December 4, 2018

Mr. Lilly

said on December 8, 2018, at 1:00 p.m. would be the Republican Central Committee party at the Republican Center and invited every Republican to attend. Dave Stevens said he heard on the news that Ed Goedhardt had filed an injunction to allow the new Commissioners to vote for the Assemblyman. Mr. Stevens thought the current Commissioners were the best. Gloria Angelino referred to an article in the Pahrump Valley Times about the animal shelter. She hoped the Commissioners would investigate it and find out what was going on because it did not sound good at all.

Commissioner Wichman

made a motion to approve.

Commissioner Cox

said on page 9 in the second sentence under item 13 she thanke d Tim DahI for the work, not Commissioner Schinhofen.

Commissioner Wichman

said with those corrections her motion stood; seconded by

Commissioner Schinhofen

; 5 yeas. December 4, 2018 SITTING AS THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

Commissioner Borasky

said he visited the animal shelter the other day. It was clean and neat and all of the accusations flying around did not exist. There was a serious problem though because it was not big enough and he would make a suggestion before he left. There may also not be enough volunteers overall.

Commissioner Cox

verified everything Commissioner Borasky said because she had done the same exact thing. There was also an investigation being started. She agreed with the need for a larger animal shelter which would be looked into after the first of the year.

Commissioner Schinhofen

said he talked about the issue when the animal shelter was first privatized. A new shelter with more space was needed, but he thought it should be paid 90% by the town and 10% by the County as most of the animals came from Pahrump. He mentioned the property next to the Sheriff’s lay down yard and while he was still Commissioner he asked staff to look into building a new shelter, identify the property, and bring something back for the future Board to look at along with a funding source.

Commissioner Wichman

said she was the only Nye County participant on the Tn- County Weed Control Board besides Dick Reason. Ray Kretschmer resigned and a replacement needed to be found for him. She also needed help finding an alternate that would slip into the seat vacated by Tim Carlo. She said her recruiting skills had tanked on this one so she was asking staff for help.

Commissioner Koenig

directed staff to look into the possibility of cutting Pahrump taxes again like he did the first year he was on the Board as he would like to see if it was viable to do again. TIMED ITEMS

Commissioner Schinhofen

made a motion to put forward the Pahrump fairgrounds detention basin; seconded by Commissioner Wichman.

Commissioner Borasky

said Tricor did engineering studies many years ago, yet the County kept doing one drainage study after. He asked why those additional studies were needed.

Mrs. McKee

clarified this was actually for the detention basin so it would be the construction of the detention basin based on the flood control design plans.

Commissioner Cox

asked if the construction would come out of this grant also or if the County would have to come up with more money for that.

Mrs. McKee

stated the cost estimate was quite high so it may need to be phased out into smaller phases. She and Public Works Director Tim DahI were discussing starting from one end of the property and phasing it out to the other side. However, the grant would cover the construction of the detention basin.

Commissioner Cox

asked if the County would have to apply again next year to develop the rest of it.

Mrs. McKee

explained there was $2.4 million available for the CDBG program and the estimate today for the detention basin was $1.2 million. The drainage study would determine how big the detention basin needed to be which would give a better idea of price. CDBG may require it to be phased out until completed and if so then other grants could be sought to get it done faster or town funding available for the fairgrounds could be used.

Commissioner Cox

thought town funds would need to be used for other projects such as an animal shelter.

Mrs. McKee

said she understood the money allocated for the fairgrounds was a tax rate specifically for the fairgrounds so it may not be available for an animal shelter. December 4, 2018 7. 10:15 For Possible Action 4th Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) — — Public Meeting: 1) Discuss Eligible Prolects based on CDBG decisions; and 2) Prioritize the following applications for submittal: Pahrump Fairgrounds Drainage Study-Cont’d.

Commissioner Cox

thought things needed to start moving forward besides parks, including issues in some other towns while Pahrump was getting everything. She felt that should be taken into consideration also.

