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A
D
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F
A
President,
thank
you,
mr
secretary,
so
with
that
members
I
want
to
remind
you
to
please
keep
your
microphones
on
mute.
I
want
to
make
sure
that
those
of
you
who
intend
to
speak
today,
please
state
your
name
for
the
record
each
time
it
makes
the
life
a
lot
easier
for
our
staff
members.
Please
keep
your
cameras
on
and
for
those
of
you
following
virtually.
I
want
to
remind
you
that
everybody
has
a
unique
setup
in
their
own
office
at
times
they're
looking
in
different
directions.
A
Members,
our
our
policy
analyst
pointed
out,
and
I
think
it's
important-
that
y'all
notice
the
transition
that
we're
now
moving
into
local
government
and
we're
gonna
be
hearing
it
from
our
cities
and
counties
over
the
next
several
days
here
and
again,
we'll
be
working
very
closely
with
them
throughout
the
entire
session.
But
I
just
wanted
to
point
out
that
we
are
starting
to
transition
to
local.
A
We
have
three
presentations
scheduled
for
today,
we're
going
to
take
them
in
the
order
they
appear
on
the
agenda.
The
first
will
be
by
the
nevada
association
of
counties
followed
by
washoe
county
and
then
lastly,
carson
city.
Excuse
me
yes,
carson
city,
and
with
that
I
want
to
say
good
morning,
welcome
and
we'll
go
ahead
and
open
up
the
presentation
to
our
nevada
association
of
counties.
H
Great,
thank
you
so
much
for
the
time
on
your
agenda
today.
My
name
is
dagny
stapleton.
I
am
the
executive
director
of
naco,
the
nevada
association
of
counties.
I'm
going
to
go
ahead
and
share
my
screen
so
that
everyone
can
see
my
powerpoint.
C
H
H
We
are
a
non-partisan
organization
and
our
members
are
all
17
of
nevada's
county
governments.
Naco
was
formed
in
1924
and
so
we're
proud
of
our
almost
100
years
of
working
to
serve
nevada's
counties,
including
representing
them
here
at
the
nevada
legislature.
Nico's
authorized
pursuant
to
nrs
244
120.
H
Our
board
of
directors
is
made
up
of
at
least
one
commissioner
from
each
of
nevada's
17
counties
and
our
leadership
right
now.
Our
our
current
nato
president
is
clark
county,
commissioner
marilyn
kirkpatrick.
She
followed,
commissioner,
jim
french,
who
was
nako's
2020
president.
Our
president-elect
is
commissioner
bob
lucy
from
washoe
county,
who,
I
believe,
you'll
be
hearing
from
later
this
morning,
and
our
vice
president
is
commissioner
marlon
higbee
from
lincoln
county.
The
naked
board
also
includes
affiliate
members
representing
the
other
county
elected
offices,
including
county
clerks,
assessors
recorders,
district
attorneys
and
sheriffs.
H
H
H
You
will
see
him
frequently
in
this
committee,
sometimes
most
of
the
time,
all
the
time
when
he's
speaking
with
you
sharing
the
county
perspective
with
you
on
bills
that
affect
counties.
Nako
also
has
a
natural
resources,
manager,
colby
prout
and
our
office
manager,
amanda
evans,
who
all
do
a
great
job
for
us.
So
we
are
small
with
only
a
staff
of
four,
but
we
try
to
do
our
very
best
to
accomplish
a
whole
lot
for
our
members
with
those
limited
resources.
H
This
is
our
mission
basically
to
support
counties
in
maximizing
efficiency
and
fostering
trust
in
county
government.
We
also
serve
as
a
forum
for
cooperation
and
coordination
amongst
nevada's
counties.
H
H
The
naked
board
meets
once
a
month
and
functions
as
a
place
where
members
can
exchange
information
and
work
together
on
common
issues
and
goals.
Our
board
includes
at
least
one
county
commissioner,
from
each
of
nevada's
counties.
Naco
also
provides
education
and
resources
for
our
members.
We
hold
an
annual
conference
where
we
provide
workshops
and
panels
on
a
number
of
issues
important
to
counties.
We
also
provide
workshops
and
education
throughout
the
year.
Our
website
is
also
a
good
resource
for
our
members,
as
well
as
anyone
else
interested
in
nevada's
counties
on
there.
H
We
have
links
to
each
of
nevada's
county's
websites,
along
with
publications
related
to
county's
directory
of
our
members,
information
about
our
meetings
and
our
conference.
We
also
provide
advocacy
on
behalf
of
counties
both
here
during
the
legislative
session
and
in
the
interim.
There
are
many
state
laws
and
policies
that
affect
counties
in
the
2019
session.
For
example,
we
tracked
almost
half
of
the
bills
introduced
as
they
affected
county
government
in
one
way
or
another.
H
So
that's
why
you'll
see
us
here
in
government
affairs
and
virtually
around
the
virtual
building,
along
with
the
other
county
staff
or
lobbyists
that
are
working
at
the
legislature
and
advocating
for
their
member
for
their
counties.
Naco
also
works
on
federal
issues
that
affect
counties
through
the
national
association
of
counties.
Each
of
our
members.
Each
of
our
counties
in
nevada
are
also
a
member
of
that
and
finally,
naco
also
engages
on
a
number
of
statutory
and
statewide
committees
on
which
we
have
representation.
H
Part
of
county's
responsibilities
for
those
in
our
communities
is
to
help
fund
care
for
those
defined
as
indigent,
so
those
who
don't
do
not
have
the
resources
to
pay
for
their
own
care
and
this
board
oversees
county
and
other
functions
that
assist
with
that.
Some
of
the
other
statewide
boards
that
we
have
membership
on
and
where
counties
have
an
interest
include
the
board
for
the
fund
for
internet
defense
services.
H
H
So
I
wanted
to
provide
you
with
some
general
information
about
nevada's
counties.
Counties
in
nevada
range
in
population,
from
more
than
two
million
in
clark
county
to
just
over
a
thousand
in
esmeralda
county
nevada's.
Smallest
county
nevada
is
one
of
the
most
urban
states
in
the
united
states,
urban
being
defined
as
the
percentage
of
the
population
that
lives
in
urban
areas.
H
H
We
want
to
provide
the
committee
so
continue
our
overview
of
all
the
things
that
counties
do
and
then
I
know
that
you
have
washoe
county
and
carson
city
who
is
a
county
as
well
a
consolidated
municipality
and
they'll
go
into
that
with
you,
so
they'll
be
following
me
and
they
can
provide
more
specific
examples
and
then
you'll
be
hearing
from
clark
county
the
week
after
next
anyway.
As
an
introduction,
we
created
a
video
on
this
topic.
We
wanted
to
share
with
you.
H
I
Hospital
workers,
ems,
responders
contract,
tracers
and
human
services
providers
are
some
of
the
frontline
heroes
of
the
kobe
19
response
and
in
nevada.
Many
of
them
are
county
employees,
counties
matter
and
they
serve
every
nevadan
every
day
during
coven
19
nevada's
counties
are
a
critical
part
of
the
public
health
response,
supporting
health
districts,
providing
regional
emergency
services
and
preparing
quarantine
and
isolation
beds.
Counties
are
the
provider
of
the
local
social
safety
net
nevadans
most
in
need
rely
on
counties
to
provide
child
protective
services,
meals
to
those
in
need,
and
services
to
the
homeless
and
seniors.
I
Nevada's
counties
are
responsible
for
providing
over
20
percent
of
the
state's
medicaid
budget
and
support
public
hospitals
throughout
the
state
counties.
Do
all
this
in
addition
to
providing
the
everyday
municipal
and
regional
services
that
nevadans
depend
on
like
roads,
parks,
water
and
sewer
systems,
community,
centers,
libraries
and
county
airports
counties
also
administer
elections,
helping
to
ensure
one
of
our
most
sacred
democratic
rights,
nevada's
counties
matter
and
in
difficult
economic
times.
County
services
are
more
important
than
ever
and
more
in
demand.
We
think
the
nearly
23
thousand
nevadans
that
are
county
employees.
H
H
Okay,
so
counties
as
you
can
see
from
the
video
provide
all
sorts
of
regional
and
municipal
services
to
all
nevadans
throughout
covid
counties
have
provided
much
of
the
local
on
the
ground
response,
including,
as
you
saw
in
the
video
helping
to
stand
up,
contact,
tracing
and
testing
some
counties
have
paid
for
tests
or
additional
lab
equipment.
H
All
counties
have
assisted
in
some
capacity
and
are
assisting
with
administrating,
administering
or
coordinating
testing.
Also,
this
video
was
made
prior
to
the
release
of
the
vaccine,
and
so
we
wanted
to
note
that
counties
are
also
complaining.
Ms
stapleton,
yes.
B
Our
product,
the
live
broadcast,
we're
not
seeing
your
powerpoint
if
you
could
just.
H
H
Sorry,
okay,
no
problem!
Thank
you
for
letting
me
know.
I
appreciate
it
so
just
to
go
back
to
the
video
for
a
minute.
This
video
was
made
prior
to
the
release
of
the
vaccine,
but
we
wanted
to
make
sure
that
the
committee
know
knew
that
counties
are
also
playing
a
key
role
in
vaccine
distribution.
H
H
It's
our
first
responders
who
have
helped,
distribute
the
vaccines,
including
helping
with
shots
and
standing
up
pods,
we'll
briefly
get
into
who
is
responsible
for
public
health
in
nevada
just
a
little
bit
because
counties
interface
with
that.
Yet
there
it's
also
a
very
important
partnership
with
the
state.
So
we'll
touch
on
that
in
a
minute.
H
Okay,
all
right,
thank
you.
So,
as
you
can
see
from
this
map,
all
of
nevada
is
divided
up
into
17
counties,
so
the
services
that
counties
provide
are
to
every
one
of
nevadans
nevada's
residents
and
to
each
of
your
constituents
as
well.
This
is
one
of
the
reasons
that
counties
have
been
such
a
critical
part
of
the
coven
response.
H
So,
in
addition,
all
that
we're
doing
during
covid
counties
also
provide
senior
and
home
human
services
and,
as
we've
mentioned,
libraries
in
most
counties,
important
infrastructure
like
roads
and
water
systems,
local
tax
collection
and
document
reporting,
and
also
for
important
parts
of
our
local
justice
system,
including
justice,
courts,
district
attorneys,
public
defenders
and
county
jails
and
our
elections
in
nevada
are
conducted
by
counties
in
addition
to
regional
services.
Counties
also
provide
municipal
services
such
as
planning
and
the
regulation
of
development,
business
licensing,
streets
and
other
public
infrastructure
parks
and
recreation
and
counties.
H
Do
those
provide
those
municipal
services
in
areas
that
are
outside
of
cities
areas
we
refer
to
as
unincorporated
county
geographically?
Most
of
nevada
consists
of
unincorporated
county
areas,
but
there
are
some
urban
areas
that
are
unincorporated
as
well
and
where
the
county
provides
regional
as
well
as
municipal
services.
These
areas
actually
include
the
las
vegas
strip,
some
parts
of
urbanized
washoe,
county
pahrump
and
much
of
the
carson
valley
in
douglas
county
and,
of
course,
carson
city,
who
is
our
state's
only
consolidated
city.
H
It's
counties
who
own
and
maintain
our
voting
machines
and
run
polling
places
and
manage
the
staff
and
volunteers
who
help
with
our
elections
and
counties
administer
all
district
and
justice
courts.
So
those
are
the
courts
that
handle
all
gross
misdemeanors
and
felony
cases,
as
well
as
some
misdemeanors
and
civil
actions,
counties
also
fund
and
manage
our
district
attorneys
public
defenders,
as
well
as
county
jails
and
detention
centers.
H
Finally,
public
safety
is
also,
of
course,
a
county
function,
including
sheriff's
departments,
fire
ambulance
response
and
9-1-1
systems,
and
then
counties
actually
own
or
maintain,
and
an
interesting
statistic
for
you:
own,
maintain
and
pave
75
of
all
nevada's
roads,
so
just
to
go
back
briefly
to
public
health.
Both
clark
and
washoe
county
have
health
districts
that
are
separate
entities
from
their
counties,
though
both
of
those
counties
do
support
those
health
districts
in
different
ways.
Washoe
county,
for
example,
is
the
primary
funder
of
the
washoe
county.
H
Health
district
and
carson
city
has
a
health
authority
within
their
county
and
through
that
they
actually
support
three
surrounding
counties
with
some
public
health
services,
especially
during
covid.
