when she suffered from cancer, I went out and I bought
for her hemp products out of a smoke shop. She developed lung problems and she ended up dying from it.
I did not know why that would happen from this particular thing. I took those hemp products that I
here in a smoke shop, this is many years ago, took it, got it for a smoke shop and found
out that it had a large amounts of mold in it, and that's what infected her lungs.
So this really is a health problem, this really is something that even simple mold ingested
into the lungs can create such health havoc that these smoke stops do not follow those same
regulations. I ask you guys to do the right thing. And if it creates some undue hardships
on some people, then let's work on that issue after we stop the cartage. Thank you.
Thank you.
Hi.
Hi, Sharon Bullock. I fully support this ordinance and what I've been hearing today from a
lot of people is that you're going to put a whole lot of people out of work. And if you
approve this ordinance. This ordinance does not ban hemp or CBD fiber hemp. It bans the
intoxicating hemp and they didn't go into business to sell the intoxicated hemp. So I support
this ordinance and thank you. Thank you. Good morning Chairman and commissioners. I also fully
support this ordinance. My name is Chris O'Farell and I've been working in the cannabis industry
for over 10 years as well, and just wanted to add some more consumer safety notes.
Ultimately, when the toxic hitting candidates' products are sold outside of the regulated
system, consumers lose protections that Nevada designed its program to provide, and compliant
businesses are placed at a competitive disadvantage, ensuring that intoxicating cannabis
products move through regulated channels helps protect both public health and the integrity
of Nevada's cannabis markets.
I also have some analytics I wanted to provide for you guys to chew on.
Arizona State researchers and various other outlets found that there's about 9 million
illicit cannabis pounds export from California each year, which amounts to about 24,000
pounds leaving the regulated market each day. A lot of those products that are making
it on shelves here in Nevada and abroad, which as this gentleman before me spoke on, most
of those have very high failure detection rates for pesticides, yeast and mode contamination,
bacterial contamination and micro toxins. The amounts found through the Arizona State
researchers studies that were conducted had about 90% failing for pesticides, 73%
failing for yeast and mold contamination, 55% for bacterial contamination and about 12%
for micro toxins, all which pose a very severe health risk for anybody who has the ability
to purchase those products. Thank you, Fiery Todd.
Thank you. Welcome to Nevada.
My name is El Rojas, I'm a sufferer of arthritis, and I want to read something not only to the commissioners, but to the people in the cannabis industry.
This is from the arthritis foundation that has to do with inflammation.
It's animal studies and some small human studies have suggested that CVD and pain has pain
relieving an anti-inflammatory properties.
But these effects need to be validated in a larger, higher quality studies and humans.
Many people with arthritis have tried CVD, but the anecdotal evidence they report is mixed.
Some people report noticeable pain relief, sleep improvement, and or anxiety reduction while
others do not.
As any medication for arthritis, some people do not report any symptom improvements by taking CBD.
One of the things that I think that we ought to be looking at is how CBD products can help reduce the opioid crisis.
There's a lot of people suffering from pain.
I personally, at one time, I don't involve myself with a hemp or cannabis products anymore
because of the fentanyl threat that's out there, you don't know what you're getting, but I did
at one time try to confirm the inflammation that if those reduce inflammation, I gave, I would
give people Indica cannabis to try to see if we reduce their knee inflammation from what I read
The need joint is the biggest joint that has the largest inflammation and they reported that they were able to wear pants because most of them were wearing sweats because they couldn't extend their arm their leg out.
So my suggestion is that the commissioners see if it can reduce the opioid amount of people that are going to help you instead of cannabis and that for the cannabis industry to do more studies on inflammation and hybrid effects.
because I think it can help reduce this homeless problem which I'm personally trying to fight
here in Clark County. And you know what? I'd rather have a hemp product out there than a liquor store.
I want to throw that out there, too. Thank you very much, bye.
Thank you. If there is anyone else wishing to speak, this is your final call. Otherwise, you'll be our last speaker.
