January 21, 2026

January 21 2026 , Pursuant to NRS, a Joint Meeting of the Nye County Board of Commissioners, Nye County Board of Highway Commissioners, Nye County Licensing and Liquor Board, Nye County Board of Health, as the Governing Body of the Unincorporated Town of Pahrump, as the Governing Body of the Unincorporated Towns of Beatty, Gabbs, and Manhattan, and as the Board of Trustees for the Pahrump Pool District, was held at 10:00 am. on January 21, 2026, in the Commissioners’ Chambers, 2100 E. Walt Williams Drive, Pahrump, Nevada 89048. Ron Commissioner Boskovich, Chair John Commissioner Koenig, Vice Chair Bruce Commissioner Jabbour, Commissioner Debra Commissioner Strickland, Commissioner Ian Commissioner Bayne, Commissioner Brian Kunzi, District Attorney Con Freidhof, Ex-Officio Clerk of the Board Joseph McGill, Sheriff Brett Waggoner, County Manager Also present: Lorina Dellinger, Assistant County Manager; Samantha Tackett, Administrative Manager; Zena Teich, Comptroller; Tamara Chastain, Deputy Clerk Not Present: Joseph McGill, Sheriff

The Pledge was recited.

comment will be for all matters off the agenda. Public comment must be limited to matters that are within the jurisdiction and control of the Board of County Commissioners. Action will not be taken on the matters considered during this period until specifically included on an agenda as an action item (FIRST). Joe Burdzinski I like to make an announcement about something new, which I think is exciting here for Nye County, and it’s going to be the Nye County Republican Club. Nye County has a very large population of republican voters, and we’re going to be doing a number of things. We’re going to have a guest speaker luncheon series that’s on Wednesdays at noon, and we’ll have our first luncheon will be next week, on Wednesday, with Greg Hafen. We’re also going to be having our Lieutenant Governor come for our luncheon and some other dignitaries here in Nye County. The purpose of the club is 3 things support and promote our elected Republicans and educate the public to understand what our republican philosophies are and what our elected Republicans are doing. We’d like to invite everyone to come to our first event, which will be this Saturday. It’s going to be a rally on the corner of 160 and 372, and it’s going to be to support President Trump and law enforcement. At that time, we’re also going to January 21 2026 , have the opportunity, if you want to donate $1 0, you will get an official trump hat, or for a $5 donation you will get a trump T-shirt. Thank you very much, and God bless America. Ramsay Devereux Here we are, all sons and daughters of the most high God, all of us, not just me but every single one of us. We’ve been put on this earth, and it’s a test to see if you’re going to obey his family rules, which are the Ten Commandments, and I said that three months ago, exactly on this day. I talked about his name and why it’s holy and why it means in pictograph Hebrew behold the eternal creator who’s holding everything together. But his name has been stolen, and his Sabbath has been stolen, and his deeds have been stolen. His deeds are right behind me. This is a picture of Noah’s ark, which is in Turkey. It’s the remnants. It slid down the hill, got covered in lava it’s been there. It was discovered 44 years ago by Ron Wyatt. It’s been quiet, nobody wants to talk about it cause it means a whole lot. It’s Satan’s in charge of this planet we live in, the land of the enemy, and the king is coming very soon. God put me into this town four years ago at the beginning of the seven-year tribulation. To be flat out honest with you, it’s been hard to convince anybody of that four years ago, but now it’s getting a whole lot easier because of all the crap going on. So, all I can say is if you want to see me years from now, I’ll be with him, and to get there, you just have to obey the commandments, so if you want to know about the findings of Noah’s ark, Sodom and Gomorrah, Mount Sinai, and the Red Sea crossing site, and the Joseph distribution center. It’s all there, it’s all visible, it’s all look up Ron Wyatt or grab a brochure, it’s out in the lobby along with a card that will remind you of his name and the Ten Commandments. So that you know, I’m only nervous because I want to do a good job for him. You know all you guys, I mean, only a handful are going to be there because nobody wants to obey his commandments. I’ve never been able to talk anybody into it, so we’ll see what happens. God bless you all. Ammie Nelson- I just want to reiterate, and it might make a little more impact knowing what’s been going on in the country that we have to ban Sharia Law. Sharia law is something the radical Muslims use to make women objects and something that men own, and it’s spreading across the country. You know, President Trump is talking about banning Sharia Law, and every state should do it themselves. I don’t know if he can do it, but it’s something real to look at, and it’s not a religious thing; it’s something that they live by, but it’s not a religion. I think we should have an item to ban Sharia Law, and nobody wants to bring it forward. I can get together and with the with the manager and figure out how to put it on the agenda. But it’s very important, and once again I think it should be done right away, and I’ll talk more at the meeting. Diane Davis- I wanted to tell you the story of a man named Mike. He’s an American vet who was also a homeless man here in Pahrump. Over three years ago, he wound up in a hospital with a double hernia. The visiting surgeon told him that if you don’t have surgery soon, you will die because his hernias were that bad. But trying to arrange doctor’s appointments, testing etcetera when you have no phone number, and you have no address, it’s very difficult to do. Mike ended up coming to me for help. I was able to give him a place to stay till he could get on his feet and get his health back. Three January 21 2026 , years ago, he came and started staying on my property. He has since then not only had his surgery and got healthy again, but he’s bought himself a trailer, and he’s got it completely paid off. This is a trailer that is complete with windows, doors, wheels, the whole 9 yards, fully intact inside, and he and his dog have been living there, meeting his responsibilities and such all this time. However, it is now brought to my attention by a code enforcement officer that this board has deemed that people can’t live in recreational vehicles. I don’t know if you’re aware of it or not, but the general census, actually, the last time the true census was taken, there were 496,000 people in this country living in recreational vehicles full-time. That estimated number now is anywhere, depending on who’s taking it, anywhere from a million people to 3 million people across this country. People are being forced; a lot of them have chosen this lifestyle, but a lot of them are being forced to go this route because rents have gotten so high, even here in Pahrump. If people on Social Security can’t pay them. Buying a house, we’ve got houses being built all over all of a sudden. I don’t know who’s going to be buying them; people I know can’t even afford the rent, much less buy a house. I’m here asking you to please reconsider enforcing this ordinance because by next month, I have 5 seniors over in my area. I’m not talking about everybody else in town, but I’m not sure if there are that many that are close to me. There are others, too, that are going to be out in the streets with no place to go because they can’t live in their trailers, motor homes, or fifth wheels anymore. I’m facing a $1200 fine because I have not thrown somebody out in the street. Tabatha Wolfe- Just so you know, I’m extremely emotional, so I’ll try to squeeze it in as best I can. I’ve been a victim of a harasser, a serial harasser. I’ve been to court twice. He’s weaponized the system against me. I proved in court that the man had perjured himself, with multiple other victims coming forward. There are body and footage from the detectives’ interview. There is also a criminal case open against this man as well. Our Pro Tem Judge, Mr. Foley, allowed the protection order to stay against me when I proved with my GPS that I was never even at that location. He kept the extended protection order against him as well, absolutely. But our Pro Tem judge is not taking perjury as a serious thing. I proved that the entire thing was false at the first hearing. I was blocked from being able to enter my video evidence, so at the second hearing to do another dissolve, I showed up with photos with the time stamps and everything proving that he’s the one who’s stalking me. This is a man who is a neighbor. He tried to block that evidence as well, and I’m flabbergasted. I don’t understand why the man chose to weaponize the system against me, and I was blocked from being able to prove this evidence. Now, in those photos I showed for a fact, with the detective I subpoenaed, the detective that perjury had been done and that I was never at that location of that false TPO. I don’t understand what’s happening. I know that this man has used the system to discredit me so that if he catches me somewhere, he can harm me. There’s evidence of him going after people with knives, and there are multiple people who have tried to come over to my home, and he comes out of his yard and harasses them. He has Protection Orders on him from 2001 to 2019. The man has weaponized our judicial system, and your Honor Foley is not taking this seriously. It has been proven in court January 21 2026 , that he perjured himself. Thank you, please, but let’s do something. I’ve heard that I’m not the only victim that Judge Foley has put a protection order against others as well. I don’t know that person personally. I found out throughIaw enforcement. So please let’s do something, let’s talk to him, because our system is being weaponized against the victims. The limit to our being able to put evidence. Do you know you can go down to the civil court clerk, and they won’t take your evidence? By the way, the man who’s done this to me and continues to harass me with this criminal case against me is not showing one bit of evidence. I’m happy to give you guys the case numbers; it’s very blatant. Thank you all, please help. Patricia Robb- I understand the water district has formed a committee regarding the zombie lots, utility-challenged lots. I am not part of that, so I am free to speak up on behalfofthousands ofowners, and I will not back down until something is a solution. I know they’re trying to work on something. I don’t know if it’s a diversion tactic, or I don’t know if they will actually come up with anything or not. I do hope they come up with something. Nevertheless, I want to let you know that Great Basin Water Company has indicated they have nothing to do with zoning. Public Utilities Commission of Nevada says the same thing. Regardless ofthe tariffs, the planning department, which you tried to say is the one to go after, told us this is not in their purview. For being a rural town where a lot of people moved for more open space, there sure are a lot of restrictions, in a lot of cases, worse than some major cities. We already know alternative utilities exist, including above-ground septic. Notjust to say that people cannot live on their own lot is indeed depriving them of four of their rights: the property rights of possession, right of control, right of enjoyment, and right of exclusion have all been stripped away from these people. The only one they have left out of their property rights is the right of disposition to sell it. But they feel guilty selling it to anyone else, and they’ve been screwed, or even if they didn’t, they bought it long ago, inherited it, or got it from a tax auction. I said long ago, this needs to stop; it cannot keep going. When I asked the planning department can you have a yard sale on your own lot no you cannot. Can you have a scavenger hunt on your own lot? No, you cannot. Can you create a labyrinth walk away with inspirational spiritual messages and maybe a park to relax? No, you cannot. Can you stargaze on your property? Yes, as long as it’s for the night, have a picnic on your lot, yes, you can, have a picnic, just take the trash out with you. Can you have a fire pit on your lot? No, you cannot. Can you put a fence up on your lot? Yes, you can. Well, what good is a fence when everybody’s going to come along and possibly knock it out? Regarding the situation wfth all of these people getting code violations because they’re living in an RV on somebody else’s lot is ridiculous. Diane Southworth- It’s Community Outreach time, starting with a report I got from the schools. At this point, we have 138 students who are considered unsheltered. Breaking that down, there are 38 that we don’t have any idea where they’re living or how they’re living. So that’s what I think is a major problem that needs to be addressed. I don’t know whether we can do anything here. We do have funding assistance for reproductive health services, for health exams, birth control, STD testing, and vasectomies, so that’s January 21 2026 , something. If somebody needs it, we have that available. We also have mental health and first aid health, a free course, and you can contact Nye CC for that and get some help if you need it. We also have our want to get paid to learn; we have free training courses for hazardous waste, general industrial training, etcetera, CPR, first aid, and so on. Those are all things that you can do to help yourselves. We have game night, which is for 14 to 22-year-olds, where they getthem offtheir phones and play games. They have a lot of fun with it, and it’s good for the kids. It’s on Wednesdays at the Nye Community Coalition. We also have some information about Narcan, how do shape your community resources. If you want to do a survey, we have self-management programs. On the third Wednesday, we have a monthly luncheon for homeless outreach event from I 0 I :00 that’s at the Methodist Church, and they help people with clothing, showers, haircuts, hygiene kits, and health insurance, ID, Social Security, and other services. So that’s a good one to know about. We have a list of where you can go to dispose of your unused drugs that you’re not taking anymore and information about the Good Samaritan act which also gives you an indication of you can’t get in trouble for trying to help somebody who’s having a problem with drugs, alternative pain medication, pain management and I’ve used this one to help myself. Then we have another program called ACIS Tree Genealogy, and that’s to help people understand why certain things are happening. We would love to have anybody who wants to attend. They can Zoom in, they can contact us, and we’d be happy to have them. Linda Clark One thing I have been asking for the last month and a half. When I come to this meeting, where is the proposal for the cost of the fairgrounds? Are you hiding it from us? Do you not have it? Can one of us go over and knock on their door and ask them for it? I don’t even know the name of the company. Was that ever put out? It would be nice to know because we want to know. Second, is there any status on the fireworks? What are you going to do with that situation? You know it’s causing the problem over there in that area, and I know it doesn’t bother you because again, it’s not in your backyard? The other thing I want to know, real quick like. I want to know why, especially Debra, why does she hate Mountain Falls. Why? Her name is all over all of this stuff that’s no good for that community. The other thing I want to know is when did we become the town of Debra? Beth Borysewich- I just want to remind everyone that the Pahrump Town Board Committee is still collecting signatures to get the question on the ballot on whether or not Pahrump should adopt the Town Board form of government. Also listed on our Facebook page, over at the Pahrump Town Board Committee, there’s a list of different locations