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A
Well
good
morning
and
I'll
call
this
meeting
to
order
and
welcome
to
the
second
meeting
of
the
joint
interim
committee
on
government
affairs
and
thank
you,
everyone
for
joining
us
today,
online
through
the
legislative
website
or
on
your
youtube.
Our
committee
policy
analyst
is
going
to
call
the
role
today.
So
mr
mcdonald
go
ahead
when
you're
ready.
C
A
Here,
thank
you.
I
believe
everyone
is
here.
So
thank
you
very
much
before
we
get
started
I'll
review
a
few
housekeeping
rules
with
bits
of
information
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you
may
need,
especially
if
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A
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B
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Okay,
thank
you
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much,
then
we'll
go
ahead
and
move
on
we're
now
on
agenda
item
number
three:
approval
of
the
minutes
from
the
meeting
held
on
on
january
11th.
The
draft
minutes
were
made
available
to
the
committee
members
and
the
public
at
the
beginning
of
last
week.
Hopefully,
you've
had
some
time
to
review
them.
Do
I
have
a
motion
to
approve.
A
A
Thank
you
very
much
and
with
that
the
motion
passes
next
on
our
agenda
is
our
presentation
regarding
approaches
employed
by
various
various
states
to
promote
tribal
collaboration
for
a
little
background
on
this
issue
in
recent
legislative
sessions,
we
have
passed
several
bills
that
sought
to
provide
nevada's
tribes
with
a
voice
in
decision-making
processes.
A
You
may
also
recall
last
session
ab52
added
one
tribal
voting
member
to
the
land
use
planning
advisory
council
assembly
bill,
72
added,
a
representative
to
the
nevada,
indian
commission.
As
a
voting
member
on
the
nevada
state
board
on
geographic
names
and
finally,
assembly
bill,
95
added
one
tribal
member
to
the
subcommittee
on
public
lands.
A
The
new
interim
structure
provides
us
an
opportunity
to
take
a
step
back
and
take
more
in-depth
review
of
this
issue
by
seeing
what
other
states
are
doing
in
this
area
and
getting
feedback
on
how
some
of
the
initiatives
are
working
in
this
state.
With
that
we
have
two
presentations
on
state
and
tribal
collaboration
today.
A
The
first
is
a
presentation
under
this
agenda
item
by
martha
since
and
with
the
national
conference
of
state
legislatures
and
martha
is
an
associate
director
with
ncfl
and
works
with
the
quad
caucus
and
women's
legislative
network
good
morning,
miss
science
and
it's
nice
to
have
you
with
us
today.
Please
begin
your
presentation
when
you're
ready
and
then
we'll
look
for
additional
comments
from
the
committee.
Please
go
ahead.
E
E
So
I
am
martha
signs.
As
the
madam
chair
mentioned,
I
work
within
ncsl's
state
services,
division
and
that
encompasses
our
state
tribal
institute,
our
women's
legislative
network
and
the
quad
caucus,
which
is
a
convening
of
the
four
national
caucuses
of
color.
E
I
serve
as
lead
staff
to
the
national
caucus
of
native
american
state
legislatures
and,
as
part
of
this
presentation,
I'll
be
giving
a
very
brief
overview
of
not
only
ncsl
and
some
of
the
work
we
do,
but
also
I'll
go
into
some
of
the
state
tribal
engagement.
E
So
for
those
of
you
who
aren't
familiar,
ncsl
is
the
only
organization
that
serves
the
7
383
state
legislate
tours
across
the
country
and
over
25
000
staff.
This
just
gives
an
array
of
some
of
the
services.
We
offer
everything
from
policy
research
on
over
1400
issues
to
meetings.
Some
of
you
may
have
heard
about
our
legislative
summit.
E
All
right,
so,
let's
get
to
really
why
we're
here
today
right.
So
there
are
many
forms
of
state,
tribal
engagement
and
really
what
we're
looking
at
here
and
what
ncsl
focuses
on
specifically
are
those
initiated
through
state
legislative
measures.
E
Many
of
these
relationships,
of
course,
are
multifaceted
and
they
incorporate
the
state
legislatures
state
agencies,
educational
institutions
and
governor's
offices.
Again
we're
not
here
promoting
any
one
state
over
another.
What
works
for
some
states
may
not
work
for
others
and
what,
from
what
we've
seen
and
tracked
over
the
years,
there
are
no
two
states
that
are
exactly
the
same,
so
neighboring
governments
really
share
aspects
of
economic
and
social
systems
and
political
relationships
can
better
result
in
meeting
the
needs
of
citizens
within
that
state.
E
Something
to
sort
of
note
we'll
look
at
another
slide
later
on
down
the
road
that
that
sort
of
looks
exactly
opposite
of
this
one,
and
although
state
legislative
committees
are
instruments
of
the
state,
some
states
have
found
it
beneficial
to
make
the
creation
and
operation
of
their
particular
committee.
A
joint
committee
undertaking
or
joint
undertaking
in
itself,
between
states
and
tribes.
E
An
example
of
that
is
idaho.
Your
sort
of
northern
neighbor
idaho's
council
on
indian
affairs
was
established
23
years
ago,
and
it
consists
of
10
members.
E
Over
the
past
decade,
almost
two
dozen
bills
have
gone
through
the
legislature
related
to
tribes
and,
of
course,
again,
idaho
only
has
five
federally
recognized
tribes,
so
the
dynamic
is
different
and
the
ability
to
include
each
of
those
tribal
representatives,
just
because
of
the
sheer
number,
is
a
little
bit
more
realistic
in
that
particular
state.
E
The
next
is
executive
branch
and
commissions.
There
are
42
states
that
have
created
a
commission
or
entity
really
focused
on
facilitating
the
creation
of
statewide
state
and
tribal-wide
relationships
and
really
opening
up
the
framework
and
creating
a
platform
for
communication.
E
They
range,
of
course,
in
scope
and
capacity,
and
they
range
in
dormancy.
In
some
cases,
some
of
them
have
gone
dormant,
depending
on
the
issues
at
the
forefront
in
the
state
or
for
the
tribe
and
then
they've
come
sort
of
back
to
life
at
different
points
in
time.
E
They've
also
changed
and
sort
of
evolved
in
scope
over
time.
So
an
example
of
that
is
new,
mexico's
particular
commission,
so
they
started
off
as
a
statue
all
the
way
back
in
1953
and
the
state
agency
established
the
office
of
indian
affairs.
E
It
served
as
a
vehicle
between
the
governor's
office,
the
legislature
and
the
separate
and
distinct
local
tribes,
and
then
in
2003,
former
governor
bill
richardson
signed
an
executive
order,
elevating
the
office
of
indian
affairs
to
the
indian
affairs
department
and
that
created
a
cabinet
level
position.
It's
the
first
in
the
nation.
E
To
do
so
and
as
a
side
note,
I
mentioned
that
I
staffed
the
national
caucus
of
native
american
state
legislators,
the
first
cabinet
secretary
for
that
was
now
former
or
now
senator
benny
shindo,
who
is
the
chair
of
the
national
caucus
of
native
american
state
legislators.
E
So
it
ends
up
being
a
small
world
in
every
states.
Right
the
following
year,
the
legislature
formally
established
the
indian
affairs
department
by
legislative
statute,
colorado's
commission
is
run
by
their
lieutenant
governor
and
the
lieutenant
governor's
office
serves
as
the
official
liaison
between
the
state
of
colorado
and
the
southern
new
indian
tribes
and
new
mountain
tribes.
E
The
commission
ensures
direct
contact
and
meaningful
engagement,
a
term
that
we
hear
sort
of
often
within
tribal
communities,
and
it
takes
various
definitions
by
state
and
by
tribe,
but
there
is
an
effort
to
better
understand
sort
of
meaningful
engagement
and
what
that
looks
like
right
now.
The
commission
in
colorado
is
working
with
public
schools
who
are
required
to
change
the
mascots
and
that
legislation
passed
a
couple
of
years
ago
in
colorado
this
year
in
california,
there's
a
bill
moving
through
the
assembly
requiring
training
of
state
agencies
in
government
to
government
consultation
with
tribal
governments.
E
E
E
So
in
1989,
the
washington
governor
signed
the
centennial
accord
on
behalf
of
the
state,
along
with
the
tribes
and
the
the
mission
of
that
one
in
particular,
was
to
achieve
a
mutual
tribal
state
goals
through
improved
relationships
and
shared
respect
between
sovereign
governments.
The
antenna
accord
was
then
re-upped
in
1999
in
1989,
so
about
10
years
later,
as
the
new
millennium
agreement
there's
a
few
other
states
that
have
something
very
similar.
E
Next
is
sort
of
looking
at
dedicated
events
at
the
capitol,
and
this
is
really
a
cultural
appreciation
and
acknowledgement
of
tribes
in
the
state,
in
addition
to
an
opportunity
to
meet
with
tribal
leaders.
So
we
see
we've
seen
consistent
ones
over
the
years
in
arizona,
maine,
new
mexico,
oklahoma,
oregon
and
really
when
we're
looking
at
those.
E
It's
a
it's
a
variety
of
activities,
so
they
can
either
host
native
american
cultural
recognition
and
have
specific
cultural
events
at
the
capitol
for
a
day
sort
of
acknowledging
that
or
there's
an
ability
to
invite
tribal
leaders
to
give
a
sort
of
state
of
the
tribe's
address
to
legislatives
in
both
chambers.
E
So
I'm
just
going
to
highlight
a
couple
that
have
happened
recently.
So
at
the
start
of
session
in
arizona
navajo
nation,
president
jonathan
nez
was
joined
by
first
by
the
first
lady
and
the
vice
president
and
the
vice
president
of
navajo
nation,
where
he
addressed
the
arizona
state
legislature
and
tribal
lawmakers
who
were
also
invited
to
the
capitol
that
day.
E
He
spoke
about
the
contributions
and
resiliency
of
navajo
people
during
the
dakota
19
pandemic
and
throughout
society,
and
then
he
sort
of
you
know,
of
course,
use
the
opportunity
to
speak
directly
to
some
requests
for
state
lawmakers
and
requested
that
you
know
they
work
together
further
to
promote
voting
rights
amongst
native
american
people
and
more
on
the
indian
child
welfare
act,
while
highlighting
the
progress
of
infrastructure
development
and
the
access
to
clean
water.
That
navajo
nation
has
struggled
with
over
the
past
well
forever.
E
E
Another
unique
example
that
we've
seen
is
washington
state
incorporating
an
indian
101
and
they
partner
with
the
university
of
washington
on
this,
to
conduct
a
short
training,
very
brief
training
during
the
new
legislator
orientation,
and
that's
mainly
just
to
familiarize
state
legislators
of
the
federally
recognized
tribes
in
the
states
and
sort
of
discuss
sovereign
issues.
E
Other
states
have
issued
handbooks
to
state
legislators
that
are
interested
or
have
requested
them
that
go
over
some
of
the
state,
tribal
engagement
and
relations,
and
that's
really
to
get
some
some
basic
level
of
education
so
that
when
there's
a
bill
on
the
floor
being
discussed
related
to
state
tribes.
There's
that
that
piece
already
included.
E
Another
unique
thing
that
washington
does
is:
they
include
the
training
as
an
option
to
staff
and
offer
cle
credits,
which
is
a
sort
of
unique
aspect
in
that
way
too.
