LAS VEGAS (AP) - An executive with Nevada’s powerful casino workers’ union has been appointed to the Las Vegas Stadium Authority board of directors.
Gov. Steve Sisolak on Monday named Culinary Union secretary-treasurer Geoconda Arguello-Kline to the seat left vacant when consultant and former casino executive Scott Nielson’s term expired Dec. 31.
The Democratic governor also reappointed Steve Hill as chairman of the nine-member board overseeing the $2 billion, 65,000-seat Allegiant Stadium. The facility is being built just off the Las Vegas Strip to host the Raiders beginning later this year, following the NFL team’s move from Oakland.
Hill is president and chief operating officer of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
Arguello-Kline’s appointment came after the local Clark County Commission rejected her nomination to the board, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported .
County commissioners instead reappointed Caesars Entertainment board member Jan Jones Blackhurst and Tommy White, secretary-treasurer of Laborers Local 872. Both were on the board for its first two years of existence.
The Culinary Union is affiliated with UNITE HERE, which represents 30,000 workers at 51 stadiums across the United States.
Arguello-Kline told the Review-Journal that with stadium construction nearly complete, the focus should turn to job training, equal opportunity hiring and workforce development.
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