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44:22 affect our lower income residents. And I believe that we should consider the bigger picture here. Clark County voters may soon be asked to consider additional funding for a new jail, and before the city adds another tax, we should pause, hear what the voters say about the county's proposal, and hire our new police chief. And therefore, right now, I will not be supporting this sales tax. - Any other comments from council? Councilor Harless. - Can you explain in more detail the grant that was mentioned earlier about the matching, the restrictions of the grant, and what it can be used for, timing, that kind of thing, just as a reminder for what we're discussing today and when we mention that grant? - Absolutely, again, JC Elliot. The grant that we have applied for, we have not been awarded yet, is to support and the salary and benefits for 16 entry-level police officers,

45:21 the equipment that those officers would wear, such as vests, radios, body-worn cameras, et cetera. It also would support hiring those officers, so it gives us some additional liquid funds so we can supplement our staffing and our background and recruiting unit to expedite the hiring process for those officers. And we would leverage likely retired VP officers on a part-time basis to help conduct some of those backgrounds. And in addition to that, those positions also require patrol vehicles. There's 10 vehicles that are associated into that as well. With regard to the sales tax, the match is applied towards the salary and benefit component of that, and so the sales tax would be matching 25% of salary and benefits, and the other 75% would come from the grant for the term of the grant, should we be awarded that.

46:20 - And the grant can only be used for hiring officers. - The priority for the grant is to hire officers. The grant application could be brought in to other public safety needs. At this point, what we've applied for