Commissioner Borasky

asked if there was any plan to capture the water and put it back in the ground.

Mrs. McKee

said she was not familiar with detention basins and would find out for him.

Commissioner Borasky

asked the Chairman to keep his eye on that as it would be the best way to deal with the water.

Commissioner Koenig

said he would make sure it became sort of a RIB. Tim DahI explained the soccer fields were constructed in a fashion to create a detention basin themselves. This was about the 400+ acre parcel with a lot of drainage. John Bosta asked if RIBs were being considered that would pollute the aquifer. If so then the water should be potable water as it was a sole drinking aquifer and it was the Commissioners job to protect the health and welfare of the people. Putting wastewater into the groundwater was polluting the drinking water source.

Commissioner Borasky

said this discussion was about rainwater.

Commissioner Schinhofen

was not present.

Dr. McGill

Iser, Chief Health Officer: and Dr. Antonina Capurro, the State Dental Health Officer, were present. Dr. Capurro said this was a medical/dental integration project to bring preventative dental services and immunization services to rural Nevada. She said this was a collaborative effort with the Southern Nevada Health District and the Division of Behavioral Health focused on health professional shortage areas, which most of the rural and frontier counties in Nevada were. In order to meet those needs Dr. Capurro said innovative methods and approaches were needed so they were going to use a public health endorsed hygienist for this project. Unfortunately that provider type was December 4, 2018 8. 10:30 Presentation regarding an update on the Rural Mobile Health Clinic by the Chief Health Officer of the Southern Nevada Health District and the Nevad a State Dental Health Officer-Cont’d. not recognized by Medicaid so to build sustainability for the project they also had to work with the Division of Healthcare Financing and Policy in order to change the state plan amendment to have this provider type be able to submit reimbursements through Medicaid.

Dr. Capurro

then advised they had 11 clinical sessions during April through June, 2018, and traveled 2,040 miles. On the dental side they saw 129 patients, completed 120 dental screenings, 221 dental sealants, 117 fluoride varnish applications, 18 cleanin gs, seven periodontal assessments and one emergency incision and drainage. On the immunization side they saw 57 clients and completed 102 vaccinations. Dr. Capurr o said alt dental services were provided without cost to any of the patients. She then displayed photographs of the types of dental issues seen during the sessions and noted they provided $33,000.00 of donated dental services.

Dr. Iser

discussed the immunization services provided for uninsured adults as well as privately and publicly insured adults and children. A Title 20 grant was obtain ed through the State to fill the gap for individuals who could not afford the co-pay or deductible. Dr. Iser said during April through June, 2018, they saw 57 clients and provided 102 vaccinations. Additional services provided included vision screenings, blood sugar screenings, and blood pressure screenings.

Dr. Capurro

said part of this project was completing a needs assessment and she reviewed the results of those assessments, which indicated a high percentage of the adult population was lacking oral healthcare. Additionally, she advised they had some trouble with the schedule since it was only a three month trip as well as equipment that broke down. There were a lot of limitations with a three month project so if they continued this again they would be more prepared and have more time to get things organized, but all in all Dr. Capurro felt it was very successful. The plans for the future included continuing the dental clinic, introducing verbiage in NRS and NAC for tele dentistry, a rural school sealant project, providing oral health education and screen ing in rural licensed childcare centers, and looking for funding for a rural OB!GYN educat ional outreach project. She said they would like to know from the Board what types of projects they would like to continue with for their citizens.

Dr. Iser

said they were looking at next steps and asked the Board what additio nal services were needed like family planning or screenings for HIV or Hepatitis C.

Commissioner Schinhofen

asked if they could staff a hospital in Tonopah.