E
Another
way
that
some
states
decide
to
build
or
bolster
relationships
with
their
tribes
in
the
state
are
through
establishing
a
formal
process
for
state
recognition.
E
E
E
Still,
the
goal
within
these
states
in
particular,
and
what
we
see
within
these
tribes
is
this
is
to
still
reach
federal
recognition,
but
it
this
gives
the
authority
for
the
indian
arts
and
crafts
act
to
take
place
some
of
those
tribes
and
really
under
the
act,
an
indian
as,
if
is
defined
as
a
member
of
any
federally
or
officially
state
recognized
tribe
of
the
united
states
and
that
certifies
an
indian
artisan
by
an
indian
tribe.
E
E
This
offers
a
state
tribal
legislative
snapshot
really
of
legislative
measures
that
we've
seen
introduced
over
the
past
few
years,
related
to
state
tribal
relations.
So
in
some
cases
it's
not
always
necessarily
about
establishing
a
commission,
but
it's
also
about
addressing
specific
pieces
of
legislation
related
to
native
communities
or
improving
the
outcomes
for
native
communities.
E
A
big
one-
and
I
mentioned
this
in
idaho-
was
missing
and
murdered
indigenous
women.
So
in
2021
we
saw
16
states
introduce
legislation
related
to
the
issue
of
missing
and
murdered
indigenous
women
or
and
or
persons,
and
those
are
really
fall
into
three
separate
buckets.
Some
of
them
are
buckets
around
law
enforcement
training.
Some
of
them
are
around
data,
gay,
they're
gathering
and
then
others
are
establishing
a
specific
or
interim
task
force
on
missing
and
murdered
indigenous
women
to
get
more
data
around
it.
E
What
we
have
found
is
that
there
isn't
enough
data
in
many
cases
to
address
this
issue,
but
we
know
that
preliminary
data
is
showing
huge
issues
and
huge
discrepancies
in
in
some
of
the
numbers
on
this.
Another
is
indigenous
people's
day
and
again
this
is
just
an
acknowledgement
and
it
doesn't
always
necessarily
mean
that
it
is
replacing
columbus
day
in
most
cases.
E
E
Madam
chair,
you
mentioned
that
for
nevada
recently,
where
they're,
removing
sort
of
or
looking
into
offensive
names
and
or
changing
the
names
of
geographic
places.
E
So
that
is
a
very
in
a
nutshell,
overview
and
I
felt
like
I
talked
a
million
miles
an
hour,
and
so
I
you
know
again,
the
presentation
was
just
intended
to
give
the
a
50
000
foot
overview
of
some
of
the
things
that
states
have
done.
Of
course,
there
are
many
various
activities
and
there's
over
300
pieces
of
legislation
related
to
state
tribal
issues
introduced
in
the
states
every
year
that
we
are
tracking
and
I
am
happy
to
answer
any
questions
and
or
provide
more
information
at
any
point.
A
Thank
you
so
much
miss
science.
That
was
really
good
information.
I'm
sure
that
many
of
us
feel
the
same
way
do
I
have
any
questions
or
comments
from
the
committee.
I
don't
see
you
just
holler
at
me
here.
As
I
look
senator
neil.
Do
I
see
your
camera?
I
mean
your
yeah.
C
Thanks,
madam
chair,
I
just
had
a
quick
question.
I
wanted
to
know
what
is
the
yes,
the
the
it's,
the
federal
and
state
gap
between
states
acting
around
the
burial
grounds
that
typically
comes
up
when
there's
a
dig
site.
It's
coming
up
now
for
lithium.
So
what
is
now
you
know,
I
want
to
know.
What's
the
area
in
which
the
state
can
act
outside
of
the
feds.
E
I
think
that
varies
by
state.
Thank
you
senator.
I
think
it
varies
by
state,
depending
on
you
know
where,
in
particular,
those
burial
lands
fall
and
whether
or
not
they're
on
federal,
tribal
reservations
or
not.
So
I
think,
if
you're
looking
at
something
in
particular,
I'm
happy
to
partner
with
some
of
our
my
colleagues
within
our
within
our
energy
and
environment
program,
to
look
more
into
that
and
to
provide
more
information.
C
Yes
and
madam
chair
just
a
quick
follow-up,
I
I
am,
I
started
studying
this
issue
around.
C
There's
this
old
federal
law
that's
been
around
forever
about
what
is,
if
I
guess,
if
minerals
are
found
in
what's
considered
a
reservation
or
indian
or
native
american
lands,
who
does
it
belong
to
like
the
way
that
I
read
it?
Anything
that's
found,
that's
minerals
doesn't
relate.
Doesn't
the
tribe
doesn't
have
ownership
of
that
mineral?
The
actual
federal
government
does,
and
so
it
was
interesting
because
I
think
it
dates
all
the
way
back
to
like
1800s,
very
interesting
federal
state
nuance.
E
Yeah
yeah
and
we've
seen
it
come
up
with,
even
you
know
not
only
with
minerals
right,
but
how
we
deal
with
historical
sites
and
things
like
that,
and-
and
it
goes
back
to
some
of
how
federal
land
is
in
trust
within
the
federal
government.
So
yeah
it
is
a
it's
a
complex
issue
and
I
think
how
some
states
have
dealt
with
it
is
is
very
interesting
and
or
have
looked
further
into
it.
So
I'm
happy
to
again
follow
up
with
you
specifically
and
provide
that
information.
A
So
I
don't
see
anybody's
hands
so
I'll
jump
in
here.
I
have
a
question
about
the
legislation
that
seems
that
you
referenced
across
different
states
about
the
missing
women.
Lester's
are
missing,
I
guess
I'll
call
it
missing
women
legislation
and
the
the
addressing
of
the
data
gathering
as
opposed
to
establishing
those
task
force.
What's
the
difference
in
I
mean
I
get
gathering
the
data,
but
is
that
is
the
task
force
not
tasked
with
gathering
that
data?
How
does
that
work.
E
Oftentimes
like
in
the
case
of
minnesota,
in
particular,
the
task
force
was
actually
tasked
with
within
particular
looking
at,
who
would
be
best
identifiable
to
gather
that
data.
So
they
looked
at.
You
know
what
data
do
we
have
available?
E
Where
are
there
opportunities
to
improve
data
gathering
and
how
do
we
approach
it
from
a
from
a
from
a
training
standpoint
for
law
enforcement
right,
so
is
it
something
that
needs
to
be
done
within
our
criminal
jurisdictions?
To
look
at
and
say,
okay
here
here
are
the
gaps
and
here's
what
we
know
or
is
it
a
matter
of
reporting
or
not
having
the
ability
to
report
specifically
missing
and
murdered
indigenous
women
separately
from
any
other
case
right
or
where
they're
not
identified
appropriately,
especially
by
race
in
some
cases?
E
A
Thank
you
and
then
just
another
question
with
the
am
I
correct
that
we
have
27
tribes
in
nevada?
Do
you
have
that
that
might
be
a
miss
mon
tooth
question,
but.
E
Yeah
well,
and
the
distinction
was
right-
the
idaho
has
far
less
so
I
have.
I
think
the
following
presenter
is
the
best
to
answer
that,
but
we
have
seen
we
do
sort
of
track
it
by
state.
Also.
A
That
was
really
great
information
and
I
thank
you
for
joining
us
today.
A
Next,
under
agenda
agenda
item
five,
we
have
our
second
presentation,
which
I
alluded
to
on
state
and
tribal
collaboration
and
we're
going
to
hear
from
stacy
montooth
the
executive
director
of
the
nevada,
indian
commission
and
she
will
provide
an
update
on
some
of
those
initiatives.
We
have
implemented
recently
to
provoke,
promote
collaboration
between
state
agencies
and
tribes
in
nevada
and
good
morning,
ms
montooth,
and
welcome
and
good
to
see
you
and
please
begin
when
you're
ready.
Okay,.
F
Well
good
morning,
thank
you,
madam
chair.
It
is
a
beautiful
snow
covered
day
here
in
our
state
capitol.
I'm
talking
to
you
from
the
stuart
indian
school.
I
am
a
citizen
of
the
waka
river
paiute
nation
and
I'm
the
executive
director
of
the
nevada,
indian
commission.
I
really
want
to
start
by
thanking
you
all
for
allowing
me
to
address
not
just
the
launch
or
the
implementation
of
our
consultation
law
ab264,
but
to
share
with
you
milestones
and
to
also
discuss
what
work
needs
to
still
be
done.
F
I
also
want
to
thank
the
organizers
of
this
morning's
meetings.
I
was
not
familiar
with
the
ncsl.
I
didn't
know
that
they
had
such
focused
work
on
tribal
nations
and
I
learned
a
lot
as
well.
Having
said
that,
I
want
to
make
sure
that
this
group
knows
how
far
above
the
curve
you
all
are.
I
tried
to
quickly
take
some
notes.
F
While
miss
science
was
speaking,
and
I
want
to
make
sure
that
you
all
are
aware
that,
on
the
state
level,
I'll
try
to
follow
the
same
path
that
the
previous
speaker
did
so
on
this.
On
the
state
level,
we
do
have
22
state
tribal
liaisons.
F
F
F
I
believe
it's
happening
in
four
high
schools
in
washoe
county
north
valleys,
reed,
high
school
spanish
springs
high
and
the
fourth
one
is
escaping
me
right
now,
part
of
me,
but
those
four
are:
four
schools
do
offer
what
they
call
international
language
as
an
an
elective,
and
it's
just
an
amazing
program
and
the
nevada
indian
commission
would
love
to
see
it
implemented
in
all
our
our
school
districts.
F
Regarding
the
executive
branch,
you
all
probably
know
we
do
have
a
five-person
advisory
commission,
I'm
honored
to
be
a
member
of
the
governor's
cabinet.
Our
previous
speaker
spoke
about
events
at
the
capitol.
Currently
we
do
have
nevada
tribes
day
it's
in
early
february,
during
each
legislative
session.
On
that
occasion,
the
legislature
is
flooded
with
special
guests,
including
tribal
elders,
tribal
veterans,
tribal
elected
officials,
students,
the
guests,
get
special
seating,
special
recognitions.
F
We
do
blessings.
Our
elders
provide
a
special
prayer
to
get
the
start.
The
day
started,
and
typically
most
of
our
tribal
chairs
will
make
a
point
to
meet
with
their
respective
legislative
representatives.
F
The
nevada
day
parade
is
a
huge
opportunity,
our
tribal
nations
historically,
and
I
believe
it
starts
with
the
stewart.
Indian
school
they've
always
had
a
lot
of
pride,
not
just
to
participate
in,
but
to
attend
the
nevada
day
parade
it's
a
huge
nevada
day
is
a
huge
celebration
holiday
for
our
tribal
communities.
F
We've
had
art
displayed
at
the
legislative
building.
There
was
mention
by
miss
sein
about
tribal
flags.
Mr
vice
chair,
flores
on
this
committee
had
prompted
the
nevada
indian
commission
to
work
to
collect
all
the
tribal
flags
not
just
for
display
at
our
state
legislature,
but
also
at
our
flagship
universities
and
that
project
is
underway.
F
I
love
the
idea
of
a
new
legislation.
Excuse
me
an
orientation
for
new
legislators.
I
want
to
share
with
you
that
the
nevada
indian
commission
does
provide
a
legislation
101
for
our
tribal
leaders,
so
we
have
a
little
bit
of
training.
