North Las Vegas City Council will hold another O-so-special session today, June 2nd, at 4:40pm, over at city hall. Council is set to add more exceptions to the hiring freeze, which is looking more and more like the old hiring chill. But who can keep track?
The special meeting will allow council to let the city hire part-timers for rec centers and the Safekey program. Course, maybe they’ll vote against, given some of the push-back from deciding to hire a new police chief and chief finance officer for the city. (RJ) Granted, one should bear in mind that the push-back came mostly from the Las Vegas Review Journal, which nobody reads anymore, anyway. The mayor’s on record as wanting to get rid of Safekey, too, on the theory, I suppose, that there is much more entertainment value in having kids from working families wandering around as targets for speeding motorists than in having them engaged in city-sponsored recreation. So maybe one or two will vote agin.
And if you were planning to see the execs from Boyd Gaming descend from their perch on Mount Olympus to juggle the zoning laws and what-all that goes with adding their latest resort to Casino Alley up at Losee and the 215, you’re sure to be disappointed. The lawyer-lobbyists have already asked to extend their agenda items until December because nobody in their right mind would build anything in Nor’Town these days, except, perhaps, a new City Council building, destined to be three-fifths empty due to layoffs.
Council will gleefully accept the extension, no doubt, because Boyd is ever willing to contribute to campaigns, even in Nor’Town.
Also on the agenda is an item to reduce Planning Commission meetings from two a month to one. Apparently doing so will result in a reduction of $8,694 a year to the city budget. Although originally staff thought it would be a bad idea to cut the number of meetings since it would slow the amount of business the commission could do, the loss of about 40% of the Planning and Zoning department seems to have persuaded them that, well, hell, nothing is going to get done anyway, so why have the commissioners show up?
Maybe they should just put a freeze on everybody in Nor’Town for a year or two, until developers get back into that carpet-bombing mood again. Then we can fritter away public funds on another mindless boomlet because, hell, that’s what we do.
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