For
the
remainder
of
this
state,
public
health
is
provided
by
the
state
of
nevada
through
the
department
of
public
and
behavioral
health
through
a
partnership
with
the
rural
counties,
the
counties
each
have
county
health
boards
and
provide
payment
through
assessments
for
some
of
the
state
public
health
services
provided
to
them
here
is
a
map
of
some
of
the
services
that
I
just
mentioned.
H
And
we
know
this
text
is
a
little
small
here,
so
we
have
provided
each
one
of
you
with
a
copy
of
the
document
on
the
slide
in
blue.
You
can
see
the
services
that
are
provided
by
the
state
and
counties
in
partnership
and
that
may
vary
from
county
county
in
orange.
Our
state
services
and
in
yellow
at
the
bottom
of
each
column
are
those
provided
or
funded
entirely
by
counties.
Those
on
this
list
denoted
with
an
asterisk
are
services
the
counties
are
mandated
to
provide.
H
So
there
are
two
examples
I
wanted
to
point
out
on
this
map.
The
first
is
child
protective
services
under
the
welfare
box.
These
are
services
that
in
clark
and
washoe
counties,
those
counties
provide
100
of
to
keep
the
most
vulnerable
in
our
communities
safe
and
protected,
and
those
counties
provide
100
of
that,
including
the
funding
in
the
rural
counties.
H
The
state
actually
provides
that
service,
but
charges
the
counties
back
for
the
cost
of
that
services
service,
so
counties
are
assessed
that
cost
indigent
defense
is
another
example
that
falls
under
the
judicial
box
on
this
map.
Nevada
is
one
of
the
few
states
where
counties
have
been
mandated
to
take
on
almost
100
percent
of
the
cost
of
public
defenders
going
on
to
county
revenues,
and
I
just
want
to
know
real
quick.
I
just
got
a
note
that
you
all
didn't
see
my
video.
H
I
didn't
realize
that
I
apologize
you
just
could
hear
the
words,
so
I
just
want
to
let
everyone
know
that
that
video,
I
think,
is
posted
on
nellis
if
you
haven't
seen
it
yet,
please
take
a
look.
We
worked
hard
on
it
that
really
acknowledges
a
lot
of
county
employees
as
well
and
all
the
things
they
do
which
we're
really
proud
of.
So
I
just
wanted
to
note
that
and
apologize
that
you
all
couldn't
see
that
video
and
that
you
can
resource
you
can
access
it
on
nellis
so
to
county
revenues.
H
How
are
counties
able
to
provide
all
these
services?
This
slide
shows
the
main
revenue
sources
upon
which
counties
depend.
This
is
the
important
stuff.
This
is
the
money.
The
two
most
important
funding
streams
for
counties
are
c
tax
and
property.
Tax
ctax
includes
sales
taxes,
as
well
as
other
revenues
that
are
distributed
through
a
formula
to
each
county
for
most
of
nevada's
counties.
H
Property
tax
is
their
primary
source
of
revenue,
so
that's
a
very
important
source
of
revenue
as
well
and
for
our
rural
counties.
Another
important
source
of
revenue
is
net
proceeds
of
minerals
which
come
from
mining
taxes.
Additional
funding
includes
local
fees
for
services
and
licenses
and,
finally,
another
important
source
of
county
revenues
for
nevada's
rural
counties
are
payments
in
lieu
of
taxes,
otherwise
known
as
pilt
nevada.
H
Here's
a
little
more
information
on
some
of
those
key
county
revenue
sources,
including
who
sets
the
authority
and
limitations
on
those
taxes.
Nevada's
counties
for
the
most
part
do
not
have
what
we
call
home
rule.
Instead,
nevada
is
a
dylan's
law
state,
meaning
the
counties
can
only
perform
those
actions
specifically
allowed
by
you,
the
legislature
so
take
property
taxes,
for
example.
It's
the
legislature
that
says,
tells
counties
how
much
we
can
impose
and
collect.
H
Currently
counties
are
authorized
to
collect
up
to
3.64
cents
per
100
of
assessed.
Valuation
on
property
and
property.
Tax
bills
cannot
increase
on
residential
property
over
three
percent
each
year.
You
can
also
see
the
different
sources
here
that
go
into
sea
tax,
which
is
the
largest
revenue
source
for
carson
city
and
also
a
critical
source
of
revenue,
of
course,
for
clark
county.
H
What
we
call
an
unfunded
mandate
is
a
mandate
to
provide
or
a
new
or
expanded
service,
without
new
associated
revenue
to
pay
for
those
services
or
without
the
ability
to
raise
more
revenue.
We
also
make
the
same
request
regarding
tax
abatements.
There
are
many
tax
abatements
created
in
state
law
that
actually
abate
local
sales,
use
and
property
taxes
that
could
impact
county
budgets
and
county's
ability
to
provide
critical
services.
So
we
always
ask
to
be
a
part
of
the
conversation
on
those
policy
areas
and
any
potential
policy
changes.
H
So
a
lot
of
this
presentation
so
far
has
been
about
highlighting
what
counties
do
and
the
importance
of
county
governance
and
services.
It's
also
important
for
counties
to
maintain
the
ability
they
currently
have
to
carry
out
those
services
that
they're
responsible.
For
so
county
authority
and
policy
changes
and
discussions
related
to
that
are
also
important
to
us.
H
Counties
always
also
engage
with
the
budget
process
here
at
the
legislature,
to
watch
budgeted
assessments
to
counties
from
the
state
and
other
areas
of
interest,
including
health
and
human
services,
public
safety
and
nevada's
cooperative
extension
program,
which
is
funded
predominantly
by
counties,
and
then
we
do
have
a
handful
of
bills.
This
session
well,
not
quite
a
handful.
We
have
four
each
session.
Naco
is
authorized
to
submit
five
bdrs
on
behalf
of
counties
and
the
four
that
our
board
requested
that
we
move
forward
with
this
session
include
ab1.
H
Currently,
as
all
of
you
know,
all
new
legislators
are
required
to
take
new
legislative
training
and
ab1
asks
that
information
on
how
counties
and
cities
operate
be
included
in
that
training.
Since
you,
as
the
legislature
have
so
much
of
a
say
over
what
local
governments
do,
this
legislation
would
ensure
that
you
all
are
provided
training
on
the
services
that
counties
provide,
as
well
as
on
county
authority
and
county
budget.
So,
in
what
we
do,
ab2
currently
in
nevada
law,
a
qualified
individual
cannot
serve
on
more
than
one
board
whose
members
are
appointed
by
the
governor.
H
We're
proposing
a
change
to
that
to
remove
that
restriction,
and
we
want
to
thank
the
committee
chair,
sheriff
flores,
as
that
bill
will
be
heard
on
monday
and
we've
already
spoken
to
a
number
of
you
about
it.
So
we're
looking
forward
to
that
hearing
ab33
would
clarify
the
process
to
determine
paternity.
That
bill
is
going
to
come
to
the
assembly
judiciary
committee
ab33
proposes
to
codify
the
procedure
for
determining
fraternity
in
nrs
432
b.
H
This
bill
would
take
the
existing
procedure
and
codify
that
providing
a
clarification
that
will
ensure
that
the
law
is
applied
consistently
and
that
children
do
not
stay
in
the
system
longer
than
is
absolutely
necessary.
So
to
be
consistent
on
dna
testing,
noticing,
timing
of
hearings,
things
like
that,
excuse
me
and
finally
sb10
as
counties
continue
to
struggle
with
the
effects
of
the
great
recession
on
property
tax
revenue.
We're
now
looking
forward
to
another
potential
reduction
depending
on
what
happens
with
the
current
economic
follow
from
covet
19..
H
We
want
to
thank
the
committee
and
you,
mr
chair,
for
the
opportunity
today.
This
is
a
picture
of
our
office,
we're
right
up
the
street
from
you
all
on
minnesota
and
forth.
This
is,
we
would
welcome
you
to
come,
say
hi
anytime,
of
course,
with
a
mask
on
and
finally,
we've
got
our
contact
info
here
myself
and
nako's
deputy
director
again,
mr
chair
thanks.
So
much
for
the
time
today,
I'd
be
happy
to
answer
any
questions
or
provide
any
additional
information
that
the
committee
might
be
interested
in.
A
Great
and
thank
you
for
your
presentation-
and
I
appreciate
you
devoting
so
much
of
it
to
just
highlighting
the
work
of
our
great
employees
out
there
who
are
on
the
front
lines,
doing
a
lot
of
heavy
lifting
on
behalf
of
the
state.
So
thank
you.
We
have
a
series
of
questions
coming
from
several
members
and
I'm
going
to
try
to
take
them
in
the
order
that
I
saw
them
and
we'll
open
up
with
assemblyman
ellison.
Please.
G
Thank
you,
mr
chairman,
several
years
ago
we've
got
the
home
rule,
bill
passed
and
finally
put
into
place
and
we
were
supposed
to
be
tracking
to
see
how
it's
working
out.
Can
you
give
me
a
quick
summary
of
how
that's
working
for
you
guys?
I
mean
we
had
a
hard
time
getting
that
bill
through
and
to
me
it
was
a
good
deal
and
and
very
important
to
all
the
counties,
and
then
the
other
one
I
have
is
a
question
on
ctec.
So
if
you
could
answer
that.
H
Thanks
so
much
mr
chair,
through
youtube,
assemblyman
ellison,
I
want
to
briefly
recognize
assemblyman
ellison's
former
life
as
a
county
commissioner,
and
during
that
time
his
important
role
in
our
organization
and
thanks
for
his
service
to
local
government,
we
did
have
a
bill
in
the
2015
session.
H
To
allow
counties
to
have
additional
limited
authority
in
nevada
counties
can
only
do
what
you
all
tell
us
to
do
in
nevada
law.
We
we
only
have
the
authority
grant
to
us
by
the
legislature.
We
do
not
have
what's
known
as
home
rule,
and
so
we,
the
legislature,
decided
we
needed
a
little
bit
of
a
little
bit
of
homeworld
just
to
address
specific
administrative
functions.
So
we
didn't
have
to
come
to
you
all
all
the
time.
For
you
know
tiny
changes
to
statute
for
things
that
we
needed
that
bill
passed.
H
It's
been
successful,
it
was
used
a
handful
of
times
in
the
year
after
it
passed
in
assemblyman
ellison.
There
was
a
report
that
we
submitted.
I
believe
in
the
2017
interim
on
that,
and
I
can
provide
that
to
you
and
the
committee,
but
we've
used
it
successfully.
It
has
been
needed.
We
appreciate
that
it
was
put
in
place
and
I
can
provide
that
report
to
you.
I'd
be
happy
to
answer
a
question
about
sea
tax
too.
If
you
had
one.
G
Well,
you
know
several
years
ago
the
consolidated
tax
was
frozen
and
based
on
the
revenues.
Now
you
guys
are
looking
at
sb10,
provide
additional
stability
for
county
property
tax
right
now,
I'm
hoping
they
can
level
it
off,
instead
of
increasing
it,
because
right
now
the
hits
has
been
massive
to
businesses
so
but
the
consolidated
tax
has
been
frozen
and
I
was
hoping
we
could
address
it
in
this
session,
but
we
didn't
get
a
bill
in
in
time.
G
H
Thank
you
for
the
question.
Assemblyman
ellison
through
the
chair,
chair
flores.
Both
of
those
revenue
sources
are
very
important,
the
top
two
for
all
counties,
the
sea
tax
and
property
tax,
and
there
we
have
not
had
any
conversation
about
changes
to
sea
tax.
What
I
do
know
is
when
that
conversation
happened,
a
lot
of
stakeholders
holders
a
lot
of
difficult
conversations.
H
It's
a
very
complicated
formula
that
determines
how
sales
tax
and
some
of
those
other
taxes
are
distributed
to
local
governments
and
to
my
knowledge,
there
has
not
been
a
discussion
on
changing
that.
I
think
everybody
seems
to
be
okay
with
where
it's
at
sea
tax
has
been
impacted,
profoundly
those
revenues,
especially
during
the
months
last
year
when
the
economy
was
almost
shut
down
totally
local
sales
taxes
really
took
a
hit
during
quarantine.
So
but
no
we,
we
are
not
interested
this
session
in
addressing
any
changes
to
ctax.
G
A
Thank
you
assemblyman
next,
we'll
go
to
assemblyman
matthews.