You
know
how
how
a
bill
becomes
a
law
for
our
elected
officials
and
specifically
to
address
some
of
chair
dondero
luke's
questions
about
the
missing
and
murdered
indigenous
women.
As
far
as
I
know,
most
of
the
work
that's
done
in
this
state
is
between
our
tribal
communities
and
federal
representatives.
F
But,
as
the
previous
speakers
mentioned,
it's
a
it's
an
epidemic
and
unfortunately,
nevada
is
not
excluded
in
that.
So
that
was
absolutely
unscripted.
I
just
wanted
to
share
again
what
an
amazing
job
nevada
is
doing.
I
often
have
opportunities
to
give
presentations
and
I
typically
start
by
telling
my
audience
that
nevada
has
always
been
very
cutting
edge
and
in
fact,
when
nevada
became
a
state,
perhaps
you
history,
bus.
F
B
I
believe
we
were
going
to
have
you
share
your
screen.
Can
you
possibly
share
those
with
us
sure.
F
Let
me
give
that
a
go.
I
apologize
give
me
just
a
couple
minutes
for
the
delay.
F
F
So
what
I
wanted
to
share
with
you
is
again
what
I
was
calling
a
matrix.
I
think
that
it's
really
important,
that
I
remind
everybody
how
this
legislation
came
to
be
specifically
that
as
the
there
we
go
as
the
chair
mentions,
the
legislation
ab264
was
passed
in.
F
And
then
I
want
to
remind
you
all
that
the
nevada
indian
commission
was
without
leadership
until
I
was
appointed
by
governor
sislek
in
in
september,
so
we
went
into
effect
in
july.
We
had
a
gap
of
leadership.
I
stepped
in
not
only
new
to
the
nevada,
indian
commission,
but
to
state
service.
I
believe
it
was
three
months
later
and
then,
as
you
all
know,
five
months
later,
our
world
turned
upside
down
and
we
were
hit
with
this
global
pandemic.
F
I
share
that
with
you,
because
there
is
more
work
to
be
done,
but
I
I
want
to
make
sure
that
I'm
clear
that
we've
really
been
strapped
by
the
inability
to
travel
and
to
consult
face
to
face
with
our
tribal
nations,
as
well
as
the
leadership
of
our
tribal
nation's
priorities.
F
So
if
I
can
draw
your
attention
to
the
shared
screen
here,
with
help
from
then
deputy
attorney
general
tori
sundheim,
we
came
up
with
this
matrix
and
basically,
what
we
did
was
we
charted
everyone's
responsibilities
for
this
collaboration.
You
can
see
in
this
column
to
the
far
left,
the
nevada,
indian
commission.
We
are
tasked
with
the
policy
the
written
policy.
F
Not
only
does
it
have
to
promote
effective
communication,
positive
government
to
government
relations,
it
has
to
be
culturally
competent
and,
as
the
chair
noted
earlier,
we
have
to
have
a
method
for
identifying.
Excuse
me,
a
method
for
notifying
employees,
about
the
act
very
proud
to
tell
you
that
we
have
done
that.
As
I
mentioned
earlier,
22
nevada
agencies
have
identified
a
tribal
liaison
regarding
the
policy.
I
would
say
that
that
is
probably
the
weakest
aspect
of
the
implementation
of
this
law
and
it's
simply
again
because
of
the
pandemic.
F
We
haven't
gotten
enough
input
from
our
tribal
leaders.
You
were
absolutely
right,
chair
don
darrow
loop,
we
have
27
tribal
nations
and
I've
gotten
written
feedback
from
four.
Regarding
the
written
policy
that
was
developed
by
the
chair
of
the
nevada,
indian
commission,
kosten
letharis,
I
have
given
a
hard
copy
of
that
policy
to
every
tribal
leader.
Whenever
I
see
them
in
person,
which
has
probably
been
about
a
half
a
dozen
times
since
the
pandemic
hit
it's
been
mailed,
it's
been
emailed,
it's
been
faxed.
F
Many
even
as
we
speak,
some
of
our
tribal
nations
are
still
working
remotely
and
you
know
that
opens
up
another
large
difficulty
with
connectivity
even
for
those
tribal
nations
who
do
have
a
tribal
administrator
or
a
health
director
or
an
environmental
specialist,
they
might
not
have
the
equipment
nor
the
bran,
the
broad
bandwidth,
to
work
from
home.
So
I
truly
believe
that,
as
our
as
the
pandemic
becomes
more
predictable,
that
I
will
be
able
to
get
plenty
of
input
from
the
balance,
the
other
21
tribal
leaders
for
the
written
policy.
F
Having
said
that,
actually
I
see
that
senator
neal
has
her
hand
up.
So
if
it's
acceptable,
madam
chair,
may
I
address
the
senator.
C
I'm
sorry
I
was
waiting
until
the
end
out
of
here
I
just
I
was
being.
I
was
just
putting
it
up
early.
F
Okay,
fantastic,
so
I
wanted
to
just
again
bring
your
attention
to
the
breakdown
of
the
rest
of
of
this
matrix
that
I
have
also
within
the
nevada,
indian
commission's
purview,
we're
required
to
publish
on
our
website
or
on
the
internet
an
accurate
list
of
the
names
and
contacts
not
just
for
our
nevada,
tribal
liaisons,
but
for
our
tribal
leaders
as
well.
F
F
Pdf
here
are
all
our
tribal
leaders
and
how
any
tribal
excuse
me
state
the
liaison
would
get
in
touch
with
them
as
well,
as
vice
versa,
how
our
tribal
leaders
would
get
in
touch
with
the
tribal
liaison
from
ndot
or
from
the
secretary
of
state's
office
or
whichever
different
department
that
they
might
have
business
with.
Let
me
go
back.
I
apologize
I'm
not
good
with
technology.
F
F
It
outlines
everything
from
a
reasonable
effort
to
collaborate
again
effective
communication,
assisting
the
head
of
each
respective
nevada
department,
in
some
cases,
divisions
implementing
the
policy
depending
on
what
the
issue
at
hand
is
for
the
respective
tribal
nations
and
it
also
addresses
representation.
F
I'm
happy
to
announce
chair
don
darrell
loop.
We
haven't
had
an
occasion
where
we
needed
to
implement
the
resolution
policy
or
procedures.
Another
one
of
the
responsibilities
that's
outlined
in
ab264
is
an
annual
summit.
I
don't
know
that
the
earlier
presenter
touched
on
this,
so
it's
quite
possible
that
maybe
nevada
once
again
gets
ahead
of
the
curve.
The
collaboration
requires
that
the
governor
meet
at
least
once
a
year
with
all
the
leaders
of
our
tribal
nations.
F
I
can
tell
you
that,
because
of
the
pandemic
summit
is
a
little
bit
too
of
a
grandiose
term.
We've
had
zoo
meetings
between
our
tribal
leaders
and
governor
sislek
and
specific
members
of
his
senior
staff,
and
I
am
happy
to
report
that
we've
had
some
really
good
progress.
F
I
can
tell
you
that
in
our
last
summit
meeting,
which
was
a
year
ago
march,
one
of
our
tribal
leaders-
chair
taurus
from
the
walker
river
paiute
nation,
when
the
governor
asked
what
can
the
governor's
office?
F
Everything
from
billboards
to
special
teletown
halls.
We've
had
10
000
people
participate
in
two
tele
town
halls
that
we
had,
they
were
live
on.
Facebook
and
people
could
also
call
in
we
have
all
kinds
of
social
media
messaging.
It's
really
really
been
wonderful.
In
fact
this
earlier
this
week,
I
handed
off
another
300
of
our
specially
designed
a
native
artist.
F
The
last
box
that
I
have
listed
on
this
matrix
is
about
the
training
and,
as
you
all
might
require
remember,
that
the
collaboration
law
now
requires
that
there
be
a
cooperative
effort
between
the
nevada,
indian
commission
and
the
department
of
health,
human
resource
management
to
put
on
special
professional
development
for
state
employees,
not
just
the
heads
of
our
agencies,
our
executive
directors
and
directors,
but
for
any
nevada
employee
that
works
with
our
tribal
nations
on
a
regular
basis.
F
The
earlier
speaker
mentioned
a
tribal
101.
That
is
the
aim
in
this
part
of
the
legis.
Excuse
me
in
this
part
of
the
law.
We
want
to
make
sure
that
all
of
our
state
liaisons
that
our
state
directors
have
that
baseline
knowledge,
everything
from
not
just
how
many
tribal
nations
but
a
basic
history
of
all
of
the
big
four,
the
northern
paiute,
the
southern
paiute,
the
washoe,
the
western
shoshone.
F
Unfortunately,
again
because
of
the
pandemic,
we've
had
to
postpone
this
training,
not
once
but
twice.
The
nevada.
Indian
commission
identified
two
amazing
native
american
trainers,
dr
debra
harry
from
the
university
of
nevada
she's,
a
professor
there,
as
well
as
vice
principal
lynn,
manning
john.
She
is
a
citizen
of
the
hawaii,
the
duck
valley,
chopin
nation
and
currently
the
principal
of
their
combined
middle
school.
These
ladies
have
a
day
and
a
half
of
presentation
curriculum.
F
F
After
your
meetings,
part
of
my
responsibilities
as
the
executive
director
of
the
nevada,
indian
commission,
I
was
required
to
provide
a
list,
an
update
to
the
governor's
office,
and
so
what
I'm
showing
on
the
screen
right
now
is
just
bullet
points
of
the
milestones
and
the
progress
that
we've
made.
So
if
you
are
interested-
and
you
really
really
want
to
dig
down,
I'm
happy
to
share
that
with
you
as
well,
so,
madam
chair,
can
we
go
ahead
and
open
it
up
for
questions.
A
C
You,
madam
chair,
jumped
the
gun
earlier,
so
I
was
wondering
how
much
federal
assistance
did
you
guys
receive
during
the
pandemic?.
F
Thank
you
for
that
question.
Senator
the
nevada,
indian
commission
racer
received
exactly
zero
federal
dollars.
I
can
tell
you
that
our
cultural
center,
which
again
was
established
thanks
to
the
support
of
the
nevada
legislature.
We
did
get
two
different
federal
grants.
One
came
from
the.
F
F
I
apologize.
I
don't
know
the
proper
name,
but
madam
senator
madam
chair
you'll
have
to
cut
me
off,
but
the
federal
funding
that
the
nevada
indian
commission
received
for
our
cultural
center
was
almost
exactly
an
offset
of
the
dollars
that
the
our
agency
lost
because
of
the
required
general
funding
cutbacks
that
all
of
our
agencies
endured
right.
The
governor
after
declaring
the
state
of
emergency,
asked
all
of
the
directors
to
cut
their
general
fund,
and
we
were
able
to
do
that.
However,
the
other
odd
caveat
about
the
nevada.
F
And
as
a
division
of
tourism,
our
funding
comes
from
tourism
transfers,
which
is
actually
tied
to
hotel,
motel
tax
and,
as
you
all
know,
during
the
pandemic,
people
weren't
staying
in
hotels
and
motels
so
quickly.
I
want
to
let
you
know
that
for
the
nevada,
indian
commission,
the
parent
agency,
my
ballpark
300
000
dollar
budget
was
cut
by
25
with
tourism
transfers
and
our
three
hundred
thousand
dollar
budget
for
our
cultural
center
was
cut
65
percent
because
of
the
tourism
transfers.