we’re going to be that you can stop by and sign a petition. We also have similar petitions in different businesses, and you can just stop in one of the businesses. County Financial has two offices, and they have a bunch of petitions as well as the Kawasaki dealer. Those guys are really funny, so go in and have yourself a little entertainment while you sign the petition. January 21 2026 , Maryann Hollis- Following the NDOT presentation at the last meeting, which, in my opinion, was nothing but a regurgitated word salad of four years ago, at which the public was denied an opportunity to speak. I’ll keep this personal. I was not allowed to address my issues, which I’ve spoken for four years. When my district Rep had her opportunity to comment, her concern was to increase the speed limit in an area far outside of her district and far outside of Pahrump. Commissioner Strickland made no reference to a letter approved by this board in August, item number 20 to N DOT, specifically addressing the dangerous exits from Mountain Falls. You did nothing but gush over Mr. BoIling’s efforts, and you did nothing in bringing the issue forward with NDOT. Thanks for nothing. As to that letter, I requested a copy of the final letter. Why? So that I could follow up with NDOT to the representative to whom it was sent, and the typical jumping through the hoops began. I was referred to the P01. I made a request, and after 2 extensions and three months, the third one was a winner. There are no documents responsive to this request. So again, nothing shocking hardly. My suggestion for a citizen and ombudsman to be present at these NDOT meetings here, for which no minutes are kept, will go nowhere. So nowhere joins nothing, except for your moving the fairground forward with the influence you exert as liaison to the OHV and now the arena. I’ve watched it and asked myself, when will those same conversations ever be possible with your constituents who are directly affected by this? Thanks, but no thanks for nothing and nowhere. What’s the definition of insanity? Repeating an action and expecting change. Real change requires new actions requiring a change in representation, documented accountability, and certified transparency, and real conversations with constituents of Pahrump. When do we ever really have a say in anything? Never and never now join nothing and nowhere. Tynia Dickson On January 30th, The Sassy Trainer and personally trained service dogs had a graduation, it was our ninth and potentially our last one at Sanders Family Winery. So that’s kind of sad for us. But it was the largest graduation to date; we graduated 7 teams, two of which are veteran teams, and we recognized two teams that are on their way with obedience titles. That event was around $1200, including the vest, food, and things like that. That was probably 90% funded by the Sassy Trainer. So, I want to leave the graduation thing with you, and I also wanted to thank you for your assistance in the past. In 2024, we got a grant through this Board in June. In August, we submitted closing forms. We were informed later that they were incomplete by November of 2025, and we got a notification that they might be complete. Back in 2024 ofAugust, we applied for another grant, which we have not gotten on the agenda. So that’s kind of our update on what’s going on with The Sassy Trainer and personally trained service dogs. Matthew Winterhawk I am here because I care about Nye County, and I want to say all of it, so from Tonopah, Round Mountain, Pahrump, Amargosa, Beatty, Gabs, and the smaller communities that don’t always have a microphone. I want to speak honestly today with respect, but what I’m seeing across Nye County right now is not just frustration with individual issues; it’s something way more dangerous. Communities are January 21 2026 , pitted against each other. Neighbors are being told implicitly and explicitly that someone else is the problem. Resources only move if another town loses. This is not who Nye County is, and it is not sustainable. I’m hearing calls from residents in person across 10,200 square miles of Nye County personally myself. Calls for forensic audits, calls for even a receivership of a county if the trust cannot be restored. I want it to be clear that those calls do not come from hostility; they come from people who feel unheard, uncertain, and disconnected from the decision-making that affects their everyday life in Nye County. Nye County is unincorporated by design; that structure requires extra transparency, extra fairness, and extra care because when people don’t have local councils or mayors, the board is the closest line of accountability that they have. I also want to say something that matters every community in Nye County: they all matter without that combined tax base, including the C tax contributions for tourism, their development there is no Nye County. No single town carries this county alone, and no town deserves to feel like an afterthought inside of Nye County. So, I’m asking for accountability; it’s not disrespect to anyone. I’m asking for clarity; it’s not an attack on anyone. I want to understand where the money goes, who decides that, and how the priorities are set in the most basic form of civic engagement today. I’m standing here today not to accuse any board not to inflamed tensions, but to offer something that feels missing right now, a willingness to sit down across every community inside Nye County without labels, without defenses, and work toward solutions that restore the trust inside of this beautiful county. I understand that, myself being a candidate, might make people cautious, but that’s why I’m choosing to speak today as a Nevadan first. Someone who is willing to listen, absorb the criticism, and help bring people, Nevadans, back to the table even when it’s uncomfortable. Nye County deserves leadership that unites rather than divides us, explains rather than deflects, and moves forward instead of letting communities turn on one another. We are all Nevadans, and I believe that that can still happen here, but it requires openness, consistency, and visible follow-through so that residents can see that their concerns don’t just echo in chambers. Tami Pitman So, a request to rezone something in our neighborhood uncovered an interesting glitch in planning. They are misreading the NRS when notifying abutters to respond to our rezoning. They claim the builder’s plans are not available until three days before the actual meeting. The NRS actually states a minimum of three days, so they can give it to you the day you walk in, the day it’s filed, but they’re saying a minimum, and that’s the NRS, but we’re being stonewalled and saying oh you can’t get it until 3 days. We can’t craft a response with full information without what we need. I mean, otherwise we may as well just blow bubble gum. I think that we need to re-address, giving people the information they need so that they can craft intelligent responses. I listened to something this morning, a Sheriffwas saying thatthey have had a huge drop in drug busts and overdoses. Well, you know what, since the border was closed, I would love to hear from our Sheriff to tell us if there’s been a drop in drug-related calls and EMS about the drop in overdoses. January 21 2026 , Renee Jones- I am the Medical Director here at the outpatient medical-assisted treatment for methadone here in town. I also wanted to let everybody know that we did expand our services, and it’s a free 24-hour drug intervention. I just want to let you guys know that I got cards here if anybody needs them, and the Sherifl’s Office is aware as well. Rich Lauver- I am here because last night I had 20 athletes, they were all youth players, and we’re sitting in brand new batting cages. I don’t know if it’s you that gets the credit, I don’t know if it’s Jimmy that gets credit, it’s a combo that gets the credit. But I was thinking this could never be done before, right now. In other words, most of you don’t know, but 4 batting cages, over the big scheme of things, it’s fairly inexpensive. It’s cheaper than fields, the maintenance is minimal, and right now it’s off-season. Someone decided to design this and get this rolling for us. They’re just one group, and our one group right now is spending I 20 hours with youth under the age of I 8 at batting cages, working on a sport, learning work ethics, learning teamwork, all ofthese things; 120 hours are now not spent somewhere else. Who knows where else? But I can tell you that I know what those hours are being done, and I know it’s changing those athletes, and it brings pride to them in the community. I’m simply here to say thank you your job is difficult that decision was a bang for your buck and as a taxpayer I would support anything like that 1 00% across the board and it’s not just because it’s my players there’s also Little League kids out there it’s just lights are on in the evening Friday night Saturday night Sunday nights the whole way through they’re very well designed very well built very minimal maintenance and right now kids are getting better at something that’s teamwork because of what you’ve done. Thomas Santanasio- I see that some of you were sworn in on January 6, under the Constitution ofAmerica. Unfortunately, you were reelected by the people for whom you have no oath, in my opinion. You fail to respond to anyone and make no effort to resolve any of our issues as follows: C sales of the zombie lots and C’s tax collection. This will only hire more people when they realize that their lots are worthless. By the way, Pahrump is named the worst place to live in Nevada. Why? Don’t answer. Make zombie lots available to adjoining lot owners. I don’t know what’s happening with that. Rezone the lots as they were in 2007, so that we can build tiny homes, mobile homes etcetera. Some of you own water rights. I always thought that God created the earth, not you. I believe that my property goes down to the center of the earth, and I own everything below it, not you. as well as entitled to the privacy of my land as high as 400 feet. I see that you no longer show how long a delinquent property has been delinquent. I brought this up at one of the previous meetings. This is because you finally woke up and realized how ridiculous and embarrassing this is. Then, in some cases, you took 22 years to wake up to do the tax lien sale. because I don’t get any answers here or from the water commissioner, the governor, or bid for assets. I’m forced to continue my own one-man campaign to right your wrongs as I see fit. I hope that one day you people will wake up. January 21 2026 , Dawn Duncan- I am a resident of Nye County. I’m here today to speak on Crystal Community’s concerns regarding the failing state of our main road in Crystal, also known as the Crystal Gateway Road. Heavy commercial and industrial truck traffic is tearing up our road faster than it can be repaired. On January 15th, 2026, thousands of taxpayer dollars were spent on expensive hot patch repairs to our severely damaged, heavy haul abused road. Yet within 24 hours, all of those hard efforts and well-done repairs completed by our Road Department were utterly destroyed by the heavy tractor- trailer traffic. The main roadway, as many of you know, was not and is not constructed to withstand the weight of heavy commercial truck traffic. what we need are solutions and I have three that I’d like to share with you: #1 immediately replace the weight restriction on traffic limiting vehicle combined weightto less than 11,000 lbs as has been done from the Bella Vista highway here in Nye county; #2 enforce stated roadways ingress and egress and the plan of development as set forth by GridLiance and their General Development Agreement with Nye County. of which the crystal main road is not one of the approved roadways for such; #3 developed future GDA’s with an eye towards requiring those agreements to avoid the Crystal Gateways main road or to rebuild it to withstand the heavy truck traffic specifications as was done by Nye County when they required the Sunshine Valley Solar project to rebuild and repave both Anvil and Power Line Roads in Amargosa Valley. Whichever choice of correction is made, please know that it must be done swiftly, as the situation is urgent. The harm that our residents face on that dangerous road daily is unacceptable and life-threatening. In closing, on behalf of myself and the residents of Crystal, we’d like to personally thank our District I Commissioner, Bruce Jabbour, for his emails and calls. We’d also like to thank Mr. Brett Wagner and a special thanks out to Vice Chair Commissioner Koenig for taking the time to visit our small community for walking the approximate one mile of severely damaged roadway with me and for attending our Crystal community meeting. Your service, sir, as Vice Chair was deeply appreciated. Eric Oakes- I am a resident of Crystal, and I want to back up everything Dawn just said. I want to thank John Koenig for coming out super appreciate that. We’ve had side-by- side poker runs come through town. I live on a corner of two unpaved roads where I was dusted out all day long. I think it was over I 00 vehicles, and from what I understand, that was permitted. There are also those off-road truck races that come through. There are good off-roaders, and there are bad off-roaders. I own a pre-runner truck. I’m all about off-road, but it doesn’t belong inside our town. The power lines, when the race came through, a bunch of people that go out to DuMont Dunes brought their quads, their dirt bikes, our town was dusted all day long. We have an elderly population that comes with the delicacies of being an elderly person. One woman had COPD, and she was hunkered down inside her house, and the dust was still getting in with all her doors and windows shut. I don’t want these things permitted to run through our town or within a reasonable amount of space from our town. And again, our roads, as Dawn said, are getting, I’ve seen better roads in Iraq. January 21 2026 , Zach Reineat- I am the new owner of Miss Kathy’s Short Branch in Crystal. We call it Miss Kathy’s in her honor because it’s the place that she loved. We don’t have any plans on reopening in the very near future, but I will tell you that we are putting a new roof on the building very shortly. So, it will not be a burning-down, collapsing mess for a lot longer. I don’t need to say much else; these last two folks summarized how I feel as well, and I just want to say that we stand by those statements. We do thank you for coming to visit us, and that’s all. Victoria Balint- Southwestern Wilds had an outreach emergency meeting on January 9, regarding the increase in the fatalities of our Wilds being struck and fatally killed on our highways and bypass roads. I want to thank Commissioner Koenig and our animal control manager, who also came out and spoke regarding the public and the needs, and it was wonderful hearing your opinions. In addition, I want to thank Commissioner Bayne and also Commissioner Jabbour for your scheduled meeting this Saturday, we will be there, and we certainly appreciate all the collaboration. I want to let you know that the signs are working in a very short period of time we reached out to NDOT and the Sheriff’s Office to immediately address this what we call the kill zone on 160 and the signs that they put out there within 8 minutes, 8 cars 5 of the cars you know how the red and blue lights come on that you have to slow down that you were speeding was identified so the signs are definitely working. I just wanted to thank everybody for collaborating and working together as a community to find the right solutions. There’s notjust one solution for this. This is very challenging. Each community is different; we’ve got different challenges that go on in Tonopah, Beatty, Pahrump, and again, I would just want to thank everybody who’s coming to the table to address this issue. Thank you. Our horses and burros are so important to us, and they make our community so beautiful.