But afternoon, Lindsey Clements, Natural Medicine, Green Cannabis Co. We want to make a clearer
that companies do not pay the same taxes, do not have the same testing requirements, and are
accessible to children in many ways. In fact, we did send some of our employees in to several
hemp shops across the valley, and not one of them was carted. We do support this ordinance,
thank you. Thank you very much. Seeing no one else, we will close the public hearing on item 55,
Commissioner Kirkpatrick, I'll turn over to you to begin.
Thank you, Mr. Chair, and just for, there's some new faces in here.
I started having this conversation two and a half years ago, right?
When Delta 8 was first coming in when I walked the strip,
and I seen all the mayor wanted leaves on the doors,
because that's not what I voted for.
that's not on this board as far as regulating the product.
It was very clear on advertising and putting all those things on.
And I went to some legislators and asked them to address it.
And yeah, we're going to.
I was actually in the building last year when they killed this very bill.
And it didn't move forward asking them to please do something,
because it's a bigger issue.
I sit on the health district and I we've seen I've said to Commissioner Seger Bloom that
the studies that are coming back are not good for many of our middle school kids in particular and some of our seniors are seeing adverse
problems with buying something that's really not what they thought it was right so because there's so many different things out there so
So at the last meeting, when we introduced the bill, I had met with some folks and I tried
to be reasonable and tried to answer their questions and I did take F out because it was never
intended to impact the oceans and the oils and those things, right?
So I did take that out, I did extend it to 120 days as opposed to 90.
In the last couple days, I've met with more people who said, oh my gosh, I'm going to shut down
businesses, put everybody out of business.
I'm so wrong.
So I called the Nevada State Department of Agriculture.
I called the Federal Department of Agriculture.
I called Neko National Department that deals with agriculture.
I sent my ordinance to all of those people and here's what came back. You are
factually correct. This is federal law.
And this is a good start. I went a step further because people tell me with E that it is a problem. So I called the FDA.
So I called the FDA and I said, show me where it says that you can ever put this into a product, a food product. I said, on the health district, health district says, no, it's not wash,
county does orders cease and desist. I call it the state again. I call it all of these agencies.
So it's not like I didn't hear what people are saying. It's not like I don't participate in the
product either way, whether it's a lotion, a joint or whatever people call it. I don't participate
but at the same time I have a responsibility to make sure that consumers are getting what they say they're
get. So, working through all those agencies, reading the Farm Bill from 2018, reading the Farm Bill from
2023, reading the Farm Bill from 2025, it talks about hemp seed all the way through the entire
bill. It never talks about the flower, it talks about the seed. I called the FDA back and I said,
Please help me understand this because I'm not a participant.
And they said, it's always meant to use the seat.
So in Section E, I am not prohibiting hemp.
I am saying that you have to use the seat,
and you have to use oil, and you can do those other things.
But it's never been okay to put it into the product.
So, I also asked where we headed on the bill for the feds to take over.
They said, well, it's moving, there's nobody really wants to.
It's a nationwide problem, it's a statewide problem.
We don't have any appetites to move it.
So, I asked my legal attorney, okay, I get maybe the one case that people made to me
is that maybe the packaging is the manufacturers can't move that quick on changing the manufacturing.
If everybody nationwide is doing it, there was the most reasonable, because they come from the food industry,
where that's a thing, right, because you got it easily changed, but she ain't going to do all those other things.
So I at least said to Commissioner now, I would be willing to keep it to the point three,
as long as when the federal bill takes effect in November that it's an automatic that we don't
have to go back through this again. And for the people that tell me that the state is doing all these
great things, I agree they have some regulations but also they need not one of you stood up in the
hearing asking to give them 80 positions to actually enforce all this stuff. So I have the ability on the
level to enforce it. I have the ability to put a ordinance in place so that I can do that.
So, um, and I don't want the advertising on the door. I did it to myself yesterday. I went
on the internet to said, please tell me how I can buy, um, these, uh, hemp gummies with THC in the
puffer of places came up right here in the valley, right? So then I went a step further because I
to see, people are not walking by the door, they're looking, they're on their phones, they're
looking, and that's what they're seeing. So Mr. Chairman, I have spent, because I'm ridiculous,
we more time on this than I thought I would, but I was trying to hear all sides. I even have
regulations from the FDA that say that's this product is never meant to be in food,
However, the hemp seed oil and all of those can,
as stated in the 2018 Farm Bill,
I went to the regulations
because people wanted to tell me
that they're following all the rules.
