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

Our economy is facing challenges right now. Las Vegas’ economy relies heavily on tourism, gaming and entertainment industries. Many local businesses are struggling with high costs and complex regulations. Employers often say that finding skilled workers is one of the main challenges they face. And many local residents say it is difficult to find a living wage job that can pay bills and provide a stable, long term career path.

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 will partner with CCSD and CSN to expand workforce training in high-demand fields such as healthcare, biotech, skilled trades, and cybersecurity by creating more apprenticeship and internship programs. She will also increase affordable childcare spaces at county-owned community centers and libraries to help more residents, especially women, enter the workforce.

Thirty years ago, in 1993, Clark County Commissioner Bruce Woodbury championed the development of the visionary I-215 freeway, the only freeway in this country built and funded by a local government. Later, the freeway was named the “Bruce Woodbury Beltway” in honor of Commissioner Woodbury and his vision for making it happen. The beltway made today’s Las Vegas possible. Looking forward to the next 30 years, we need another transformative transportation infrastructure project to support our future growth. We must build a regional light rail system to maintain our economic competitiveness.

Phoenix is hotter than Las Vegas, yet it has built 35 miles of light rail and saw 35,000 jobs created in the first 10 years of its operation after the system opened in 2008. Las Vegas is probably 20 years behind our peer regions like Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Denver, Seattle, etc. We are the only and the last major metropolitan city in the Mountain West that does not have a mass public transit system. Clark County has an annual budget of roughly $15 billion dollars. The question is not whether we can afford this transportation 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, expand express bus routes connecting Southwest to key destinations like the airport, Strip, Allegiant Stadium, and UNLV, invest in public transportation as our regional priority, and improve existing transit with better lighting and shade structures at bus stops.

Light rail tends to spur new development such as multifamily, offices, and retail, near transit stations. We can create special districts along the transit line to capture the increase in property tax revenue that happens after the new light rail line project raises nearby property values. The base property tax level is frozen. And as development and values go up over time because of the rail line, the increment amount above that base amount can be set aside to help pay for the rail project or related improvements. Cities like Denver, Phoenix, and Dallas use this financing mechanism and federal grants to reduce tax burden on local tax payers.

We have been underproducing housing across the country for the past decade. While the Las Vegas Valley continues to grow, housing is becoming less affordable for locals.

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 and increase supply.

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 (owing a vehicle, insurance, registration fee, maintenance, parking fee, etc.) Funding reliable public transit will help create transit-oriented development, lower housing costs (by cutting residents’ transportation expenses), and create walkable neighborhoods.

Housing is not only a supply issue. Housing needs to be built at the right location near jobs, amenities, transit, and infrastructure.

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 urban design strategies such as better lighting, clear sightlines, and active public spaces to make neighborhoods inherently safer. Additionally, Minja will work to redesign dangerous streets to make our streets safer for all road users including pedestrians, transit riders, cyclists, and drivers. She will also advocate for more funding in youth programs and job training 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 (the latest report released in summer 2026 said it is by 2055). We are growing in a desert with a limited water supply. Sprawling, low-density outward growth development pattern 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 growing outward into our public land in the outskirts of the valley. We need to build in, not out. We can ensure we manage our water and protect Nevada’s beautiful public lands for future generations to enjoy.

Las Vegas is known as the “healthcare desert”. Nevada has historically underinvested in medical education and residency programs. We do not train enough doctors here and we do not 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 champion in 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.

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 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-empoyer connection through paid internships and apprenticeship programs.

The number one challenge that employers mentioned about moving into Nevada is public school quality and lack of local skilled talent. Boston ranks #1 for biotech because they rank #1 in education, having the best universities like MIT and Harvard. We must think long term. Better school = better economy.

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; hosting regular office hours and coffee conversations in libraries, community centers and local businesses to meet you in your neighborhood; and ensure true transparency through regular community meetings on key issues like housing, traffic, and public safety.