brief discussions of public comments, correction of factual inaccuracies, direction to staff, or topics proposed for future board meetings. Lengthy deliberation of topics not on the agenda is prohibited by the Nevada Open Meeting Law). John Koenig- First, let me discuss zombie lots. Zoning says you have to have water zoning on everything, says you have to have water, we need water to live, okay, you have to have water on the lot. At the last meeting of the committee on zombie lots, the chairman of the committee did a lot of work, contacted the state, contacted Great Basin water, everybody he could think of. His comment at the meeting was that there are three ways you can get water on a zombie lot. One is from Great Basin, two is to drill your own well, which you can’t cause lots are too small, and the third way is the community well, which requires getting a bunch of people together who own contiguous lots, so that you can drill a well. Other than that, you can’t get water, you can’t get water from the air, you can’t get water from a truck, you can’t get water from anything except those three ways; that’s state law. So, stop blaming zoning. You don’t have water; you can’t build January 21 2026 , and live on the zombie lot. Most of these people didn’t do their homework when they bought it. The second thing is Crystal Rd. It’s for the people in Crystal who I think have left now. I am still working with public works to bring a resolution back to this board to declare that road unfit for heavy truck traffic, so we can put a legal sign up there because you can’t drive on this road. Most of the trucks that are driving there now don’t have permission to drive on that road because the deal that they made when they were going to build the transmission lines, etc. says you can’t be on that road; there are other roads that they are supposed to be on. I’m not sure how we can afford to affect that, but I’m working on that with Tom BoIling to get something going. But it’s true they went out there, and they spent all day out there, the whole crew with hot patch. They did it right, they did it beautifully. The next day, the big trucks came through, and all the hot patch stuff went flying, and the holes got bigger, and there’s junk all over the place. Now they’ve gone back out and redone it a little bit, so it’s driven, but the road is pretty bad. It’s only the first mile, the rest of the road’s fine. So, anyway, Crystal, we’re working on it.

Brett Waggoner said items 5 and 16 could be removed from the agenda.

This item was removed from the agenda. January 21 2026 , SITTING AS THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TIMED ITEMS

honored for their years of service. Certificates and/or plaques were presented to the following employees for their years of service: 5 Years: Jonathan Justice; Courtney Kenney 10 Years: Josette Dubois; Jared Lam 15 Years: Maria Guerra; Jaynee Reeves 20 Years: Alexandra Fernandes; James McRae

action to the State Engineer for Nevada Division of Water Resources Applications 94784, 94785, and 94786 per Nevada Revised Statute 533.363.

Public Comment: Ammie Nelson- A couple of years ago, maybe even three years ago, someone from Mountain Falls reported that water was being driven out to the site where they were putting in solar panels, and of course, months, maybe a year went by before somebody actually admitted that yes. You know, Great Basin Water was caught delivering water out there. Then there came the discussion about the diversion of a well, and of course, the community is against it. It’s against any diversion to anyone who is participating in putting up solar panels on large acreages. This item follows right along with all of the other years that affect all of us. We don’t have the water to give to them. If it’s so importantto Clark County to have water in Basin 162, where they also are, Ietthem drill their own wells and go through the expense of that before they come to us for the water. We have to say no to giving our water away, and please think about this because everybody’s watching every single vote. Doug Blacksock- I’m representing the private well owners. I’m going to read the letter. I think all of the County Commissioners got a copy of this, but I want it for the audience. Dear Nye County Commissioners: The Private Well Owners Association representing the interests of over 11 ,000 well owners in the Pahrump Valley opposes change applications 94784, 94785, and 94786, file for the Front Sight LLC, Prairie Fire, October 22 2025, to change the well water place and manner of use in Nye County to Clark County to supply water for solar farm construction. Here’s why. Hydrographic Basin 162 is notoriously overallocated for the state engineers’ owned admission as an overdraft, more use that can be replenished, and borders on crisis management conditions. Domestic wells are threatened in Basin 162 and the residents who depend on them. This one solar farm can waste close to 400,000 million gallons of water over a three- year construction period. The equivalent of 3,658 homes. The proposals are not in the January 21 2026 , local public interest but for private enterprise, and not one benefit to the residents whose sole source ofwater is based on 162. Proposals for projects that are speculative in nature and may not even be viable due to the rapidly changing technology of solar farms. Nye County has traditionally opposed exported Basin 162 water across county lines. Nye County groundwater management plan emphasized the need to reduce pumping, not use more water. Nevada State Engineer has routinely denied change applications when the transfer benefits of a different company or region as expensive stress source basin. Pahrump residents have fought long and hard against solar farm development, based on 162 water and Nye County and Clark County. Approval would be offensive to those efforts and set a dangerous precedent and would encourage further development above basin 162 towards Las Vegas, including the potential eight square miles of solar fields along the county line. We urge you, Nye County Commissioners, to protect our only water source and Pahrump Valley as we are elected to do. Vote no to prevent the policing of these and I 62 and preserve our rural lifestyle. It was signed by Bud Watkins, who’s the Chairman of the Private Well Owners Association. I also have, if I can drop off for the record, the same letter I just read. Beth Borysewich If this is the same Front Site that I have known since about I 988, these people are despicable to begin with. Water being trucked is damaging our roads. It’s kicking up dust. They’re taking our water when we’re all already overallocated. They used our water and land in Pahrump; they didn’t even think about saying okay we’ll compensate you X number of dollars. But we don’t want any compensation. We want Clark County to stay on their side of the border and just stay over there without anything from Nye County. The water board believes that we will run out of water in about four years; we’re overallocated. On top of that, the board knows that we are putting in 7,000 more homes, and then you’re still approving more construction for more homes and duplexes. It’s getting a little ridiculous. We don’t need our water to go to Clark County, and they should stay in their lane and leave us alone. Mike Fender- I have been opposed to most of these solar projects here in the valley for quite some time, and you all have seen me here before. But what makes this really simple is if you supply this solar farm with water, if you allow this, the well permits to go through. It’s 409-acre feet where you are opening the floodgates for all the rest of the solar farms in this valley. Clark County has already screwed up the southern end of the valley by allowing these solar farms to be built. We have a couple here in the valley that want to be built, and I have a feeling that they will probably tie to this water; somehow, they will get some of this. When you look at the overall picture, where is this going to go? Let’s say you do approve this, so they build these solar farms, where’s the electricity going to go? California Independent Service Operators. What does that mean? It’s probably going to go to California. What do we get out of it? We get the loss of water, but they get electricity. We don’t get squat. Now the county may get something; they may get $1 000,000 a year per solar farm. I don’t know that, but that’s usually what the average is. As the individuals who utilize the water and live here in Pahrump, we don’t get anything. And you look at the flip side of this California screwing us all around, look what they’re doing now because they have inundated their deserts with solar farms. January 21 2026 , And they want to go total electrical, if you want to call it that, by 2035. They are losing 3 of their own petroleum industry companies; in return, there’s going to be no fuel. So, what are we getting out of it? Nothing again, except for the increased costs of fuel. So, in the long run, California is literally taking advantage of this state and all the land that will be made available with the Department of Energy. So, I urge you do not start this here. It’s already bad enough as it is. So, look at it, you want to look at the big picture, that’s what’s going to happen, so we get nothing literally. Joyce Barishman The Private Well Owners Association, I am the Treasurer. I am not in favor of this project. It’s over 400-acre feet of water that would be allocated per year for three years to be moved across our desert by trucks. Prairie Fire, which used to be Front Site, sold the water rights with the property in a bankruptcy. If Prairie Fire has that much water, don’t they need it to use on their own property to conduct their business? They’re overallocated. This isn’t proper. Pahrump needs Basin 162. This is our water when you turn on your faucets at home. If you don’t have a private well, you’re using the same basin 162. It doesn’t matter if you have a private well or if you have to pay for it to the water company. whichever one that may be. But we don’t have enough water. For this water to be moved to the solar farms or to be taken out of Nye County and to go to Clark County, that’s just wrong. So, I’m not denying Prairie Fire. I’m not denying the people who want to do this and be paid for it; that’s not what this is about. This is about our water, our water rights, and our water belongs in Nye County, not Clark County. We need it here; please vote no. Debra Gaylord Thomas- I was very glad to hearjust a minute ago that you guys have already voted no on this once. I’m just going to keep this simple and ask, please do it again.

Motion carries 5-0.

Public Comment: Ammie Nelson Does this reconciliation include the penalties and back payments for all of those fees that were not collected from District I ? The reason I ask is, is there any interest involved in all the time that went by since these people who own all these properties were quite aware that they had to pay penalties if they were late. So, I’m just curious, is any of that money reflected in this particular item? Beth Borysewich- I am not an accountant; in fact, I hate accounting. My sister’s an accountant, and so I talked to her. I would like to know why we’re always behind two months in these reports. It’s late January, and we’re only announcing the November report. In addition, I see that the Pahrump landfill trust is the -$17,589.65. I thought raising the dump fees was to cover this. An adjustment for $10,011.45 with a note that it’s from an unknown department. How does this happen? What will become of the money? Is it just going to go away? That is totally ridiculous. Lakeview Golf Course is still -$38,544. What are you guys doing about it? This has been going on for months and months and months, and we don’t hear a single thing from you. Round Mountain Golf Course is -$5,000 journal entries out of balance the amount of $71 395.28 why? airport is this Pahrump’s airport? Why are we paying vendor and payroll? I thought it was a privately owned public airport. What are Pahrump roads and streets with a balance of$4,911,987.50? What is that? Treasurer Powers- In regard to Beth’s comments, who sent me an email in December of 2024 asking to meet with me. I agreed and advised that my door is open. She has not yet come in and visited with me. So, I could sit down with you and explain how to properly read this report. That invitation is still open, and I recommend that you please come in and meet with me so that there’s a better understanding of exactly what this report reflects.

vote here. We told them at the last hearing that we wanted some kind of explanation. I don’t hear an explanation. I’m not trying to be a problem. Nothing has changed for me. I can’t vote for it, not because I’m against something, but because it just doesn’t make any sense. Because nothing’s really happened other than just to tell us it’s atypical to show up at a commission meeting, it’s also atypical to have half a dozen USDA violations. I’m just a no vote based on that.