A
Go
ahead,
senator
neil
and
then
we'll
go
to
assemblywoman.
C
So
I
thank
you
for
that
information.
I
definitely
want
to
talk
offline
about
room
jacks,
but
I
wanted
to
ask
a
question
around
since
did
at
the
tri,
the
indigenous
tribes,
I
don't
know
what
federal
assistance
they
received,
but
I
was
wondering
how
how
the
you
know.
Businesses
were
able
to
maintain
themselves
during
the
pandemic,
whether
or
not
there
was.
You
know
that
sva
assistance
that
was
being
driven
to
the
rest
of
our
businesses
and
whether
or
not
you
guys
had
actual
direct
access.
C
I
think
this
is
a
good
conversation
because
I
really
was
trying
to
understand
what
was
the
access
to
assistance
that
happened
within
the
past
two
years
and
currently,
if
there's
any
change
in
that
assistance
to
the
indigenous
tribes
regarding
health
care,
business,
and
I
mean
at
this
point-
you
mentioned
food
insecurity,
so
I
mean
there
were
a
lot
of
activity
that
was
going
on
in
nevada
and
I'm
just
wondering
what
was
the
status
of
or
the
condition
of
what
was
going
on
within
the
tribal
nations.
That's
a
larger
question.
F
Thank
you
senator
that's
a
fantastic
question
and
I
would
welcome
the
opportunity
to
talk
to
you
or
any
of
your
colleagues
about
how
the
pandemic
has
just
spotlighted.
It
really
has
brought
to
the
forefront
all
the
inequities,
whether
those
be
for
essential
services,
healthcare,
education,
roads,
clean
water.
F
All
of
those
inequities
have
just
been
spotlighted
by
the
pandemic.
I'm
really
happy
to
share
with
you
that
the
state
of
nevada,
really
we
did
and
continue
to
do
as
much
work
as
possible
for
our
tribal
nations.
You
mentioned
specifically
food
and
equity.
Perhaps
some
of
you
saw
the
headlines
just
the
other
day
I
had
the
honor
of
meeting
with
governor
sisilak,
as
well
as
the
executive
director
of
the
food
bank
of
northern
nevada.
F
That
organization
was
the
recipient.
Many
of
you
had
a
hand
in
approving
the
budget.
It's
my
understanding
that
the
state
of
nevada
allocated
some
of
its
either.
I
believe
it
was
the
arpa
funds
for
not
for
profits
that
are
already
doing
good
work
and
they
they
already
have
their
systems
in
place,
and
the
food
bank
of
northern
nevada
was
one
of
those
over
the
last
year,
not
the
entire
pandemic,
but
just
the
last
year
the
food
bank
of
northern
nevada
provided
almost
a
million
pounds
in
food
to
our
northern
and
central
tribal
nations.
F
They
did
that
by
delivering
food
boxes.
They
did
that
by
allowing
representatives
of
our
tribal
nations
to
come
to
their
warehouse
in
sparks
to
pick
up
food
boxes.
F
They
did
that
through
hosting
and
operating
mobile
food
harvests,
which
focus
on
fresh
fruits
and
vegetables,
they
were
handing
out
gallons
of
milk
and
fresh
produce
to
tribal
citizens,
so
that
is
just
a
little
glimpse
at
some
of
the
support
that
the
state
helped
initiate
for
our
tribal
nations.
F
I
know
that
chief
fulgerson
is
also
going
to
address
you
today
when
it
came
to
the
vaccine.
I
would
love
to
share
with
you
that
our
tribal
nations
had
an
option.
F
They
were
able
to
either
work
through
the
state
or
work
with
the
federal
government
with
indian
health
service
to
ensure
that
they
got
the
proper
medications
that
they
needed,
that
they
had
the
proper
training
to
set
up
any
kind
of
you
know
pop-up
or
a
puddis
system
in
place
to
vaccinate
their
citizens
and
the
state.
Our
emergency
management,
our
tribal
liaisons
for
health
and
for
emergency
management
were
amazing
at
coming
up
with
these
very
effective,
very
efficient.
F
My
my
tribal
nation,
the
waka
river
paiute
nation,
I,
as
a
citizen
of
their
child.
I
had
my
second
shot
before
the
end
of
february
a
year
ago,
as
did
my
77
year
old
mother,
so
our
tribal
nations
didn't
mess
around,
they
got
their
vaccinations
rolled
out
and
it
really
was
with
huge
support
from
our
tribal
nations.
I
hope
that
helps
answers.
B
Chair,
thank
you
for
the
presentation
this
morning.
I
just
wanted
to
learn
a
little
bit
more
about.
I
guess
the
the
structure
right
now.
So
my
understanding,
then,
from
your
comments
earlier,
is
that
it
is
under
the
department
of
tourism
and
cultural
affairs.
I'm
just
trying
to
understand
if
there's
any
barriers
that
that
brings
to
the
commission
receiving
funding
or
just
in
daily
operations,
because
it
seems
like
that
could
be
limiting.
F
Yeah,
with
all
due
respect,
it
absolutely
does
our
our
budget
is
is
is
built
around
getting
funding
from
tourism
and
and
that
comes
based
on
the
the
taxes
that
the
state
collects.
F
When
people
stay
in
our
you
know
when
they
come
to
visit
nevada
and
you
know,
enjoy
the
hospitality
industry,
unlike
most
state
budgets,
I
believe
the
nevada,
indian
commission
and
I
believe
this
is
the
case
for
all
of
the
agencies
under
tours
and
groups
per
view:
state,
museums,
the
nevada,
art
council.
F
F
I'm
just
going
to
be
very
blunt,
as
the
executive
director
of
this
agency
that
you
know
the
nevada
indian
commission
was
created
by
statute
in
1965
to
improve
the
quality
of
life
for
our
27
tribal
nations
and
our
urban
indians.
I
mentioned
earlier
based
on
the
2022
census.
We
have
ballpark
25
000
tribal
citizens.
F
Those
are
people
who
are
enrolled,
members
of
one
of
our
27
paiute,
shoshone
or
washoe
nations,
and
there
are
at
least
62
000
people
who
check
the
box
who
say
that
they're
native
american,
however,
their
indigenous
territories
are
outside
of
the
great
basin.
So
these
are
people
who
are
connected
to
another
federally
recognized
tribe.
F
The
shoshone
nation.
Excuse
me
the
the
cherokee
nation,
the
navajo
nation.
You
know
the
sioux
nation,
but
they
now
choose
to
make
their
home
in
the
state
of
nevada
so
again
trying
to
improve
the
quality
of
life
for
nearly
80
000
constituents.
B
F
No,
no
not
at
all,
but
I
want
to
tell
you
that
I
have
a
five-person
staff
when
we
had
to
cut
our
funding
and
again,
all
across
the
board
every
agency
in
the
state.
The
best
way
I
mean
the
only
way
for
the
nevada
indian
commission
to
keep
our
doors
open
at
our
cultural
center
was
to
to
vacate
a
position.
F
With
all
due
respect,
assembly,
woman
taurus,
I
don't
have
any
time
to
write
grants.
I
don't
honestly,
I
don't
have
time
to
fundraise.
This
is
a
sovereignty
issue
and
it
you
know
the
it's
the
responsibility
of
of
the
federal
government,
first
and
foremost,
but
the
nevada
government
to
ensure
that
the
needs
of
the
tribal
citizens,
the
first
caretakers
of
this
land,
are
met.
B
A
I
have
one
quick
one
in
reference
to
the
discussion.
We
just
had
miss
montus.
Where
do
are
you
aware
of
where
other
states
place
this
same
entity?
Is
it
placed
under
tourism
in
other
states
or
is
it?
How
is
it
place?
Do
you
know.
F
Thank
you
for
that
question,
madam
chair,
fantastic
question.
I
am
familiar
and
nevada
is
unique
in
so
many
ways,
but
the
nevada,
indian
commission
is
the
old
only
agency
that
is
under
the
purview
of
of
its
tourism
division.
Excuse
me
department
that
in
all
of
the
country,
please
know
not
every
state.
Unfortunately,
not
every
state
has
a
dedicated
staff
or
division
for
their
indigenous
population,
but
many
are
standalone
agencies.
F
I
can
tell
you
that
at
one
point,
just
a
couple
of
decades
ago,
the
nevada
indian
commission
was
under
the
purview
of
health
and
human
services,
which
makes
a
little
bit
more
sense
to
me,
but
also,
I
think,
it's
important
that
you
know
that
the
home
for
essential
services
for
indigenous
or
native
american
people,
whether
it
be
at
a
city,
a
county,
a
state
or
even
a
federal
level,
has
never
been
completely
settled.
F
I
again,
I
have
the
pleasure
of
speaking
to
a
lot
of
different
organizations
about
the
history
of
indigenous
people,
not
only
in
the
great
basin
but
across
the
nation,
and
you
probably
know
chair
dondero
loop.
The
bureau
of
indian
affairs
actually
was
born
out
of
the
department
of
war,
so
finding
a
home
has
always
had
its
challenges.
A
Thank
you
very
much,
and
that
might
be
a
really
good
question
for
me
to
double
back
with
ncsl
and
ask
them
as
well
how
this
is
done
in
other
states
sure
might
be
some
good
cross-referencing.
A
Madam
chair
who's,
saying
oh
assemblywoman
brown
may
please
go
ahead.
B
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Miss
montooth.
I
just
want
to
follow
up
on
that.
One
statement
that
you
made
being
previously
allocated
to
health
and
human
services
in
nevada.
Are
you
familiar
with?
Was
your
budget
more
stable
at
that
point?
Was
it
was
there
more
cooperation?
Was
that
a
better
location
in
nevada
versus
tourism?
I'm
just
curious
to
know
if
you
can
make
a
comparison.
F
I
really
appreciate
that
question
and
I
I
never
like
to
say
I
don't
know,
but
I
really
don't
I'm
happy
to
do
some
research
and
I'm
very
proud
that
I
continue
to
use
my
predecessor
as
a
resource
and
I'm
sure
that
the
former
executive
director,
sherry
rupert,
would
provide
me
with
some
insight
again.
F
It's
my
understanding
that
health
and
human
services
doesn't
deal
with
transfers.
They
have
hard
money
to
begin
their
year
and
again.
That
would
help
with
a
few
sleepless
sleepless
nights
for
me,
but
I
know
that
I
would
that's
just
a
huge,
huge,
huge
agency
as
well.
You
know
there
is
some
value
to
being
in
tourism.
F
I
have
a
great
relationship
with
director
scalari.
She
completely
understands
that
we're
equals
that
I'm
not
a
subordinate.
I
too,
I'm
a
member
of
the
governor's
cabinet,
but
when
it
comes
down
to
policies
and
procedures
director
s
gallary
still
has
to
be
involved
with
some
of
the
everyday
operations
of
the
nevada,
indian
commission.
A
Thank
you
very
much
additional
questions.
A
All
right-
and
I
do
not
see
any
additional
questions.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
Thank
you
for
the
information
and
we
look
forward
to
at
least
for
myself
speaking
with
you
further
and
I'm
working
with
you
as
we
move
forward.
So
thank
you
very
much
for
your
time
today.
F
A
Thank
you
very
much.
Thank
you
all
right
with
that.