Please.
K
Thank
you,
mr
chairman.
Good
morning,
ms
stapleton,
it's
good
to
see
you
appreciate
being
with
us
and
for
providing
that
that
very
informative
presentation,
one
of
the
frustrations,
that's
voiced
to
me
a
lot
in
las
vegas,
where
I
live,
has
to
do
with
flow
of
information
and
communication
from
the
state
level
to
local
governments.
K
Regarding
covet
and,
specifically,
you
know,
new
mandates,
new
restrictions,
new
steps
that
the
state
is
taking
in
this
in
this
current
climate,
and
I'm
wondering
if
you
could
speak
to
what
kind
of
feedback
you
get
you
know
from
your
members
in
terms
of
the
the
efficiency
of
how
information's
getting
to
our
counties,
what
role
neco
plays
in
trying
to
facilitate
that.
K
To
what
extent
you've
had
some
success
in
sort
of
easing
that
flow
of
information,
if
you
could
also
speak
to
you
know
where
that
information
comes
from
in
terms
of
what
state
level
agencies
are
coming
from,
the
governor's
office
coming
from
the
department
of
health
and
human
services
and
then
as
the
state
sharing
with
with
your
members
the
county
level
in
an
efficient
way.
You
know
statistical
data
that
that
the
state
is
collecting.
K
H
Thank
you
through
you,
mr
chair
to
assemblyman
matthews.
Thank
you
for
the
question.
Yeah
neko
has
been
very
involved
with
the
covid
response
at
the
state
and
local
level,
and
that
is
one
of
our
primary
roles
has
been
a
conduit
for
information
from
the
state
to
our
members.
H
It's
been
something
that
we've
worked
really
hard
on
to
try
to
make
sure
that
they
have
as
much
information
as
we
have
and
that
that
we
can
get
on
what's
going
on
at
the
state
level,
and
so
during
earlier
in
covid,
we
had
regular
emails
newsletters
going
out
to
our
members
with
everything
that
we
could
find
out,
not
only
on
the
state
level
but
from
the
national
association
of
counties.
H
H
H
There
have
been,
you
know,
frustrations
absolutely
with
getting
information
at
all
levels.
I
think
everybody's
experienced
that
I
think
from
what
I've
from
what
I
understand.
You
know
from
the
governor's
office
from
the
feds,
and
then
you
know
on
down,
and
so
we've
worked
really
hard
to
try
to
ease
those
frustrations
and
stay
in
communication
with
the
folks
that
we
know
know
you
know
what's
going
on
and
then
to
push
that
out
to
our
members.
We
are
a
member
of
the
covent
and
the
governor's
kova
19
task
force.
H
They
do
provide
statistical
information
on
covid,
county
by
county
and
that's
pushed
out
every
week
and
is
on
their
website.
We
actually
have
been
pretty
vocal
on
how
how
some
of
those
metrics
were
created
and
ensuring
that
that
information
got
out
to
counties.
That
task
force
was
a
pretty
good
conduit
as
well,
and
nato,
because
we
were
represented
on
there
really
worked
hard
to
pull
our
members
in
and
to
support
them
in
those
communications
with
the
governor's
office.
H
Naco
was
also
on
the
governor's
leap
committee
when
that
was
active.
Trying
to
pull
information
up
from
our
members
on
you
know,
impacts
of
some
of
those
directives
and
some
direction
on
how
those
could
be
crafted.
So
I
hope
that
answers
your
your
question.
Assemblyman.
K
It
does
thank
you
and
I
was
hoping
I
could
just
ask
a
quick
follow-up
if
I
may.
Mr
chairman,
yes,
follow
up,
please
thank
you
just
in
terms
of
vaccine
distribution,
how
how
has
the
governor's
office
worked
with
the
counties
to
make
sure
that
that's
happening?
Is
that
going
smoothly
room
for
improvement?
Wonder
if
you
could
speak
to
that?
Thank
you.
H
Thank
you
assemblyman,
mr
chair,
through
you
to
assemblyman
matthews.
Thank
you
for
the
question.
Like
anything,
I
think
what
I've
heard
the
vaccination
effort
called
is
the
largest
logistical
effort
you
know
ever
undertaken
in
our
country,
and
so
I
think
because
of
that,
of
course
you
know
huge
challenges.
Communication
logistically
to
get
that
setting
to
get
that
set
up
early
on
when
the
vaccine
was
first
released.
We
did
work
closely
with
our
members.
You
know
when
there
were
frustrations
about
information
coming
down
in
communication.
H
Again,
that's
from
the
federal
level
and
the
state
level
down.
You
know,
and
I
think
everyone
was
definitely
working
their
hardest
to
do
their
best-
to
get
the
the
vaccination
efforts
set
up
and
to
get
that
those
communications
out,
but
we
did
make
sure
when
and
where
there
were
frustrations
from
our
members
that
we
connected
them
with
the
appropriate
folks
at
the
state
state,
public
health
who
are
working
on
this
and
they
generally
have
been
very
accessible.
H
There
have
been
bumps
and
challenges,
but
they
have
been
accessible
accessible
and
we
have
been
able
to
connect
our
county
folks
in
with
the
right
folks
at
the
state.
But
there
have
been
frustrations.
I
want
to
speak
again
to
how
much
counties
are
doing,
especially
in
the
vaccination
distribution
effort
and
the
coordination
of
that,
and
we
continue
to
work
with
the
appropriate
folks
at
the
state
to
try
to
ensure
that
residents
through
the
county
have
counties
in
the
state
have
the
information
they
need
and
that
everybody's
doing
the
best
that
they
can.
E
Thank
you,
chair
flores.
Thank
you,
miss
stapleton,
for
your
very
detailed
presentation.
I
appreciate
learning
about
the
17
counties
across
our
great
state.
My
question
is
relevant
to
indigent
care.
My
home
is
clark
county.
So,
as
you
know,
we
have
a
very
robust
resident
count
in
that
area
and
really,
as
we
talk
about
coming
through
the
covet
19
virus,
we
received
a
report
from
the
nevada
grants
office
just
the
other
day
talking
about
how
we're
working
really
hard
to
bring
in
funding
in
order
to
support
the
population.
H
Year,
thank
you.
Assemblywoman
brown.
May,
mr
chair
to
the
assembly
woman
through
you
and
it's
nice
to
meet
you
over
zoom.
We
haven't
had
the
opportunity
to
meet
yet
congratulations
on
your
appointment.
Indigent
care
is
an
important
part
of
what
all
counties
do,
and
you
know
in
general,
like
I
mentioned
each
county,
has
a
human
services
director
and
they're
responsible
for
a
number
of
systems
and
resources
to
support
their
residents.
H
I
think
what
one
of
the
the
human
services
folks
described
to
covet.
As
you
know,
things
had
sort
of
slowed
down
during
covet
in
terms
of
need,
because
so
many
people
were
staying
home
in
in
some
aspects.
But
then,
of
course,
we
see
housing
needs
increase
and
then,
as
covid
comes
to
an
end
sort
of
a
you
know
a
perfect
storm,
then
of
need.
You
know,
as
people
as
the
economy
has
slowed
down
and
as
people
have
had
you
know,
or
access
services
less
during
covid.
H
That
then
I
think
we
expect
across
the
state
for
there
to
be
a
bump
in
need
absolutely
and
we're
already
seeing
that
I
could
connect
you
with.
I
know
clark
county
is
going
to
present
to
this
committee
week
after
next.
They
have
some
really
amazing
folks
and
programs
in
their
county
social
services
department,
and
I
know
they're,
going
to
go
through
some
of
that
with
you
in
more
detail.
H
So
that's
probably
in
terms
of
some
of
those
details
better,
you
know
put
to
some
some
of
our
individual
members
specifically
to
clark
county,
and
I
know
that
they
were
going
to
cover
some
of
that
in
their
presentation,
and
I
can
ask
for
additional
information
in
the
meantime.
H
E
If
you
don't
mind,
my
one
follow-up
question
would
be
relative
to
federal
funding
opportunities
and
grants
and
and
the
partnership
I'm
wondering
if
you're
working
with
the
nevada
grants
office
in
order
to
bring
in
additional
federal
funding
to
cover
specifically
this
engineer
population
throughout
each
of
the
other
16
counties
that
perhaps
I'm
not
as
familiar
with.
H
Thank
you,
assemblywoman
through
chair
flores,
to
you,
that's
a
complex
question,
because
there
is,
there
are
so
many
federal
funds
that
are
accessed
by
our
members.
Their
members
rely
on,
especially
in
the
area
of
human
services.
One
thing
that
we
did
do
during
covid.
A
lot
of
federal
funds
came
down
to
our
members
and
we
worked
diligently
to
provide
our
members
information
on
the
array
of
different
federal
pots
of
funding.
Some
news,
some
expanded
that
came
through
cares
and
other
legislation
we
had
workshops.
We
pushed
that
information
out
to
our
members.
H
We
made
sure
that
they
were
aware
of
how
to
use
their
chronovirus
relief
fund.
Their
cares
dollars.
So
we
worked
a
lot
on
that
during
covid.
We
do
not
really
interface
with
the
state
grants
office
much.
We
do
get
notifications
from
them,
but
but
but
we
don't
interface
with
them
a
whole
lot
that
says
nato
as
our
individual
counties.
I
can't
speak
to.
H
I
know
there's
a
ton
of
work
done,
though,
on
that
on
the
local
level,
with
our
members
on
an
array
of
federal
funds,
and
I
know
that
they
often
work
with
our
federal
delegation
and
with
with
those
offices
and
the
staff
and
our
representatives
to
help
them
with
a
lot
of
those
federal
grants.
H
A
And
thank
you
assemblywoman
next,
we'll
go
to
our
madam
vice
chair.
F
I
really
do
appreciate
it,
and
I
want
to
preface
this
cover
the
this
question
by
saying
that
I
understand
that
the
counties
have
had
to
really
step
up
to
keep
our
communities
safe
and
healthy
during
these
unprecedented
times,
and
I
really
do
appreciate
the
work
that
our
counties
have
been
doing
and
you
know
obviously,
as
a
resident
of
clark
county,
I
have
seen
the
county
really
step
up
to
the
plate
to
ensure
that
our
community
has
access
to
vaccine
food
and
just
information.
F
So
I
really
do
appreciate
that
work,
but
I'm
just
wondering
if
you
can
speak
to
a
little
bit
of
the
issues
and
equity
for
the
vaccine,
distribution,
access
to
information
throughout
the
counties
and
what
the
counties
have
done
to
address
those
issues,
and
I
I
also
recognize
that
this
is
something
that
we
as
a
legislative
body.
We
share
responsibility
in
the
equity
of
this
rollout
as
well.
So
if
you
could
speak
to
that,
I
would
really
appreciate
that.
H
Thank
you
vice
chair
taurus,
mr
chair,
through
you.
Thank
you
very
much
for
the
question.
Thank
you
for
the
recognition
of
all
that.
All
that
excuse
me
counties
have
done
during
kovid.
Absolutely
that's
a
very
important
question
about
the
equity
and
I
know
something
that
has
come
up
recently
and
the
importance
of
ensuring
that
outreach
and
access
is,
you
know
equal
amongst
all
communities.
I
I
you.
H
I
think,
you're,
probably
aware
that
you
know
it
was
from
sort
of
the
state
level
on
down
how
that
plan
worked
in
terms
of
vaccine
distribution
in
the
different
lanes,
and
then
that
was
implemented
on
the
local
level
and
that's
a
specific
question
that
I
can
try
to
get
an
answer
to
you
too,
for
you
to
probably
specifically
from
the
health
districts
in
terms
of
actual
outreach.
What
that
looks
like
right,
if
you
know
flyers
communications,
how
they
do
that?
H
I
think
that's
a
specific
question
for
those
folks,
but
I
can
definitely
try
to
to
seek
out
that
information.
You're,
not
the
first
person
who
has
asked-
and
we
understand
the
importance
of
that.
I
know
that
they're
that
they're
working
hard
on
that.
But
I
know
you're,
probably
looking
for
specific
details
on
how
they're
ensuring
that
that
that's
happening.
So
I
can
look
to
that
for
you,
but
just
I
know
you're
aware
that
it's
a
you
know
the
vaccine
distribution
is
coming
from
the
state
plan
and
then
implementation
on
the
the
local
level.
H
F
Thank
you,
and
just
a
closing
comment
too.