Motion passes 3 yeas. Commissioners Boskovich and Bayne voted nay. 12. 10:00 a.m. — For Possible Action — Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation on: 12a. SOLR-25-1 : Special Use Permit application for the Sarcobatus Solar Project, a proposed 244-megawatt solar energy facility located on two parcels totaling approximately 800-acres of private land located at 95150 US Highway 95, Beatty, NV and 94870 US Highway 95, Beatty, NV. Assessor’s Parcel Numbers 018-501- 05 and 018-501-06. Sparks, LLC. — Property Owner. Sergey Benke, CEO, Tesla Solar, LLC. Applicant; and — 12b. SOLR-25-1 : A Preliminary Development Plan approval for the Sarcobatus Solar Project comprised of both fixed and sun tracking solar arrays, located on two parcels totaling approximately 800-acres of private land located at 951 50 US Highway 95, Beatty, NV and 94870 US Highway 95, Beatty, NV. Assessor’s Parcel Number 018-501-05 and 018-501-06. Sparks, LLC Property Owner. Sergey Benke, CEO, TeslaSolar, LLC. Applicant. - —

Public Comment: Ammie Nelson- I should probably recuse myself, because I have a great bias to Elon Musk, and Tesla Solar LLC is part of this, and how can you refuse a man who’s done so much for this country? If people in Beatty don’t have a problem with this, then I certainly don’t. And I would like to welcome Tesla LLC and Tesla Solar LLC to our little Nye County. January 21 2026 , 12. 10:00 a.m. — For Possible Action — Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation on: Cont... Nancy Sollinger I am a 30-year resident of Sarcobatus Flat, and this proposed project is, I guess, to the north of me, because I’m south of it, it’s about two miles away. My concerns are that I’d love to know what the power is going to be used for since it doesn’t seem to have any connection to the grid. The other concern that I have about our lights at night, I don’t know what type of lights are used in order to preserve the dark skies, but I can tell you that the lights from the Greenlink lay-down area are so bright that they obscure my vision, and they affect my night vision. I figure if those are types of lights, something needs to be fixed for that. I read the background material, and they talked about migratory birds, but I’m concerned about local birds because vultures come and hang out at my place during the summertime. along with the regular doves, and you know the regular songbirds. I would not want to see them adversely affected. Noise does carry at night, and I don’t know if they did any noise studies at night, because there’s some confusion in the background material; some of those arrays move, and I presume that’s during daylight hours. You know, motors make sound, and I didn’t know if they did any tests at night for that. I wanted to point out that this past year, it’s rained heavily during the winter months, and that’s something that you have to think about. It’s just lots of rain in one short period of time. So those are my concerns. And I would love to know what’s happening, you know, while it’s happening, you know, so I can maybe throw in a couple of cents’ worth, as opposed to finding out that it’s at a commissioner’s meeting and just you know what’s available, you know, to read here. Linda Clark I obviously am going to say no to this project, and not because Mr. Tesla is involved in it; he does good stuff. I want to know if we really need more solar in this county. Do we? How many? I want to know how many solar plants we have right now that haven’t even started, and how many do you have in the books that you want to approve? I don’t guess you have an answer. I doubt that. Maybe Brett might know the answer, or he might find one for us. I just don’t see why we need more solar. Do they really want solar over there? I don’t know. It’s a beautiful area, and I don’t know why they want to look out their doors and their windows and see solar. Then I saw her proposal, and nothing against her, but they’re asking for another variant. Can anybody build anything here without any variance? It seems like the variances that you’ve made have affected people’s personal property. I’m for people who have the right to live in quiet peace and enjoyment on their own property, and not having to look out the door or have their horses looking at the solar panel that’s right next to them. So, I don’t know where you guys come from. But again, it’s not in your backyard, but why do we need more solar? Beth Borysewich I know that Beatty is working very hard. I know that they’ve renovated some buildings to get people to stop by. I’m not sure that a solar farm that’s right on US 95 is even a good idea. I mean, can you imagine the blinding sun rays that are going to come off of that? I want to know what the citizens of Beatty think about this. I mean, they’re working hard to make their town more beautiful. Then we’re turning around, and we’re going to put in this microwave-type thing that’s going to fry January 21 2026 , 12. 10:00 a.m. — For Possible Action — Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation on: Cont... everything. I think that before we even decide on this, we need to find out what the people of Beatty think about it. I haven’t heard a single thing from them. I would like to know. Kevin Emmerich I live in Beatty, south of where the project would be, but it’s still a concern. As they say, it’ll be on both sides of the highway. What kind of dust will that create, and there have been incidents where roads have been closed because they built these solar projects right next to the highway. So, considering traffic, we don’t know how much water they would need, and that is an over appropriated basin. But I want to go back to transmission. Where would they hook this into? Would it be the Beatty Substation or would it be the Sagebrush Substation? That’s 45 miles south. The Beatty Substation is 30 miles south. You would need a big general tie line, probably 500 kilovolts. And where are they going to put that? That’ll probably be a lot on federal land; you’ll have to permit that. That could go behind my ranch, I mean, they might actually need a right of way behind there. That’ll be very unsightly. So, there aren’t a lot of resolved issues. There are a lot of unanswered questions about this, so let’s ask more questions. Lora Cunningham I am a 24-year resident of Beatty, and this would be about 10 or 15 miles north of our ranch. I would just like to really emphasize that we’re all sick of developers coming here and asking for variances, and in this case, a waiver. What do we get out of this? Please, no waivers, no variances, let’s follow the codes that we’ve all agreed to.

Public Comment Closed Tom Smith Let’s talk about the solar project. With me are Sergey Benke, the owner, and Glenn, the CFO. I want to try to address some of the public comments that came up. A lot of these were in our submittals to the county. The power usage, I think that’s a good question. Our project is a little bit unusual in thatwe are not connected tothe grid. We use all of the power right on site, and it’s used for data processing, so the only connection to the outside world is via the Internet. Nothing goes to California; everything stays within Nye County. Lighting, in our natural resource plan, we address that. We want to comply with night sky requirements, and we don’t have a need for a lot of lighting out there, so all of our lighting should be able to easily applied. The birds, this is not like the project up in Tonopah with the mirrors shining on the tower; there’s no heat rays, there’s no microwaves, this is just solar panels. The address to migratory birds has more to do with regulations, and that has to be addressed. We should have very little effect on the local birds. Noise, we did do a lot of background noise measurements up on site, and because there’s a similar site up north of Tonopah, we also did a lot of measurements on the site where an actual operating system is. The comments about the motors on the tracking solar panels obviously will not work at night; they just shut down. But because of the height issue and the variance issue, we are not proposing to January 21 2026 , 12. 10:00 a.m. — For Possible Action — Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation on: Cont... do any of the tracking. We will keep all of our arrays below the 25-foot weight limit, and those will either be small tracking or just the fixed arrays, as suggested by the county. We are 30 miles north of Beatty. We’re not within the town area; we’re quite a way north. The only reason it’s a Beatty address is that that’s the way the post office addresses it. We are only on one side of the highway. I’m not sure where the idea that we are on both sides of the highway came from, but we are just on the east side of the highway. Even though we do share the name Tesla, Elon is not associated with our project, unless he wants to be. We have been in contact with the BLM, with Nellis Air Force Base, with State Fish and Wildlife, with the Federal National Wildlife, with basically all of the agencies that are listed within the county contact recommendations. We’ve had a few agencies respond to us, and nobody has had objections. Because this is on strictly private land and we’re not using any federal grants. We don’t fall within the nexus of doing a NEPA Report or any of those typical broad environmental impact reports. It’s a much more constrained project than what you might typically expect when it’s on BLM land. Reflective glare, again in our natural resources report, or I think in the visibility report, we did quite an analysis to make sure that there would not be glare that a driver would see on Hwy 95, which would be any kind of a safety hazard, and mathematics was included in our submittals. I think that addresses mostly, but if there are any questions from the commissioners, we are happy to address those.

Motion Carries 5-0 4. Approval of the Agenda for January 21, 2026 (Non-action item)-Reoepend. Brett Waggoner advised Item 13b. could also be removed from the agenda. January 21 2026 , 13. 10:00 a.m. — For Possible Action — Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation on: 13a. SOLR-25-2: A Special Use Permit application for the Greenlink West Transmission Project, a proposed 525 kilovolt (kV) electric power transmission line and Sagebrush Substation located across twenty-one separate parcels totaling approximately 140-acres of BLM and private land located at: 0 MCR927179 Rd. Beatty, NV, 1499 W US Highway 95, Crystal, NV, 1500 W US Highway 95, Mercury, NV, 21314 N MCR928615 Rd, Crystal, NV, 14050 E US Highway 95, Amargosa Valley, NV, 14049 E US Highway 95, Amargosa Valley, NV, 0 MCR926045 Rd, Beatty, NV, 0 Nevada Highway 267, Beatty,_NV,_18521 E White Blvd, Crystal, NV, 84586 US Highway 95, Beatty, NV, 5699 E US Highway 95, Amargosa Valley, NV, 8369 E US Highway 95. Amargosa Valley, NV, 10640 E US Highway 95, Amargosa Valley, NV, 8070 N Test Site Rd, Amargosa Valley, NV, 3155 W US Highway 95, Amargosa Valley, NV, 0 Fleur De Lis Rd, Beatty, NV, 0 Fleur De Lis Rd, Beatty, NV, 74851 US Highway 95, Beatty, NV, 89814 US Highway 95, Beatty, NV, 97575 US Highway 95, Beatty, NV, and 2500 MCR926039 Rd, Beatty, NV, Assessor’s Parcel Numbers 018-041-01, 018-051-03, 018-051-04, 018-501- 02, 018-521-01, 018-521-02, 018-521-07, 018-521-99, 019-011-01, 019-021-02, 021-011-02, 021-011-04, 021-021-13, 021-031-01, 021-051-01, 021-061-01, 021- 071-01, 021-071-02,and 021-081-03. Multiple Property Owners. Sierra Pacific Power Co. and Nevada Power Co. dba NV Energy Applicants; and 13b. SOLR-25-2: A Preliminary Development Plan approval for the Greenlink West Transmission Project and Sagebrush Substation, located across twenty-one separate parcels totaling approximately 140-acres of BLM and private land located at: 0 MCR927179 Rd, Beatty, NV, 1499 W US Highway 95, Crystal, NV, 1500 W US Highway 95, Mercury, NV, 21314 N MCR928615 Rd, Crystal, NV, 14050 E US Highway 95, Amargosa Valley, NV, 14049 E US Highway 95, Amargosa Valley, NV, 0 MCR926045 Rd, Beatty, NV, 0 Nevada Highway 267, Beatty, NV, 18521 E White Blvd, Crystal, NV, 84586 US Highway 95, Beatty, NV, 5699 E US Highway 95, Amargosa Valley, NV, 8369 E US Highway 95, Amargosa Valley, NV, 10640 E US Highway 95. Amargosa Valley, NV, 8070 N Test Site Rd, Amargosa Valley, NV, 3155 W US Highway 95, Amargosa Valley, NV, 0 Fleur De Lis Rd, Beatty, NV, 0 Fleur De Lis Rd, Beatty, NV, 74851 US Highway 95, Beatty, NV, 89814 US Highway 95, Beatty, NV, 97575 US Highway 95, Beatty, NV, and 2500 MCR926039 Rd, Beatty, NV. Assessor’s Parcel Numbers 018-041-01, 018-051-03, 018-051 -04, 18-501-02, 018-521-01, 018-521-02, 018-521-07, 018-521-99, 019-011-01, 019- 021-02, 021-011-02, 021-011-04, 021-021-13, 021-031-01, 021-051-01, 021-61- 01, 021-071-01, 021-071-02, and 021-081-03. Multiple Property Owners. Sierra Pacific Power Co. and Nevada Power Co. dba NV Energy — Applicants Removed. January 21 2026 , 13. Cont’d. 10:00 a.m. - — For Possible Action — Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation on: Principal Planner Qiana Medici Item B was removed because transmission lines do not require a preliminary or final development plan. So, after we submitted it to admin, we went oh woops. Solar 25-2 is a request for a special use permit to allow an above- ground 525 kilovolt electrical power transmission line extending 106 miles across BLM administered land and .6 miles across private land in Nye County. The project also includes the Sagebrush Substation, which is situated entirely on BLM land. Once completed, the transmission line and substation will operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and will be monitored for maintenance purposes and emergency response by NV Energy. The proposed project is an above-ground transmission line that is not required to be reviewed by an environmental consultant; however, they were required to meet with local town boards to discuss the impact the project may have on their communities. The Beatty Town Advisory Board and Amargosa Town Board both submitted letters of support for the transmission time, and they are included in the backup for review. This project requires an approved development agreement prior to the final development plan. The development agreement is under review by the applicable county agencies and will be placed on a BoCC agenda within the next few months. With the removal of item B, staff would like to request the removal of the standard condition of approval #3, as it solely relates to the final development plan, and also to add a special condition of approval that the applicant must obtain approval of the development agreement DA257 within I 80 days of approval of the SUP.

