August 4, 2021

Commissioner Cox

was present via telephone.

Commissioner Strickland

mentioned the outreach about the meeting yesterday and how difficult it was on some of the Commissioners.

Commissioner Carbone

said a lot of time was spent on something the Commissioners knew they were going to do anyway, but they could not do much about the school. He also hoped more meetings would be like yesterday’s meeting, which did not have the long discussions that had been happening.

Commissioner Cox

hoped the Governor saw the meeting yesterday and realized that there were two sides to every story and would give it a lot of consideration about the mask law and the vaccine. As far as the School District, she suggested sending a letter bringing to their attention that group was out there and was adamant. August 4, 2021

Commissioner Strickland

asked if the money could be used for a cloud seeding program. Savannah Rucker said the State Revolving Fund (SRF) tied to communities that were low- to moderate-income and those projects did not have to tie into COVID. Broadband did not have to tie into COVID either.

Mrs. Kramer

then discussed the ineligible expenses.

Commissioner Jabbour

said on page 12 of the back-up, under the heading Nye CRP status update, it listed administration’s areas of concern as double dipping in grant reporting, lack of accountability from applicants, lack of timely communication, and lack of compliance with approved agreements. He asked how that would be explained to the future applicants that it would not be tolerated and they must comply with the requests.

Mrs. Rucker

thought the best way of managing that was to make this a reimbursement program so they were providing documentation before receiving funding, but it was up to the Commissioners how to set the programs up and how they were administered.

Commissioner Blundo

disclosed he was an applicant of the Nye COVID Program and the Nye Small Business Grant Program. He said he wanted the majority of the money to go the people. On the small business grant side, there were still people who needed help but the money ran out and he would like to fund the rest of that program. He then August 4, 2021 13. Presentation regarding the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, CARES funding and Nye COVID Relief Plan (CRP) updates, and overview of the Interim Final Rule (IRF)-Cont’d. pointed out the eviction moratorium was extended for certain people and asked if there was a list of how many renters were in the County.

Mrs. Rucker

said she could reach out to the Nevada Rural Housing Authority for that information.

Commissioner Blundo

wanted to continue doing the programs like the small business programs, public health and safety, and rent/mortgage moving forward as well as making an allocation for key critical items for the County. He did not know how to address premium pay, but if there was a program Commissioner Blundo thought the Board should do that as an advance through employers and they could include it as a premium in their own payroll. He then asked if the CPA firms were helping the individuals.

Mrs. Rucker

said yes and some of the businesses did not understand bookkeeping or what was required of them.

Commissioner Strickland

asked if the Cotillion could be considered enhancing behavioral and mental health services.

Mrs. Kramer

thought it could be plugged in there.

Commissioner Carbone

reminded the Board that the School District was getting $10 million and he wanted to make sure there was no overlap.

Commissioner Blundo

suggested sending a letter of support to the School District. Savannah Rucker advised she had reached out to the grants administrator at the School District to have a preliminary discussion on how they intended to use the August 4, 2021 14. For Possible Action Presentation of the data generated from the community outreach meetings held by Finance; and discussion, deliberation, and direction to staff on the administration of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds relating to: 1) Support of the public health response; 2) Programs to address negative economic impacts of COVID; 3) Support to local government with revenue loss; 4) Premium pay for essential workers; and 5) Water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure needs-Reopened-Cont’d. funding. She wanted to make sure forces were combined on what both Boards were passionate about without any overlapping. Continuing her review, Mrs. Kramer said ideas were provided on how to prevent and mitigate COVID-19; enhance behavioral and mental health services; support the local health and safety workforce; improve the design and execution of health and public health programs; and address disparities in public health outcomes, such as children facilities.

Commissioner Carbone

wanted to know what was available for childcare in the County.

Mrs. Rucker

said she thought about creating a grant program to entice childcare facilities to open in all areas of the County. Health and Human Services Director Karyn Smith told her there were only three or four licensed daycares right now. Mrs. Rucker would get a list to the Commissioners. 12. Presentation by the Nevada State Treasurer, Zach Conine on the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). Zach Conine said he and the Governor launched the Nevada Recovers Listening Tour, a 75-day tour with 75 events to hear what the communities needed and the best way to get that done. The Every Nevadan Recovery Framework bill was passed and would ensure that federal funds from the ARPA would be invested in the most collaborative, transparent and effective process. They would do things at the State level to address broadband issues, rental issues, and small business support and wanted to be sure they were collaborating with the communities to avoid duplication. Types of aid included non-discretionary aid, quasi-discretionary aid, and discretionary aid, which included State and local aid. Mr. Conine discussed the timeline starting with the statewide listening tour launched yesterday. That input would be summarized into a comprehensive roadmap. After that was developed the State would move to designing and creating new programs and services that would be funded through ARPA.