If
there's
any
information
as
well
about
what
we
as
a
legislative
body,
could
be
doing
to
ensure
that
there
is
equity
in
those
different
pockets
for
our
communities,
health,
you
know,
I
would
really
appreciate
that
perspective
as
well.
So
the
you
know,
local
governments
and
the
legislative
body
can
continue
to
work
together.
C
Thank
you,
mr
chair.
So
it's
always
nice
seeing
you
a
very
quick
question
has
to
do
with.
Actually
I've
got
two
questions
that
are
not
really
related,
so
one
of
them
has
to
do
with
the
open
meeting
loss.
Did
you
see,
I
appreciated
how
many
of
the
counties
reacted
to
those
open
meeting
law
changes
during
covet
19.?
Were
there
some
lessons
learned
that
should
be
continued
and
or
some
things
that
were
really
highlighted
based
upon
those
changes.
H
Assemblywoman
anderson,
thank
you
for
the
question,
mr
chair.
Through
you
to
the
assemblywoman,
I
assume
you're
talking
about
the
ability
for
counties
to
hold
meetings
remotely
yeah.
That
was
very
welcome.
Of
course,
counties
are
subject
to
the
open
meeting
law
and
it's
very
important
that
the
public
have
access
and
able
to
and
are
able
to
participate,
and
so
counties
of
course
embraced
that
and
really
learned.
You
know,
as
you
all
have
done,
to
use
zoom
and
other
platforms
to
ensure
that
the
public
has
access
they've
been
successful.
H
You
you
know
that
that
the
I
think
what
county
saw
at
first
was
additional
participation,
because
there
was,
you
know,
new
forms
of
access
through
the
virtual
platforms,
and
then
I
think
that
sort
of
tapered
off
again
after
that
will
counties,
continue
to
use
platforms
and
call
in
as
as
an
option
for
public
participation
in
open
meetings.
I
can't
speak
for
each
of
them
individually.
I
don't
know
if
that
decision
has
been
made.
H
You
know
once
we
come
out
of
this,
but
I
would
think
that
yes,
you
know
that
there
are
things
that
have
been
learned
and
there
might
be
interest
in.
You
know
continuing
to
use
some
of
the
platforms,
but
I
would
say
our
members
have
adapted
and
it's
been
successful
and
they
were.
You
know,
grateful
to
be
able
to
to
to
do
that,
virtually
so
that
they
could
continue
to
be
accessible
and
answer
to
the
public
through
the
open
meeting.
C
And
thank
you.
I
know
that
was
a
really
general
thing,
but
the
reason
why
I
asked
it
has
more
to
do
with
the
second
portion,
which
was:
do
you
believe
that
the
county's
technology
needs
can
be
met,
because
I
know
that
there's
so
much
more
emphasis
on
the
technology
items
and
or
that
emphasis
that
is
being
used
on
technology?
Do
you
feel
that
the
counties
are
able
to
use
those
that
technology
area
in
those
ways.
H
Mr
chair,
through
you
to
the
assemblywoman,
that's
a
great
question
and,
as
as
you
all
know,
there
were
cares
dollars
federal
dollars
that
came
into
the
state
during
covid
that
went
down
to
the
counties,
and
that
was
one
of
that
was
a
use
that
we
saw
a
lot
of
counties
used.
Some
of
those
cares
dollars
in
for
to
be
able
to
upgrade
some
of
their
technology
to
ensure
that
the
public
had
access
virtually
to
their
meetings.
H
So
that
was
a
challenge
to
upgrade
some
of
that
technology
in
some
of
our
counties,
and
they
were
grateful
to
have
those
federal
dollars
to
be
able
to
do
that.
So
there
was
a
recognition
that
there
was
a
need
there
to
be
able
to
upgrade
technology
in
some
instances
to
be
able
to
provide
that
access
to
the
public
broadband
in
our
rural
counties.
It
definitely
is
an
issue.
There's
been
a
lot
of
work
done
on
this
on
the
federal
level.
We
know
some
of
you
all
and
others
throughout
the
legislature.
H
Trying
to
work
on
this
issue
as
well.
Access
to
broadband
is,
is
always
an
issue,
especially
in
our
rural
counties
and
even
in
our
urban
counties,
of
course,
as
well
in
different
communities.
So,
yes,
the
technology
has
been
an
issue.
It's
been.
The
federal
dollars
have
been
helpful
that
there's
work
that
will
need
to
be
continued
on
that
front.
A
All
right,
perfect
and
members,
as
always,
this
is
just
the
beginning
of
the
conversation
and
other
counties
will
be
here
at
some
point
presenting
before
us.
So
if
you
have
very
direct
specific
questions
to
a
particular
county,
you'll
have
an
opportunity
to
do
that.
Thank
you,
mr
stapleton.
I
appreciate
you
working
with
us
on
the
interim
and
I
know
you've
you're,
always
very
active
and
working
with
folks.
I
just
appreciate
you.
L
All
right,
good
morning,
mr
flores,
chairman
flores,
how
are
you
this
morning,
members
of
the
committee,
ladies
and
gentlemen,
my
name
is
bob
lucy,
the
chairman
of
washoe
county
commission,
I'm
here
to
present
to
you
today
our
pre
presentation
on
washoe
county
and
a
brief
overview
of
what
we've
been
doing
since
the
last
session.
It's
nice
to
see
those
of
you
that
are
returning
and
those
friendly
faces
that
are
now
your
first
for
your
first
session.
It's
nice
to
see
all
of
you.
So
thank
you
for
having.
K
B
L
All
right
can
everybody
see
that
okay,
fantastic
all
right
good
morning,
everybody.
This
is
our
washoe
county
overview.
I
am
joined
here
today,
I'm
with
sting
county
manager,
kate,
thomas
and
our
legislative
director
and
government
affairs
director
jimmy
rodriguez,
and
we
will
be
going
through
our
presentation
with
you.
L
So
first
off
I
want
to
talk
to
you
about
our
commission,
we're
a
five-member
commission.
I
serve
as
the
chair.
This
is
my
second
era.
As
the
chair
this
year
we
have
elected
vice
chair
von
hartung,
who
represents
district
four.
Our
new
commissioner
is
alexis
hill.
She
was
elected
in
201,
2020
and
took
offices
just
in
january
kitty.
Jung
is
service.
District
three
is
our
longest
serving
commissioner
on
the
commission
and
we'll
be
finalizing
her
term.
L
The
next
two
years
and
commissioner
herman
has
been
with
us
for
the
last
is
in
her
second
term
as
a
commissioner.
So
most
of
us
on
the
commission
have
served
for
a
period
of
time
and
and
are
very
experienced
with
this
and
and
try
to
continue
to
be
up
on
all
of
our
issues
within
our
districts.
L
Mr
brown
comes
from
a
background
in
the
private
industry,
but
also
very
has
very,
very
experienced
in
government
affairs
and
public
affairs
as
well.
So
broad
base
of
understanding
has
done
a
phenomenal
job
through
the
coveted
response
and
very
happy
to
have
him
on
board.
We
also
have
we
are
represented
by
three
assistant
county
managers
that
cover
all
24
of
our
departments
and
oversee
those
24
departments
in
each
individual
capacity
assistant,
county
manager,
christine
valedich
assistant,
county
manager,
kate,
thomas
assistant,
county
manager,
dave
solero
and
kate
manager.
L
Kate
thomas,
will
go
over
all
of
those
departments
which
they
curtail
later
on.
In
the
slide,
we
also
have
our
assistant
to
the
county
manager,
elizabeth
jordan,
our
communications
director,
nancy
lewinhagen
and
our
security
administrator
ben
west.
L
So
a
little
for
those
of
you
who
don't
know
much
about
washoe
county
washoe
county
is
the
second
most
populated
county
in
the
state
of
nevada.
We
consider
ourselves
the
largest
urban
county
in
the
northern
part.
We
are
just
north
of
you
guys
in
carson
city
and
most
of
you
as
you
most
legislators
fly
in
you
are
staying
with
us
flying
into
reno,
tahoe
washoe
county
was
established
in
1861.
We
were
established
as
a
county
before
the
actually
state
got
statehood
we
currently
based
upon
our
last
census.
L
I
have
a
population
of
just
roughly
471
000
people.
We
have
24
2400
just
over
2
400
full-time
employees
here
at
the
the
county
and
24
different
departments
underneath
all
of
those
individuals.
L
As
you
can
see,
the
county
is
fairly
large,
655
6
551
square
miles.
You
can
almost
fit
the
state
of
vermont
in
that.
However,
most
of
the
population
lives
in
the
southern
southern
portion
of
that
of
our
county,
which
is
only
represented
by
about
26
to
27
square
miles.
So
most
of
our
populous
lives
within
that
truckee
meadows
region,
which
is
in
the
municipality
of
reno
and
sparks
our
total
budget
annually,
is
about
714
million
dollars
and
our
manager
will
go
through
that.
L
So
next
I
want
to
introduce
assistant,
county
manager,
thomas
she's,
going
to
take
you
through
the
next
couple
slides
and
give
you
a
little
bit
more
detail
robustly
about
the
county
in
our
operations.
J
Good
morning,
chair
flores
and
members
of
the
committee
for
the
record,
I'm
kate,
thomas
with
washer
county-
thank
you
for
having
us
today.
So
as
chair
lucy
mentioned,
we
are
quite
a
large
county
with
6
500
square
miles
and
within
our
county
we
do
have
three
incorporated
cities.
You'll
see
here,
you're
likely
very
familiar
with
us
as
the
second
most
populous
county
in
the
state.
So
we've
got
the
city
of
reno
the
city
of
sparks
and
then
our
jurisdiction,
which
is
shown
here
in
a
slide.
J
That
shows
how
we
drill
in
on
that
geographical
area
and
who
our
neighbors
are
so
within
our
jurisdiction.
We
have
governance
structures
that
are
outside
of
just
the
county
jurisdiction.
So
with
their
own
separate
boards,
we
have
the
city
of
reno
city
of
sparks.
You
can
see
here
several
general
improvement
districts,
the
fire
protection
districts
that
are
separate
and
then
in
the
gray
box,
you'll
see
here
the
governing
bodies
that
have
members
of
our
various
constituencies
represented.
J
J
Our
local
service
responsibility
includes
servicing
both
residents
that
are
just
in
unincorporated
washer
county,
as
well
as
servicing
the
entire
region.
I'm
going
to
start
with
the
things
that
we
do
in
unincorporated
washoe
county
for
our
residents
that
are
specific
to
washoe
county
those
are
replicated
in
our
various
cities.
Things
like
business,
licensing
that
you're
familiar
with
road
maintenance,
snow,
plowing,
storm
water,
those
types
of
things
that
we
do
specifically
for
washoe
county,
but
on
a
broader
base.
J
As
dagny
from
naco
mentioned,
we
do
services
for
all
washoe
county
residents
on
a
broad
scale,
which
is
represented
by
the
amount
of
property
tax
that
we
get
so
you'll
see
that
things
such
as
animal
control.
We
have
a
consolidated
jail
that
services,
our
entire
region.
We
have
the
courts
that
we're
responsible
for
funding,
not
the
judges,
but
the
court
functions
themselves.
We
offer
crime
lab
services,
we
do
a
lot
for
the
indigent
person.
Previous
questions
from
some
committee
members.
J
J
Drilling
a
little
bit
in
on
the
revenues
that
help
us
perform
those
services
that
you
just
heard
about
our
general
fund,
which
is
our
general
operating
budget
for
the
county.
It's
not
all
funds,
but
it's
the
one
that
doesn't
have
any
specific
restraints
from
an
accounting
perspective
around
it.
That
general
fund
is
primarily
receives
its
revenue
from
property
taxes.
You
can
see
here.
J
J
So,
as
far
as
what
we
spend
that
revenue
on
mostly
counties
and
cities
spend
a
lot
of
it
on
people,
people
is
at
the
heart
of
what
we
do
to
provide
these
services,
so
salaries
and
benefits
comprise
72
percent
of
the
the
revenue
that
we
spend
about
355
million
dollars
in
the
general
fund
and
then,
when
you
look
at
all
of
the
funds
in
washoe
county
you'll,
see
that
our
general
fund
that
we
just
covered
is
about
50
of
that
our
general
operating,
but
we
do
have
special
revenue
funds.
J
J
So
as
you
well
well
know,
and
over
the
past
year
we've
received
and
allocated
money
out
through
the
cares
federal
program.