Public Comment: Ammie Nelson You look at the items, and they speak for themselves, they’re so deep and so absolutely looked at complete age. This is a solar company that I’ve been against since day one, and my opinion has not changed. For whatever reason, I want to keep expanding and now doing business as Nevada Power or whatever. It’s too hard to understand all of this, and if it’s too complicated to understand, where they can’t even explain it in simple ways, I’m against it, period. Kevin Emmerich There is a private property over north of 80 I a Nature Conservancy Preserve, actually, and there’s been rumors about eminent domain, and I don’t know if that’s true or not, but those are some questions that should be answered. I’m just wondering about that. Then there’s another disputable thing about Green Lake, the NTTR Base, and the FAA had a real problem with these towers because they’re almost 200 feet tall. And when they go next to those areas, they’re going on this variable topography, so in some areas they’re going to be violating that military airspace. We can’t get any answers if that’s been worked out. There’s actually been a rumor that the January 21 2026 , 13. Cont’d. 10:00 a.m. - — For Possible Action — Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation on: Lines are being rerouted, and so I just want to point out there are unanswered questions here. Herman Lewis These solar projects are like the camel getting its nose into the tent. It’s going to ruin the desert; it’s going to absolutely destroy it. We already have all the Clark County problems with water and everything else. I didn’t speak on the other issue, but there are so many people opposed. lfthere’s no environmental impact on this, which I believe I heard, that is a huge red flag. You know it’s like bringing back a Town Board that’s just going to raise taxes. So, I would vote against this until there are more environmental impact studies. Linda Clark Again, no. I just don’t understand solar, I mean, I understand it. I just don’t understand why we need it. It’s all going to California or someplace else. I want to know about the Green Lake West transmission. I see we are getting them all over the county. I have a question about the storage of their power. Now, from what I understand, they use lithium batteries. Is that true? Come on, Ron, tell me what you’re thinking. What am I doing wrong? Someday, I agree with the last caller, we’re going to be sorry that we’ve done all this. I’m not an environmentalist. I do care about nature and the animals and all the birds, all that stuff. But I’m really concerned about these battery power stations. If they’re lithium and they’re taking it from our local mines. They are dangerous, they cause fires, they catch fire, you can’t deny all that because you hear the stories all the time. So why do we want them in our county? I just don’t understand. We’re destroying our desert, we’re destroying the wildlife, we’re destroying everything we can, and we’re next. Robert Regan I am a retired career geologist and QC civil inspector for nuclear power plants. I have 26 acres just north of Crystal. They changed us from Amargosa to Crystal, Street addresses have been changed, the number and everything else, but we put it all got lost in the mud. We live offthe original White Blvd., which is mile marker 17 off 195, it comes down to Laurel Rd., which is in east-west road, and then it snakes down to Crystal, but it’s the first road offto the right. So, we’re 2 miles down from there. We have our road there, which is well-neglected all the time. I’ve had to go out there with my tractor blade and try to remove some of the water boards because my wife has to work in town here every day to go to work. The question I have is this. Is this transmission line linked with the one big one that’s coming along 95, coming out of Las Vegas, with the twin poles? because at 95, they’ve got most of the poles laid down, and all ofthe pylons concreted in, so that line is traveling along Hwy. 95 on the south end, directly next to it. Is that what this transmission line is associated with? I don’t know where they gotthis 18521 E Blvd., because it’s north-south, not east-west Blvd. in Crystal, and it’s north of Crystal. It’s not in the Bar 40 Ranch, which is traditionally the Crystal that they talked about. They’re also going to be building a substation, which appears to be up there on Hwy. 95, which is coming out of Mercury, and that one will probably be close. It looks like the address is very close to 161, which goes back to 95. I January 21 2026 , 13. Cont’d. 10:00 a.m. - — For Possible Action — Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation on: don’t really have a problem with that transmission line other than the usage of construction vehicles while they’re doing their work extending that line. I don’t know if it’s actually going through, and what’s got to do with the town of Crystal itself, is it going to be that replacement line that comes off of Johnny? These are all wooden poles, which were due for replacement. If it’s them, then it’s going to be going through the south end of Crystal. That doesn’t bother me because I’m a mile and a half north of there. But I have not seen any maps of any specifics to show you where those lines are. Debra Thomas The material here doesn’t really answer all my questions. I think we should know if they’re going to be storing any power, and I think we should know what kind of chemicals are going to be involved with this project, and I think that we need to remove the Standard Transmission Agreement.

Public Comment closed.

Motion carries 4 yeas. Commissioner Koenig voted nay. 9. 10:00 a.m. For Possible Action Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation — — to adopt, amend and adopt, or reject Nye County Bill No. 2025-12: A Bill proposing to amend Nye County Code Chapter 8.44 titled “Hazardous Substances, Materials and Wastes” by amending Section 8.44.070 “Moratorium on Issuance of Licenses” to extend the temporary moratorium on the processing of any application for a license or the issuance of any license under Chapter 8.44 until July 1 2026; and providing for the severability, constitutionality, and , effective date thereof; and other matters properly relating thereto. Planning Director Steve Osborne explained this bill would extend the moratorium date just to allow staff additional time to finish the procedures that needed to be developed to process these types of license applications.

Motion passes 5 yeas. 10. 10:00 a.m. — For Possible Action — Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation regarding: lOa. Special Use Permit ETSU-25-6: A request to approve a Cannabis Cultivation Establishment, on a parcel zoned Business Opportunity Overlay (BO), located at 9680 5. Oakridge Ave., Pahrump, NV. Assessor’s Parcel Number 044-851-30. Fortress Oakridge, LLC. Property Owner. Adam Fulton, Esq. Applicant/Agent; and lOb. Cannabis Business License CBL-25-11 : A request for a Cannabis Cultivation License, on parcel zoned Business Opportunity Overlay (BO), located at 9680 5. Oakridge Ave., Pahrump, NV. Assessor’s Parcel Number 044-851 -30. Fortress Oakridge, LLC. Property Owner. Adam Fulton, Esq. — - Applicant/Agent. Assistant Planning Director Celeste Sandoval Here we have a cannabis facility that failed to renew at the end of June. It was an oversight that their previous applicant was no longer handling their cases. So, once we got hold of them, we let them know what the issue was, and they promptly got their application. They are aware of the complaints about any type of odor that is happening around the vicinity. They have a state-of-the-art filtration system that has been approved by the CCB and Nye County Code Compliance. Every complaint that we do receive, they promptly invite us over, then they bring the CCB, and everything is up to par. There are no numerical measurements or tooling for odor control by the CCB. So, there’s not much you know we can do on that; however, they are in compliance with the state and with the county as far as their cannabis submittals and fees that they owe. Other than that, it’s just an oversight on their part. Adam Fulton I have with me today, manager Dean Julio, on behalf of both entities, the landlord and the license holder as well. Again, I really appreciate the staff helping us work through this, especially keeping us open during the holidays so our employees could continue to work and receive money. It was a great effort by everyone with the county to help us kind of get through this, and again, if you have any questions, we’re happy to answer them regarding any of our operations or anything. I represent a lot of cannabis companies here in this state, and this one really does try its best to go above January 21 2026 , 10. 10:00 a.m. For Possible Action — — Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation regarding: Cont... and beyond, making sure it complies with the regulations and making sure they are above board, pay their taxes on time, and frankly, they rarely call me compared to some other clients. I think they are phenomenal.