Commissioner Koenig

interrupted the presentation to open item 17 for the Justices of the Peace who were waiting. December 4, 2018 JUSTICE OF THE PEACE

Commissioner Wichman

made a motion to approve; seconded by Commissioner Schinhofen. Justice of the Peace Kent Jasperson and newly elected Justice of the Peace Lisa Chamlee were present. Justice Jasperson said they were looking for guidance from the Commission. He was not opposed to the increase as agendized, but he had brought some material to Tim Sutton regarding the severe discrepancy between the activities in the courts throughout the County. He wondered if the Board wanted to talk about a difference in the amount of pay raises to be assigned per the justice court or if it should be a separate agenda tern. He had reports from the Nevada Judiciary showing the caseloads for the last three years in the different courts. Tonopah and Beatty were generally between 150 and 220 cases versus 2,200 cases in Pahrump and Justice Jasperson thought the Board would want to consider that.

Commissioner Koenig

asked Justice Jasperson to bring that back.

Commissioner Wichman

asked if it would be their practice to follow up with those seen during the initial visits, especially those with blood sugar testing. December 4, 2018 8. 10:30 Presentation regarding an update on the Rural Mobile Health Clinic by the Chief Health Officer of the Southern Nevada Health District and the Nevada State Dental Health Officer-Cont’d.

Dr. Capurro

explained those extra services were provided by the community partners, but all of the all people seen for immunizations were contacted if they needed a second series. For the dental services, if a screening was done they were contacted about cleanings.

Dr. Iser

added for continuing care they would refer to local providers anyway, but if they came up on a monthly basis they could follow up with those people. It depended on how well they were funded as to who they could send.

Commissioner Cox

asked when they did dental exams and found cavities in the children’s teeth where it went from there as a lot of parents did not have dental insurance.

Dr. Capurro

said it was fundamental to the project that they not leave the patients in the same shape they found them. Part of it was case management and every child screened went home with information on what was found. A lot of the children were also eligible for Medicaid.

Commissioner Cox

asked if Medicaid covered the cost of the dental work too.

Dr. Capurro

said yes. A comprehensive dental program was provided for children. She said she also wanted to explore OB/GYN services in rural Nevada as Medicaid provided extended coverage during pregnancy.

Commissioner Cox

asked if there was help for those people whose teeth could not be saved.

Dr. Capurro

advised Medicaid covered extractions, dentures and partials. It did not cover cleanings, but that was something that was provided free of charge to the patients.

Commissioner Cox

asked if there were options for those who did not have Medicaid or dental insurance like providers donating services.

Dr. Capurro

said there were some pro bono services provided by dentists arid as they could they worked with those providers to get the patients to them.

Commissioner Wichman

asked staff to compose a letter of support. Ammie Nelson suggested they could work out of the hospital in Tonopah and maybe some of the funding for that hospital could be given to theni. December 4, 2018 8. 10:30 Presentation regarding an update on the Rural Mobile Health Clinic by the Chief Health Officer of the Southern Nevada Health District and the Nevada State Dental Health Officer-Cont’d.

Commissioner Cox

suggested the large community center in Pahrump that sat idle most of the time as well as the big campus at the NyE Communities Coalition. Dr. lser stated he would prefer to have the Board identify the locations and would be happy to provide a list of criteria. 9. 10:45 For Possible Action Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation to — — issue an Outdoor Festival License to the Pahrump Valley Chamber of Commerce for the Balloon Festival to be held February 22-24, 2019, at Petrack Park located at 150 Highway 160, Pahrump, Nevada.

Commissioner Schinhofen

made a motion to approve; seconded by Commissioner Wichman,

Commissioner Koenig

opened the public hearing. Tim DahI asked the Board to support covering some of the costs for setting up and removing traffic control for these types of events. He would take care of what he could to keep the public safe, but it was incredibly busy in town all weekend long. That section of the park was a madhouse and the determination was made that the best form of action was to close down that section of Basin at a cost for him to have equipment and manpower come in on overtime to do so.

Commissioner Wichman

suggested approving this conditioned on arriving at some sort of arrangement to handle those problems.

