County considers fund for permanent Vegas mass shooting memorial

Clark County is moving toward establishing a fund for the creation and maintenance of a permanent memorial for the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting.

The 1 October Memorial Committee stopped short Wednesday of establishing the fund or a nonprofit organization to accept or solicit donations honoring the lives lost and changed in the 2017 shooting at a country music festival on the Strip.

But it did direct Clark County staff to draft parameters for a county-managed donation account for the committee to fine-tune before proposing the account to the Board of County Commissioners for ultimate approval.

County parks and recreation manager Lonny Zimmerman said that as an advisory committee to the commissioners, and therefore a government entity, the memorial committee can’t ask for or raise funds. It shouldn’t even bring up the topic in conversation.

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