Commissioner Blundo

asked that the programs be easily accessible to the public.

Commissioner Strickland

asked the State to privatize the DMV because of the issues experienced during the pandemic. August 4, 2021 12. Presentation by the Nevada State Treasurer, Zach Conine on the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)-Cont’d.

Mr. Conine

said the Governor made a comment to a reporter yesterday that one of the top priorities was to use some of the money to fix systems that just did not work, like the DMV and the UI systems. The Board was in recess until 1:30 p.m.

Commissioner Cox

was not present. 14. For Possible Action Presentation of the data generated from the community outreach meetings held by Finance; and discussion, deliberation, and direction to staff on the administration of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds relating to: 1) Support of the public health response; 2) Programs to address negative economic impacts of COVID; 3) Support to local government with revenue loss; 4) Premium pay for essential workers; and 5) Water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure needs-Reopened. Samantha Kramer said other ideas presented during the workshops were ways to assist small businesses and non-profits; aid to impacted industries; aid to unemployed workers; expenses to improve efficacy of economic relief programs; and services for qualified census tract and other disproportionately impacted communities. Savannah Rucker said they planned on having another community discussion regarding the funding for the negative economic impact to figure out how to best serve the community.

Mrs. Kramer

then reviewed the ideas provided for premium pay for essential workers. The last discussion during the community stakeholders meeting was the water, sewer and broadband infrastructure. The ideas included the Gabbs and Manhattan water and sewer system upgrades and the Calvada Eye for future growth. Darin Tuck from Public Works said his biggest concern was the Gabbs sewer and he believed it was at a critical stage. The clay pipe there was just crumbling and there was an emergency two weeks ago were they found the pipe disintegrated. There were no issues with the plant itself. It was just the pipes had reached the end of their useful life.

Commissioner Strickland

asked if he had estimates to do a full retrofit.

Mr. Tuck

said it was between $800,000.00 and $1 million on the sewer and $2.5 million on the water, which probably had gone up a little since the estimates were received.

Commissioner Strickland

asked to put it on the list and send it up to the State to see if they could help. August 4, 2021 14. For Possible Action Presentation of the data generated from the community outreach meetings held by Finance; and discussion, deliberation, and direction to staff on the administration of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds relating to: 1) Support of the public health response; 2) Programs to address negative economic impacts of COVID; 3) Support to local government with revenue loss; 4) Premium pay for essential workers; and 5) Water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure needs-Reopened-Cont’d.

Mrs. Rucker

thought the ARPA funding could be used as a bridge funding to address the critical system while wait for the grant funding.

Commissioner Jabbour

asked if there was an estimate for Manhattan.

Mr. Tuck

said he had no concerns for Manhattan right now as it was in pretty good shape. As to any other needs in the County’s infrastructure, he advised a State inspection was done the other day and the Town of Amargosa needed to be updated for about $50,000.00. He had not put anything together on that.

Mrs. Kramer

reviewed the ideas for broadband infrastructure.

Commissioner Jabbour

said he was on the phone during the community stakeholders meeting and it was a factfinding mission. Nothing was force ranked and everything was just ideas. One of the things mentioned was the reimbursement program. Initially he liked that, but then he thought about people not having upfront money to take care of their needs and then get reimbursed. Commissioner Jabbour thought that needed to be considered moving forward.

Mrs. Kramer

said this would be presented again at the August 17, 2021, meeting to start coming up with programs to use the funds. The first interim report had to be submitted by August 31, 2021, which was just expenditures incurred from the beginning of the year and the County’s ideas for revenue replacement. Rick Minch, Deacon of Our Lady of the Valley, said they would like to participate in the water infrastructure part of the grant. He explained it would help the parish with fire suppression as well as the neighborhood around them as there were no fire hydrants and no underground water.

Commissioner Blundo

made a motion to approve the spreadsheet detailing the American Rescue Plan Act funding eligible expenses for each fiscal year of the program ______________day August 4, 2021 15. For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation regarding the allocation of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding eligible expenses for each Fiscal Year of the program-Cont’d. identifying FY22 and FY23 in the amount of $9,036,547.00; seconded by Commissioner Carbone; 4 yeas.

Commissioner Strickland

said she wanted a letter sent to the School District regarding the Cotillion.

Commissioner Strickland

adjourned the meeting. APPROVED this ATTEST: OfV1C1 ,2021. 2 Chair N e Conty Clerk I Deputy