Regionally
we
received
almost
90
million
dollars
86.1
and
of
that
washer
county
received
20
million.
Now
that
doesn't
include,
as
we've
noted
here,
the
health
district's
direct
allocation
to
help
us
directly
combat
the
coronavirus
and
the
testing
and
the
tracing
and
so
forth,
but
we
did
spend
75
750
000
of
our
county
allocation
that
was
directed
to
the
regional
incident
management
team.
J
So
as
the
pandemic
came
forward
in
our
county,
the
county,
who
oversees
emergency
management
stepped
forward
as
the
lead
entity
to
both
provide
the
testing
and
the
tracing
to
do
the
emergency
management
to
declare
the
state
of
emergency,
along
with
our
regional
partners
and
to
start
targeting
and
triaging
issues
like
people
that
are
now
experiencing
homelessness.
Things
of
that
nature,
so
we
banded
together
and
washoe
county
pays
the
largest
portion
of
that.
J
As
I
mentioned,
we
were
the
lead
entity,
but
we
did
collaborate
as
a
region.
I
think
that's
important
to
note.
We.
We
worked
together
to
make
sure
that
that
86
million
dollars
that
we
received
was
well
spent
and
it
went
to
the
folks
that
needed
it.
The
most
we
managed
as
a
county,
our
balanced
expenditure
of
20.2
million
dollars
in
the
cares
funding
specific
to
washoe
county
and
here
you'll
see
the
eligible
categories
for
where
we
spent
that
money.
J
I
won't
go
into
great
detail
unless
you
want
to
cover
that
in
the
question,
but
you'll
see
here
the
breakout
of
how
washoe
county
provided
the
20
million
dollars
out
into
our
region.
Things
like
public
health
expenditures,
which
we
talked
about
personal
protective
equipment,
are
assistance
to
small
businesses
and
administrative
expenses.
J
We
are
finalizing
the
reporting
and
the
reconciliation.
That's
due
to
the
state
by
march
1st,
so
but
but
this
is
where
we
stand
today
before
we
submit
that
final
reconciliation.
J
So
the
last
slide
before
I
turn
it
back
over
to
chair
lucy
talks
a
little
bit
about
specifically
the
covet
outreach
that
the
county
led
as
part
of
the
regional
information
center
and
our
partnership
with
reno
and
sparks.
So
we
took
the
lead
in
the
creation
of
the
what
we
call
the
rick
or
the
regional
information
center,
and
that
is
where
we
banded
together
to
present
cohesive
communication
to
our
residents
around
cobit
19..
The
last
thing
you
need
in
a
pandemic
is
the
the
county
giving
you
different
information
than
the
two
cities,
etc,
etc.
J
You
know
things
of
the
nature
whereby
are
you
you
know
how
impacted
have
you
been?
Do
you
have
adequate
access
to
food
resources
so
that
we
can
better
plan
as
a
region
how
to
fill
in
any
gaps
that
we
have
going
forward?
So
our
marketing
campaign
we
launched
in
the
fall
of
2020
and
you'll,
see
in
these
pictures
and
often
see
us
wearing
our
mask
on
move
on
masks
here?
That
was
to
promote
the
healthy
protocols.
We
feel
it's
been
very
successful.
J
We've
shown
that
with
our
numbers
that
are
starting
to
go
down
and
our
total
campaign,
impressions
were
nearly
30
million
from
these.
This
outreach,
with
lots
of
social
engagement,
a
lot
of
outreach,
one-on-one
connections,
information
in
in
two
languages,
so
we
really
are
proud
of
efforts
that
we
did
around
the
comet
outreach.
J
L
Chairman
members
of
the
committee,
sorry
masks
mask
issues
right
now.
I
want
to
first
of
all
thank
assistant
county
manager,
thomas
for
presenting
the
our
code
response
and,
as
she
pointed
out,
one
of
the
major
things
that
we're
very
proud
of
here
in
washer
county
and
within
the
region
that
we've
worked
on
with
our
regional
partners.
Reno
and
sparks
is
the
issue
of
homelessness.
L
Those
individuals
that
are
experiencing
homelessness
and
those
vulnerable
populations
within
that,
so
one
of
the,
and
also
this
is
would
not
have
come
to
fruition
without
a
wonderful
partnership
with
the
state.
So
many
of
you
that
participated
in
this
process,
we
want
to
thank
you
as
well
from
governor
sandoval
to
governor
sislek,
both
both
administrations.
L
The
legislature
had
a
very
a
tremendous
impact
on
this,
so
this
project
it
was
originally
the
known
as
the
nams
campus
or
the
state
mental
health
facility,
which
we
have
conveniently
renamed
and
rebranded
to
our
place,
and
it's
unlocking
a
better
tomorrow
for
those
vulnerable
populations.
L
L
So
this
is
our
place
campus.
The
our
place
campus
now
is
represented
here
on
the
screen.
Most
of
the
individuals
places
you
can
see
are
represented
in
the
color
blue.
We
have
buildings,
602
and
603
that
do
maternity
and
families
in
604,
which
is
also
maternity
and
families.
These
these,
I
will
go
through
kind
of
the
stats
on
those
individuals.
L
Our
buildings,
600
and
601
are
represented,
are
completely
housing
all
of
our
individual
women.
We
have
a
modular
dining
facility
which
we
will
hopefully
make
permanent
in
future
future
months,
and
then
one
of
the
major
things
which
you
saw
on
the
previous
side
is
our
early
early
learning
center.
It's
a
tremendous
outreach
for
these
children.
We
have
a
preschool
learning.
We
have
training,
we
have
daycare
services
for
those
women
that
are
looking
for,
and
families
that
are
looking
for
jobs
and
employment.
L
We
also
still
on
the
on
the
on
the
campus
still
have
tabs.
That
represents
our
seniors.
We
have
our
hope
cottages
for
those
individuals
that
are
looking
for
trans
and
we
have
our
women's
crossroads
that
have
been
a
highly
successful
program
here
in
washoe
county
for
years
for
the
pre
past
couple
of
few
years,
sorry
getting
kind
of
carried
away.
L
I
want
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
the
capacity
here
previously
here
within
the
region.
We
had
no
separation
for
ages,
18
to
21..
All
of
our
individuals
all
were
joined
into
our
homeless
shelter
at
our
record
street
center.
Now,
at
our
place,
those
that
the
independent
youth
have
36
available
beds
for
themselves.
L
Women
who
previously
only
had
50
beds
here
in
the
region
now
have
105.
daycare.
Previously
we
were
only
able
to
have
the
capacity
for
44
children
now
at
our
place.
85
children
can
be
can
be
provided
with
that
kind
of
programming
daily.
Our
families
and
maternity
went
from
27
beds
to
38
family
bedrooms.
So
I
want
to
point
that
out
family
bedrooms
and
most
of
our
bedrooms
that
are
at
our
facility.
Those
are
four
at
least
four
beds
within
that
each
bedroom.
L
For
these
families
and
through
covet
expansion,
we
saw
obviously
a
massive
uptick
in
these
individual
and
these
those
individuals
experiencing
homelessness
and
we
were
able
to
repurpose
another
building
on
the
campus,
which
is
building
8b,
which
allowed
us
to
have
eight
additional
families.
L
I
want
to
share
with
you
some
successes
on
this.
Since
we
opened
the
facility
in
20
and
august
of
2020
or
july
of
2020.,
we
have
serviced
176
individuals,
total,
actually
320,
320
individuals
total.
Currently,
we
have
176
that
are
being
housed
at
the
facility
through
that
facility.
93
of
our
our
our
residents
at
our
place
have
been
experiencing
homelessness
for
a
year
or
more
out
of
those
out
of
the
that
population.
L
But
some
of
the
success
that
we
want
to
talk
about
is
40
of
our
residents
currently
are
on
track
in
the
next
three
months
to
exit
to
successful
transitional
housing,
and
we
want
to
report
out
of
those
individuals
out
of
the
320
321
women
that
we've
served.
We've
had
15
percent
of
those
individuals
have
successful
exits
and
are
in
now
transitional
housing.
L
We've
found
through
this
entire
and
through
this
entire
setup
of
our
place,
to
make
sure
that
these
individuals
and
these
families
and
women
that
are
experiencing
homelessness,
have
the
opportunities
to
to
continue
to
find
successful
employment
and
find
successful
living
in
housing,
and
so
some
of
those
components
we
were
able
to
give
them
the
ability
to
bring
pets
to
the
facility
they
get
to
stay
twice
as
long
at
our
place,
helping
them
to
find
us
get
established,
they
are
immediately
assigned
a
case
worker
that
stays
with
them
long
after
they
leave
our
facility
and
our
place.
L
So
it's
through
the
cooperation
of
the
state,
our
local
regional
partners
here
and
many
facilities
that
this
has
been
able
to
to
to
grow,
and
so
with
that
we're
looking
forward
to
expanding
into
30
more
beds
in
the
next
coming
months.
So
we
will
hopefully
come
back
with
you
for
some
further
updates
on
our
place
and
with
that
I
want
to
bring
assistant
county
manager
thomas
back,
to
talk
about
the
other
programs
that
we're
doing
for
the
service
of
the
process,
services
for
the
men
and
some
of
the
other
individuals
experiencing
homelessness.
J
J
What
has
happened
through
covet
is
we've
learned
that
that
landlocked,
basically
more
constraint,
location,
didn't
allow
for
proper
social
distancing
so
through
a
series
of
movements
and
in
an
attempt
to
try
to
get
some
more
physical
space
between
folks
for
for
more
security
and
safety,
there
was
a
move
to
acquire
what
you
see
here
and
has
now
been
deemed.
The
nevada
cares
campus.
J
J
There
was
a
cost
share
agreement
for
operation,
which
was
8.2
million
of
an
annual
shelter
operating
bid
budget
which
you'll
see
in
the
next
slide,
which
we
consider
our
inner
local
agreement.
And
then
there
was
a
third
party
purchase
of
what
we
call
the
wells.
Cargo
portion
right
here,
you'll
see
that
it
says
the
the
reno
housing
authority
we're
looking
to
do
transitional
housing
in
that
location.
J
J
We
do
get
a
portion
of
the
indigent.
We
get
the
indigent
tax
things
of
that
nature.
The
successes
we're
seeing
around
the
our
place
campus,
so
we're
sorting
to
trans
starting
to
transition
as
the
lead
currently
we're
facilitating
the
safe
camping
location
that
you
see
noted
on
this
graphic.
As
the
common
area
we
needed
to
expand
the
level
of
services
that
we
provide
for
folks
that
weren't
quite
ready
to
go
into
shelter.
We've
seen
some
presentations
on
how
it
can
be
done
correctly
and
we
think
it
might
be
an
option
for
us.
J
So
there
was
some
discussion
at
the
november
meeting
about
doing
a
pilot
program
there.
The
15-acre
site
has
10
acres
for
homeless
services,
five
for
future
transitional
housing
and
that
again
is
going
to
be
the
reno
housing
authority,
and
then
it's
got
a
the
shelter
site
that
you
see.
There
is
a
46,
000
square
foot,
shelter
structure,
that's
what's
called
the
sprung
structure
and
it'll
have
utilities,
and
things
like
that.
J
It's
going
to
have
four
self-contained
bathroom
and
shower
units,
so
it'll
be
kind
of
a
fully
functioning
campus,
which
complements
what
we're
doing
at
the
at
the
our
place.
Campus.
I
will
tell
you
this
will
largely
be
men,
because
the
art
place
campus
handles
women
and
families,
so
this
will
be
men
with
the
exception
of
the
sanctioned
camping
location.
J
I
mentioned
the
interlocal
agreement
for
operations.
Over
the
years,
we've
had
what's
called
the
transitional
governing
board,
where
the
three
entities
oversee
the
operations
of
the
shelter,
but
the
cost
split
is
such
that
washoe
county
pays
almost
70
percent
of
those
costs
and
we're
the
lead
for
the
women
and
families.
Now,
we've
also
put
in
a
15
million
dollar
capital
investment
at
our
place
campus,
so
we're
moving
into
the
role
where
washoe
county
is
a
little
bit
more
significant
in
the
realm
of
homelessness.
J
The
city
of
reno,
here
from
our
8.1
million
budget,
spends
about
1.8.
They
are
currently
coordinating
those
providers
that
we
talked
about
and
the
city
of
sparks
has
some
skin
in
the
game
as
well
with
about
650
000
that
they
contribute
for
our
total
in
this
fiscal
year
of
8.1.
