July 2, 2024

Commissioner Cox

, Brian Kunzi, and Sheriff McGill were not present at this time.

Commissioner Cox

was present. Jim Petell advised on Wednesday night at about 9:00 p.m. two Sheriff cruisers pulled up to his gate with their red and blue lights on along with their headlights and spotlights, which he videotaped for about 20 minutes. They did not did not call him or step out of their cars but just sat there. He left a voice mail for Sheriff McGill on Thursday and heard back from him on Monday after he called again. Sheriff McGill did not have any July 2, 2024 person.) Action will not be taken on the matters considered during this period until specifically included on an agenda as an action item (first). recollection in his police blotter of any cruisers coming to his house that night. Mr. Petell told him he would be in front of the Commissioners to expose this. He said the Sheriff was spending money without a care in the world. Mr. Petell wondered who sent those cruisers and how much money it cost to go ten miles from their home base to his house. Mr. Petell said he was going to talk to Brian Kunzi about it as he felt harassed.

Sheriff McGill

was present. Alisa Rivera said she had observed Las Vegas Metro Police Department (LVMPD) setting up a checkpoint at the Tonopah turn-off issuing citations and confiscating fireworks. They informed drivers they had been observed while sitting in a Pahrump fireworks store parking lot. On Sunday, June 30, 2024, while at a local fireworks store in Pahrump Ms. Rivera noticed an individual in a black Hyundai Sonata with license plate 11 5R1 1 recording license plate numbers and taking pictures of customers. When she inquired he identified himself as Detective Marino from LVMPD, badge number 4922, and mentioned he was conducting official police business. When Ms. Rivera asked him about his jurisdiction, he said that he was operating under an agreement the LVMPD had with Nye County Sheriff’s Office to do what he was doing. When she mentioned he was on private property he quickly left the checkpoint and it had been shut down since. Ms. Rivera expressed her concern with LVMPD operating in Nye County in a way that certainly harmed the local businesses, especially the fireworks businesses. This kind of activity appeared to be outside of their jurisdiction and illegal. In the past Sheriff DeMeo took a strong stance against such activity and Ms. Rivera hoped the current Sheriff would continue to protect the County and support local businesses by not allowing such illegal activity by LVMPD. Karen Waldman asked that her comments be made part of the public record [see Attachment 1]. During the April 10, 2024, RPC meeting there were seven items for possible action, four of which were deemed final action for the RPC, including the MediWaste business and the property that Walt Turner was the agent/applicant for. The three that were set to go before the Board of County Commissioners were all zone changes, including a zone change for a mini storage facility. Ms. Waldman asked if that seemed odd to anyone else but her. She said the RPC could somehow make decisions about a medical waste treatment operation that would create a slew of environmental problems and an agenda item that one of its own commissioners was the agent! applicant on, but not zoning changes or something involving a mini storage facility. She saw in the Board’s policies that the RPC shall be solely responsible for decisions on all applications for a CUP. She asked at what point should the policy should be revised to encompass projects such as the medical waste facility that clearly needed more oversight. Ms. Waldman said there were several items to choose from as to how MediWaste was misleading on the CUP, one of which was their response to the statement that the conditional use would not involve uses, activities, processes, July 2, 2024 person.) Action will not be taken on the matters considered during this period until specifically included on an agenda as an action item (first). and equipment, and conditions of operation that were detrimental to any person’s property or the general welfare. Their response that the process did not use combustion and reduced harmful emissions was lying by omission. Ms. Waldman stated every aspect of this process had detrimental effects to persons and property and the general welfare. She included two tables with her statement showing the categories of healthcare waste as well as sources and examples, which she urged the Commissioners to read. Darryl Lackey said although he withdrew his candidacy, he was still going to be on the ballot without getting the signatures that were supposedly required. He spoke to another person who was running for the same position and asked him if he had gotten his signatures. The response was he did not have to because he had the party endorsement. Mr. Lackey told him that was only for the Republicans and Democrats and he believed anyone else had to get signatures, but now he was confused as it seemed that was not true. He said then the County Clerk gave him the wrong date he had to have his signatures in by, and no one had called him to pick up his filing fee since he withdrew. Kay LaPointe said the Cotillion would have a fundraiser on July 30, 2024, at 5280 Grub and Pub. Tickets would be sold at the door and people could also contact her at (432) 967-2878. Maryan Hollis understood when MediWaste came before the Board on July 16, 2024, that it would be a presentation. She asked for support that it be a discussion otherwise there was no point to them coming. She then talked about the homeless camp that had extended to behind Pahrump Valley Transportation right up next to the library. Ms. Hollis said it was not pleasant to go to the library now. Ammie Nelson said the Nye County Sheriff’s Office was top heavy and while the ICE program helped them balance their budget, the community was suffering because the homeless people were increasing. It was common knowledge there were not enough deputies on the streets. She asked why 14 sergeants, seven lieutenants, nine investigators, nine ICE deputies, and dozens of technicians were needed. Ms. Nelson asked the Commissioners to not renew the ICE program and use the new jail for criminals on the streets and in the parks or the citizens would be outnumbered and not safe in their own homes. She felt the fat needed to be trimmed from the Sheriff’s Office and Clark County should be told to take care of their own problems. Ms. Nelson had learned that the owners of the property where the homeless were living had to evict them. People could find out who the owners were by looking at the Assessor’s or Recorder’s Web site and then notify those owners if the homeless were on their property. July 2, 2024 person.) Action will not be taken on the matters considered during this period until specifically included on an agenda as an action item (first). Herman Lewis said it was obvious that everyone had a lot of access to fireworks that were not supposed to be lit off in residential areas. Almost every year it got so crazy he had to call the Sheriffs Department, who always said they would send someone out but never did. Mr. Lewis’ back-up plan was to call Fire Chief Scott Lewis as he always answered his cell phone. He asked Commissioners Carbone and Jabbour who were in Tonopah with Sheriff McGill to ask him to staff enough deputies to patrol the area to stop the illegal use of fireworks.