Commissioner Koenig

suggested continuing this item to the next meeting and come back with a different agenda item that outlined what Mr. Dahl would like.

Commissioner Schinhofen

withdrew his motion; Commissioner Wichman withdrew her second.

Commissioner Schinhofen

asked staff to bring this back after Mr. Dahl had met with the applicant and could bring some figures. SITTING AS THE NYE COUNTY BOARD OF HIGHWAY COMMISSIONERS

Commissioner Schinhofen

assumed the Chair of the Board of Highway Commissioners. December 4, 2018 10. General road report by Public Works Director. Tim DahI said Pahrump Valley Boulevard was coming along well. He anticipated itto be primarily complete some time before Christmas, which was a little ahead of schedule. He said he would update Commissioner Cox on Blosser Ranch Road after the meeting, and he was working on some drainage issues on Dahlia Street behind the Wal-Mart which had created a nuisance for some of the businesses over the years.

Commissioner Schinhofen

suggested Mr. Dahi look at the parking on Dahlia Street. There was not enough road for parking behind those buildings and he asked Mr. DahI to bring a recommendation back to the Board on no parking there. Also, there was a turn lane on the road right out in front of Lakeside and occasionally a bus would park there. He said people coming out of the gas pumps could not see around those and asked Mr. DahI to also look at no parking on that strip.

Commissioner Cox

said the lighting was done on Basin and 160, but every other one was not working.

Mr. DahI

asked if she had looked at them lately. They had gone through all lights at Homestead and 160, 372 and 160, and Basin and 160. The overhead street lights were converted to LED bulbs and should shine brightly all night long. If not he would get them addressed.

Commissioner Cox

asked for an update on the corner of Homestead and 160.

Mr. Dahl

said he was working with Great Basin still to finalize some testing and bore holes. They already did some bore holes directly over the pipe, but the affected area was broader than that. He said t would all be at their expense.

Commissioner Borasky

said the elevation changes on Homestead and Honeysuckle Park would make a pond and he would be in touch if he saw one.

Commissioner Wichman

was curious whether or not Mr. DahI was able to fill the position in Sunnyside for the blades, to which he responded yes.

Commissioner Schinhofen

asked about the vines at Hafen Ranch Road where it broke off at the Indian reservation and whether the plan was still to wait for them to go dormant and take care of them in the spring.

Mr. DahI

said he had not heard anything other than that and would touch base with the gentleman.

Commissioner Schinhofen

then told Mr. DahI the northeast corner light at Elderberry and Homestead was out.

Commissioner Koenig

assumed the Chair of the Board of County Commissioners. December 4, 2018 SITTING AS THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS These are items that Staff recommends for approval. The Board reserves the right to move any consent agenda item to the regular segment of the agenda should issues arise that need to be addressed. Discussion of any item from the Consent Agenda Items that needs review before a decision is made. 11. For Possible Action Approval of Assessor’s Office Change Request to allow the Nye County Treasurer to process and send a refund of $6,266.29 to Great Basin Water Company for various locations throughout the Pahrump Valley .

Commissioner Schinhofen

made a motion to approve items 11-13; second ed by

Commissioner Wichman

; 5 yeas. 12. For Possible Action Approval to accept a no cost time extension from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the FY14 Brownfields Revolv ing Loan Fund (RLF) Grant Agreement BF-99T03101-1.

Commissioner Schinhofen

made a motion to approve items 11-13; seconded by

Commissioner Wichman

; 5 yeas. 13. For Possible Action Approval to accept Amended Grant Notice of Sub- Recipient Award for the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) in the amoun t of $10,000.00. Cost categories budget modification to cover training for staff member in data collection. This grant is administered from Fund 10340 Grants and there is no County match required.

