Get Involved

In Your Neighborhood

• Community Emergency Response Team
• Start or become involved with a neighborhood association
• Learn about neighborhood programs
  • Homebuyer Assistance – helps eligible applicants borrow up to $10,000 for help with down payment and closing costs
  • Neighborhood Classroom – provides information and educational opportunities to neighborhood leaders and residents
  • Neighborhood Cleanup – organizes and provides materials to help clean up neighborhoods
  • Neighborhood Partnership – offers services and programs to help build better neighborhoods
  • Neighborhoods Online – free information service for registered neighborhood associations
  • Residential Rehabilitation – provides loans and grants to help eligible applicants repair their homes
  • Senior of the Quarter – honors senior Las Vegans who make a difference in our community
  • Youth Council – develops creative thinking and leadership skills for 12-17 year olds
  • Youth Neighborhood Association Partnership – gets youth involved in neighborhood and community building projects of their own design
• Join a Neighborhood Watch
• Mayor’s Healthy Lifestyle Initiative
• Get involved in the valley's trail system  
• Request help with neighborhood problems
  • Animal control (barking dogs, pet permits, etc.)
  • Business licensing (update business license information, report an unlicensed business, file a complaint about a business, etc.)
  • Neighborhood problems (dangerous buildings, garbage/litter violations, graffiti, illegal signs or vehicles, etc.)
  • Parking enforcement (report violations involving parking spaces, handicap spaces and fire lanes)
  • Sewer billing (questions about bill/payment, change of address, billing information)
  • Street or sewer services (street rehabilitation, sidewalk repairs, potholes, sewer odors and blocked drains, etc.)
  • Traffic control (install speed bumps or barricades)
  • Traffic signals, signs, lighting and pavement markings (repair of traffic signals, street/park/area lighting, etc.)

Participate In Government

• Apply for city boards and commissions
• City Council meetings
  • Calendar, agendas, minutes and video
  • Watch KCLV Channel 2 LIVE online 
• Vote
  • Find your polling place
  • Register to vote

Volunteer

• Park Ambassador
• Volunteer Program – support Las Vegas Municipal Court operations; bilingual (English-Spanish) court advocates
• Vounteer to work with the homeless
• Volunteer Application

Learn About Your Government

• Mayor and City Council
• KCLV Channel 2 government access programs
  • Access City Council – City Council members discuss issues going on in their respective Wards
  • City Beat – entertaining and informative stories on the people and events of Las Vegas
  • Las Vegas City Scene – city department representatives explain city services and their benefits to citizens
  • Las Vegas Town Hall – live call-in TV program hosted by Mayor Oscar B. Goodman and City Manager Betsy Fretwell
  • More…
• References
  • Budget (FY 2010)
  • City Charter
  • Municipal Code