Commissioner Jabbour

said he would be happy to have a conversation with Sheriff McGill about fireworks. As to MediWaste, he agreed with one of the commenters and asked the Chair if that agenda item could be worded in a way that the public was allowed to comment.

Commissioner Strickland

said she would have it agendized as presentation and would just take the liberty.

Commissioner Jabbour

asked Jim Petell to provide his video to the Sheriffs Office to determine if they were actually Sheriff’s vehicles or something else that had nothing to do with the Sheriffs Office.

Commissioner Carbone

addressed the comments about LVMPD. He had an issue with that, but he did not know what could be done about it. He knew there would be conversations with the District Attorney and the Sheriff was aware of it. He asked the County Manager for an inventory of the media equipment in the Sheriff’s Office, what was operational and what was not, and the funding source they came from.

Commissioner Boskovich

said last week he passed LVMPD staged at the Tecopa turn off. The commenter mentioned Tonopah but meant Tecopa. There was a line of vehicles pulled over with their trunks open and stacks of fireworks outside their vehicles. He had a real problem if they were sitting there taking notes inside the Pahrump town limits and then basically snatching them up as they were going back over. As to the homeless issue, Commissioner Boskovich said since he had taken office he had been mentioning the homeless situation and what a slippery slope it was. He had been accused of hating poor people, which was completely not true. There were parks that the taxpayers paid for which could not be used because there were hypodermics in them and they were unsafe. Commissioner Boskovich was not a proponent of building a massive shelter to put them in. There was infrastructure available in other places and he thought the Commissioners needed to look at that especially in light of the new Supreme Court ruling that he believed came out of Oregon. He also thought it started July 2, 2024 announcements or topiclissues proposed for future workshopslaqendas) with the Sheriff’s Office being able to cite or arrest and then the District Attorney prosecuting. The County had to also be very careful to not incentivize bringing more homeless people here. Brian Kunzi was present.

Commissioner Strickland

said she, Commissioner Carbone, and volunteers worked on the BLM fence on June 22-23, 2024. She thanked Rent To Own for donating the equipment. They would be back on July 27-28, 2024, for anyone who wanted to volunteer.

Commissioner Cox

said the Cotillion was a really good thing and encouraged people to donate to it. She said the homeless had been an issue for years. It just seemed like more and more people were coming down now because it was warm out. She had tried to get the people in the audience who complained about the homeless to put together a committee and bring suggestions to the Commissioners. One of the things

Commissioner Cox

had suggested that would save the County money in the long run was to talk to them and ask them if there was some way they could be sent back to their families and give them some support money-wise with a bus or plane ticket because a lot of times they had family support but no money to go that far. Commissioner Cox said she agreed with Ammie Nelson about the Sheriffs Department and had said in the past to trim the fat. She wanted someone to look into the fireworks situation.

