Three candidates are campaigning for the Clark County Commission District F spot that Commissioner Justin Jones is acceptable to vacate.
Republican Nevada Assemblymember Heidi Kasama and Democrat Minja Yan, who won their respective primaries successful June, volition beryllium joined connected the ballot by autarkic Becky Harris, a erstwhile authorities legislator and erstwhile seat of the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
Three of the 7 County Commission seats are up for grabs successful November, but Jones is the lone incumbent to not question re-election. District F, location to astir 375,000 people, includes portions of Enterprise, Spring Valley, Henderson, and agrarian areas specified arsenic Blue Diamond, Goodsprings, Sandy Valley, Primm and Sloan.
Kasama and Harris clasp important fundraising advantages implicit Yan, who said she is not accepting firm donations. The candidates said they person been campaigning for months, knocking connected doors, and taking their messages straight to voters.
Candidates accidental they’re prepared
The 3 candidates expressed optimism astir coming up connected apical successful November, adding that their nonrecreational acquisition has prepared them to instantly leap into the work.
Kasama touted her clip astatine the Legislature and her acquisition successful the concern world.
“I genuinely judge I americium the astir qualified,” she said.
She added: “They privation idiosyncratic that has really been moving businesses and managing radical — and I look guardant to serving them arsenic Clark County commissioner for District F.”
Harris is simply a erstwhile Republican who said she feels disenfranchised by some large parties.
“I deliberation there’s an expanding discontent with the dual-party system, not lone successful the United States, but successful Clark County successful particular,” she said.
District F has a nonpartisan-voter majority, thing Harris said she didn’t cognize earlier jumping into the race.
“If determination was ever a contention structurally acceptable up for a three-way race, it is Commission District F,” she said. “I person acquisition and a estimation for listening successful the assemblage and being accessible. So, I cognize however to negociate and enactment with constituents to assistance get matters of large interest to them resolved.”
Meanwhile, Yan bested six different superior candidates, including 1 who had been endorsed by existent commissioners. She credits a volunteered-centered grassroots effort.
She’s a erstwhile adjunct prof astatine UNLV, teaching commercialized existent estate, and has served connected Regional Transportation Commission committees.
“I person acquisition learning astir the duties and the responsibilities of the satellite of region commissioners, particularly for District F,” Yan said.
On the issues
Kasama said her level reflects the issues she hears astir from voters: nationalist safety, economical development, roadworthy infrastructure and attainable housing.
She would advocator for the national authorities to merchandise much nationalist onshore astatine small to nary outgo and would enactment to streamline regulations and permitting for developers. Kasama said delays adhd to lodging costs and that accrued inventory volition assistance set prices.
She wants Clark County to prolong its nationalist information backing and wants to combat wasteful spending to support taxpayers.
Kasama previously said that the region should leverage the valley’s aesculapian schools to enlistee healthcare professionals successful bid to crook the portion into a “medical mecca,” and that she would proceed supporting Gov. Joe Lombardo’s strategy of attracting caller industries.
Harris besides would prioritize nationalist information and housing, she said.
“We person men and women and families who privation to enactment here, who marque up integral pieces of our occupation market, and they can’t spend to unrecorded here,” she said. “That’s a problem.”
While there’s already an accent successful the region connected lodging for low-income residents, that’s lone portion of the attainability crisis, Harris said.
She besides wants the national authorities to merchandise further nationalist land.
Harris would advocator for astute maturation successful which the region would inquire developers to see further public-need infrastructure successful their plans. She said the region tin enactment with lenders to incentivize homeowners to rehabilitate existing homes.
“We person existent infrastructure challenges successful presumption of we person explosive growth. And our roads are strained, our drainage utilities and each those kinds of things are struggling to support up,” Harris said. “And past we’ve got immoderate nationalist spot and morals challenges arsenic well.”
She said that economical and occupation improvement tin assistance support younger generations from moving retired of Clark County.
Yan said that the county’s infrastructure is struggling to support up with growth. Inappropriate improvement planning, she added, contributes to rising lodging costs and postulation congestion.
The region should treble down connected its assemblage lodging money to get onshore and to sphere existing affordable lodging done rehabilitation, she said. Redevelopment successful neighborhoods, specified arsenic Chinatown, Commercial Center, adjacent East Sahara Avenue and South Maryland Parkway,and eastbound Las Vegas should beryllium prioritized.
Yan wants to spot pedestrian-friendly infrastructure and a assemblage halfway successful her district, she said. As a large proponent of nationalist transportation, Yan would propulsion for the region to physique a determination airy obstruction system.
“It is clip for america to put successful different transformative proscription infrastructure system, gathering airy obstruction successful the Las Vegas Valley that volition enactment the maturation for the adjacent generation, not conscionable the adjacent predetermination cycle,” Yan said.
The region authorities serves the unincorporated areas of the valley. It funds and maintains nationalist infrastructure and regulates and approves businesses and developments.
In-person aboriginal voting begins Oct. 17 and runs done Oct. 30. The wide predetermination is Nov. 3.
Contact Ricardo Torres-Cortez astatine rtorres@reviewjournal.com.
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