We
will
turn
our
attention
to
emergency
management,
and
today
we
have
dave
fogerson,
chief
of
division
of
emergency
management
and
office
of
homeland
security
in
the
office
of
military
and
in
recent
sessions,
the
legislature
approved
several
bills
seeking
to
improve
emergency
management
and
homeland
security
in
response
to
specific
tragedies
like
the
events
of
october
1st,
numerous
natural
and
man-made
disasters
and
the
covet
pandemic.
G
Awesome,
thank
you
very
much
chair
david
hoverson,
the
administrator
for
emergency
management,
homeland
security
for
the
state
of
nevada.
In
the
room
with
me,
I
have
our
j-3.
We
call
him
for
the
national
guard,
he's
in
charge
of
domestic
operations,
kind
of
the
guard
version
of
emergency
management,
lieutenant
colonel
brett
thompson.
G
He
was
very
instrumental
through
our
pandemic
response
and
I'm
proud
to
introduce
the
newest
general
in
the
in
the
nevada
national
guard
general
pearl.
He
was
just
promoted
on
friday.
He
is
in
charge
of
domestic
operations.
I
have
our
administrative
service
officer.
Jared
franco
came
to
us
from
eats
about
four
weeks
ago,
and
then
I
have
mark
from
fema
he's
embedded
here
in
our
organization
with
us
and
we'll
talk
about
what
his
role
is
as
we
get
through
the
powerpoint.
G
A
G
G
G
We
talk
a
lot
about
partnerships
and
you
see
a
lot
of
pictures
like
this
one
here
at
elko
convention
center,
where
we're
helping
them
with
a
cove
and
pandemic
vaccine
distribution
site.
We
don't
do
much
work
ourselves.
Our
job
is
to
enable
our
local
partners
and
our
nonprofits
and
our
tribal
nations
to
be
able
to
do
their
work
and
to
help
with
the
federal
government
partnership
that
we
have
some
values
that
we
have
within
the
organization.
Our
number
one
value
is
stewardship.
G
A
lot
of
places
want
to
have
customer
service
as
their
value,
but
emergency
management.
We
don't
want
your
house
to
get
damaged
by
the
same
flood
twice,
so
we
would
prefer
to
be
stewards
of
our
communities
rather
than
customer
service,
where
we
encourage
you
to
come
back
to
us
and
see
us
again
at
a
future
disaster.
G
G
The
pandemic
has
really
shown
us
a
lot
of
lessons
for
how
employees
want
to
work,
and
so
we're
trying
to
find
ways
that
we
can
recruit
the
best
talent
possible,
making
us
the
next
century
employer
on
how
do
we
make
it
more
possible
for
people
to
work
more
efficiently
effectively
for
our
state
service
in
ways
that
also
meet
their
requirements,
and
we
really
want
to
try
to
strengthen
what
we
built
prior
to
tobin.
Not
a
lot
of
people
knew
what
emergency
management,
homeland
security
really
was.
G
I
think
we
made
a
pretty
decent
name
for
ourselves
through
the
pandemic,
and
so
we
don't
want
to
lose
that
leverage
that
we've
gotten
and
we
want
to
continue
to
move
forward.
So
that
way,
everybody
can
see
what
we
can
do
and
how
we
can
help,
because
that
is
our
job
not
to
do
the
work,
but
to
be
the
partners
and
help
coordinate
that.
G
Our
organizational
chart
we're
very
small
with
mighty
division,
not
quite
as
small
as
director
montus,
but
we
only
have
40
state
ftes.
We
do
have
eight
contract
staff
and
then,
in
partnership,
the
with
the
health
and
human
services,
we
have
three
cdc
foundation.
Employees
are
embedded
within
the
emergency
operations
center.
Then
we
have
two
from
fema
that
are
invented
with
this
as
well.
G
So
it
gives
us
a
larger
staff
than
what
we
currently
have
in
our
ftes,
but
it
also
shows
the
partnerships
that
we
have
between
health
and
between
fema
and
we
have
we're
very
well
blessed
to
have
a
fema
fit
and
they
call
that
position
the
fit,
and
it's
a
female
integrated
technician
really
he's
my
right
hand,
man
on.
How
do
we
get
stuff
from
fema?
Can
you
translate
maybe
some
of
the
language,
some
of
the
abbreviations
that
are
used
at
the
federal
government
level?
G
So
that
way
we
can
learn
how
to
to
work
more
collaboratively
together
and
our
second
full-time
embedded.
Female
employee
is
actually
a
tribal
liaison
officer
who
used
to
be
an
employee
of
ours,
and
then
she
took
employment
with
fema
and
was
able
to
retain
and
were
able
to
retain
her
and
I'll
talk
about
her
role
here
towards
the
end
of
the
presentation.
G
So
our
organization,
general
barry,
is
our
as
our
director
I'm
the
chief.
Then
we
have
two
sides.
We
have
a
operation
side,
that's
led
by
deputy
chief
john
bakadow
who's
on
vacation,
a
very
well
earned
vacation
this
week
from
the
last
couple
years
for
the
efforts
he's
taken
through
the
pandemic
and
there
we
we
subdivide
into
three
sections:
we
have
preparedness.
G
The
other
part
we
have
is
mission
support
and
we
re-title
that
mission
support
to
make
it
the
same
as
what
fema
calls
it.
This
is
radios
technology,
computers,
facilities,
all
the
stuff
that
makes
our
ability
to
do
stuff
that
interruptable
communication
piece
that
we
hear
so
often
from
still
from
the
september
11
days,
and
then
we
have
mitigation
and
mitigation
used
to
be
kind
of
much
lower
in
our
organization
and
we've
elevated
up,
because
mitigation
is
where
we
buy
down
our
risk
for
the
future.
It's
how
we
better
prepare
nevada
become
resilient.
G
G
Our
other
side
of
the
organization
jared
franco,
as
I
said
he
just
came
to
us
about
three
weeks
ago
from
eats
he's
our
brand
new
aso3
we've
done
a
reorganization
on
the
that
side.
Where
he's
now
responsible
grants
in
the
physical
shop,
we
have
two
different
types
of
grants.
We
have
the
recurring
grants
because
we
have
homeland
security
grants.
Emergency
management
performance
grants,
department,
energy
grants
that
every
year,
all
of
our
partners
put
in
for
those
grants
and
we
manage
those
grant
processes.
G
We
also
have
the
recovery
grant
program
and
right
now,
there's
about
200
million
dollars
for
local,
tribal
and
non-profits
that
we're
working
through
and
that's
to
reimburse
the
money
that
they've
spent
through
the
pandemic
and
help
them
get
back
75
to
100
percent
of
their
costs.
Of
what
they've
done.
A
good
example
of
that
is
a
renowned
parking
garage.
G
For
us
with
that
40
ftes
and
our
eight
contractors
and
three
foundation-
employees
we're
about
44th
in
the
nation
for
size
of
a
division,
emergency
management,
most
state
emergency
management
organizations-
are
much
larger
than
what
ours
is
process
we
use
to
do
emergency
management,
we
always
prevent
we
protect,
we
mitigate,
we
respond,
we
recover,
and
this
slide
here
shows
the
the
wells
earthquake.
G
It
shows
flooding
in
downtown
reno
and
it
makes
it
look
like
it
is
this
nice
cyclic
process
that
continues
to
go,
but
when
we
look
at
the
different
disasters
in
nevada
faces
some
of
these
work.
Some
of
these
don't
work.
Obviously
we
can't
prevent
that
earthquake,
but
we
can
work
to
protect,
mitigate
respond
and
recover.
For
that
earthquake.
G
We
can
look
at
preventing
some
disasters
or
pruning
the
impact
of
those
disasters,
such
as
the
recent
hostage
situation
we
had
in
texas,
with
the
synagogue
we've
now
looked
into.
Could
we
have
the
similar
issues
here
and
how
do
we
prevent
that
from
happening?
And
we
can
prevent
that
from
happening,
using
some
federal
grant
monies
for
non-profits
and
for
our
faith
based
communities
to
improve
those
facilities
through
training
or
building
equipment.
That
would
make
it
safer
for
them
to
be
there.
So.
G
Process
we
use
as
best
we
can
and
it
changes
every
few
years,
because
this
is
a
federal
process
that
they
come
up
with
and
when
I
first
started
emergency
management
15
years
ago.
It
was
four
plan
prevent
respond,
recover
and
then
every
couple
years
we'll
add
some
we'll
take
some
away.
So
it
does
ebb
and
flow
as
we
advance
this
profession
that
we
know
as
the
emergency
management,
homeland
security
enterprise.
G
This
picture
here
is
our
as
actual
trained
exercise.
Staff
rodney
wright
is
our
state
exercise
officer
lori
on
the
right
is
our
d:
christina
is
our
state
train
officer
and
then
darlene
loft
is
our
admin
assistant
for
the
two
of
them.
These
three
people
are
responsible
to
figure
out.
How
do
we
train
and
how
do
we
then
exercise
for
that
next
disaster
that
nevada
might
face,
and
we
look
at
larger
scale
disasters
and
we
try
to
model
and
exercise
based
on
those
things
to
see
what
do
we
need
to
do
better?
G
How
can
we
get
better?
We
are
one
of
the
few
agencies
that
probably
want
to
tell
people
or
we
failed,
because
when
we
find
failure,
that
means
that
we
can
use
this
model
called
poeti.
Where
we
can
plan,
we
organize,
we
equip
we
train.
We
exercise
to
fix
that
problem,
because
if
we
can
fix
that
problem,
we
buy
down
our
risk
and
we
make
nevada
more
resilient
community
as
we
move
forward.
G
Our
mantra
that
we
always
try
to
work
for
is
that
emergencies
are
locally
executed,
state
direct
and
effectively
supported
so
take
the
wildland
fire.
For
example,
at
the
top,
the
local
government
is
responsible,
go
fight,
the
fire,
but
the
state
level.
We
have
some
responsibilities
to
assist
our
local
partners,
but
we're
probably
not
going
to
get
out
there
and
do
those
efforts
to
extinguish
the
fire,
but
we're
going
to
help
support
on
the
consequence
management
pieces.
G
If
you
look
at
the
caliber
fire
that
we
have
this
summer,
where
we
had
to
worry
about
evacuation
sheltering
traffic
control
and
all
those
other
components
that
went
into
that,
that's
now
how
we
get
into
the
mix
to
help
that
and
then
we
look
to
our
federal
partners
for
staffing,
financial
and
technical
advice
through
our
partnerships
and
the
picture
here.
G
This
is
two
of
our
nevada
national
guard
members
that
are
embedded
in
our
emergency
operations
center
right
now
through
the
pandemic,
our
cdc
foundation,
employee
and
two
fema
staff
members
they're
working
through
some
logistics
needs
that
someone
has
ordered
some
equipment
and
we're
taken
out
from
one
of
the
two
warehouses
that
we
have
in
the
state
right
now.
G
2017
was
a
big
year
when
we
had
two
floods
in
the
same
year
and
oh,
my
gosh
is
a
big
year
and
then
2020
came
and
then
2021
came,
I'm
hoping
that
2022
does
not
try
to
make
2021
look
irrelevant,
because
if
you
think
of
what
we've
done
through
the
state
that
the
copen
pandemic,
the
division
of
emergency
management,
along
with
our
national
guard
partners,
we're
running
two
warehouses:
we're
trying
to
get
that
down
to
a
single
warehouse
when
cobit
started
health
and
human
services.
G
The
gopax
mission.