Commissioner Cox

said she received an e-mail from Jenny Okawa regarding

Commissioner Cox’s

comments at the last meeting about prisoners voting from prison.

Ms. Okawa

said in her letter that was a false statement and asked Commissioner Cox to publicly retract her factual inaccuracies on the record at the July 2, 2024, meeting and correct it with the facts. Commissioner Cox said people could track what was going on in the Legislature through the Ballotpedia Legislation Tracker. The official name was Voting for Confined Eligible Electors and it was just passed. It had been legal for many years to be in prison and vote in Vermont, Maine, and Washington D.C. Colorado passed SB-072 on May 14, 2024, which provided that the secretary of state would create training materials to be used by county clerks or recorders to train individuals designated by the sheriff to facilitate voting at the county jails or detention centers; exempt prison ballot deposit locations from accessible requirements for voters with disabilities; and required a temporary voter service and polling center to be created in the county jail or the detention center/prison providing that it may operate for one business day and for four to 15 days before election day and that it remain open at least six hours to allow eligible voters to vote. It required the sheriff to designate at least one person to facilitate voting at each county jail and detention center/prison and required the designee to provide access to the elections related materials and booklets and ensure notifications were given about the election time and the day including information about the same day registration. A sheriff or his or her designee who did not comply with these requirements was subject to a civil penalty and a fine of July 2, 2024 announcements or topic/issues proposed for future workshops/agendas) $5,000.00 per violation. Commissioner Cox said candidates could run for office even if they were convicted felons because that fell under the Constitution and the Constitution said nothing about a felon not being able to run for office.

Commissioner Jabbour

said in 2019 AB431 was passed in Nevada which stated upon the immediate release of a convicted felon their voting rights were to be restored if they followed the criteria. Commissioner Jabbour said there was a process to change that which could be done.

Sheriff McGill

talked about the homeless. He said it was very complicated as to what could or could not be done legally. Property owners were responsible for their private property and unfortunately they were often out of state when his office was addressing those issues. The Code Enforcement and Compliance Department was doing what they could to contact property owners, but oftentimes it was difficult to do. When the property owner did notify the Sheriff’s Office they would like individuals removed, now the property owner was responsible for going in and cleaning up their property otherwise they would be fined by Code Compliance. Sheriff McGill did not think that was proper either, but that was the way the County’s system was. As far as giving them bus tickets or sending them to their family out of state, he said anybody who would like to stand up and donate tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to facilitate that he would be more than happy to collect that money and divvy it out to those individuals who would like to be transported out of state. Regarding the fireworks issue, Sheriff McGill said that was a discussion that needed to be had with Sheriff McMahill or one of his delegates. He said they were aware it was taking place ahead of time and he would be the first one to admit that. The County was involved in a cooperative agreement with LVMPD and he did not feel it was proper for his office to refuse cooperation if it was a legal operation. As to the patrol units behind Mr. Petell’s residence, Sheriff McGill did not know what they were doing or why they were there, and he could not find any record of any calls for service at that particular address. Sheriff McGill then discussed the ICE contract. He said ICE did not cost the County anything and actually paid their own way by renting beds in the detention center in Pahrump. There was recently an increase in that daily bed rate. The contract was a source of revenue in a way because the many requirements the deputies had to meet benefited all prisoners in the detention facilities.

Sheriff McGill

then addressed his overtime budget. His office was just given a specific overtime budget, but when that budget ran out they could not pay the SWAT team to go out on a barricaded subject. They were going to go over budget because they would have to tap into their general fund. He also mentioned how the overtime rate was paid to deputies who had to be present at an event per the permit process, which the vendor paid back to the County, but that money was never returned to his overtime or general fund budgets. July 2, 2024 announcements or topic/issues proposed for future workshopslagendas) Brian Kunzi said he was ecstatic the United States Supreme Court had removed the handcuffs on what the County could do about the homeless. They were actively looking at it to see what could be done now. Fireworks was always an interesting question. The MOU did not require the Sheriff to cooperate with any single operation form Clark County. If he did have an operation he was cooperating with, that was what the MOU covered. When he was previously District Attorney Sheriff DeMeo at the time actively forced officers from Clark County and California to leave Nye County and not do their operations. It was a decision the Sherif needed to wrestle with.