Commissioner Schinhofen

made a motion to approve items 11-13; second ed by

Commissioner Wichman

; 5 yeas. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 14. For Possible Action Closure of meeting, pursuant to NRS 268.22 0 for purposes of conferring with the County’s management representative s regarding labor negotiations, issues and other personnel matters. This item was removed from the agenda. 15. Closed meeting, pursuant to NRS 288.220 for purposes of conferring with the County’s management representatives regarding labor negotiations, issues and other personnel matters. This item was removed from the agenda. December 4, 2018 16. For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation on labor negotiations, issues and other personnel matters presented in closed meeting. This item was removed from the agenda. COUNTY MANAGER

Commissioner Wichman

made a motion to approve; seconded by Commissioner Schinhofen; 5 yeas.

Commissioner Wichman

made a motion to 1) approve Monday December 24, 2018, as a day off with pay for all non-represented County employees and for represented employee groups this motion was contingent upon the group’s respective bargaining unit submitting a written agreement to the December 24, 2018, day off with pay and a written waiver of rights to claim December 5, 2018, as a holiday received prior to 8:00 p.m. on December 4, 2018; and 2) declare the County Clerk’s Office closed on December 24, 2018, for all non-judicial purposes and for judicial purposes as well because of the prior approval of the judges of the Fifth Judicial District Court which approval included a provision that drop boxes would be made available for the filing of court documents on December 24, 2018; seconded by Commissioner Schinhofen. Savannah Rucker advised this cost was an increase in benefits to the employees. It was budgeted as a regular day so it would just be relocated to admin pay. The benefit cost to the County across all funds was about $110,000.00. When Commissioner Wichman asked if that was a problem, Mrs. Rucker said it was budgeted as a regular day so it would simply be moved from a regular day to an admin payout day. Ammie Nelson said the contract with the County employees on days off was pretty set. She asked if the employees had the ability to use time off that they accrued every December 4, 2018 19. For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation to: 1) approve Monday, December 24, 2018, as a day off with pay for all county employees and to declare all county offices and departments closed; and 2) declare the County Clerk’s office closed on December 24, 2018 for all non-judicial purposes and for judicia l purposes as well because of the prior approval of the Judges of the Fifth Judicial District Court. The approval of the Judges for this closure of the Clerk’s office for judicial purposes includes a provision that drop boxes will be made available for the filing of court documents on December 24, 2018-Cont’d. month so it did not cost the taxpayers to pay somebody that was not there. Ms. Nelson felt they made enough money to afford to take that day off and that this did not seem to be a very valid or feasible request considering the kinds of contracts the employees already had. Dwight Lilly did not think the Commissioners understood the angst of the public when they paid taxes and then the Board spent $110,000.00. He said the employees were making on average 46% more than the private sector. He told the Commissione rs to let them fund their own day off and not do it on the backs of the taxpayers.

Commissioner Wichman

thought it would be extremely rare for the public to need or come into any of the offices on December 24, 2018. Basically the County would keep the offices open and pay everyone to sit there, run the heat, lights, air conditioning , and equipment, but a study had not been done on what it cost to run all the faciliti es for one day.

Commissioner Schinhofen

said another consideration was the motion included the waiver from the union because the union was trying to claim the day of mourn ing proclaimed by President Trump as a holiday and wanted to be paid for that day.

Commissioner Schinhofen

pointed out he had sat through eight budgets, six of which made him physically ill because the County cut and cut and made the employees not take raises and do double work. He stated the Commissioners were very familia r with their fiduciary duty and giving the employees a day helped morale and performance.

Commissioner Schinhofen

made a motion based on staff recommendation to set the date, time and location as January 7, 2019, at 10:45 am.; seconded by Commissioner Wichman; 5 yeas.

Commissioner Schinhofen

read the title of the bill into the record.

Commissioner Wichman

made a motion to approve; seconded by Commissioner Schinhofen.

