Residents of Las Vegas’ Ward 5 will have 11 candidates to choose from when they head to the polls March 27 to pick their first new City Council representative since 2007.
Jamie Munks
Former reporter: City of Las Vegas
Jamie Munks covered the city of Las Vegas for the Review-Journal from May 2016 to September 2018. She covered education, business and local government in newsrooms in upstate New York after graduating in 2009 from Syracuse University with journalism and political science degrees. More recently, she covered government in Springfield, Illinois, her home state’s capital city.
Pockets of Ward 5 remain a redevelopment focus for the city, with key sites including Symphony Park, Cashman Center, part of Fremont Street and the Historic Westside.
When the new Las Vegas Ward 5 City Council member is seated next month it will be a couple weeks away from the launch of a 24/7 courtyard aimed at connecting the homeless population with a range of services.
Job training programs, safer neighborhoods and a community garden are among the ideas some Las Vegas City Council hopefuls have for a richer Ward 5 in five years. Candidates for the Ward 5 seat took part in a forum Saturday.
The candidates vying to represent Ward 5 on the Las Vegas City Council will appear in a pair of candidate forums before a special election this month.
The fines stem from 138 days of unlicensed rental activity through Airbnb and HomeAway at 1925 Silver Ave., including $69,000 in daily penalties for unlicensed renting and $3,900 in failed inspection fees.
The survey, which cost $25,000, drew responses from at least 150 residents of each of the city’s six wards. They represent a range of ages, ethnicity and income levels.
Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada will use a $10 million gift from the Fertitta family for operations and renovations at the organization’s Las Vegas campus, including the emergency shelter that houses an average of 500 homeless men nightly.
Las Vegas city officials are mulling new rules that expand the areas where residents can keep chickens. The current proposal would allow up to 10 hens in single-family residential areas if neighbors give the green light to their backyard brood.
The city of Las Vegas is testing new technology that will pick up data newer-model cars put out when the traction control system is triggered or the airbag deploys. The city is exploring how such technology may help improve services, such as emergency response times.
One year to the day after the city of Las Vegas launched a pilot program to help connect homeless people with housing, health care and other services, Kathi Thomas-Gibson is confident the model works.
Opponents have successfully stopped a city of Las Vegas effort to absorb 872 acres of unincorporated Clark County land.
Clark County residents who have spent the past couple months fighting a city of Las Vegas plan to annex more than 1,500 properties delivered more than 1,200 protests to City Hall this week, but the fight won’t end there.
Las Vegas city staff have spent 4,671 hours and the equivalent of nearly $420,000 in city salary and benefit costs working on the contentious Badlands golf course development project since 2015.
The Las Vegas City Council approved the ordinance Wednesday, after assurances from city and Fire Department officials that the new rules will be watched closely in the first six months to avoid delays for home builders.