Commissioner Strickland

said she was not happy the fireworks buyers in Nye County were being abused. People were allowed to transport fireworks anywhere they wanted. They were just not allowed to use them someplace else. She felt the situation was an emergency and Metro should be told they had no jurisdiction to stop people from buying out of Nye County. Commissioner Strickland also felt the shooter site should open more than just the days it was open now and permit fees would need to be raised so the shooter site could be more available for the people who purchased fireworks. Fire Chief Scott Lewis thought that could be accomplished and a meeting with the fireworks groups was needed to talk about the permitting. Jimmy Martinez from Pahrump Buildings and Grounds should also be part of the discussion as he was responsible for the shooter site. He noted there was always some pushback from the neighbors who lived in the area of the shooter site so that had to be taken into consideration also. Brian Kunzi advised an emergency was something that needed to be done in the next day or two and there was no time to give the proper notice on an agendized item. Something could not be done prospectively with adding additional shooter site times or things like that because that was not an emergency as it could be taken up at a different time.

Commissioner Strickland

asked to have more days considered this weekend for the shooter site to be opened and that be considered an emergency so the people purchasing the fireworks had the ability to use them. The additional dates would be July 5-7, 2024. She asked what days the shooter site was currently open for this weekend. Samantha Tackett said for Independence Day the shooter site dates were June 29-30, 2024, and July 1-4, 2024, 7:00 p.m. to midnight. July 2, 2024

Commissioner Ccx

thought it was illegal for Metro to take away something out of someone’s personal automobile without a warrant as that was private property.

Commissioner Boskovich

said this may not be something that could be addressed this year in time, but he thought moving forward it needed to be looked at because he did not believe Metro should be able to take people’s private property.

Mr. Kunzi

stated his understanding of the arrangement with the fireworks companies was they had to have somebody present and available at the shooter site. It would be an additional burden on the fireworks companies to have people available on those extra days. Tim Sutton added specific dates were also set forth in the contracts with the fireworks companies.

Commissioner Jabbour

agreed the extra days would be a burden.

Commissioner Carbone

said if the Comptroller was listening she may want to think about the town budget and see what was in it for this additional activity.

Sheriff McGill

stated mortars were categorically illegal in Clark County. He thought it would be an injustice to minimize the damage that was done in Las Vegas to so many homes that every year burned down as a result of these illegal fireworks. Helene Williams said out of state small non-profits came to Pahrump to buy fireworks for public displays as they could not afford to use the large professionals and she thought that was the County’s advantage from a tax base. Ammie Nelson thought it was entrapment to try to tag somebody and take a photograph of their license plate. She agreed with looking at extending the dates at the shooter site. Tim Bohannon said there were rules and laws in place regarding the carrying of fireworks and the use of them. Buying them in Nye was not breaking the law and he was not in favor of people taking property. July 2, 2024 SITTING AS THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TIMED ITEMS

Ms. Elliott

explained CDBG was not for an individual person to apply. It needed to come from a town, a business, or an advisory board with knowledge of the need and the ability to provide information about the project to her. She said the $700,000.00 grant had just been awarded and would be brought before the Board. When she was before the Board in November, 2023, there were two applications submitted, one for the Pahrump fairgrounds utilities upgrades and one for the Amargosa Park restrooms. Unfortunately the Amargosa Park restrooms application had been pulled because the entire project scope had changed from the time the application was submitted to the time the applications were being awarded. Ms. Elliott hoped the town submitted another application.

Commissioner Cox

noted Amargosa was a town with a legitimate town board and could make their own decisions. She wondered if it would be possible to get a portion of what it would take to build the restrooms from the grant or from other smaller grants available through something else and let the town board put forth some of their own money for it.

Ms. Elliott

said in most cases yes, but most grants did not allow supplanting, meaning if a budget for a project was set, using grant money instead was not allowed. July 2, 2024

Commissioner Strickland

said that was not part of this agenda, but Ms. Carroll could take that up with the director after the meeting.

Ms. Carroll

stated her support of this item. Tim Bohannon said there was not a lot of coding and oversight from a planning perspective outside of Pahrump and he thought that was something that was a little bit overdue.