Public Comment: Ammie Nelson I find it really difficult to understand how the business, especially one with the money that cannabis growers make, I fail to understand how they don’t renew their licenses. And if they do, they’re under new licenses, and we just heard an item where we do not issue the new license. I don’t care who it is; that item means no new licensing. There’s a moratorium on it, and I think that’s what we should do, just issue a new license in the time frame of item 9. Doug Ruefer I live on Gardena, which is in direct sight of the farm. My wife and I moved out of Las Vegas about 10 years ago to get away from the lights and the smell that can permeate. They’re still having quite a bit of odor coming from the establishment. Last fall, I believe we had a telephone conversation about the smell, and that really hasn’t changed yet. We get out there at night, stuff like enjoying campfires, watching the starlight, because it’s better than Vegas, and we’ll be hit occasionally with the smell and aroma that comes from the pot farm. In our opinion, their efforts to mitigate the smell have not reached their ultimate potential. Also, when the buildings are lit up at night, it does interfere with the dark skies and initiative, which we talked about last year. So, in that regard to stuff like that, there are a lot of people down there that could still smell it from a quarter mile to half mile away, so I beg you, please do not let this be granted. Linda Clark I have some neighbors behind me; I don’t know what they’re smoking, but it’s about to kill me trying to breathe in my house. Anyway, some of this stuff is really bad, and I have to close my doors at night, all my windows, because I can’t breathe and it smells like they’re setting the neighborhood on fire. I don’t know what it is; it’s bad. So, I’m not for pot at all. I don’t know if you guys use it, I don’t care, it’s your business, just don’t do it in my backyard. Again, everything in my backyard, people have a right to live in their house. How do you get rid of that smell in your house you can’t? And I have two dogs between that and the fireworks, they go crazy. So anyway, we need to do something about this. We don’t need to have a whole town. We got enough pot here to feed Las Vegas. Why do we need more pot? Tell me why. If you read next door, and I know you guys do, you know everything I say. I’d rather have the old cotton fields that we had before. Paul Ostinger- I have been fighting this marijuana facility from the first time. I lived directly across the street from it. We tried to stop it, but it didn’t work. They put some CCR’s in. They’re not supposed to be driving up and down Oak Ridge; they drive up and January 21 2026 , 10. 10:00 a.m. For Possible Action — — Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation regarding: Cont... down Oak Ridge. They were told not to, but they still drive up and down Oak Ridge. The smell, as these people have said, is horrendous day and night, some days worse than others. If they’ve got a state-of-the-art system, it doesn’t work. I know their state-of-the- art systems that work. They can check outAspen, Colorado, and a town like that, they have a facility that grows it, they put in a state-of-the-art system, and nobody complains about the smell. This town is a nice town. Why can’t they grow marijuana out there, Amargosa, where there aren’t people living? This is a community of families. I have my grandchildren living there, and I can’t even go outside sometimes; the smell is that bad. Beth Borysewich Two things concern me. While the first speaker was talking about this, they said that they have no control over the odor that comes out of the establishment. Secondly, the other person who was speaking said thank you for keeping us open during Christmas. So, what we’re hearing is that our town manager allowed an unlicensed marijuana business to operate and collect money without a license. How many federal laws did we break there? That is ridiculous. But the other thing is that we had an issue with. One of the other grow houses here in town, a while ago, I think it was like last year, around February and March. It was causing all kinds of people to be sick, and they couldn’t be in their backyard, so I don’t know if it was code compliance or whoever went out there, and they made sure that the system that filtered the air actually filtered the air, and it worked to make sure that no odors escaped. So, whoever it is that went out there last year should visit this other place because there is a law, I think that there should be no emissions of any smell of any kind coming from any kind of processing of the weed. So, I’m just wondering if we can direct staff to find out who that was and make sure that they go out and inspect them. Because we need to take care of the residents in the area, all of the people who are living there, who cannot enjoy their own properties. Joan Hawley I live on Janie Street, which is on the corner of Oakridge, so I am approximately 3/4 of a mile south of this plant, and my husband and I both are avid outdoors people, and we hike every morning, and we have our dogs. I also raise sheep and chickens in my backyard. I opened the door, and it smells like skunk, literally like a skunk blew up in my backyard, worse than the smell of manure from chickens and sheep in my backyard. Anyway, we hike, and I go south at least a mile, and then 2 miles to the east. I do this loop every day. Every day I’m walking back this morning, yesterday morning, and I can smell that 2 %, 3 miles away. So whatever controls they have are nonexistent. And the fact that she brought up this last lady about them operating over Christmas, if they don’t have a license, why are we putting up with this? I believe that I’ve been here a little over 4 years. This is the second time that there’s been an issue with this property renewing a license or some kind of situation with this company. I think we need to put an end to it because everybody that I’ve talked to in my neighborhood is tired of smelling skunk every day, and I’d appreciate it if you consider that. January 21 2026 , 10. 10:00 a.m. For Possible Action — — Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation regarding: Cont... Keith Davis I filed a complaint with Code Compliance Permit this week for violation of the special use permit on the Fortress Cannabis Pot Grow conditional permit. The violation is of the pot employees using Bond Street and not Silver Street, and disregard of the BOCC special condition, which Jesse Peters, agent and owner, agreed to an open hearing in the fall of 2021 This was a carryover from the 2016 special condition . and has not been revoked by hearing; therefore, it has full force and effect. I have video going back weeks and can provide eyewitnesses, including myself, for months of violation. I request an immediate show cause hearing as to why their license should not be revoked now. The violation should skip all the intermediate steps of notices due to the ongoing open and notorious nature of the violation of the BOCC special condition that carried a 4/1 vote in 2021 when Fortress Pot grow began. Additionally, I have smelled volatile vapor compounds that emanate from the pot factory consistently and constantly in an ongoing manner over the three to four years of living near the pot factory. I got a card because I lived 300 feet away from this grow. And what I’m breathing in is from the female plant terpenes, aldehydes, and much more. Workers have not stopped the vapors from leaking into my neighborhood, my safety, health, and well-being; the BOCC must. I request that a special use condition be put on their permit on Fortress to not allow these vapors to escape the factory, which will solve the problem. Also impose a condition that they pay for independent specialists to monitor the air constantly and emissions surrounding the pot plant, publicly release these immediately and weekly. If they’re so great and the greatest growers in Nevada, they can do that. Noise is also an issue from the fans all day and night, as well as light pollution, and they’re all nuisances. We need the board to protect my neighborhood, and it is also time for the wrongs ofthe pot factory boom of 2016 be corrected. And the pot factory should be moved out of a growing neighborhood since 2021 2 minor children , lived directly across the street, a family has just moved in on the property line on the other side of the pot factory with several horses. This business is misplaced or mis zoned elsewhere in an industrial zone part of Nye County, far away from residents, with full containment of all these vapors using methods and practices similar to as Vegas pot grow mandates. That’s the end of my statement. Dorthy Davenport I live on Silver Street, exactly one mile from this place. Every day I try to sit on my patio, you cannot stay more than 30 minutes; it is impossible. My dogs come in, and they stink the house up, because they smell like it, it’s sickening, and I thoroughly hope it stops. Christy Burkel I live directly across the street from this company. Debra, I’ve sent you several emails you referred me back to Brett. Brett has referred to me and has told me that this is no different than any other agriculture, such as pigs and cows. I grew up in Wisconsin, and in an Agricultural Society, this is vastly different. This is also more than just an odor, ladies and gentlemen, I actually did a cannabis testing on my house for residue. There are toxins in the air daily; my house tested positive for cannabis residue. Neither I nor anyone else I know who’s ever been to my house has smoked, carried, or January 21 2026 , 10. 10:00 a.m. For Possible Action — — Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation regarding: Cont... eaten cannabis on my property. This has been my property for 10 years. It was my parents’ property before that the house was built in 1999, long before they were ever here. I also have tested positive for cannabis from being outside, trying to do yard work in my own home, my own property. I don’t do marijuana; I don’t do drugs. And I’ll be more than happy to be tested on that and provide medical records to that effect. I’ve given this lady here a nine-month diary showing the dates and times that they have vented and purged out of those nine months; 97 days were unacceptable and unlivable in my house. I could not open doors, I could not open windows. During the summer, they vented heavily, starting at midnight, going to 5:00 AM. Probably in the hopes that people who were sleeping wouldn’t notice. In the summer, during those hours, people can have their doors and windows open. During the summer, I’m a night owl. I turn into a bat because I have a dog that I walk in pre-dawn. She’s fuzzy she’s furry and I hate the sun so yeah I noticed this I have suffered nosebleeds I have suffered continuous sinus headaches and sinus migraines I have had Vertigo and I have been throwing up consistently during those 97 days and that’s also listed on that are all the health problems both myself and my dog have suffered at the hands of this business. My property values are worthless. My house is under a trust that my mother had set up. I do eventually, I am required to sell it, and I’ll be unable to do that without disclosure. There is nobody in the world who is going to buy my house because of this place, and if I don’t disclose, I can be sued for it. None of you sitting there would buy a property and live with this; none of you would tolerate the health issues that they’re causing. under the Clean Air Act of the EPA. Karla Clayton We live about I 0 acres away from this facility, and I don’t know how else we can explain to you guys how vile this smell is. It will wake you from a sound sleep. I’ve issued an invitation to all of you before you come, have a seat on my patio, and have a drink. You haven’t shown up. We need to find out when they’re venting, and y’all can come visit because you need to experience this personally. You can’t understand what it’s like to live there with this. We spent 20 years developing our property, it’s our retirement property lease we meant it to be with, and it is now because we couldn’t sell it, there’s nobody like Christie’s, ain’t nobody going to buy it that smell. If you’re out in the pool and they vent, you have got to get out and go to the house. If you’re on the patio trying to barbecue and have dinner, and they vent, you’ve got to go into the house. I can’t even emphasize to you how strong this smell is. The Clean Air Act has a property line standard, which says many jurisdictions require no detectable order at or beyond the property line. They’re saying they have top-of-the-line ventilation systems. I beg to differ. I don’t know what top of the line is, but they don’t have it. I’m asking you all to withhold renewal of their license. I would like you not to renew it ever and make them move out and go away. But I don’t expect you to do that; we’ve asked that before, and I don’t expect you to do that. In the meantime, at least hold their license. seems they can operate without it with y’all’s permission. I’ve been asking you to hold their license until they can prove that they can contain that odor and it can’t escape their property line. January 21 2026 , 10. 10:00 a.m. For PossibleAction — — Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation regarding: Cont... Mark Clayton I am a retired New Mexico State Officer. The last four years of my job, I worked in narcotics. I’m well familiar with marijuana grows and other grows. like methamphetamine labs and so forth. This marijuana deal here, we’ve busted many of them. They are very toxic. We used respirators when we went into the buildings to bust these things. Not only that, but we also wore heavy gloves because pulling up those plants, you will test positive after a while for marijuana. I don’t know if any of you all have been close to it when it’s in full bloom, but it is unbelievable how bad it is. I don’t know how the workers are working there, to tell you the truth. If they’re wearing respirators, you can’t see what’s going on in there anyway. But when they vent that thing, I tell you what, people, you can’t go outside. I have a shop, I have a business, and I can’t even work in my shop when that thing is open; it is like a skunk in your room. Also, they’re using a lot of water. It takes a lot of water to grow marijuana. Also takes a lot of electricity. Because that’s how we used to bust them, we looked for their bills, their electricity bills, and the smell, of course. I don’t know what they’re doing with the wastewater from these plants or what they’re doing with the soil. They take the soil out of there. What are they doing with it? It’s toxic. We don’t know what the long-term effects of marijuana are. The smell of it and the fumes. There’s a theory that it causes Parkinson’s disease eventually. So, we don’t know what’s going to happen to our kids. You don’t want to be very concerned about the children who live in this area. Because I tell you, you can’t let your kids go out there. I didn’t want my dogs to go out there; I’m concerned about my horses. So, if you all put yourselves in our position. If you live there, I guarantee you and Debbie, you know where we live. I’m telling you right now you would not want to live there. It is horrible, and we lived there 20 years, and it was good when they were growing herbs and spices here; it was a great place. But now they open this crap, and I’ve dealt with these people before. I know exactly, they’re into it for the big money, and we’re all talking about money. I don’t know how much you all are getting or this county’s getting from taxes and stuff from this outfit. Believe me, it’s not worth the health ofthe community. Kim Ruefer We live close by, and I like my outdoors, and I don’t like the smell. I was glad I got away from the Midwest, get away from the skunks. Because enough is enough, that’s the most putrid smell ever. I don’t want to smell it in my house or in my yard. I want to enjoy it. I’m sure you guys enjoy your place. Go outside, have barbecues, and sit outside and enjoy it. Let us enjoy it too, please. Herman Lewis These people are my neighbors, and I have a farm here. I know what they have gone through in the past, not necessarily at this location. But I do have something very important for you to know. The man that you see sitting inside Adam Fulton is one of the most honest, ethical men I’ve ever met in my life. He fixes the unfixable; he fixes things that cannot be fixed. I have a right to public comment. I have a right to do that. I’m only saying if anyone can fix this situation, the man who has been retained to clear this up in the audience representing the client or the applicant, I should say. I think that needs to be brought up and pointed out to the community, and I have January 21 2026 , 10. 10:00 a.m. For Possible Action — — Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation regarding: Cont... firsthand knowledge on that. You know I don’t have a dog in this fight. I just want to see my neighbors happy the way I want to be happy, and if you have someone who can fix an unfixable situation, I think he’s entitled to have a chance.

Public Comment closed.

The motion to deny special use permit ETSU-25-6 and cannabis business license CBL 25-11 subjectto the following conditions of approval that the applicant was in violation of County Code as the last sentence in the agenda item stated the cannabis license shall expire and become void one calendar year following the date of issuance passed with 5 yeas. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 25. For Possible Action — Discussion and deliberation to: 25a. Approve, amend and approve up to four (4) contracts for Public Defender Services from the following list of applicants: Diana S. Cline, Esg.; Samuel Figueroa, Esg.; Thomas J. Gibson, Esg.; Hannah T. Gomel; James J. Ruggeroli, Esg.; Mark Shockley; and 25b. Fund from 10101 Judicial Other.