We
anticipate
those
costs
to
increase
significantly
with
the
introduction
of
the
nevada
carers
campus
and
just
the
growing
need
around
this
issue,
as
you
are
all,
are
very
aware.
J
D
D
We
believe
that
there
are
not
very
many
issues
that
are
really
just
one
jurisdiction's
place
to
address
and
so
really
making
sure
that
we're
working
together
in
coordination
and
collaboration
to
help
address
whatever
services
and
regional
needs
may
come
up.
The
third
is
recover
of
our
economic
strength.
So
not
news
to
anybody
here.
This
has
been
a
difficult
year
and
so
really
hoping
to
look
at
supporting
economic
recovery
and
development
to
help
us
get
back
on
our
feet
with
you
know
the
needs
and
funding
that
we
would
need
for
our
residents.
D
The
last
is
communication,
and
this
one,
I
think,
is
always
important.
This
session,
maybe
a
little
bit
more
since
it's
a
little
bit
harder
since
we're
not
all
in
the
building
and
able
to
see
each
other
as
regularly,
but
really
want
to
make
sure
that
we
are
able
to
effectively
represent
washoe
county
and
our
legislative
goals
with
the
legislative
body.
D
And
then
I
just
wanted
to
highlight
what
our
washoe
county
legislative
team
is
and
who
those
members
are.
So
again.
I'm
the
government
affairs
manager.
We
do
have
representation
from
some
of
the
other
offices,
which
include
jennifer,
noble
from
the
district
attorney's
office,
corey
silverino
and
mary
sarah
kenner
from
the
sheriff's
office,
kendra
burchie
from
the
public
defenders
office
and
joelle
gootman
dotson
from
the
washoe
county
health
district.
D
We
do
also
contract
with
louis
roca
rothgerber
or
who
you
may
know
as
alfredo
alonso.
So
those
are
the
those
are
the
individuals
who
really
represent
washoe
county
down
at
the
legislature
and
before
I
turn
it
over
to
questions
just
want
to
point
out
that
we
did
not
miss
a
slide.
We
do
not
have
a
bill
to
bring
to
you,
so
there
is
no
washoe
county
piece
of
legislation
or
bdr
that
was
introduced.
E
Thank
you,
chair
flores,
and
thank
you
to
the
entire
county
team.
What
a
robust
presentation!
We
certainly
appreciate
all
of
the
efforts
that
you've
put
into
gathering
all
this
information
and
sharing
it
with
us
today.
I'm
sure
that
you
heard
a
little
bit
earlier.
I
I'm
curious
to
know
about
homelessness
and
the
issues
that
are
relevant
to
our
indigent
population
throughout
the
state.
I
want
to
congratulate
you
on
the
development
of
the
my
play
or
our
place
program,
campus,
all
of
the
wonderful
robust
services
that
it
looks
like
you've
developed.
E
I
do
have
some
very
specific
questions
relative
to
that,
and
I
I
agree
with
unlocking
a
better
tomorrow.
So
congratulations
on
your
efforts.
There
first
is
there
a
waiting
list
for
our
place
if
there
is
a
waiting
list?
How
are
you
tracking
the
folks
that
are
in
need
of
services?
E
Second,
do
you
have
an
average
cost
to
serve
somebody
who
is
in
that
program,
and
can
you
show
the
cost
benefit
analysis
like?
Are
we
saving
the
county
money
by
funding
this
this
wonderful
opportunity,
and
then
can
you
tell
us
about
the
caseload
for
each
one
of
your
case
managers
and
how
are
they
able
to
track
long
term.
D
E
D
So
appreciate
the
questions
I'm
going
to
turn
it
over.
This
has
been
a
a
great
pet
project
if
you
will
and
managed
by
both
our
assistant
county
manager,
kate,
thomas
and
our
chairman
lucy,
so
I'm
actually
going
to
turn
it
over
to
them
and
allow
them
to
answer
those
questions
for
you.
L
L
This,
I'm
sorry,
sorry,
chairman
chairman,
this
is
bob
lucy
washington
county.
Commissioner.
Thank
you
so
assemblymember,
right
now
there
is
currently
no
waiting
list
at
our
place
for
the
women
and
children
the
families
most
of
our
channels
have
been
sheltered.
L
However,
we
are
working
continuously
with
the
city
of
reno
and
the
city
of
sparks.
As
we
identify
more
individuals,
we
will
continue
to
to
service
that
we
have
seen
in
a
constant
benefit
evaluation.
Now
I
want
to
point
out
this:
the
county
invested
14.5
million
dollars
into
this
facility
to
stand
up
the
facility.
We
also
have
a
contract
with
a
community
partner
rise,
which
is
our
operations
of
service.
They
have
been
running
the
facility
for
us,
but
the
cost
benefit
we
are
seeing
is
that
these
individuals
are
now
truly
being
housed.
L
They
are
not
we're
not
finding
them
on
adding
services
to
our
hospitals
or
local
hospitals
and
facilities.
We've
seen
calls
for
service
from
the
reno
police
department
and
sparks
police
current
decrees.
So
we
are
working
with
a
group
called
built
for
xero.
That
is
doing
some
data
analysis,
we're
currently
in
the
process
of
that
assemblyman
and
brom.
L
A
and
we
will
continue
to
evaluate
that
on
an
ongoing
basis,
it's
very
difficult
being
that
we
just
opened
the
facility
back
in
july
to
have
a
really
robust
data
for
you
at
this
pros
at
this
outbreak
outside.
So
I'm
going
to
bring
in
assistant,
county
manager
thomas
into
the
screen.
She
can
answer
some
of
the
discussions
in
regards
to
the
caseworkers
and
and
the
timeline
for
that
as
well.
J
Thank
you,
assemblywoman
brownmade,
through
to
chair
florist,
kate,
thomas
for
the
record,
with
washoe
county.
The
caseworker
ratios
at
our
place
are
significantly
lower
caseworker
to
client
ratios
than
we're,
seeing
in
the
men's
shelter
that
I
we
credit
that
to
the
success
of
this
operation.
J
To
add
on
to
what
chair
lucy
said
about
the
wait
list,
our
provider,
which
is
the
reno
initiative
for
shelter,
inequality
or
rise,
has
been
a
great
partner
as
far
as
in
their
contract
we've
built
in
the
ability
for
them.
If
the
shelter
is
full
to
work
with
a
couple
of
our
local
motel
providers
to
get
shelter
for
those
individuals,
so
they're,
not
we
don't
just
say
you
know.
Sorry,
we
are
full.
J
We
don't
have
other
options
for
you,
so
we've
working
been
working
hard
to
make
sure
that
that
those
folks
are
not
unsheltered.
That's
been
tough,
word
travels
quickly,
but
it's
not
our
priority
method
for
having
folks
sheltered
as
it's
pretty
isolating
and
doesn't
have
as
direct
impact
with
case
management.
So
when
rooms
open
up,
we
move
those
folks
into
the
our
place
campus,
where
they're
supported
with
services.
The
important
thing
to
note
is
that
we,
as
we
stand
this
up,
are
seeing
what
we
call.
We
call
it
churn.
J
It's
the
people
that
are
moving
on
to
successful
transitional
housing
situations,
in
which
case
we
can
bring
in
additional
folks
if
we
do
get
to
the
situation
where
we
have
a
waiting
list.
The
last
piece
of
this
continuum
that
we're
working
on
with
the
cares
campus
allows
for
that
safe
camping
location,
so
we're
hoping
with
all
of
those
pieces
in
this
continuum
of
care
that
we
are
getting
going
to
get
to
a
point,
including
our
work
with
built
for
xero
to
get
to
that
functional
zero
point
for
homelessness.
So
thank
you
for
your
question.
L
And
assemblywoman
brownlee,
I
wanted
to
add
just
one
last
detail
through
the
chair
through
the
chair.
This
is
chairman
bob
lucy
one
more
time.
I
did
want
to
point
out
that
currently
the
case
load
to
our
case,
our
caseworker
ratio
is
15
to
one,
so
our
caseworkers
are,
that
is
our
current
basis.
L
Number
we're
definitely
within
case
load
within
our
national
standards
of
the
caseload
management
numbers,
and
so
we
continue
to
work
on
that
entries
and
exits
right
now
are
happening
to
keep
our
wait
list
down,
as
I
pointed
out
previously
in
in
some
of
the
successes
that
we're
seeing
as
we
try
to
find
these
individuals
into
that
true
transitional
housing
or
permanent
housing.
L
A
And
thank
you
for
that
question.
Next,
we
have
madame
vice
chair.
F
Thank
you
chair
and
thank
you
for
your
presentation.
I
really
do
appreciate
it.
I'm
gonna
have
some
specific
questions
about
the
vaccination
rollout
in
washoe
county
and
I
just
want
to
know
what
the
county
is
doing
to
ensure
that
all
the
vaccinations
are
used
and
just
get
an
understanding
of
how
many
have
been
lost
due
to
mismanagement.
J
Thank
you
assemblywoman
through
you
to
the
chair,
kate,
thomas,
for
the
record
we
are
using.
We
we
are
using.
The
last
number
I
have
heard
is
as
soon
as
we
are
offered
vaccinations,
we
have
a
90
rate
of
getting
those
shots
into
arms
currently
through
our
health
district
and
the
point
of
distribution
or
the
pod
that
we've
set
up.
So
we
do
not
have
a
lot
of
loss.
There
have
been,
of
course,
situations.
We've
heard
all
over
the
nation.
J
Where
folks
have
you
know
the
nature
of
how
these
have
to
be
kept
once
they're
taken
out
of
cold
storage,
the
timing
that
we
have
to
get
those
into
arms
has
allowed
for
a
couple
of
our
staff
that
might
not
have
been
as
high
on
the
list
to
get
those
not
many,
but
we're
very
proud
of
our
ability
to
follow
the
governor's
playbook
and
get
those
vaccinations
to
the
folks
that
need
it.
First,
on
our
front
lines,
we're
ensuring
that
that
is
happening
very
equitably
here.
J
F
Thank
you,
sir,
and
what
steps
have
you
taken
or
has
the
county
taken?
I
should
say
to
ensure
that
we
lose
less
of
our
vaccines.
J
J
I
can't
speak
specifically
to
that.
I'm
not
overseeing
that
very
function,
but
we
can
certainly
get
that
information
back
for
you.
But
but
we
are,
we
know
the
coveted
nature
of
this
vaccine
and
how
important
it
is
to
those
that
are
both
frontline
workers
or
those
that
are
70
or
older
currently.
So
it
is
something
that
we
make
a
high
priority
and
so
that
we
we
experience
very
little
waste.
F
A
G
Thank
you,
mr
chairman.
I
appreciate
the
time
I
was
looking
at
the
size
of
the
campus.
It's
amazing
how
how
large
it
is
and
how
it's
it's
into
a
big
campus.
You
know
with
something
like
that.
It
just
blows
my
mind
how
big
it
is
and
and
I'm
glad
you're
you're
addressing
the
family
issues
and
the
keeping
the
families
together.
But
one
of
the
questions
I
got
in
some
of
the
campuses:
how
do
you
control
drug
abuse
and
and
if
they
do
bring
in
drugs,
are
they
you
know?
G
Are
they
kicked
out
and
not
allowed
to
come
back?
How
do
you
handle
that
with
something
to
this
size?
Then
I
got
one
question
after
that:
one.
J
Thank
you,
assemblyman
ellison
threw
you
to
chair
flores.
This
is
kate,
thomas
for
the
record.
There's
a
difference
in
what
will
occur
at
the
our
place,
campus
versus
what
is
happening
at
the
cares
campus.
So
the
carriage
campus
is
a
no
barrier
facility,
there's
some
federal
funds
that
are
tied
to
that
that
afford
that
opportunity
for
folks
to
come
to
the
campus
under
the
influence.
J
There
have
been
some
usage
at
previous,
but
but
the
requirement
is
that
that's
a
low
barrier
facility,
our
place
does
not
allow
drug
use
on
campus,
and
so
what
you
do
outside
of
the
campus
gates
is
really
up
to
you.
When
you
come
onto
campus,
you
will
be
respectful.
We
have
a
child
care
facility
that
is
important
and
there
are
some
rules
around
that
so
very
different
models
that
we
are
working
through.
But
a
lot
of
that
again
is
tied
to
the
to
the
federal
funding.