Commissioner Jabbour

made a motion to approve AB-24-1, the application to abandon parcel numbers 18-307-02 and 18-307-03, and LD-24-3, a merger re-subdivision parcel map to combine the Assessor’s parcel numbers.

Commissioner Strickland

asked that the motion be amended to include the conditions of approval.

Commissioner Jabbour

amended his motion to approve AB-24-1, the application to abandon parcel numbers 18-307-02 and 18-307-03, and LD-24-3, a merger re subdivision parcel map to combine the Assessor’s parcel numbers, subject to the conditions listed within the staff report; seconded by Commissioner Carbone; 5 yeas. July 2, 2024 SITTING AS THE NYE COUNTY LICENSING AND LIQUOR BOARD

Sheriff McGill

assumed the Chair of the Licensing and Liquor Board. LIQUOR II. For Possible Action Presentation regarding Liquor License fees collected for Fiscal Year 2023-2024, and discussion and deliberation to consider the renewal of licenses for Fiscal Year 2024-2025 pursuant to Nye County Code 5.04.1 90(B)(1). Samantha Tackett said in the back-up was the report for what was collected for FY24 and what was collected for at least the first quarter of FY25. There was one license to address today. There were two unpaid licenses. One was for Core-Mark International, but payment had been received which was postmarked several days ago. It was just a mail issue so the recommendation was to renew that one. The other unpaid one was The Bounty Hunter, which had not paid for the first quarter of FY25. Ms. Tackett called both phone numbers on the license and neither were in service. She e-mailed both e mail addresses for the licensee as well and received no response. She had also asked

Sheriff McGill

to check the property to see if it was operational. Three checks were done last night and there was no activity. She advised this licensee had been before the Board and was perpetually late. They also had an unpaid gaming license. Ms. Tackett said it was up to the Board to renew that one and she recommended renewal of the others.

Commissioner Strickland

made a motion to approve all listed with the exception of 71, The Bounty Hunter; seconded by Commissioner Boskovich.

Commissioner Jabbour

asked if there were any instructions for the unpaid licensee at this time.

Sheriff McGill

said his recommendation on that one license would be to issue a show cause to determine again, like last year, whether there was any reason the license was not paid on time and how the Board wanted to address that as a result of the show cause.

Commissioner Strickland

asked if that was procedurally necessary or if the license could just be pulled.

Ms. Tackett

explained under Nye County Code Section 5.04.190 the Board had the option to renew the license or not. If it was not renewed due to non-payment, it was inactive or closed. Having a show cause was at the pleasure of the Board.

Sheriff McGill

asked Ms. Tackett if a certified letter would be sent to the licensee advising of the action.

Ms. Tackett

said she would send a letter and have a notice posted on the door.

Sheriff McGill

said this was a temporary liquor license approved for 90 days with the condition of the striping and lighting being completed on the property. He asked if that had been completed yet. Samantha Tackett said she received an update form the licensee as of June 26, 2024, with proof that the restriping and improvements at the parking lot had been scheduled with Morales Construction and they were just waiting to be put on the schedule. She had also been in contact with Fire Chief Scott Lewis regarding the fire inspections. A brief walk through was conducted, but a full inspection would be needed when they were closer to being opened.

Sheriff McGill

said since that condition was not fulfilled yet this item was asking for an extension of that 90-day temporary license.

Commissioner Strickland

made a motion to approve; seconded by Commissioner Carbone; 6 yeas. Lorina Dellinger was not present.

Sheriff McGill

said the background investigation was completed and the recommendation was the license be approved. Nick Ablahad was present.

Commissioner Carbone

made a motion to approve the package liquor license for IV Market; seconded by Commissioner Jabbour; 6 yeas. The Board was in recess until 1:45 p.m. July 2, 2024

Commissioner Cox

was not present. SITTING AS THE NYE COUNTY BOARD OF HIGHWAY COMMISSIONERS

Commissioner Carbone

assumed the Chair of the Board of Highway Commissioners. 10. For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation regarding the General Road Report by the Public Works Director on General Road Maintenance, Gravel Road Maintenance, Asphalt Patching, Weed Mowing, and direction regarding public works projects. Assistant Public Works Director Beau Gott provided updates on the activities of the crews and projects in the County. Karen Waldman asked if the report could be done in the order that it was actually submitted because she had been flipping back and forth trying to follow along. She did not feel the roads were as deplorable as some said, but she would like to see more money go to the roads as opposed to some of the other things that were getting funded. She appreciated the work that was being done.