Public Comment: Ammie Nelson People that know me are aware that I’ve been a courtroom observer, and I was on a jury actually was on a murder trial on a jury. And I’ve listened to the January 21 2026 , 25. For Possible Action — Discussion and deliberation to: Cont... people that spoke and my printout doesn’t show a couple of them but I did like what — — Diana Cline had to say. I like what Mark Shockley has to say, and Mr. Ruggeroli. But Thomas Gibson has been an attorney around here for decades, and I’ve watched him in court he’s a very good attorney. He fights for his clients. He knows his Constitution. And I fail to understand why he’s never been appointed. But he is also one of my choices. Those three are the ones that I have on my printout, and the others I didn’t. So those are the three I choose. Herman Lewis Ron, I’m not making any derogatory comments to the opposite, — — contrary. Everyone’s doing a great job. But I also support Tom Gibson. I’ve known him for over a decade. He’s an incredible local attorney, and I also wonder why he’s never been picked unless there’s a personal issue, which I think is out of place. Because when you’re being represented by a public defender, can’t afford an attorney like Tom — and yes, his firm represents me and my family; they’re wonderful you need a real — bulldog attorney that knows how everything works. So, I think to not pick Tom Gibson is . It’s not good for the local community that needs to get public defenders. So, I would . . say: Please select Tom Gibson. Linda Clark I just sat outside with Mr. Shockley quite impressed and I don’t want — — — my opinion, or your opinion of me, to affect what I say of him. He’s quite cordial. He’s dedicated to this town because he spends so much time here. I don’t blame him for wanting to be here and not have to make that drive all the time, because he goes all over Nye County and everything. But I think he’s quite qualified from listening to him, and I guess he would be if he wasn’t still doing what he’s doing, and he wants to do it. So that’s my vote and consider it. . . . Phil Brown I am one of the current public defenders for Nye County. I’m A-qualified, and what we need is A-qualified public defenders. And I urge the Board to fill all four spots, but I’d specifically like to draw the Board’s attention to Mr. Ruggeroli, who I’ve known personally for 20 years. He does nothing now except, you know, category A felonies. He’s got a multitude of acquittals and experience that’s just beyond. I think he’s already registered and done the child welfare and dependency training as well, that was suggested. He’s a great worker. He’s very ethical and very highly regarded in Clark County, and I urge the Board to fill the position with him as well. Additionally, I’d ask the Board to consider hiring Tom Gibson as well. He is A-qualified. He’s the only cap ital qualified person among the panel, and we need A-qualified people to fill out the rest of the roster to make us an effective public defender unit and to comply, I think, with what our requirements are. Leah Aldridge I’m calling to support Tom Gibson. I think he’s an excellent attorney. I’ve known the man for nearly two decades. I’ve seen his action in court, and I think he’s like the best choice you could make. January 21 2026 , 25. For Possible Action — Discussion and deliberation to: Cont... Jason Earnest I have served as a public defender in this district since 2000. I did my firstjury trial in Tonopah in I 999. I want to echo everything that attorney Phil Brown said. I hope you fill all four. I think the man that he put up for you I don’t know him, but I’ve heard of him he’s an excellent choice for this county. I do want to focus on Hannah Gomel. She has worked with my office for over 10 years. She’s dedicated. She has office space, and she’s willing to meet with people here. She’s willing to come to Nye County, go to Esmeralda which, if she got a contract, she wouldn’t have to but — — she’s dedicated. She’s sharp. She’s been covering cases with me since she’s had the limited license. We started in October, although we started the process in July. She’d be an excellent candidate. There are a lot of externalities to having these contracts. Not only do you have the lawyers to handle the public defender, but you also have lawyers that can serve the citizens and can be consulted on family matters, or probate matters, those kinds of things. And to get quality attorneys in this county is a good thing. So, I’d echo what Mr. Brown said, and I ask you strongly give consideration to Hannah Gomel. She’s sincere. She’s authentic. And she’s born to be a lawyer. She does an excellent job already. Jherna Shahani I currently have a public defender contract here in Nye County, which I’ve had for three years, three and a half years. I wanted to speak for Miss Cline. She gave me my first legal job in Nevada. She was a partner at the firm where I worked at for several years, so I got to see firsthand her work ethic, her dedication to her clients, and her cases. She was often in the office well past 9:00 p.m. She taught me quite a bit about research and thinking outside the box. I was the lucky person who got to introduce her to Pahrump, and Nye County. After my car accident last year, she was the person who drove me out here every single day and wheeled me in my wheelchair into court. So, she got to meet everybody and see what criminal defense all is about. She did a trial with me several months ago. She also started her second trial recently, which was continued to today, and it is now, we are now just waiting on the sentence, the verdict and the sentence. So, she should be felony-qualified within a few weeks. So I would ask you to consider her as one of the applicants.

Public Comment closed.

motion? Parliamentarian, sir. Thank you. I would like to do that.

motion conditional on the passage of the bar exam, the State Bar exam in Nevada, whenever the results come out. And sometime in May they’ll probably e-mail her. That would be my motion now, taking it back so it’s not October and your concern is taken care of, correct?

The motion failed with 2 yeas. Commissioners Strickland, Boskovich and Koenig voted nay. January 21 2026 , 21 For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation to approve the updated . — layout for the soccer fields at the Pahrump Fairgrounds. Jimmy Martinez An update of the layout of the soccer fields. The layout was for 8 fields learning that we need larger fields to hold adequate tournaments we shrunk down to six. The fairgrounds are a large area so we can expand this when we need. I’m bringing you this today to we could keep moving forward with the six multi-purpose fields. There is a potential layout of eight, but it should be highlighted by six. Each ballpark should cost 2 -5 each. In Las Vegas they built 8 multi-purpose fields and that was 15,000,000 so that was a year ago, so we do have increases.

Public Comment open: Tammie Pitman I was at a meeting and Strickland had any stack of astroturf or fake grass on her desk looking at the different types. I’ve heard people talk about grass and I’ve heard we need water for the grass we don’t really and truly have water to spare so that doesn’t track with me so are these going to be water grass or are they going to be fake grass. Ammie Nelson What are schools doing about these kinds of soccer fields in their areas. The schools should be putting something in for the kids what are they responsible for they get all the tax money. What are they doing to build soccer fields and why are we puffing that much money into soccer fields right now when we need roads. It just irritates me. Tim Bohannon They’re using the football field which is also used for soccer and other sports on a very continuous basis always filled. There really is a need for recreational activities for not only youth but adults that also want to stay in shape. Soccer’s a fairly inexpensive sport if you get a ball, get a net and let’s go. The concern about grass that’s legit but these can be done in different ways and I’m sure Mr. Martinez knows how to do that. From a placement standpoint I understand correctly Fox Dalton on the right-hand side of Dalton as you’re going north at the fairgrounds. The current fireworks area is left of that if I’m not mistaken. Is that going to be still there? I’m not saying no so that’s good and just keeping that kind of safety in mind. Michelle Chappell I sit on the Pahrump arena advisory committee and although I don’t play soccer and my children are grown, I sure would have loved this opportunity when they were younger. I see repeated comments all the time that we need more for our kids, well here it is and not only am I excited to have an opportunity to have more for these kids. I’m excited to have more room for fall fest so we can grow fall fest which brings tourism dollars. I’m excited to have more space for other things that can happen on those soccer fields. Those who’ve been here long enough, we used to have outdoor concerts, you know things like that so I’m very excited about this I’m super happy about it I’m glad there’s infrastructure going out there to provide more opportunities for more entertainment and more sporting. More activities which bring our community together, so I am supportive of it keep moving forward guys keep pushing. January 21 2026 , 21 For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation to approve the updated . — layout for the soccer fields at the Pahrump Fairgrounds-Cont’d. Toni Wald- I also sit on the advisory board and am Debra Stricklands daughter. I am in support of this item moving forward my kids play soccer I also help work the fall festival from the arena committee side. I see what Jimmy and Courtney, and the rest of the town staff goes through trying to put on our fall festival. This needs to move forward so that we can all get these facilities up there where we can put on a real festival and real events. I’m fully support of it. Linda Clark -My big concern is the location and second how we are going to pay for all this. How are you going to pay for one of them just one of them. You’re hoping you’re going to get grants, you’re going to have money come out of what our general fund when we need streets and everything else. Nobody answers those questions, you just sit up there and smile and say yes, this is what we’re going to do and we’re going to have this and we’re going to have that. I’m sure the people that move over in the ovation area are happy to hear that they’re going to get for their tax dollars soccer fields and all this other stuff you’re going to put in that little 4,000,000 acres. It’s not in your backyard it’s not in your backyard it’s in mine I have to listen to it I can see soccer I can see that whole field from my front yard. If that’s what you think this town needs, there’s a thousand us people that don’t think we need it and you keep putting this stuff on our faces and say this is what you need. We still don’t even know what this field is going to cost and they keep going on with this other stuff that you’re going to do when we don’t know what it’s going to cost. It’s been months since you put in that thing for a proposal if they’re not doing the job, you should have fired them. Courtney Kenney- I am all for this, from a member of the public standpoint I do have a son that plays soccer. Outside of work I spend a lot of time on these soccer fields, and I do see that we squeeze as many fields as we can into such a small area and it’s very tight, it’s very cramped. I do also know that the junior Trojan soccer club did have to turn kids away because you know you only have as many coaches as you can have in teams as you can have so it’s very disappointing when kids have to be turned away because they have almost 300 players. This town is growing more families are moving here more kids are moving here we absolutely need this. I’ve been in this town for 23 years and we’ve never had anything more built for soccer fields or fields in general for sports. On a works stance I also see field allocations, and I also see how hard it is to get everybody fair playing time this would hugely help field allocations hugely help the kids in this town to be able to play. Be able to have more soccer teams tournaments being able to do tournaments in this town would bring huge tourism dollars so I’m completely all for this. Marcy Tillery- We didn’t have Ian Deutch Park, we as a community built that park. These kids need it because I’m involved in soccer, Little League, and rodeo for my kids for the town’s kids. I’m coaching three soccer teams right now I’m also the player agent for Little League. We’re going to have a crossover here in the next 30 days we’ve got 6 AYSO soccer teams going we’re projected to have 40 Plus Little League teams going January 21 2026 , 21 For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation to approve the updated . — layout for the soccer fields at the Pahrump Fairgrounds-Cont’d. We have 40 fields to share between all that. We need these fields our kids have grown, our talent is getting better, we’re having more sports but we’re running out of time. I leave Ian Deutch Park every night at 9:30 at night you know how hard it is to keep 12- year-olds out till 9:30 at night because we have to share field allocation. We need the fields I’m for them Courtney and Jimmy do well trying to allocate, trying to make everybody happy we have to do what we have to do but our youth is being kept out super late at night because we are trying to use the entities we have and it’s not enough. I’m all for it we can come together as a community and get it done. Shawn Holmes I am here for other reasons, but this struck a nerve with the soccer fields. A little bit of background, I coached probably 28 seasons over 1 5 years spring fall summer year-round. I coached group girls all the way up to #4 in the state of Nevada from Pahrump all underage or well our average age was a year to year. I have been waiting for fields like this my whole life and the town needs it. Marykay Radcliffe- I believe the kids need things to do but we already have a park Kellogg park that has more space. It has more property for it, and it has already got roads, it’s already got bathrooms, why can’t we just do it there. Beth Borysewich- I am not going to talk about whether or not we need soccer fields it’s kind of obvious. I’m going to talk about who authorized the cost for an updated layout of the soccer field I don’t recall of the commissioners asking for any updates on the soccer fields. Can someone justify why this was done and why not be upfront and say OK this is going to cost this much and let the people know. We’ve talked about the fairgrounds, but I thought it was the pickleball courts. I haven’t heard about any budget for any of the work out at the fairgrounds. I would like to suggest, and I will follow up with Samantha to see if we can get this on the agenda is I would like to see a citizens advisory committee to talk about the fairgrounds to get the budget to get the transparency out there and stop hiding behind this stuff. The people of Pahrump are the ones that are going to pay for it use it and we’re the ones that need to be able to say what we really want. The commissioners are all well over I’m going to say 45 years old their kids have probably already grown o what the heck do you know. It is really upsetting to me that you’re not taking into consideration anything that the people have to say and you’re not sharing cost.

Motion passes 5 yeas. January 21 2026 , 22. For Possible Action — Discussion and deliberation to: 22a. Appoint two members to the Pahrump Off Highway Vehicle Park Advisory Committee due to expiring terms from the following list of applicants: Laurie McLaughlin, and Joseph Steidl; andlor 22b. Direct staff to re-advertise for the appointments. Administrative Manager Samantha Tackett- We are finishing up our expirations for the new year. We have these two applicants who are recommended by the committee for appointment, and the term would be a two-year term expiring in January 2028. So, the recommendation is to appoint.

