Forests_green_space

44:00 I don't have my comment with me, but basically it's centered around the fact that the last budget discussion in, I think it was passed in early December by the council, Matt Little made a point of stating when he voted to have the 1% tax increase adopted plus some banked capacity, I think, the banked capacity. Did you guys do banked capacity? Yes, he made the point of making a rather lengthy comment about the fact that for the past 14 years, seven of those years, the council did not pass the 1% increase, and it ended up costing, over those 14 years, costed the county $42 million in lost revenue at a time when cost of living

44:58 is just going berserko, and the fact that there are many things, parks, for example, and things like that that have not received the attention and care they need in order to maintain even basic levels. So the idea that you could have a council, there's only five people on the council, there's not seven people like some counties have to vote, and you have to get four of those five, which they did last year and they've done several times, is just a big step to, in my point of view, could be a big step to bankruptcy of the council. And then when you add on some of these other things, like 2626, where you're gonna mandate public safety, the levels of the Clark County Sheriff's Office staffing,

45:56 which will also have down the pike impacts on the jail, on the courts, on the public defenders, on the prosecuting attorney's office, and you throw that in there and you mandate staffing levels, it's like, what are you doing to the county? What are you doing to the county as far as maintaining its fiscal stability, is my comment.