Commissioner Cox

was present. Ammie Nelson gave kudos to the crews who fixed Mickey going toward Manse. She said Wilson was horrible and really needed to be fixed.

Commissioner Cox

thanked the crews for taking care of her requests and said the areas along Deerskin were pretty big.

Commissioner Boskovich

said Doral Court had been an issue for many months and asked to be told when the crews got to it.

Commissioner Jabbour

asked about the school crosswalks striping. He said there was less than a month to do that before school started as well as a window of opportunity because of the weather. He asked Mr. Gott when he thought the crews would be mobilized to the north.

Mr. Gott

said three to four weeks. Their first northern trip would be to Amargosa to do the two miles of Valley View Road, and as far north as Gabbs would be the next stop. He did not see any problem with getting everything done in the northern district before the cold weather hit. He explained the durapatchers could not be used up north until the temperatures were higher.

Commissioner Strickland

said there was a no parking sign on the ground at Squaw Valley and Zolin Road. She did not know if it was Public Works’ responsibility. July 2, 2024 10. Cont’d. For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation regarding the - — General Road Report by the Public Works Director on General Road Maintenance, Gravel Road Maintenance, Asphalt Patching, Weed Mowing, and direction regarding public works projects.

Commissioner Carbone

said David between Mesquite and Bell Vista was a bus route, although he did not know if it was a dedicated route. He suggested keeping that road as clean as possible too as it was getting rough again. SITTING AS THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

Commissioner Strickland

assumed the Chair of the Board of County Commissioners. CLERK

Commissioner Jabbour

made a motion to appoint Ian Guthridge to the Nye County Wildlife Management Board of Trustees to a term to expire June, 2027; seconded by

Commissioner Carbone

; 5 yeas. DISTRICT ATTORNEY

Commissioner Carbone

made a motion to accept the grant award in the amount of $15,000.00, execute the sub-award, and fund to 10340 Grants, seconded by

Commissioner Jabbour

; 5 yeas.

Commissioner Carbone

made a motion to accept the sub-award grant; seconded by

Commissioner Boskovich

; 5 yeas. RECORDER

Commissioner Jabbour

made a motion to accept.

Ms. Sligar

advised there was over $600,000.00 in this account right now and over $300,000.00 in the Recorder’s map fund so there were plenty of funds available. They were not actively spending the tech fund on anything else at this point so they had more than enough money to do this project.

Commissioner Boskovich

seconded the motion to accept; 5 yeas. 16. Reopened For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation to accept or - — reject a “Subdivision Participation and Release Form” regarding opioid defendant Kroger pursuant to the One Nevada Agreement on Allocation of Opioid Recoveries (“One Nevada Agreement”) which itself was previously agreed to by this Commission for participation in a settlement with the State of Nevada and opioids retailer defendant Kroger as listed in Exhibit C to the One Nevada Agreement. Brian Kunzi explained the motion needed to be to accept or reject the Subdivision Participation and Release Form on Allocation of Opioid Recoveries.

Commissioner Carbone

made a motion to accept the Subdivision Participation and Release Form on Allocation of Opioid Recoveries; seconded by Commissioner Jabbour. Maryan Hollis said during a previous discussion on the opioid recovery money held in April, 2024, someone wanted to identify a Commissioner champion and Ms. Hollis asked if that happened.

Commissioner Strickland

said it had not.

Ms. Hollis

said there was an item on that date as well about an infrastructure assessment to develop a baseline data set of essential public health services available in Nye County and asked if anyone was in charge of that.

Commissioner Strickland

said she could not answer that question and probably should not be going back and forth.

Commissioner Carbone

made a motion to adopt the tax rates as noted for FY2024- 2025, Resolution No. 2024-22; seconded by Commissioner Boskovich; 5 yeas.

Commissioner Carbone

made a motion to approve as written; seconded by

Commissioner Jabbour

; 5 yeas. July 2, 2024 PUBLIC PETITIONER

Commissioner Strickland

said the Pahrump Public Lands committee supported this endeavor.