This
was
a
huge
outreach
effort
that
was
a
non-profit
local
state
and
federal
mission
in
southern
nevada,
where
we
worked
with
southern
nevada,
health,
district
clark,
county
emergency
management,
fema
and
then
fema
was
able
to
bring
in
some
non-profit
partners.
We
use
dieter
and
we
went
to
our
social
vulnerability,
indexed
communities
and
helped
encourage
them
to
get
vaccinated
and
then
open
up
pop-up
vaccine
sites.
For
these
folks
to
go
out
and
get
vaccinated
with.
G
It
was
probably
our
largest
effort
that
the
division's
ever
taken
and
kind
of
made
us
cross
that
line
between
locally
executed
or
state
guided
because
our
local
government
partners
didn't
have
the
resources
to
take
down
on
assets
to
do
that.
For
them.
Global
vaccine
unit
says
director
montooth
talked
about.
We
ran
two
mobile
vaccine
units
through
rural
nevada
and
tribal
nevada.
We
made
sure
that
anybody
that
needed
to
get
a
vaccine
could
get
a
vaccine,
regardless
of
their
social
economic
status,
diversity,
equity,
inclusion.
G
We
went
to
go
meet
them
where
they
were
with
these
small
vaccine
units
that
partnership
testing
sites
vaccinators.
You
know
we
went
as
far
as
getting
usda
veterinarians
to
come
in
and
help
us
with
vaccinations.
It
gave
a
whole
new
definition
for
us
for
herd
immunity
within
the
state
when
you
start
talking
about
a
veterinarian,
giving
those
vaccines,
and
then
we
worked
with
the
federal
coordination
to
make
sure
that
everybody
had
what
they
needed
and
a
big
part
of
that
is
that
grant
support
our
local
government,
tribal
nations
and
non-profit
groups
incidents.
G
Last
year
we
had
the
highway
50
snow
closure,
where
no
one
could
leave
northern
nevada
because
of
the
snow
right
after
christmas
and
then
about
eight
o'clock
at
night.
We
realized
we're
supposed
to
get
another
foot
of
snow
up
at
a
lake,
and
the
temperatures
were
freezing
and
traffic
wasn't
moving.
So
we
had
to
declare
disaster
evacuate
those
folks,
open
warming,
shelters
and
help
them
find
another
way
out.
G
Instead,
the
county
is
asking
us
and
how
to
work
cooperatively
with
not
only
state
of
california,
where
they
have
representatives
in
our
eoc,
and
we
have
representatives
in
their
stadio
seat,
but
also
with
carson
line
and
douglas
and
washoe
on,
where
we're
going
to
put
these
people
when
that
incident
happened,
the
tamarack
fire
nye
county,
flash
flooding,
all
those
earthquakes,
we
have
northern
nevada,
the
earthquake
and
elko,
and
then
so.
Many
search
and
rescue
incidences
that
we
supported
our
local
sheriff's
departments
with
on
getting
them
aviation
assets
paying
for
resources,
finding
them
the
help.
G
They
need
to
go,
find
those
people
that
are
lost
in
nevada
and
then
the
two
special
events.
We
run
nevada,
new
year's
eve
and
inauguration
day,
where
we
partner
with
the
national
guard
to
make
sure
that
we
are
ready
should
anything
happen
within
our
state
and
keep
everyone
safe.
G
Three
bill
or
two
bills
that
were
passed
in
last
session
that
I
want
to
talk
about.
One
was
ab14
and
this
is
our
planning
staff
bill,
elliott,
corinne
roth
who's,
one
of
our
cdc
foundation,
employees
and
megan
hall.
This
is
our
northern
nevada
planning
staff
and
they're
going
through
the
plan
there
in
our
state
emergency
operations
center.
So
ab14
was
a
division,
sponsored
bill
last
session
and
we
wanted
to
align
the
meeting
frequencies
for
three
republic
bodies.
G
So
we've
made
the
intec
and
interact
both
meet
quarterly,
and
now
we
can
have
time
to
actually
have
really
good
discussions
and
not
just
meeting
to
meet
the
state
disaster
identification
committee
had
some
changes
made
to
it
under
8014
and
that
was
to
allow
the
state
to
be
the
state
local
to
be
local.
The
state
disaster
identification
coordinating
committee
was
first
used
during
the
covet
pandemic
and
I
was
really
looking
at
mass
fatalities
and
we
found
that
it
put
the
state
into
the
business
of
our
county,
coroners
and
medical
examiners.
G
She
led
the
got
backs
effort
as
a
three-month
state
employee.
She
led
the
got
back's
efforts
and
knocked
it
out
of
the
park
for
us,
and
so
general
barry
at
one
of
the
award
presentations
about
southern
about.
I
presented
her
with
the
general's
coin
is
thanks
for
her
outstanding
effort
to
that
ab45
allowed
us
to
align
the
mission
for
both
the
guard
and
for
division
emergency
management.
G
We
really
do
work
very
collectively:
brett
comston,
the
the
domestic
operations,
colonel
and
myself
kind
of
have
the
same
role,
just
whether
it's
with
the
national
guard
or
civilian
authorities,
and
so
aligning
those
missions
have
made
this
a
lot
better
for
us
has
allowed
us
to
grow
as
well
as
we
try
to
meet
the
challenges
of
the
state,
also
provided
an
unintended
consequence
for
the
division.
G
I
was
able
to
walk
down
the
hallway
and
talk
to
my
partners,
and
some
of
those
things
were
very
obviously
that
we
needed
to
do
testing
sites
vaccination
sites.
Another
ones
might
not
have
fit
so
well
in
the
cobit
pandemic,
such
as
school
bus
drivers
or
manage
a
homeless,
shelter
or
being
substitute
teachers,
and
so
this
enabled
us
to
be
a
little
more
embedded.
So
that
way
we
could
speak
the
same
language
and
it
allowed
our
local
government
partners
to
become
more
embedded
and
understand
what
the
guard
can
actually
do
to
help
them.
G
The
other
piece
I
want
to
talk
about,
and
this
ties
directly
into
what
director
montu's
conversation
was.
We
also
have
the
nevada
tribal
emergency
coordinating
council.
This
council
has
representatives
from
tribal
nations
and
from
emergency
management
at
the
state,
along
with
public
health
preparedness.
It's
been
a
great
partnership
that
was
done
two
sessions
ago.
I
believe,
and
state
health
pays
for
one
employee
to
do
public
health
preparedness
and
the
division
pays
for
the
second
employee
to
do
emergency
management
strictly
with
their
tribal
nations.
G
G
Our
current
two
that
we
have
here,
jay
and
josie
they're,
both
tribal
members
and
they
both
are
very
well
dedicated
to
figuring
out
how
to
make
nevada
more
resilient,
regardless
of
whether
that
tribal
nation
is
on
a
border
fully
within
the
state
has
gone
to
fema
for
help
or
is
asking
the
state
of
nevada
for
help.
The
third
part
of
that
wheel
we
have.
G
Those
quarterly
discussions
in
tech
really
does
the
same
thing
as
in
rack
does,
but
with
a
little
more
focus
upon
the.
How
does
this
procedure?
How
does
this
process?
How
does
this
help
our
tribal
nations?
How
do
we
make
that
better
there
and
then
our
two
josie
and
jay
are
both
our
nevada,
indian,
commission
participants
and
chris
told
you
those
means
as
well.
So
we
were
playing
working
building
that
facilitating
that
partnership
to
make
us
better
as
a
state.
G
A
Thank
you
so
much
that
was
really
great
information,
although
some
of
it
is
sad
that
we
have
to
prepare
life
of
this
for
all
these
emergencies,
I
see
senator
gokuchi's
hand
up.
Please
go
ahead.
D
Thank
you,
madam
chair
and
mr
fulgerson.
I
really
appreciate
all
the
work
you
did
over
the
last
couple
years,
especially
I've
reached
out
to
you
a
lot
with
some
of
the
rural
issues
and
as
we
deal
with
that,
I
guess
my
concern
is,
I
know
as
we're
starting
to
we're
seeing
this
pandemic
eventually
kind
of
I
know,
you've
got
a
lot
of
supplies
laid
in.
You
guys
have
done
a
great
job.
D
My
concern
is:
are
we
going
to
end
up
with
a
with
a
lot
of
stuff
in
a
warehouse?
Some
of
it's
clearly
clearly
dated
products.
You
know
the
vaccines
that
we
can't
store,
but
I'm
just
curious
about
the
plans
going
forward.
Clearly,
whether
it
be
the
tribal
nations,
local
government,
local
government,
health
districts,
are
we
going
to
be
able
to
shift
some
of
that
stuff
and
allow
them
to
have
that
on
hand
going
forward.
G
Through
the
chair
to
the
senator,
thank
you
very
much
for
the
question
and
very
much
front
of
mind.
Conversation
we've
been
having
for
last
18
months.
We
do
have
a
warehousing
plan
right
now,
the
state
we
do
have
two
warehouses,
one
in
north
point,
the
south
by
july.
First,
we'll
have
everything
in
the
southern
nevada
warehouse.
G
Our
goal
is
to
maintain
60
days
worth
of
personal,
protecting
equipment
in
that
warehouse
for
the
future
and
to
try
to
push
everything
else
out.
We'll
have
some
things
that
don't
need
that,
like
gowns
early
in
the
pandemic
gallons
were
really
really
asked
for
lots.
The
federal
government
shipped
out
tons
of
gallons
to
everybody.
Now
everyone
has
a
surplus
of
gallons,
because
no
one
uses
them
anymore,
so
the
majority
of
the
product
will
be
stayed.
G
One
of
the
nice
things
we
found
is
the
department
of
purchasing
is
looking
for
a
new
warehouse,
their
warehouse
in
southern
nevada.
There
are
selling
because
it
was
broken
into
and
they
have
the
ability
to
maintain
a
stock
and
sell
equipment
to
other
state
agencies.
We
also
found
department
of
corrections,
use
a
lot
of
that
ppe,
and
so
the
plan
is
that
we
have
that
warehouse
in
southern
nevada
run
by
purchasing
and
then
department
corrections
buys
your
ppe
from
purchasing.
G
D
Thank
you,
so
it
sounds
like
you're
going
to
rotate
the
stock
through
state
agencies.
Okay,
I
was
just
wondering
your
at
least.
Maybe
we
could
pick
up
a
little
more
for
the
some
of
these
rural
health
districts
and
and
the
tribal
nations.
Thank
you.
A
Very
much
I
see
assemblywoman
brown
may
in
the
queue
and
then
vice
chair,
flores
and
then
we'll
go
to
senator
neil.
B
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
My
question
is
relative
to
emergency
evacuation
sites
in
communities.
Do
we
have
a
list
currently
of
evacuation
sites
that
are
available
for
our
neighbors
in
our
communities?
Are
there
school
sites
that
are
used
or
other
community
organizations?
Where
can
I
find
a
list
of
that.
G
G
Some
local
governments
are
very
good
about
sharing
those
and
some
local
governments
actually
want
to
keep
those
close
to
your
chest,
because
then
we're
worried
about
secondary
incidents
stuff
like
that.
But
then
also
we
don't
want
to
tell
everyone
that
hey
go
to
the
community
center
if
you
need
to
be
evacuated,
but
because
of
the
route
to
get
there,
it's
blocked
by
the
hazardous
materials
bill
and
they're
going
to
open
up
the
school
instead
and
so
a
lot
of
times.
Those
are
are
just
in
time
announcements
rather
than
pre-pla
pre-placed
announcements.