G
It's
amazing
and
looking
at
the
one
of
the
ones
with
the
the
bathrooms
and
the
the
bedroom
areas
is
really
nice
actually
really
nice,
and
you
know
looking
at
something
this
size
is
that
through
just
revenues
to
I
mean
it's
a
lot
of
us
federal
funding
and
grants,
but
does
that
go
to
is
a
tax
increase
or
is
it
districtly
through
general
fund
money.
J
Thank
you,
simon
ellison,
through
you
to
the
chair,
kate,
thomas,
for
the
record,
so
the
funding
for
the
existing
cares
campus
that
was
purchased.
There
was
some
resources
that
both
the
city,
the
two
cities
and
the
county
came
forward
with
there
were
some
cares
expenses.
We
were
able
to
utilize
that
freed
up
some
general
funds
that
allowed
that
land
acquisition
of
the
15
acres
that
you're
talking
about
the
our
place
campus.
J
However,
we
had
dedicated
funding
that
came
through
the
indigen
fund
that
allowed
us
to
utilize
some
of
the
fund
balance
and
other
issues
that
we
had
around
the
the
child
protection
services
fund,
as
well
as
the
indigent
fund.
So
we
were
able
to
come
up
with
that
one-time
capital
investment
of
the
15
million
dollars
that
our
chair
talked
about
through
non-general
fund
use
and
through
competitive
bidding,
as
well
as
utilization
of
those
existing
special
revenue
funds.
So
no
very,
very
little
general
fund
was
used
for
the
capital
investment
in
that
project.
G
Follow-Up,
sir,
please
follow
up.
I
didn't
know
you
could
do
that
under
the
indigent
fund,
because
I
thought
that
was
only
medical,
but
that's
a
great
idea
and
we're
having
a
problem
in
our
area.
So
this
might
be
something
that
I
could
take
back
to
them
and
ask
them
look
into,
and
it's
amazing
the
size
and
how
well
maintained
this
thing
is
so
good
job.
C
Thank
you,
mr
chair
nice,
to
see
you
cherry
lucy
and
the
staff
at
washington
county.
I
do
have
a
few
questions
because
there
are
just
so
many
things
going
through
my
head,
but
I'll
just
try
to
stick
to
two.
The
first
has
to
do
with
just
to
verify
that
when
it
comes
to
the
social
workers
and
everybody
from
our
place,
that's
being
funded
from
self-funding
or
is
it
grants
or
is
it
in
a
variety
of
of
little
areas,
where's
that
funding
coming
for
the
staffing,
in
particular
for
our
place.
J
J
There
are
monies
out
there
for
staffing
and
other
supportive
services
for
this
issue
from
the
federal
and
state
levels.
We
only
set
this
up
in
july
august,
so
we're
still
we've
got
some
growing
pains,
but
right
now
the
funding
was
allocated
through
the
budget
process.
J
J
C
Thank
you
and
then
my
second
question
is
related,
but
then
it's
not.
It
has
to
do
with
the
budget
itself
with
clark
county
as
well
as
many
other
areas
of
the
state
are
very
well
known
for
their
big
events
that
happen,
whether
it's
cowboy
poetry
or
some
of
the
the
awesome
festivals
that
happen
in
clark
county.
But
I
know
that
in
washoe
county
as
well,
there
are
many
incredible
festivals
or
events
that
we
have
that
have
had
to
been
canceled
due
to
covid.
C
What
sort
of
impact
has
that
had
on
our
budget
and,
more
importantly,
on
the
staffing
has
that
has
that
been
in
fact
impacted
of
any
sort
of
washer
county
staffing
elements.
L
Thank
you
assemblywoman
through
the
chair
to
you,
bob
lucy
washoe
county
for
the
record.
One
I
do
want
to
point
out
obviously
has
had
a
massive
impact
on
not
only
clark
county
but
washable
county
as
well.
We
do
the
convention
space
and
large
gathering
as
such
as
our
our
signature.
Events
have
absolutely
been
impacted
by
that.
L
Now,
as
it
pertains
to
our
budget
you,
we
have
seen
a
decrease
in
visitorship
to
the
area
which
has
led
to
a
challenge
in
sea
tax
and
collection,
and
some
some
decreases
to
our
budget.
We
have
our
budget
team
still
going
through
that,
but
we
have
seen
it
has
had
an
impact
on
to
that.
L
We
obviously
I
just
I
said,
as
I
said
as
the
chair
of
the
rscba
for
the
last
six
years
currently
and
mayor
sheevy
from
the
city
of
reno,
is
now
the
chair
of
that
organization,
but
this
is
has
had
a
tremendous
impact
on
us
here
locally
and
to
both
of
our
municipalities
within
the
region.
L
No
assembly
woman
to
you
through
the
chair.
No,
we
haven't
seen
any
staffing
changes
due
to
this,
but
we
just
have
had
impacts
to
the
budget
which
we've
had
to
make
adjustments
for
both
all
three
entities
have
made
adjustments
for
including
the
oregon
racda
organization,
but
other
than
that.
No,
we
have
not
seen
the
staff
here.
C
A
B
Thank
you,
chairman
flores.
I
appreciate
this
time
and
I
appreciate
the
presentation
that
was
wonderful,
especially
going
to
our
place.
I
love
the
concept,
but
my
question
is
about
wrap-around
services.
B
You
kind
of
touched
on
it,
but
I
would
like
more
detail
and
when
assemblyman
ellison
asked
about
drugs,
you
know
on
campus,
I'm
asking
you
know
to
have
a
real,
well-rounded
facility.
I
would
think
that
some
of
the
dialogue
that
you
would
have
would
be
drug
treatment,
behavioral
health
care.
B
There
are
a
lot
of
issues
and
if
you
don't
have
wrap-around
services,
how
do
you
complete
the
care
for
women
and
children?
I'm
assuming
when
you
say,
families
that
this
is
just
geared
to
women
and
children?
I
didn't
see
anything
that
would
indicate
that
you
have
men
on
this
campus.
L
Thank
you,
assemblywoman
thomas
through
you
to
the
chair,
bob
lucy
washoe
county
again,
I
do
want
to
bring
talk
to
you
about
the
wraparound
services
we
do
at
our
place
when
we
developed
our
place.
We
developed
that
with
programming
in
mind
being
that
that
is
number
one.
Are
our
major
component
of
our
place
to
provide
those
wrap-around
services?
So
not
only
do
they
are
are
all
the
individuals
that
are
at
our
place
are
provided
with
a
caseworker
and
have
caseworkers
available
to
them
all
all.
L
L
Now,
when
you
speak
to
the
families
and
children,
when
I
say
families
there
are,
there
are
men
on
the
our
place,
campus
that
reside
with
their
families
in
those
specific
buildings,
so
the
men,
the
mothers,
fathers
and
children
can
all
be
housed
together,
and
that
is
specifically
overseen
by
ryze
and
our
operator
at
our
place,
but
then
also
overseen
by
our
human
services
agency
and
through
through
washable,
county
and
director,
amber
hal
and
her
staff.
L
So
we
also
have
another
a
program
that
we
have
brought
to
this
committee
before,
but
I
want
to
continue
to
highlight
these
not
aren't
our
only
two
programs
here
in
washoe
county.
We
also
have
we
years
ago
we
had
issues
with
cereal
and
nebrasky
in
our
community.
We
stood
up
a
program
called
crossroads,
which
we
got
national
awards
for
here
at
the
community.
The
crossroads
we
and
I
kind
of
alluded
that
to
earlier
in
the
presentation.
L
We
have
a
women's
crossroads
and
then
we
also
have
a
men's
crossroads:
two
different
locations
within
the
community,
those
work
for
individuals
that
are
experiencing
substance,
abuse
issues
and
alcohol
abuse
issues
they
have
caseworkers
there.
We
have
a
sober,
24
program,
which
is
a
potential
alternative
sentencing
program
for
those
individuals
that
are
experiencing
challenging
through
alternative
sentencing.
L
They
can
test
24
hours
a
day
so
that
alleviates
their
indiv
their
problems
from
losing
job
moving,
losing
housing
losing
whatever
they
may
have
and
allowing
them
to
test
and
continue
to
move
through
and
work
on
those
issues
as
well
at
crossroads,
we
have
24-hour
testing
and,
as
part
of
the
programming,
those
individuals
can
test,
they
get
the
resources
that
they
need
and
live
right
there
at
the
crossroads
campus.
L
So
through
all
these
different
programs,
we
do
have
those
complete
wrap
around
services
for
all
those
individuals
that
are
looking
for
that
type
of
service.
We
invite
any
of
the
assembly
members
and
any
members
from
this
committee
to
or
any
members
from
the
legislature
in
its
entirety
to
come.
Please
visit
our
place.
L
We'd
love
to
give
you
a
robust
tour
of
our
place
and
also
crossroads
to
show
you,
those
programming,
our
our
senator
u.s,
senator
catherine
cortez
masto,
visited
our
place
last
friday
believed
it
from
what
I
was
told
that
she
believed
she
enjoyed
the
tour
very
much
and
believes
that
it
should
be
a
national
model.
So
I'd
like
to
show
you
those
kinds
of
things
I
know
through
assistant,
county
manager,
schiller
and
chairwoman
kirkpatrick.
L
They
are
working
on
a
very
similar
model
in
clark
county.
So
we
are
going
to
try
to
replicate
this
through
the
state
and
continue
to
evolve
this,
as
we
continue
to
grow.
B
Thank
you,
and
I
appreciate
that
invitation.
Thank
you.
Thank
you
so
much
for
that.
I
would
love
to
come
out
and
tour
the
facility,
but
just
a
quick
question:
how
long
do
residents
stay
at
the
facility?
Is
it
a
six
month
program
longer.
L
Right
right
now,
right
now
it's
about
a
six-month
program
we
allow
residents.
However,
I'm
sorry
to
the
assemblywoman
through
the
chair,
sorry
chairman,
I
I
apologize.
We
do
allow
assemblywoman
tom
thomas.
We
do
allow
them.
It
is
a
six-month
program.
However,
we
do
allow
them
if
circumstances
arise
on
challenges-
and
you
know,
obviously
in
covid
we
are
very
flexible
with
those
dates.
We
try
to
accommodate
everybody.
L
We
can,
but
we
also
make
sure
what
we're
doing
as
we
as
we
allow
these
residents
to
stay,
that
we're
still
working
on
that
programming
for
them
and
truly
finding
them
that
transitional
housing.
A
Thank
you
and
thank
you
again
for
the
presentation
and
we
look
forward
to
working
with
you
during
this
legislative
cycle
with
that.
We're
going
to
go
ahead
and
close
out
the
hearing
from
washoe
county
and
go
into
our
final
presentation
by
carson
city
good
morning
and
welcome.
N
All
right
I'll
go
ahead
and
start
my
presentation.
Just
a
little
bit
about
carson
city,
the
consolidated
municipality
of
carson
city
was
established
in
1969
by
consolidating
ormsby
county
in
carson
city
into
one
municipal
government.
N
I
wasn't
here
back
in
1969,
I
was
alive,
but
wasn't
here,
but
I
assume
one
of
the
main
reasons
was
to
avoid
duplication
of
services
due
to
the
city's
relatively
small
geographical
area
at
just
146
square
miles.
Carson
city
is
the
smallest
of
all
counties
in
nevada
as
far
as
area,
and
we
had
to
put
a
little
star
on
the
map.
N
Just
so
you
could
see
where,
where
we're
at
the
city
has
a
population
of
a
little
more
than
56
000.,
so
the
city's
powers,
because
we're
a
consolidated
municipality,
are
contained
in
the
carson
city
charter,
in
addition
to
any
powers
that
are
granted
to
a
city
and
a
county
through
nrs,
the
city
is
governed
by
a
five-member
board
of
supervisors
made
up
of
the
mayor
and
four
supervisors
that
are
elected
at
large,
but
they
must
reside
in
the
ward
that
they
represent.
N
N
The
city
manager
is
one
of
four
positions
that
are
appointed
by
the
board
and
I
am
the
only
one
that
actually
reports
directly
to
the
board.
I
have
the
responsibility
of
appointing
the
deputy
city
manager
and
eight
department.
Directors
such
as
fire,
health
parks
and
public
works,
so
running,
carson
city
requires
many
wheels
to
operate
it,
and
this
requires
that
we
all
work
together
to
keep
it
on
track
and
for
the
most
part,
carson
city
runs
like
a
well-oiled
machine.