Commissioner Jabbour

said he appreciated Mr. Folks being proactive. Eddie Jim said BITD needed to get with the people whose roads they were using. He said people had been threatened with arrest and have been prevented from getting to their homes until the race went through. Robert Adams, speaking as a member of the Public Lands Advisory Committee, Pahrump Tourism, and the Southern Nye County Conservation District, said BITD had always done a great job. Sometimes they had to be worked with after the fact as far as mitigation, but they were responsive. He agreed with Mr. Jim about the need to provide for access.

Commissioner Jabbour

made a motion to accept as written; seconded by Commissioner Carbone; 5 yeas. July 2, 2024

Commissioner Cox

was reading earlier this morning was irrelevant as it was from Colorado. Laws vary from state to state, but felons could not vote from prison in Colorado either. Ms. Okawa explained if someone was in prison awaiting trial, had not yet been convicted of a crime, was a U.S. citizen with a valid ID, and had registered to vote they were allowed to vote. She thought perhaps that was where the confusion was. Linda Clark said the prison thing was a problem, but she thought it would be resolved. She said there were a lot of things going on in Pahrump, a lot of which was not very good. She felt Pah rump was being used as the dumping ground for everything that nobody else in Nevada wanted such as solar, the waste thing, and the gloves thing. Tim Bohannon talked about the different meanings of Independence Day and the different ways to celebrate it. Ammie Nelson said she had called to get an explanation on how ICE operated. She learned it was a federal program where federal marshals brought busloads of prisoners who were illegals from Las Vegas who had to stand trial but they did not have room for them and brought them back to Las Vegas for hearings or trials. If they were released, they were released in Las Vegas. She said her biggest concern was the fact that the County supported this kind of a program as it did not benefit the County at all and was costing money in the long run because there were deputies who could be on the street that were assigned to these specialties. As to the homeless, Ms. Nelson said giving the Sheriff the money to take care of them would be of benefit to the County because the homeless people were really costing a lot of money. ______________day ______________________________ July 2, 2024 person.) Action will not be taken on the matters considered during this period until specifically included on an agenda as an action item (SECOND). Herman Lewis said he heard Sheriff McGill say he did not have enough resources and deputies to put people out for public safety on the 4th of July and other events. If Sheriff McGill scheduled the details so there were enough deputies he would not need to use overtime except in an emergency. Mr. Lewis said the Sheriffs Department had millions of dollars and the people of Nye County were not being well served.

Commissioner Cox

clarified her statement about voting from prison was a general statement about what was happening in other states and did not apply to Nevada yet, but she believed Nevada was on the line just like Colorado. She did not misstate anything and was not going to bow to all of the demands in the letter. Commissioner Cox then talked about the ICE prisoners and how she thought they should be put in the CCA prison if it was not working out for the County. As to the homeless, she said it would not cost hundreds of thousands of dollars out of the Sheriffs budget as he did not have that money, but putting a homeless person on a bus could not cost more than $100.00, which was less than housing them here.

Commissioner Boskovich

reminded everyone that each of the Commissioners were very passionate about what they believed was the best for the County and its citizens. They could have differences of opinion and still be very civil at the end of the day.

Commissioner Strickland

complimented Jimmy Martinez and his crew for the work done at the Eye. As to the MediWaste presentation, she asked the public to provide questions or information in writing so the Commissioners could review them.