And now we just have some consistency in my mind.
And Leo, please tell me if I'm off-base,
but I don't think so.
I've spent a lot of time on this.
And I understand if people have been doing it for 10 years,
doesn't make it right. Show me where it's legal to put this into. And nobody could show me where
it's legal. Not even the FDA could show me where it was legal. Not even the National Department
of Agriculture or the State. So show me where it's legal. And I have a I'm upholding a law
and it's illegal today. So this is why I'm having it. That doesn't mean that if the feds do something
different, we can't revisit it, but the FDA specifically, in every single farm bill, gave
they were given the opportunity to make alliances to ensure that it was safe.
So that's must be each, I know I'm not reasonable on other things that people want, but
I'm willing to, if legal tells me that if this becomes federal that point for whatever
we can do automatic without going back out through the process, but I'm happy to hear what my colleagues
have to say otherwise.
Thank you, Commissioner.
Just while we're on it, by the way, I don't think anyone would call you unreasonable.
Ms. Logs, then, do you have some suggested language to reflect the amendment that Commissioner
Patrick just spoke to?
Yeah, so I believe we're talking about section 7200 dot 310 subsection B, so it would be the
language, the products must contain no greater than 0.4 milligrams of the potential total
T HC package, and so that would be changed to something similar to the products must contain
no greater than the T HC or the potential total T HC as a love, I federal law. So it would be consistent,
so that way it would be the federal law is the standard.
It's just for their changes, then changes kind of fight in federal law that it would be automatically reflected in county code.
Thank you.
Commissioner Thingerblum.
I'm not sure you want to make that change right now, because that could be very intoxicating.
It may be how it's concentrated.
So I think stick with what you have now.
I will say that as far as the gummies go out to the extent that they're attested and there's no teaching them.
I think you want to put CVD in the gummy that ought to be legal and so to extent we can
I want to pass this bill today, but we have an hour and 20 days to work on making sure
that those products would be allowed, and I'll work with Mr. Grappatchy, but under federal
law the intoxicating, the beverages that they have in other states are intoxicating, so we
got to be very cautious about that.
Well I guess we should hear from everybody else.
I'm not opposed to leaving it the way it is, but I did say I would try and be reasonable,
but what here's what I don't want to do is I don't want to go back through this again,
because we are slow to begin with, and it takes us months to make a change, right? So,
maybe the wind is 140 days or something. I mean, that's a long time for people, so
I don't know.
I'm sorry, 140 days for.
For implementation or something.
I mean, I don't know what the pleasure of the board is.
I've spoke my piece and I'm not movable on number E on page 11.
That's not okay with me in number.
So I don't know what that and maybe the so school week,
I can make sure.
So you're wondering, what does that mean that it may be more.
And that's what we're seeing today, but I do think that if it does come back, we can pull their license right away because of the testing, is that not, I guess I would ask, is that a way, I think the testing is going to put people out of business quite frankly.
Selling, we've already done some testing in seeing that they're off the charts, maybe Jennifer can speak to what we've been seeing out there.
Hello, Jennifer, we're looking from business license.
Can I have that question again, please?
Question is what we've done some testing of some of that product out there, and it has more THC in it.
Is there, can you give us any, what we're seeing out there?
Absolutely.
We do, we have tested products that have less than the point 3% production products, not the flower production products.
And they will have less than the 0.3% that have a lot of THC and 100 milligrams we see sometimes,
which is quite a bit.
And the saying about a serving size for THC, that you get a dispensary, is 10 milligrams.
So for these products to have 100 milligrams in it, it's 10 serving sizes from what would
be at a dispensary in the state.
So, commissioner, say have a little to your point that in maybe commissioner now, if she is
seeing that on one hand, it meets the point three, but when they consider it put it all
together, it's triple what everything else should be. Is that what you said?
It could be very consistent. So, maybe there's different kind of language, but I think that
to do the testing, we're going to get some books.