I'm
happy
to
say.
N
So
some
of
the
many
functions
that
the
city's
larger
departments
perform
I
have
listed
on
the
next
few
slides.
The
community
development
department
is
responsible
for
managing
the
construction,
permitting
process
issuing
business
licenses,
city,
zoning,
the
subdivision,
land
development
process
and
growth
management.
N
N
N
N
N
Our
annual
budget
to
spend
on
roads
is
approximately
four
million,
with
an
estimated
annual
deficit
of
about
15
million
to
be
able
to
maintain
our
streets
at
a
a
pretty
good
level.
So,
but
thanks
to
senate
bill
48
passed
during
the
last
legislative
session,
the
city
was
able
to
levy
a
five
cent
diesel
fuel
tax
that
only
provides
about
400
000,
but
every
little
bit
helps.
N
However,
we
have
seen
a
drop
in
fuel
tax
revenues
due
to
the
pandemic
and
stayed
home
orders
and
more
employees
working
from
home.
We
don't
have
as
many
state
workers
coming
into
the
city
and
filling
up
before
they
go
home
so
due
to
the
shortage
in
the
fuel
tax,
the
board
elected
to
transfer
400
000
from
the
general
fund
to
be
able
to
make
up
some
of
those
losses.
N
N
In
addition
to
the
covid19
response,
they
include
adolescent
health
and
tobacco
programs
and
running
our
community
health
center
or
health
clinic
the
disease,
prevention
and
control,
division,
oversees
the
inspections
and
permitting
of
food
establishments,
child
care
facilities
and
hotels,
motels,
and
that
division
also
oversees
epidemiology
and
I'm
not
sure
everyone
knew
what
epidemiology
or
could
even
pronounce
it
prior
to
covid19,
but
they
have
been
front
and
center
during
this
fight
against
covid
and
they
play
a
vital
role
in
the
response
they
provide
the
disease,
investigation,
contact,
tracing
and
all
reporting.
N
B
N
See
next
is
carson
city
parks,
recreation
and
open
space.
Carson
city
voters
approved
a
ballot
question
back
in
november
1996
that
increased
our
sales
tax
by
a
quarter
percent
that
is
restricted
to
be
used
only
on
the
acquisition,
development
and
maintenance
of
parks,
open
space
trails
and
recreational
facilities.
N
That
tax
raises
approximately
2.8
million
annually
and
has
allowed
us
to
fund
projects
such
as
the
aquatic
facility
and
our
multi-purpose
athletic
center
or
the
mac.
Also
the
acquisition
of
open
space
that
will
preserve
our
mountains,
conserve
wildlife,
habitat
and
project,
protect
our
drinking
water
and
allow
outdoor
enjoyment
of
these
natural
areas.
So
far,
we've
acquired
over
21
properties
or
almost
7
000
acres
of
open
space.
N
So,
if
you
didn't
realize
how
the
significant
impact
this
initiative
had
on
improving
the
quality
of
life
in
our
community,
it
was
made
abundantly
clear
during
the
outbreak.
When
we
saw
unprecedented
usage
of
our
parks
and
open
space,
we
actually
had
to
start
kind
of
policing
our
our
trails,
because
there's
so
many
people
we
had
to
make
sure
they
were
social
distancing.
N
N
Next,
a
little
bit
about
our
our
general
fund
revenues
in
the
city's
budget,
so
this
slide
shows
the
components
of
the
general
fund
revenues
from
our
fiscal
year.
21
budget,
our
two
largest
revenue
sources
in
the
general
fund
are
property
taxes
at
32.8
or
27
million
in
consolidated
taxes
at
37.8
percent
or
31
million
total
budgeted
revenue
for
fiscal
21
for
the
city
or
the
general
fund
was
approximately
82
million,
so
the
c
tax
and
the
property
tax
you
can
see,
make
up.
N
70
percent
of
the
general
fund
revenue,
another
charges
for
services
at
almost
18
percent,
that
includes
the
landfill
revenues
and
our
our
parks
and
recreation
programs.
N
So
I
know
no
one
could
imagine
how
the
world
was
going
to
change,
beginning
with
the
unprecedented
closures
of
non-essential
businesses,
casinos,
schools
in
the
middle
of
march
last
year.
This
hit
right,
of
course,
right
in
the
middle
of
all
the
local
governments
trying
to
finalize
their
21
budget.
So
we
pretty
much
had
to
redo
our
entire
budget.
We
anticipated
that
sales
tax
revenue
would
drop
significantly,
so
we
dropped
our
projections
for
four
months.
N
We
dropped
them
by
you
know.
Between
march
and
june
2020
by
three
million-
and
then
we
cut
almost
another
four
million
dollars
from
the
fiscal
21
budget,
so
what
that
did
was
essentially
wiped
out.
The
city's
planned
capital
budget
for
2021.,
but
thanks
to
federal
aid
being
pumped
into
the
economy,
such
as
the
paycheck
protection
program
for
our
businesses,
the
additional
unemployment
compensation,
cares,
act,
funding
and
the
stimulus
checks.
N
Next,
this
is
the
city's
fiscal
year.
21
general
fund
budgeted
expenditures,
a
total
of
74.6
million,
as
you
can
see
by
far,
the
largest
portion
of
expenditures
is
for
public
safety
at
47
or
35
million.
This
includes
fire
sheriff
our
juvenile
detention
and
probation
and
alternative
sentencing.
The
general
government
comes
in
second
at
almost
25
percent.
This
includes
the
departments
at
city
hall
such
as
finance.
I
t
hr
the
assessor,
the
treasurer,
then
the
da
community
development
and
our
facilities
maintenance.
N
N
So,
let's
talk
about
development
in
carson
city,
so,
while
we
are
constrained
by
a
very
small
geographical
area,
development
within
the
city
is
going
strong,
with
construction
being
deemed
an
essential
business.
Clovid
really
had
little
effect
on
the
projects
around
the
city,
so
these
next
few
sides
are
some
of
the
projects
that
are
in
progress.
N
This
is
anderson
ranch
over
on
the
west
side
of
town,
and
this
will
create
203
single
family
lots
and
for
commercial.
Those
of
you
from
las
vegas
probably
don't
get
as
excited
as
we
do
about
these
new
restaurants.
But
we
have
another
dutch
brothers
going
in
right
next
to
chick-fil-a
in
south
carson
right,
the
connection
of
highway
50.
N
N
N
N
N
The
health
department
currently
administers
a
budget
of
about
9.4
million.
This
is
an
increase
of
over
3
million
due
to
the
influx
of
grant
funds
to
fight
covid19
staffing
at
the
health
department.
Precovid
was
about
38,
full-time
employees
and
currently
they're
at
66
full-time
employees,
and
that
doesn't
include
the
many
national
guard
that
we've
received,
help
from
and
fema
employees
and
we're
so
thankful
to
get
that
help.
N
N
N
In
february
they
initiated
a
an
operation
emergency
operations
center,
just
within
their
department,
but
by
the
middle
of
march,
when
we
saw
the
closure
of
non-essential
businesses,
carson
city
douglas
lyon
and
story
counties
which
are
known
as
the
quad
counties.
That
was
a
big
question
in
the
media.
A
lot
who
are
these
quad
counties?
N
N
So
many
of
you
might
not
know
I
think
dagny
talked
about
earlier
is,
while
the
health
department
is
housed
in
carson
city,
we
perform
many
services
for
the
other
three
counties
the
most,
notably
the
covid
testing,
the
vaccines
and
contact
tracing
for
those
counties.
So
the
population
of
the
quad
counties
is
approximately
169
000..
N
N
We
provided
funding
to
the
school
district,
1.55
million
carson
city
non-profits
received
a
million
and
the
carson
tahoe
regional
medical
center
received
2.35
million,
and
I
think
one
of
the
questions
earlier
was
about,
I
think
I.t.
N
Because
the
health
department,
car
state
health
department
is
providing
emergency
response
for
all
the
quad
counties,
they
are
constantly
taking
their
show
on
the
road
with
the
help
of
the
trailer
down
at
the
bottom,
whether
it's
a
sunny
or
snowy
day,
the
show
must
go
on
the
picture
on
the
bottom
right
is
was
an
event
in
douglas
county
in
the
middle
of
a
snowstorm.
E
Thank
you
chair,
mrs
paulson.
I
just
want
to
congratulate
you
on
the
complete
streets
projects
that
you've
worked
on
and
have
successfully
constructed
as
a
cyclist
and
multiple
multi-mobility.
It's
very
important,
the
safety
of
our
pedestrians
and
wheelchair
users
and
cyclists
and
recreational
users.
So
I
just
want
to
throw
that
out
there
and
say
thank
you
for
those
efforts.
You
know
we
have
wonderful
recreational
opportunities,
but
it's
nice
to
be
able
to
navigate
our
downtown
streets
safely
and
to
commute
to
and
from
work.
C
If
I
may
add
a
comment
as
well,
mr
chair,
this
is
assembly,
member
anderson.
B
C
I
also
really
enjoyed,
and
in
greece
with
so
many
things,
but
I
was
disappointed
that
there
was
nothing
about
the
deer
every
time
I
drive
up
here
from
the
sparks
area
because
I'm
assembly
district
30,
so
I
get
a
chance
to
drive
through
this
lovely
area.
Often
I
always
see
the
family
of
deer.
So
thank
you
for
taking
care
of
those
deer.
N
A
All
right
great,
so
I
don't
believe
we
have
any
more
questions
from
our
members.
Thank
you
again
for
the
presentation.
We
look
forward
to
being
here
with
you
for
the
next
x
amount
of
months
and
please
reach
out
if
we
could
be
of
service
to
you
with
that,
I'm
going
to
go
ahead
and
close
out
the
the
presentation
from
carson
city
and
broadcasting.
If
we
could
please
go
to
public
comment,
I
want
to
remind
those
of
you
wishing
to
speak
in
public
comment
to
limit
your
remarks
to
two
minutes
broadcasting.
M
M
M
M
I
I
Me
we
can
hear
you
okay,
thank
you
very
much,
daniel
bernie
for
the
record
at
the
d-a-n-I-e-l
second
e-u-r-d-y
daniel
purdy
brother
of
thomas
purdy,
murdered
at
warsaw
county
jail.
Now
that
you
guys
are
all
done
stroking
each
other's
ego
we
can
get
down
to
business
five
years
ago,
was
murdered
at
the
jail.
He
died
at
jail,
real
police
who
had
heart
on
my
brother
for
45
minutes,
placing
him
in
a
prone
position
with
that
means
his
legs
going
up
towards
his
stomach
and
crushing
his
diaphragm.
I
It
told
by
the
medical
examiner
that
my
brother
died
of
excited
delirium.
The
medical
association
does
not
even
recognize
excited
delirium
as
a
cause
of
death.
I've
been
going
back
and
forth
with
washout
county
for
them
to
just
do
their
job
to
hold
the
sheriff
accountable.
Washout
county
would
rather
pay
out
millions
of
dollars.
I
It
has
five
times
the
national
average
when
it
comes
to
death.
Now,
if
there's
10
cases
and
all
of
them
have
been
justified,
really
does
that
make
sense
to
anyone
answer?
No,
it
doesn't
so.
I
respectfully
request
that
the
legislature
and
warshaw
county
put
some
sort
of
policy
in
place
to
hold
the
sheriff
and
the
deputies
accountable
for
their
actions.
A
Thank
you
members.
I
appreciate
the
the
questions
today
and
the
participation
as
we
continue
to
move
forward
with
our
local
government.
I
think,
understandably,
every
single
one
of
you
has
received
numerous
phone
calls
from
just
desperate
nevadans,
expressing
concern,
frustration
and-
and
I
think
we
know
that
our
work
is
not
perfect,
but
this
is
an
opportunity
to
ask
tough
questions
and,
at
the
same
exact
time,
acknowledge
that
there
isn't
a
single
person
who's
working
in
this
world
and
can
say
they're
an
expert.
A
I
think
we're
all
in
this
kind
of
unprecedented
time
we're
trying
to
do
the
best
we
can,
but
at
the
same
time
we
have
an
obligation
to
ask
questions.
So
we
we
walk
that
fine
line.
So
I
appreciate
everybody's
participation
and
we'll
continue
to
have
difficult
conversations
to
be
able
to
work
collectively
to
better
all
nevadans
members.
I
want
to
remind
you
that
tomorrow
we
have
two
presentations
along
with
two
bill
hearings.