G
Our
other
issue
is
with
schools.
You
know
schools
used
to
always
be
a
big
part
that
we
could
use,
especially
in
the
summertime
for
wildland
fires.
Now,
as
we
see
year-round
schools,
schools
are
kind
of
less
apt
to
be
used
as
evacuation
sites.
Now
we're
looking
at
community
centers
churches
and
other
government
buildings
stuff
like
that.
B
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
and
if
I
may,
I
have
two
questions
that
kind
of
go
in
two
different
directions,
and-
and
thank
you
for
the
presentation
I
was
just
curious.
I
think
often
folk
in
our
side
of
the
conversation,
electeds
and
other
folk
who
have
an
opportunity
to
serve.
B
One
of
the
things
that
we
often
talk
about
is
how
pre-pandemic,
having
and
engaging
in
conversations
of
preparing
possible
emergencies.
Often
there's
a
lot
of
pushback
or
folks
who
said
that's
unnecessary
or
or
those
expenditures
were
often
seen
as
something
that
was
not
immediately
the
correct
path
for
us
to
pursue.
I
don't
know
what
other
way
to
frame
it.
I'm
just
curious
after
the
pandemic,
what's
been
your
relationship
with
with
other
agencies
and
just
the
overall
consensus
in
the
community?
Do
you
have
a
better
read?
B
Are
folk
now
a
lot
more
receptive
to
messaging
about
being
better
prepared
and
just
overall,
I'm
just
curious
to
see
how
the
shift
has
been
pretty
pandemic
post
pandemic
in
you
being
able
to
do
your
job
effectively
and
folk
on
our
side
being
more
willing
to
cooperate
and
work
with
you.
G
The
vice
chair
through
the
chair,
thank
you
for
the
question.
I
think
it's
evident
flow
through
the
pandemic,
as
we've
seen
in
the
media.
You
know,
as
people
have
gone
through
the
pandemic
at
certain
times.
Maybe
we
were
more
engaged
with
people
wanting
to
do
some
of
those
things
and
I
think
we're
going
to
see
that
come
back
to
tuition
here
as
we
we
start
to
lean
ourselves
from
the
emergency
response
phase.
G
My
biggest
takeaway
from
it
all
is
that
emergency
management
earned
their
street
cred
before
we're
the
chicken
littles
there's
been
an
earthquake
someday,
there's
gonna
be
a
flood
someday.
Now
people
saw
that
it's
not
just
some
people
in
a
room
with
some
grant
money,
but
there's
some
operators
and
there's
some
grant
money
and
building
relationships.
G
General
purlin
and
myself
jared
and
colonel
compton
already
have
road
trips
planned
to
introduce
the
general
and
jared
to
all
of
our
rural
partners
and
then
also
meet
with
clark,
county
and
washer
county,
because
that's
where
the
relationship
matters
and
meeting
out
to
get
people
to
understand
what
is
the
need,
and
it
is
that
fine
line
between
having
enough
speak
to
be
prepared
but
not
overkilling,
to
have
wasteful
spending
and
then
have
a
warehouse
full
of
stuff
you're
not
going
to
use
and
that's
a
dicey
line
because
you're
either
going
to
be
right
or
wrong
when
that
disaster
strikes
and
then
you're
going
to
be
judged
for
it.
G
B
And
thank
you
for
that,
and
and
that's
kind
of
what
I
was
hoping
to
get
to
I'm
hoping
that
this
committee
can
continue
to
help
kind
of
keep
that
relationship
strong
and
that
we
kind
of
help
be
a
a
a
mouthpiece
for
for
some
of
those
concerns,
because
I
think
folks
do
forget
quickly
and,
like
I
said
two
years
ago,
having
some
of
these
conversations
spoke,
would
you
say:
oh
you're,
just
over
exaggerating
you're,
always
scared
or
xyz,
but
this
gives
an
opportunity
to
continue
to
kind
of
build
on
that
momentum.
B
The
only
other
question
I
wanted
to
touch
upon
was
you
mentioned
that
there
was
a
need
for
hopefully
coming
back
next
session
and
proposing
new
legislation,
and
I
think
the
issue
that
we
were
trying
to
address
was
how
to
receive
information
easier
and
how
to
move
information.
If
you
could
just
elaborate
a
little
bit
on
that.
B
The
only
reason
I'm
asking
this
question
is
my
memory
may
be
foggy,
but
I
thought
that
that
was
some
of
the
work
we've
done
in
the
past
was
specifically
geared
as
allowing
for
information
to
flow
and
communication
flow.
But
if
you
could
shed
some
light
on
that.
A
G
Dang
it
sorry
I
had
half
of
it
right.
Thank
you,
ma'am
david
fellers
in
for
the
record,
absolutely
vice
chair.
The
issue
that
we
have
is
having
to
get
all
the
lawyers
together
to
figure
out
what
they
like
best
as
that
language,
to
share
that
information
and
what
we're
looking
at
is
say
another
one
october
event
happens.
How
do
we
get
that
information
from
each
of
those
hospitals
back
to
the
local
emergency
operations
center?
G
We
have
the
route
that,
if
it's
a
nexus,
that
if
it's
a
gun
shop
when
they
have
to
report
there
is
an
nrs
also
that
says
that
they
have
to
report
to
the
state
certain
disaster.
If
the
person
injured
a
disaster,
what
we're
going
to
try
to
do
is
move
that
and
work
with
the
hospital
association,
our
hospital
partners.
How
do
we
make
this
better?
So
that
way
it
doesn't
come
to
the
state,
but
it
goes
to
clark,
county
emergency
management,
southern
nevada,
health,
district,
washington,
county
coroner's
office
or
medical
examiner's
office.
G
How
do
we
make
that
tie
better
rather
than
having
to
loop
it
to
us,
and
then
we
have
to
loop
it
back
down.
We
just
want
to
try
to
clean
that
process
up
to
streamline
that,
make
it
easier
for
folks
and
have
language
that
everyone
feels
comfortable
with
that
meets
the
federal
intent.
So
we're
not
sharing
information
we
shouldn't
share,
but
we're
sharing
information.
We
need
to
share.
A
Thank
you
and
I
think,
senator
neil
you're
next.
Thank
you,
madam.
C
Chair,
I
have
I'm
going
to
say
two
and
a
half
because
it
kind
of
builds
on
what
senator
kokochi
was
saying
number
one.
I
was
wondering
what
you
mentioned
in
your
presentation
about
the
kids,
and
I
was
wondering
if
you
guys
have
the
inventory
you
know,
is
it
possible
to
try
to
you
know,
help
build
kits
or
individuals
using
some
of
those
resources
to
try
to
at
least
do
jump
starts
on
kids.
C
I
I
really
don't
get.
My
daughter
has
a
first
aid
kit
because
she
thinks
she's
gonna,
you
know
lead
to
death
one
day,
but
that's
it
and
I
think
the
rest
of
us
are
kind
of
in
that
same
situation.
C
But
I
was
just
wondering
about
that
around
the
inventory
and
then
I'm
gonna
ask
the
legitimate
question
and
quit
joking
around
the
corner.
C
You
also
mentioned
the
coroner
corner
and
I
was
wondering
what
was
the
coordination
between
the
coroner
with
the
pandemic
and
the
deaths,
because
I
remember
hospitals
being
overrun,
probably
not
as
bad
as
I
think
of
california
or
l.a
county,
where
you
know
the
bodies
were
hanging
outside
of
the
hospital
which
was
approaches,
but
I
remember
even
funeral
homes
being
overloaded
and
my
biggest
fear
was
there
weren't
enough
places
for
bodies
to
go,
and
I
was
wondering
if
that
happened
in
nevada
and
what
was
the
coordination
around?
That
issue.
G
Great
question:
senator
david
fogerson
for
the
record
on
your
first
one,
the
family
and
the
emergency
supply.
Kits,
that's
something
you
look
at
to
see
with
some
of
the
mitigation
funds.
If
we
can
work
on
a
project
like
that,
we
obviously
want
to
encourage
our
local
government
partners
to
take
on
first,
and
we
do
that.
A
lot
through
the
assistant
corps
program,
the
cert
teams,
the
community
emergency
response
teams,
we
have
one
in
southern
nevada.
We
have
one
in
eastern
nevada.
G
We
have
one
in
douglas
county,
one
in
carson
city,
one
in
washoe
and
in
story
and
those
places.
Not
only
do
you
go
for
a
two-day
class
to
learn
about
disasters
and
how
you
can
survive
it,
but
then
they
normally
will
send
you
home
with
a
kit
that
we
purchase
through
federal
grant
funds.
So
that
way
you
can
be
ready
for
that
next
disaster
and
we're
going
to
have
a
conversation.
We
have
a
conference
next
week
summit
with
all
of
our
partners
in
clark
county
that
we're
going
to
have
a
little
sidebar
conversation
about.
G
How
do
we
improve
that
program
because
one
of
the
drawbacks
that
program
is
we
nevada?
We
found
it
attracts
the
elderly
to
that
program
and
then,
when
the
pandemic
came,
we
needed
to
use
volunteers
to
help
us,
and
so
we
turned
our
shirt
teams
and
all
of
them
were
the
ass
bat
risk
population.
So
we
want
to
see
how
we
expand
that
cert
team
to
using
more
teen
certs
for
high
school
cert,
more
college
cert
and
get
a
well-rounded
mix
of
people
that
we
could
use
in
them.
G
In
that
scenario,
on
your
second
question,
the
mass
fatality
question
I've
been
privy
to
some
discussions
that
I
never
thought
I'd
have
to
be
privy
to
before
in
my
life
and
one
of
the
blessings
that
we
have
the
state
disaster
and
education
coordinating
committee
is
not
subject
to
open.
Meanwhile-
and
I
always
wondered
why
and
when
we
were
talking
about
the
extremes
that
we
were
ready
to
go,
should
we
need
to
be
there?
G
I
realized
why
we
probably
don't
want
to
have
those
discussions
with
mortuaries
and
medical
examiners
in
a
public
setting
when
we're
talking
about
how
to
in
tune
bodies
and
take
care
of
them
post-disaster,
but
we
were
meeting
on
a
monthly
to
quarterly
basis
and
keeping
track
of
fatality
counts
in
each
community.
The
we
were
at
one
point
meeting
every
day
with
every
emergency
manager
through
a
coordination.
Call
that
then
went
to
a
weekly
coordination
call
that
has
now
gone
to
a
monthly
coordination
call
where
we
kept
track
of
that
to
see
what
they
needed.
G
We
helped
eastern
nevada,
get
some
special
storage
units
to
store
bodies
in
the
event
that
their
system
was
overrun.
Clark,
county
office
of
the
medical
examiner
got
some
as
well
and
having
those
conversations
and
that
that
group
is
led
by
the
clark
county
coroner
and
the
washington
medical
examiner.
How
do
we
dispose
of
the
bodies?
How
do
we
store
them?
We
were
all
up
to
date
on
that
process
and
it
was
a
very
morbid
conversation
every
time
we
had
to
have
those
meetings.
C
So
it
kind
of
answers
the
question
because
I
was
wondering
you've
been
around
for
a
while
the
remember
the
2015
bill
on
mutual
aid,
mutual
aid
coordination
between
and
it's
around
emergency
disaster,
but
one
of
the
provisions
in
the
bill
in
2015
and
it
passed.
