Minja is running to build a more affordable, livable, and responsive Clark County for us.

Our economy faces serious challenges: tourism is declining, unemployment is rising, and local businesses are struggling with high costs and complex regulations. At the same time, employers can’t find skilled workers while residents struggle to find living-wage jobs.

As County Commissioner, Minja will create a streamlined, “One-Stop-Shop” to cut red tape for small businesses and prioritize local contractors and suppliers for county projects. She will expand Clark County’s Department of Economic Development budget and invest in a new CDFI (Community Development Financial Institutions) to provide low-interest micro loans and technical assistance to help local, small businesses grow.

She’ll partner with CCSD and College of Southern Nevada to expand workforce training in high-demand fields like healthcare, skilled trades, and cybersecurity, by creating more apprenticeship opportunities. She will also increase affordable childcare access to help more residents, especially women, enter the workforce by making county-owned community centers and libraries a key part of providing childcare services.

Thirty years ago, in 1993, Commissioner Bruce Woodbury championed the visionary I-215 freeway—the only locally funded freeway in America—proving Clark County can achieve transformative projects when we have the will. Today, we face a new imperative: building a regional light rail system to secure our future growth and economic competitiveness for the next 30 years.

While Phoenix—a hotter city than ours—has built 35 miles of light rail connecting riders to jobs and opportunity, we’ve fallen 20 years behind. Clark County has an annual budget of $15 billion dollars. The question isn’t whether we can afford this investment, but whether we can afford to keep falling behind competitors like Phoenix and Denver.

As County Commissioner, Minja will:

• Champion a regional light rail system to create construction jobs, spur economic development, and finally address our traffic crisis
• Expand express route connecting Southwest to key destinations like the airport, Strip, Allegiant Stadium, and UNLV
• Fight to get a seat at the RTC board to shift RTC’s priorities to public transit.
• Improve existing transit with better lighting, shade structures at bus stops, and complete streets that work for all road users.

Just as I-215 made today’s Las Vegas possible, light rail will define our next generation of growth.

The American Dream is being priced out. The people who make Clark County run—our teachers, nurses, service workers, and young families—are being squeezed out by soaring rents and housing costs.

As County Commissioner, Minja will:

1. Remove zoning barriers that limit the construction of smaller, more affordable homes for first-time buyers and young families with smaller household size.
2. Eliminate wasteful parking minimum requirements, particularly near transit corridors, to let property owners decide how much parking is needed. This reduces construction costs, prevents huge, empty parking lots. Why is the parking lot in front of Walmart bigger than the store itself?
3. Increasing lot coverage and reducing setback restrictions
4. Reforming building codes to allow missing middle housing such as duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes to be built in non-master planned single family neighborhoods.

These policies will unlock more housing choices, increase supply, and lower costs for everyone.

Housing and transportation are two sides of the same coin. The real cost of housing equals the cost of housing plus the cost of transportation (H+T Index). Funding reliable, expanded transit will enable transit-oriented development, lower housing costs (by cutting residents’ transportation expenses), and create walkable neighborhoods. We need housing near our jobs and communities, not pushed to the outskirts of the city. Affordable housing without affordable transportation is not real affordability.

Our first responders are overburdened, forced to act as doctors and mental health workers for mental health and homelessness crises. This pulls them away from focusing on emergencies, violent crime and property thefts.

Minja will advocate for more funding and stronger partnerships for service providers, mental health professionals and paramedics for non-violent mental health, substance use, and homeless crisis calls. This frees up LVMPD police to focus on serious crime.

She will use proven urban design strategies such as better lighting, clear sightlines, and vibrant public spaces—to make neighborhoods inherently safer. Additionally, Minja will work to redesign dangerous streets and commit to achieving zero traffic fatalities, ensuring safety for all residents whether on our roads or in our communities.

She will also advocate for more funding in youth programs and job initiatives to provide positive pathways for young adults and prevent violence.

Lake Mead is only 30% full. UNLV Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) study projects Clark County will reach a population of 3 million people by 2045. We are growing in a desert with a limited water supply. Sprawling, low-density development consumes our natural landscape, increases car dependency, pollutes our air, and strains infrastructure.

As County Commissioner, Minja will implement smart land use and prioritize developments on previously developed, vacant, or underused land within the urban core of the valley instead of on raw desert public land in the outskirts of the valley. We can ensure we manage our water, protect Nevada’s beautiful public lands, and build a resilient community for generations to come.

Las Vegas is known as the “healthcare desert”. Nevada has historically underinvested in medical education and residency programs. We don’t train enough doctors here, and when we do, we don’t have enough residency slots to keep them. Too many in our community struggle to see a doctor due to cost, distance, language barriers, or mental health stigma.

Minja will bring clinics to our neighborhoods – building a community center with a health clinic inside in Southwest and establishing a Federally Qualified Health Center in Chinatown that accepts all insurance (including medicaid and medicare). Minja will break down language barriers by funding Community Health Worker programs and professional interpretation services.

Minja will also grow our healthcare workforce through partnerships with local universities and medical institutions, creating accelerated certificate programs and residency slots at our new community clinics and other facilities throughout the valley to make sure that our healthcare and medical students stay in Las Vegas rather than moving to another state. We’ll ensure every resident can get quality physical and mental healthcare close to home.

Recent investments into our public school system and improved teacher pay has finally unlocked some progress for our students, but Nevada’s education system still remains one of the worst-performing in the country. Our children are 20% of the population – and 100% of our future.

As County Commissioner, Minja will work to keep the forward momentum: create career pathways through partnerships with CCSD and local employers in high-demand fields like healthcare; invest in early childhood education to provide affordable preschool; build Safe Routes to School with traffic calming measures and protected bike lanes; and strengthen the school-community connection through paid internships and apprenticeship programs. When our schools thrive, our entire community thrives. Let’s build an education system that prepares every child for success.

Your government should answer your calls and emails. Minja will be the most accessible and engaged commissioner District F has ever seen.

As your Commissioner, Minja will make government accessible by moving public meetings to after-work hours and expanding online access; bring government to your neighborhood with regular office hours in libraries and community centers; ensure true transparency through regular community meetings on key issues like housing, traffic, and public safety.