Commissioner Cox

noted this only applied to the one office, but there was an NRS which said the Sheriff, Recorders, Auditors, Clerks, Assessors and Treasurers shall keep the office at the County seat open all days of the week except Sundays and non- judicial days. She asked someone to clarify that for her since it was talking about the County seat and wondered if it meant Tonopah only or if all of those offices needed to operate five days a week. Lorina Dellinger explained this was only addressing the Treasurer’s Office in Pahrump. The Tonopah office currently operated under the NRS Commissioner Cox referenced. In 2011 the Commissioners adopted a resolution to change the hours to Monday through Thursday and this was changing it back.

Commissioner Cox

said she would like to see the other offices opened five days a week. Dwight Lilly said he would also like to see all offices open Monday through Friday as it was an inconvenience to the public.

Commissioner Wichman

said the other offices had elected officials and that was who that needed to be addressed with. After confirming that the Treasurer was an elected position, Ammie Nelson said five days a week was great for all departments. She did not know if this would exclude the extra holidays, but there should be at least one person there. December 4, 2018 21. For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation to adopt, amend and adopt or reject Nye County Resolution No. 2018-40: A Resolution Changing the Office Hours for the County Treasurer Offices-Cont’d.

Commissioner Borasky

stated there was no elected official in the Treasurer’s Office right now. The person who got elected resigned not only as County Manager but from that position as well.

Commissioner Koenig

asked about solid waste. December 4, 2018 22. For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation regarding the budget status through October 2018 for Nye County General Fund Fiscal 2019 budget project ions-Co nt’ d.

Mrs. Rucker

explained she would have to augment the solid waste fund due to the change order to expand the Pahrump valley disposal yard. When that came to the Board she would have Tim DahI explain it.

Commissioner Koenig

asked about the employee health insurance.

Mrs. Rucker

said that was a brand new fund created when the services were brought in- house and the County started self-funding the vision and dental insurance. This was the first year of the program and she was not sure how to budget it so she would bring forward any items for clean up as soon as she got a good projection on FY18.

Commissioner Koenig

commented that was one of his concerns when the change to serf-funding was made and asked Mrs. Rucker to watch it.

Mrs. Rucker

said there was also a revenue status report included as requested by the public. Once OpenGov went live the public would be able to see those reports. John Bosta said he received a spreadsheet showing the marijuana money collected since 2015 with no account numbers and he wanted to know what accounts the money was placed in. PLANNING/BUILDING/CODE COMPLAINCE

Commissioner Wichman

made a motion to approve the request for a parcel map and to provide a waiver from the requirements to provide contour data; seconded by

Commissioner Schinhofen

suggested looking into taking the contour data out north of Beatty as the Board was always asked for a waiver in that area.

Commissioner Wichman

said sometimes it was related to FEMA.

Commissioner Schinhofen

was not present. Pat Minshall from Amargosa Valley was very upset and astonished that Amargosa Valley was not on the list for the rural mobile health clinic and received none of the services. She talked to one of the doctors who said that the County Commissioners put Beatty on the list but not Amargosa Valley. Ms. Minshall stated there were a large number of people in Amargosa Valley that could have benefited from the services.

Commissioner Koenig

said he would look into that. Ammie Nelson thanked Commissioner Koenig for the proposal to cut back taxes. As far as the maruana tax that John Bosta had brought up several times, that money should be in the Town of Pahrump and the money might be looked at as a way to help get the needed shelter. Suzanne Zervantian said she had serious concerns regarding Desert Haven Animal Society continuing to operate the Pahrump animal shelter. It was not about the cleanliness at this point as it had been cleaned up. There had been several breaches of contract such as not following the dog/cat licensing program and not identifying and tracking impounded animals. They had also broken federal and state employee laws, OSHA regulations as well as the Countys rabies and spay and neuter laws and animal and human lives had been placed in danger for numerous months. Further, the termination for cause in the agreement provided ample room for the County to terminate the agreement and Ms. Zervantian felt that should have been done at the November 20, 2018, meeting.

Commissioner Koenig

adjourned the meeting. APPROVED this ATTEST: C> Of 201g. Nyb CoUty Clerk / Deputy