Well, federal laws just says that the planet itself has to be 0.3% or less T.C., but what's
happening on the states is they take that plant and then they concentrate it, so ends up
with the drinks that they're selling all around the country, you know, are equivalent to
a marijuana drink.
So that's why I'm saying we got to focus on the percentage of T.C. in the products they're
as opposed to the plant, and if you just refer to federal law, that doesn't deal with the
product.
It just deals with the plant.
So, anyway, that's why I think the current language is good, but I am concerned that
somehow, rather, we're going to prevent gummies that are just CBD alone, and so I would
be willing to work with industry on that.
Obviously, I would take time, but the main thing is we're really addressing a real problem
here with respect to unregulated unlicensed and law kinds of things out there and I think we
want to support our industry. If any of these products can be, you can go to Spencerian
by today, so it's not like we're depriving the citizens of Las Vegas from these products.
They may be more expensive than it's because they've been tested and proven and they're
paid the tax. So that being said, I think we need to support this bill today and you'll
for the 120 days before it's implemented,
so you have time to work on it.
So we'll get a man asked this question,
and Lisa, and maybe, I don't know,
I don't know who the right person is,
but I mean, how is it,
why can't there be language that the concentrate,
the total, which is what I thought we were trying to get out,
that's the total concentrate can't be more
than this per package, right?
could we not put that kind of language back in to say or because to commit sure
single looms point, the feds, that's the problem, right, 2018, 2020, 3, 8, 20, 25, and the
truth is hemp seed is what people should be working on, not anything else, but then to
the chairman's point.
We're not trying, but 120 days is a long time and a
new factor usually can do something, but what is, how do you get to that balance of the
concentrate? Because that's really what the issue is today. And if you're a regular THC,
you have to actually stay put and not even drive or do anything else for what is our ordinance
aid? Three, four hours? Yeah. Again, if you say the product has to have a percentage of whatever,
then at least you know what you're getting because the gummy would have a, whatever. But the
truth is if you just refer to federal law, that doesn't deal with what's actually in the product.
Commissioner, her Patrick. I believe we tie the federal law to the definition of potential
total THC as it's defined in the code that gives you that percentage. So it would be the THC
implemented by contains no greater the total potential total THC and then referred to the definition
of that under federal law so that it's federal law and the percentage. But I mean, I'll
defer to Jennifer if that's an incorrect. This is also not my expertise area either.
Anything to add from business license?
This is Vince Keano for the record.
So I think there's two different topics that we're discussing.
One is the THC limitation, which now we're going to refer to federal law.
If that changes, then our code would reflect that.
But then I think Commissioner Sargobloom wants to address the CBD,
because on under section subsection E, we just don't allow,
We wouldn't allow CBD and food products or as a food additive at all.
But I think what you want is maybe to allow CBD, but have that limitation on the THC.
Right, there shouldn't be any THC in that, and that can be tested.
Every government could be tested or just like the dispensary association does.
So that wouldn't be a problem.
The question is, as far as, if we want to make clear that the point three or point four deals
with the entire product, not just as per say, but that gets more complicated,
but you know,
we could put that there and basically it's going to mean that you can't have a THC and anything
that's going to be sold.
Well, here's what I'm not doing, I'm not holding the ordinance so we might be here a minute
to try and figure out the language because that's exactly what people want and this has
been long overdue.
Well, with that again, you're changing the definition right now and that's why I'm
So maybe we could kind of walk there's two portions.
So on page 10 at Lisa, and maybe people could follow along.
So number B is where you're seeing that you're adding the addition
of the federal language to already what we're saying, right?
So they can't be more than this, so that it's not an open loop poll
as they have today.
but we also don't have to come back, should the bench.
Change it, right? We're adding A and B to get a total product, correct?
So line 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
We had the sentence starting with the product must contain no greater. And so what it would be, the products must contain no greater.
The product must contain no greater potential total THC other than permitted by federal law.
So tick, does that, that, as long as we're clear that it's in the kind of either or, so it's 0.3 or 0.4 of that package as opposed to just using the federal definition, which.
Right, so you have to add that packaging piece and correct at the end, right?
Okay, so then if you go to page 11, I marked up all my notes and you go from the bottom up to 34.