Commissioner Strickland

adjourned the meeting. APPROVED this ATTEST: Of , 2024. If,. k_-&‘

Chair Conty

Clerk I Deputy I am requesting that this and the two Tables be made part of the public record. During the April 10th meeting of the RPC, there were 7 total items for PossibLe Action. 4 of the 7 were deemed FinaL Action for the RPC, including the MediWaste business, and a property that Watt Turner was the Agent-Applicant for. The 3 that were set to go before the BOCC were all just for Zone Changes, including a zone change for a Mini-Storage facility. Does this seem odd to anyone else but me? The RPC can somehow make decisions about a Medical Waste Treatment operation that will create a slew of environmental problems, and an agenda item that one of its own commissioners is the Agent-Applicant, but not zoning changes or something involving a mini-storage facility? I see in your policies that the RPC shall be solely responsible for decisions on all applications for a CUR At what point should this policy be revised to encompass projects such as the MediWaste facility that clearly need more oversight? I think a Medical Waste Facility involving another state bringing It medical waste PLUS waste from other states is pretty darn serious and should have had at least as much oversight by the BOCC as a zoning change for a mini-storage facility. You want to know where MediWaste was misleading on the CUP so you can rescind it? There are lots of items to choose from, but let’s just take this one: 7. The conditional use will not involve uses, activities, processes, material and equipment and conditions of operation that are detrimental to any persons, property, or the general welfare Their response was that the process does not use combustion and reduces harmful emissions. Is this lying by omission? EVERY aspect of this process has detrimental effects to persons and property and the general welfare. I have two handouts that list both the Sources and Examples, and Categories of Health Care Waste. I urge you to read through these both. It can come from Medical facilities, Operating rooms, Veterinary Clinics and Labs. It can include Cytotoxic Waste, Chemical Waste, and Radioactive Waste. Does the pyrolysis process remove these, especially Radioactive Waste? Are you aware that MediWaste’s EL Paso facility has a shredder so it can process pathologicaiwaste? The shredder renders body parts unrecognizable before the pulp is treated along with the rest of the medical waste. Talk about dangerous AND disgusting! ATrACHMENT1 tkjre4l Table 1 Categories of healthcare waste. Waste Categories Descriptions and Examples Hazardous HCW Used or unused sharps, e.g., intravenous, hypodermic or other needles, syringes with Sharps waste attached needles, auto-disable syringes, infusion sets, scalpels, knives, blades, pipettes, broken glass and vials Waste suspected of containing pathogens and presenting a risk of disease transmission, e.g., laboratory culture and microbiological stocks, waste contaminated with blood and Infectious waste other body fluids, waste including excreta and other materials that have been in contact . with infected patients with highly infectious diseases in isolated wards Human and animal organs, tissues or fluids, body parts, fetuses, placentas, unused blood Pathological waste . products, contaminated animal carcasses Expired pharmaceuticals, unused, contaminated vaccines and drugs items contaminated Pharmaceutical waste . by or containing pharmaceuticals Waste containing substances with genotoxic properties (mutagenic, carcinogenic or Cytotoxic waste . teratogenic substances), e.g., cytotoxic drugs used in cancer therapy and their metabohtes . . . Waste containing chemicals, e.g., expired or unused disinfectants or laboratory reagents, Chemical waste unused, solvents, waste with high heavy metal content, such as batteries, blood pressure gauges, mercury-containing equipment and devices (e.g., old thermometers) Waste containing radioactives, e.g., unused radiotherapy liquids, radioactive diagnostic Radioactive waste material, contaminated packages, absorbent paper or glassware, urine and excreta from patients tested or treated with radionuclides, radioactive sealed sources Non-hazardous or general Waste, which does not pose any particular biological, chemical, physical or radioactive HCW hazard Table 2 KoA i:;7 .w”0 Sources and examples of HCW. Medications, Chemicals Sharp Medical Source Infectious Waste and Potentially Toxic Non-Hazardous Waste Instruments Waste Empty bottles, non-blood Bandages, dressings, Broken thermometers . Intravenous needles, intravenous tubing, non- Medical gauze, gloves and masks and blood pressure hypodermic needles, blood diapers and bags, department contaniinated with blood gauges; split medications broken ampules and vials packaging, flowers or body fluids and disinfectants paper, food scraps Masks, gowns, gloves, Package uncontaminated gauze and medical . Operating Needles, blades, scalpels, Anesthetic gases, medical clothing and equipment contaminated surgical power tools disinfectant products . room medical personal with blood and body • protective equipment fluids; organs and tissues Anesthetic gases, Package, containers, disinfectants, broken paper, uncontaminated Dressings, bandages, . Needles, broken glass blood pressure gauges masks, gloves, hats, shoe masks, gloves, sample • and vials, pipettes, Petri and thermometers, split covers and gowns, empty . Veterinary tubes and containers dishes, slides and cover medicaments and bottles, empty bottles, climcs contaminated with blood slips, needles sets, vaccines, dental non-blood intravenous • and body fluids; infected blades, scalpels, syringes amalgam fillings, tubing, non-blood animal carcasses vaccines; contaminated diapers and bags, paper, urine and excreta animal food scraps Blood and body fluids, Broken thermometers, microbiological cultures, Package, containers, chemicals, such as sample tubes and paper, uncontaminated Broken glass, vials, methanol, fixatives, Laboratory containers contaminated masks, gloves, hats, shoe pipettes and slides formalin, toluene, with blond nd body covers nd inwns cmntv