It
said
that
when
there's
mutual
aid,
I
guess
between
agencies,
it
could
be,
it
could
be
inter-agency.
Intra-Agencies
they're
supposed
to
be
a
record
of
the
kind
of
aid
that
is
requested
and
that
occurred.
C
C
The
costs
that
were
incurred
around
that
activity,
any
reimbursements
that
may
have
been
requested
around
that
activity,
because
I'm
that
bill
kind
of
spelled
out
what
some
caveats
around?
What
mutual
aid
should,
I
guess
record
within
the
state
of
nevada
and
it
seems
like
we
were
doing
a
lot
of
that
during
the
pandemic
and
that
hill,
although
pre-pandemic
really
set
the
stage
for
I
guess
the
behavior
and
the
monitoring
that
should
occur.
G
Senator
david
folkerson,
absolutely
that's
nrs414a
and
it's
the
nevada
interstate
mutual
aid
compact.
It
mirrors
what
we
do
on
a
national
level
for
the
being
able
to
do
interstate
like
we're
gonna
go
to
california,
assist
them
and
what
it
made
was.
Every
local
government
is
an
automatic
partner
in
that
mutual
age
plan,
regardless
of
whether
they're
a
fire
protection
district,
a
school
board
or
a
county.
G
Prior
legislation
only
had
counties
involved,
and
so
you
couldn't
go
to
a
general
improvement
district
and
borrow
something
from
them
and
have
them
with
the
same
liability,
protection
and
reimbursement
schedule,
because
it
wasn't
that
right
component
unit
of
government
so
that
bill
really
led
the
stages.
I
think,
if
you
look
back
at
some
things
that
especially
caleb
cage
led
the
division
through
and
moved
us
to.
G
I
think
we
set
the
stage
for
the
pandemic
response
in
those
efforts
through
the
nevada
resilience
advisory
committee,
doing
nrs,
414
a
and
then
using
them
a
few
times
through
wildland
fire
and
that
kind
of
stuff.
Our
problem
with
the
pandemic
is,
there
was
not
mutually
to
be
had
because
everyone
was
in
the
same
boat,
and
so
we
weren't
doing
mutual
aid,
we're
doing
more
assistance
by
hire
where
the
local
government
would
ask
the
state.
G
We
need
to
find
three
containment
units
for
bodies,
and
then
we
would
source
that
with
our
federal
partners
or
our
local
government
said
we
need
more
body
bags
and
then
we'd
source,
that
with
the
federal
government,
and
we
do
track
all
that
not
to
the
mutual
aid
process.
But
through
a
computer
program.
We
call
web
eoc
where
every
request
has
to
be
approved
by
the
county
emergency
manager.
G
C
And
medicare
can
ask
one
last
question:
please
go
ahead
so
so
this
kind
of
ties
into
a
statement
that
you
just
made,
because
I
was
wondering
for
the
c
cdc
foundation
staff
that
is
there.
C
What's
the
grant
length
of
time
that
they're
there,
because
I
know
that
the
cdc
foundation
staff
there's
a
renewal
and
it's
like
their
contracts
get
renewed.
So
how
long
are
they
going
to
be
assisting
and
what
areas
are
they
assisting
in
and
will
you
be
able
to
compensate
if
their
grant
is
not
continued
after
2022.
G
I
was
asking
the
room
here
at
the
same
time
as
you're
asking
a
question,
because
my
recollection
goes
it's
between
18
months
and
three
years,
but
I'm
not
positive
on
that
time
frame
of
what
we've
got
with
the
cdc
foundation.
Folks,
I
know
that
health
human
services
were
also
able
to
get
take
advantage
of
that
and
it
wasn't.
They
upped
the
ante
because
of
the
pandemic,
but
the
cdc
foundation
always
has
disability
through
these
positions.
G
The
three
positions
that
we're
using
we're,
using
specifically
with
cobit
one,
is
to
run
covet
operations
for
us
and
so
they're
actually
housed
in
southern
nevada
in
clark,
county
and
they're
meeting
with
their
partners
to
make
sure
that
they've
got
all
the
resources
they
need.
On
that
healthcare
side.
G
We
have
a
logistics
person
here
in
the
stadio
c,
who
is
working
on
warehousing
to
when
someone
requests,
ppe
he's
the
person
responsible
for
filling
that
order,
and
then
our
contract
staff
in
the
in
warehouses
are
filling
those
orders
form
and
our
third
one
we
use
is
a
data
analyst
person
and
we've
assigned
her
the
plans,
division
and
really
was
looking
at.
G
She
was
actually
a
contractor
for
the
division
in
our
grant
division
and
we
moved
her
over
to
the
cdc
foundation,
because
she's
got
a
wealth
of
knowledge
and
has
masters
in
gis,
and
so
she
was
able
to
start
helping
us
with
some
of
the.
Where
is
the
problem
at
what
time?
Because
we're
trying
to
get-
and
it's
never
going
to
be
scientific
about
it,
we're
trying
to
predict?
Where
is
the
next
wave
going
to
be?
What
is
the
time
frame
between
when
it
hits
southern
nevada
versus
northern
nevada
versus
rural
nevada?
D
Just
one
quick
one
dave,
I
hope
you
can
order
up
a
flood
for
central
nevada.
Thank
you.
A
A
Okay,
seeing
none
mr
fokkerson,
thank
you
for
that
information.
Thank
you
for
all
you
do.
I
know
that
you're
in
that
hurry
up
and
wait
category
and
then,
when
it
happens,
it's
like
you
have
to
be
two
steps
ahead
of
everything.
That's
already
happened,
so
I
appreciate
all
you
and
your
team
do
and
certainly
know
that
in
this
pandemic
world
you
have
done
yeoman's
work.
So
thank
you
very
much.
A
And
with
that,
we
will
move
on
to
agenda
item
number
seven,
which
is
an
update
on
the
implementation
of
assembly
bill
376,
and
today
we
have
a
leslie
nino
carro
general
counsel,
with
the
office
of
attorney
general,
to
provide
an
update
on
their
progress
towards
implementing
certain
sections
of
this
bill
good
morning.
And
thank
you
for
being
here
and
please
go
ahead
when
you
are
ready.
H
Oh
get
this
going.
Okay!
Thank
you,
madam
chair
john
daryl
loop
vice
chair
floors
and
committee
members.
If
my
husband
has
previously
annoyed
you,
I
ask
that
you,
please
don't
hold
it
against
me,
so
I'm
here
today
to
provide
an
update
on
av
376,
the
model
policies
relating
to
immigration
enforcement
and
we'll
get
started
so
I'll,
provide
a
very
brief
summary
of
the
provisions
for
the
model.
H
Policies
relating
to
immigration
talk
a
little
bit
about
the
ag
office's
progress
and
drafting
those
model
policies
and
our
next
steps,
so
ab376
known
as
the
keep
nevada
working
act,
as
you
know,
has
three
vital
parts-
and
I
know
professor
kagan
was
here
last
month
talking
about
the
first
of
those
which
was
to
make
fiscal
appropriations
to
the
immigration
clinic
at
the
william
s,
boyd
school
of
law,
my
alma
mater
to
provide
pro
bono
services,
and
the
second
was
creating
the
keith
nevada
working
task
force
within
the
office
of
the
lieutenant
governor
and
I'll.
H
Just
briefly
touch
on
that
and
I'll.
Let
the
lieutenant
governor's
office
provide
its
own
update
for
the
task
force
and
then
the
third
of
those
was
to
task
the
attorney
general's
office
with
publishing
model
policies
related
to
immigration,
to
law
enforcement
agencies,
state
and
local
and
places
of
public
accommodation,
schools,
health
care
facilities
and
courts.
H
Now
this
has
the
same
consultation
requirement
between
stakeholders
and
the
task
force
in
our
office
and
has
the
same
goals
and
with
respect
to
building
safety
and
accessibility
for
the
public
and
to
provide
equal
protection
for
all
of
nevada's
residents,
regardless
of
their
immigration
status
as
the
state's
top
law
enforcement
officer.
H
There
we
go
right
there
showing
that
within
the
statute,
it
does
say
that
safety
and
accessibility
is
the
goal
of
this
particular
model
policy.
H
We
have
right
down
the
screen
now.
Unfortunately,
the
task
force's
progress
was
delayed
in
2021
due
to
persistent
obstacles
closed
by
proven
19
and
the
transition
of
the
former
lieutenant
governor
to
divide
administration.
H
The
task
force
is
scheduled
to
convene
for
the
first
time
on
march
15th.
Now
we
are
excited
about
that,
because
that
is
what
is
going
to
move
all
of
this
forward
and
get
the
publication
of
these
model
policies
out
there
to
the
public.
H
So
that
is
once
the
task
force
convenes.
The
ag's
office
will
be
able
to
actually
get
onto
the
consultation
portion
of
this
process
and
meet
with
the
task
force
and
other
relevant
stakeholders
and
get
the
publication
moving
forward.
H
So
that
is
the
next
steps
that
we
are
looking
forward
to
working
with
the
lieutenant
governor
and
the
task
force
on
the
modern
policies.
A
A
Okay,
I
don't
see
any
and
I
really
appreciate
that
we
may,
at
some
point,
ask
for
a
you
know:
fall
back
when
the
lieutenant
governor
comes
back,
comes
back
in
and
and
presents.
We
may
ask
you
to
weigh
in
on
that
day,
but
we'll
let
you
know
and
thank
you
so
much.
This
was
really
good
information
to
have
as
an
update
today.
A
Me,
thank
you
so
with
that.
Next,
the
next
thing
on
our
agenda
and
a
final
piece
on
our
agenda
is
the
second
round
of
public
comment.
So
if
you're
listening
online-
and
you
would
like
to
make
public
comment,
remember
that
the
number
is
669.
A
And
then
press
pound,
please
remember
to
clearly
state
and
spell
your
name
and
limit
your
comments
to
three
minutes
and
bps
go
ahead
when
we're
ready.
A
Okay,
thank
you
very
much,
we'll
I'll
go
ahead
and
make
the
next
couple
things
and
then
I'll
just
check
to
make
sure
that
there's
no
one
on
the
line
and
one
of
those
items
is
that
the
next
meeting
is
scheduled
for
tuesday
march
15th,
and
the
april
meeting
will
be
changed
from
april
12th
to
april
19th
to
accommodate
spring
break.
A
So
please
note
that
on
your
calendars,
the
april
12
meeting
will
be
april
19th
and
then
before
we
adjourn
I'll
double
back
to
bps
and
make
sure
that
we
don't
have
anybody
on
the
line.
A
B
Excuse
me
chair:
this
is
jared
mcdonald.
Yes,
I
did
want
to
draw
attention.
We
did
receive
some
public
comment
through
email
and
that
is
posted
on
our
website.
B
If
the
committee
would
like
to
take
a
look
at
that,
just
wanted
to
make
you
aware
of
that,
and
then
we
can
include
that
in
the
record.
Thank
you.
A
Thank
you
very
much
for
that
reminder
that
we
have
public
comment
on
the
website,
so
thank
you
very
much
and
we'll
make
sure
and
go
back
and
review
that
any
additional
comments
from
the
committee.
Thank
you
all
for
your
time
today
and
your
good
questions
and
listening
and
with
that.
If
we
don't
have
any
comments
from
the
committee,
we
will
adjourn.
Thank
you
very
much
and
have
a
nice
day.
All
of
you.
Thank
you.