5, 6, 7, and you go to line 7, which is number E, which it says a retail, which this is what
people are asking us to put back in, which no one can show me where it's legal. I have every
department of ag, every federal thing, every health district, every state thing, show me where
that's allowed regardless. We're just reinforcing what the current law is, but
you're seeing what on that section on page 11, number E.
Well, I would take it out as far as just saying that a gummy
cannot have CBD and that to me is one of the major products they sell.
And as long as there's no THC, just CBD at all and it's non-cycle active
and there's no it's just good for your joints and well being.
But if you want to leave that in for now and we can try to treat that
as we go forward, I'm happy to do that too.
I prefer to leave it in and I'm going to tell you why because it's currently nobody in the country and I've reached out to a lot of people can tell me where it's currently legal today.
And I think that someone has honored 20 days to show me where it's legal, but it's not, not through the FDA, not through any public health, not through the state, not through anybody.
So I would prefer to leave it in, and then if we can always do an amendment to a testing component of that, but it's not, it's currently not allowed today.
It's not in any of the samples, but it also says that you can use the farm bill, says you can use hemp seed or hemp oil, so, but that's not what's happening today.
Correct.
I mean, so what they do is they take the plant and they make hemp oil and then they add it to different products
And that's why the key is is use that hemp oil make sure the hemp oil doesn't have a CBD
And I mean, it doesn't have a THC in it and that's where we can but anyway
Let's just go with this for now and then we can talk to the industry and see if we can change if we did some modification
But I think it's worth fighting over today
Well, I appreciate that. Okay, and honestly this is the first thing
We have worked together on this pretty amazing.
So, I appreciate that, Commissioner.
I'm happy to make a motion of doing not so as anything.
So, I make a motion to approve the ordinance with the language written by our attorney on a section B on page currently on page 10.
And the two changes read at the beginning.
is what we have right from last week, okay?
There's a motion on the table.
Please go ahead and cast your vote.
A motion carries.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Just for organization sake, we have one more time
subsided for public comment.
And then we will take a short time and a recess before
our next public hearing on the budget.
This is the final time set aside for public comment.
Anyone wishing to speak please come forward at this time.
state your name.
You have up to three minutes. Welcome back.
Hi there. My name is Shoshana. I'm a resident and I wanted to provide.
If you just want to, we'll hold you the clock for just a minute.
Everybody could leave quietly. We have a lot of business left ahead of us.
Okay, go ahead. Thank you.
My name is Shoshana. I'm a resident and as you know, I'm against prayer at the County Commission meetings.
But I also wanted to offer a solution for people who have been immersed in a religion whether it be as a child or as an adult or whether it's been in your family for years.
I actually talked to people who have suffered from religious indoctrination since childhood.
And the stories they told me are horrific. I feel terrible for them. I was not immersed in religion the way they were.
But there's an organization called recovering from religion, and they are local actually.
There are different states. There's a few locations around the country in different countries.
But recovering from religion is a resource for people who are questioning religious faith.
Questions like, what will my parents think if I tell them I don't believe anymore?
Will my spouse leave me? Will leaving my church affect my job?
You could talk to people about this, and they are actual therapists who can give advice.
They could share their stories too, because a lot of the therapists have also suffered from their religious upbringings.
There's a website, seculartherapy.org.
We could find a therapist through this organization, which is also a nonprofit.
They also have monthly meetings here in Las Vegas, which I went to.
It was really informative. They're really nice people.
And you could sign up for that as well.
but recovering from religion is a good resource for people who are finally realizing that
this is not something they need to be believing in anymore.
They've questioned the content of the Bible, which I have read several times.
I read it all the time.
It's horrific.
It's terrible.
What's done to women?
What's done to little girls?
What's done to men as well?
It's really gruesome.
It's too much going on in here.
And I hope people would actually read it.
You can read it online for free.
But again, recovering from religion is a great resource for people who finally want to make the decision to be free of religious indoctrination.
And again, I'd like to say I please encourage you to consider removing invocations from our agenda.
There are thousands of places around Las Vegas in Clark County to worship whatever religion you want, which is totally fine.
I would just would encourage you to remove it from these city government meetings. Thank you very much.
Thank you. Good afternoon.
I'd been a prime of I just wanted to make a quick comment in regards to the discussion you guys had earlier.
I hope everyone understands that marijuana and hamper two different things, right?
As you could see, the interest behind this ordinance definitely comes from marijuana industry, which is
federally illegally, that industry is in a way regulating a federally legally industry.
So if the issue is ideas or taxes or whatever, you know, we can raise that by just
saying, hemp is not good because it's taken business from cannabis, the argument on its
own is in my view in illegitimate argument and we can also check and see, you know, who supports
this bill who pushes the ordinance and see what the interests are within the marijuana and
cannabis industry.
To be fair, you know, this business is just like Senator Rogoch has a daughter, I have
a two and a half year old daughter and a son and I have to provide to them and I've been
building a business to support my family.
I have security checks, I have product testing, I have everything that is required.
Now just because dispensaries are not doing so well, it doesn't mean you're going to go and
put me out of business.
Me and thousands of others, that's not fair.
That's not the way to do things.
We hear to create smart regulations,
not to destroy businesses.
If the issue is of the product itself being
back quality, sure, let's test it.
Let's make sure we have security.
Let's make sure we have mixed may have scanners, IDs.
Nobody can buy those products illegally.
Why do you put these products?
I'll low in pretty much them.
instead of enforcing some additional helpful regulations,
like I said, security, ID, testing.
And all those things are being done.
The main issue here is not that.
The main issue here is that the dispensaries
are not doing well.
And we understand that, but it's not because of us.
They're not doing well because they spend a lot of money.
They thought they're going to make billions,
and it was too much competition, too much regulations.
The good stuff is hemp.
Marijuana is a federally illegal product.
And that's the dangerous drug.
You don't want to push people by marijuana from the dispensary.
You're rather than by hemp at our shops.
Thank you so much.
It was very important matter for me.
That's why I thought it was important for me
to make those comments.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
My name is Abrahas.
I'm a sunrise manner.
Very quickly, very quickly.
I want to thank our commissioner for bringing in
the grassroots girls.
You know, our sheriff said that he's been in the, he's been in the, he's been in
law enforcement for over 35 years. He said that when he was young, he was arresting a
lot of people and he thought he was doing the right thing. In 25 years later, he was arresting
the children of the people that he was arresting. And he felt an investing in the community was
long-term solution, and investing in young people, getting young people involved in the future
of our county, is part of the solution.
The other thing that I want to talk about is our new ordinance.
I want to happily report that we tried to work with this one person that we trespassed about
10 times in our area, and we finally had them arrested under the new ordinance, which was subject
to building an encampment.
Thanks to this new ordinance, we have two ways of removing people from our public and private
property.
One of them is if they're trespassed on private property, the other is if they're building
repeat encampments.
This ordinance has been out for a year, I've been involved in removing 50 encampments.
This one person that we have finally had arrested after trying so many times to give them
services, we had to arrest it for building encampments.
So I want to make the community know, and our commissioners know that there's not only
this is a great law, I'm really thinking that we should have a town hall in our community
to address all the other people that we have, that we're just kind of moving around, okay?
Now, the other town hall that we have, the police officer, the captain said that when they go
when they get arrested, they're getting services to go talk to them and hopefully it will break the
swoop of these guys that are going around and get some new people in their life. So I'm asking
that, you know, and that's what it takes. It takes everybody getting involved. People talk about,
you know what? They do gotta have a build a village. Well, this is really what they're talking about.
that the law enforcement is supported by elected officials and the community and
are having this ordinance and having a town hall will bring everybody together so everybody can do their part.
So I want to thank our commissioners for creating this fantastic ordinance and I want to bring it to the attention to the people that
If you have somebody in your neighborhood who is repeatedly building encampments in different
spots, now you can have him arrested and hopefully get some better services for him under
this ordinance.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Anyone else wish and to speak please come forward at this time.
Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing and we will adjourn until tomorrow morning with
the exception of our preliminary budget hearing, which was scheduled at 11 AM, we'll begin
in about 10 minutes.