Motion passes 5 yeas. 11. 10:00 a.m. — For Possible Action — Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation on: ha. ZCMP-25-13: An application for a Minor Master Plan Amendment from Low Density Residential (LDR) to Community Development Area (CDA) on a parcel totaling 0.46-acres, located at 2361 S. Mallard Ave., Pahrump, NV. Assessor’s Parcel Number 042-312-02. Gerald R Payne & Jo Ann Trust — Property Owners. Double M Construction Inc. Applicant; and — lib. ZCMP-25-14: An application for a Zone Change from Village Residential (VR-20) to General Commercial (GC) on a parcel totaling 0.46- acres, located at 2361 S. Mallard Ave., Pahrump, NV. Assessor’s Parcel Number 042-312-02. Gerald R Payne & Jo Ann Trust Property Owners. — Double M Construction Inc. Applicant. — Qiana Medici This item was heard by the Pahrump Regional Planning Commission at their December 10, 2025, meeting. The PRPC voted 7-0 to recommend approval of the minor master plan amendment and the conforming zone change to the Board of County Commissioners at their January 21 2026, meeting. Upon review of the application, the , staff finds that the requested minor master plan amendment and conforming zone change comply with the requirements of Nye County Code Title 1704, and the PRPC recommends approval for both applications. Mr. Meads is also in the audience for any questions. Thank you. Public Comment? January 21 2026 , 11. 10:00 a.m. — For Possible Action — Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation on: Cont... Ammie Nelson First, I don’t get the backup because when I go to look at it, I have to print it out, and I don’t have that many paper. But I looked at these, and it’s the same address, but in A, it wants to change it from low-density residential, they want to change it to community development area, and in part B, they want to change it from a village residential to general commercial. It’s the same property, and there are two different zone changes. I’m a little bit confused about that. Close Public Comment

Motion carries 5 yeas. 14. 10:00 a.m. — For Possible Action — Discussion and deliberation to: 14a. Declare 200 S. Dahlia Street, Pahrump, NV, a public nuisance consisting of unsafe, unhealthful conditions, which poses a public health and safety hazard; 14b. If declared a public nuisance, establish a reasonable time for VHM IRREVOCABLE TRUST, who is the property owner, to repair, abate or remove the public nuisance; 14c. If the public nuisance is not abated within the time period designated, direct staff to utilize the abatement procedures to abate the hazard by removing or causing the removal of the hazardous conditions; and 14d. Apply a special assessment against the real property in the amount of the total cost of the abatement. Assessor’s Parcel Number 038-214-10. Location: 200 5. Dahlia Street, Pahrump, NV. Property Owner(s): VHM Irrevocable Trust.

Public Comment: Ammie Nelson This is the one behind Walmart; it doesn’t have any trees on it. It’s a bunch of sagebrush and some small piles of sand. This is where Ian Bayne is raising such a war over homeless people and trying to chase them out of his district into mine. I’ve not seen any of the stuff he’s talking about on this item. When I go to Walmart or go to Quest when I drive back there, I’m a little bit confused why they can’t get hold of the owner. Maybe I can ask them now that I have the address. But I think they ought to give the owner a little bit more time or have somebody else try to contact him. January 21 2026 , 14. 10:00 a.m. — For Possible Action — Discussion and deliberation to: Cont... Close Public Comment. Christy Siegmund Just additional information about this property, we have picked up 4 abandoned dogs in the last year.

Motion passes 5 yeas. January 21 2026 , 15. 10:00 a.m. — For Possible Action — Discussion and deliberation to: 15a. Declare 721 S. West Street, Pahrump, NV, a public nuisance consisting of unsafe, unhealthful building, which poses a public health and safety hazard; 15b. If declared a public nuisance, establish a reasonable time for Enhua Chen, who is the property owner, to repair, abate or remove the public nuisance; I 5c. If the public nuisance is not abated within the time period designated, direct staff to utilize the abatement procedures to abate the hazard by removing or causing the removal of the hazardous conditions; and 15d. Apply a special assessment against the real property in the amount of the total cost of the abatement. Assessor’s Parcel Number 035-307-02. Location: 721 S. West Street, Pahrump, NV. Property Owner(s): Enhua Chen.

Public Comment: Ammie Nelson Having dealt with insurance in Nye County I can tell you insurance can hold this up. I’m surprised that the commissioner hasn’t made a personal contact, since he’s already been on the property, to find out what this owner has in mind and to let him know what his intentions are. I’m not for pushing any homeowner out or putting them through extra expense just to glorify chasing down homeless people. This has really gotten out of hand, and I’m surprised the rest of you even go along with it. Close Public Comment

Motion passes 5 yeas. January 21 2026 , 16. 10:00 a.m. — For Possible Action — Discussion and deliberation to: 16a. Declare 1850 W. Isaac Street, Pahrump, NV, a public nuisance consisting of unsafe, unhealthful conditions, which poses a public health and safety hazard; 1616b. If declared a public nuisance, establish a reasonable time for Yugi Ou, who is the property owner, to repair, abate or remove the public nuisance; I 6c. If the public nuisance is not abated within the time period designated, direct staff to utilize the abatement procedures to abate the hazard by removing or causing the removal of the hazardous conditions; and 16d. Apply a special assessment against the real property in the amount of the total cost of the abatement. Assessor’s Parcel Number 036-121 -06. Location: 1850 W. Isaac Street, Pahrump, NV. Property Owner(s): Yugi Ou. This item was removed from the agenda. SITTING AS THE NYE COUNTY LICENSING AND LIQUOR BOARD

Motion passes 4 yeas. Commissioner Bayne was not present. January 21 2026, 18. For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation to approve to accept proof of the issuance of a State gaming license to Joseph Asher, Brandywine Gaming, dba Boomer’s Sportsbook doing business at Mizpah Club located at 138 N. Main St., Tonopah, NV as evidence of the suitability of an applicant to issue a County Gaming License pursuant to Nye County Code 5.14.100(E). Joseph Asher I’ve just started a new sports betting business where we’re opening sports books hopefully across the state. We’ve got 5 open now. This location in Tonopah would be number six. I’ve worked in the gaming industry in Nevada for a little over 20 years in the sports spending business. I had a company called Brandywine Bookmaking which operated here in Pahrump for many years until it was sold to William Hill. I then was the CEO of the William Hill U.S. business until it was sold to Caesars in 2021 Now . I’m getting back in the game. I’ve been licensed on multiple occasions by the Nevada Gaming Commission. I think it’s four times, most recent this past summer, in July, for this new venture and we’d like to open in Tonopah. The request is that you accept the state Gaming Commission’s suitability finding and then at the next hearing hopefully approve us so we can open in Tonopah in advance of the Super bowl. I’m happy to answer any questions that you might have. Samantha Tackett This applicant and application has been going around between County Manager, DA’s office, Sheriff’s Office. This Applicant is requesting to invoke, as the item says, Nye County code 4.14.100 subsection E, where we would not be conducting the background check on this individual. We are accepting the state’s approval ofthe issuance oftheir state license which was issued on December 18th as suitability and doing just a simple local check within our means. This individual would not be paying the $500 investigation, they would not be getting their fingerprints done, and after a lot of back and forth, we did just barely get a completed application or mostly complete. The investigator has given it a once over and has not seen any issues but this item is specifically for the board to accept the State’s issuance of the gaming license as suitability to forego doing our own background check and only investigate at face value, as the code indicates, the application information that we do have.

Motion passes 5 yeas. January 21 2026 , SITTING AS THE GOVERNING BODY OF UNINCORPORATED TOWN OF PAHRUMP 19. 10:00 a.m. For Possible Action Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation — — to adopt, amend and adopt, or reject Town of Pahrump Bill No. 2025-03: A Bill Amending Chapter 18 Titled Article IV Titled Park Property Adding Section 18.71 Definitions; Section 18.72 Prohibitions; Section 18.73 Authorized Uses; Section I 8.74 Children’s Parks And Play Areas; Section 1 8.75 Permits for 50 or More People; Section 18.76 Parks ThatAre Closed; Section 18.77 Rules For Animals; Section 18.78 Violations; Section 18.79 Penalty For Violations; Section 18.80 Appeals to the Board of County Commissioners; Section 18.81 Hearing Procedures; Section 18.82 Appeals of Decisions of the Board; and Providing for the Severability, Constitutionality, and Effective Date Thereof; and other Matters Properly Relating Thereto. Manager Waggoner This a draft that I worked on. Commissioner Strickland had brought to my attention a typo on page five of seven of the track changes version. If you look at page five of seven of the clean version it is corrected.

Motion passes 5 yeas. 20. For Possible Action — Discussion and deliberation to: 20a. Determine that a public purpose may be served by the acquisition of the real property more particularly described as Assessor’s Parcel Nos. 038-191-45 and 038-252-06; 20b. Consider the application made to the Board of County Commissioners by Town of Pahrump for permission to acquire the real property described as Assessor’s Parcel Nos. 038-1 91 -45 and 038-252-06; 20c. Adopt, amend and adopt, or reject Nye County Resolution No. 2026-01: A Resolution Directing the Transfer of Nye County Treasurer Trust Property into Town of Pahrump Ownership for Public Purposes; and 20d. Fund from fund 25101 in delinquent tax amounts from Fund 25101. Jimmy Martinez My request is to purchase these two properties. The first is close to the northwest side of the cemetery. We already own the properties couple spots down from it. The second property is Petrack Park. We own the one next to it already. It’s all for expansion for the parks, one for park and one for cemetery as we start to fill up at ours here. We have the land available.

Public Comment: January 21 2026 , 20. For Possible Action — Discussion and deliberation to: Cont... Beth Borysewich How did you know these things these two parcels were delinquent in taxes? I thought that the delinquent taxes notices went out sometime in January or December. Is somebody tracking all the delinquent taxes so that you can scoop up land? I know that we need it, but I just want to know the process because this seems fishy to me. Close Public Comment

Motion passes 4 yeas. Commissioner Bay was not present. January 21 2026 , SITTING AS THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 23. 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. 23.1 For Possible Action Approval of the Elected Official Collection Report regarding fees collected from elected county departments for services rendered by or provided to county citizens. 23.2 For Possible Action Approval of the meeting minutes from the joint meeting on November 18, and December 2, 2025. 23.3 Quarterly progress report provided by Kat GaIli with Tonopah Development Corporation dba Tonopah Main Street, regarding program status, outcome results, a budget status report and future goals pursuant to the Nye County ARPA Recovery Plan and Policy: Economic Impacts for Tourism. 23.4 For Possible Action — Approval to: 23.4a. Accept Notice of Subaward from Division of Public & Behavioral Health to administer the Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC) for Fiscal Year 2026 for the months of October 1 2025, through , September 30, 2026, in the amount of $364,047.00, to provide nutrition education, food delivery system and facilitate delivery of health services. No County match is required; 23.4b. Execute the Notice of Subaward and 23.4c. Fund to 10340 Grants.

Public Comment: Beth Borysewich I’m confused because this is for a grant for $364,047 and when you look at the Notice of Subawards it says Division of Public and Behavioral Health, it says personnel is going to get $304,591 .00. The personnel in Health and Human services already get paid by the town or the county depending on which division you’re working in. I don’t understand why we’re giving them $304,000. Looking at the backup, they’ve only hired one additional consultant and that consultant is going to be paid $18,000 so how do they take $304,000 and not give it out to the mothers that need it and for babies. I mean personnel and the public, it just does not make sense, and I need it too because I’m getting ready to file complaint on this. I would really like some information on how a grant of $300,000 and most of it goes to personnel. January 21 2026 , 23. CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS Cont. ... Ammie Nelson I see $364,000 given out and if we’re paying out over 300,000 in wages that’s ridiculous. The food needs to go to the needy and especially up in the northern area where they have a lot of shut in seniors. We have a lot of them in Pahrump too but there’s more access to food drives down here and to places that give food commodities. I don’t know about this. I’d be watching closely. Linda Clark I’ve complained about this before. Our department of human resources here makes an awful lot of money. Why? Nobody can answer that. They’re always for little things like this. We’re going to give them this for that. They’re going to hire a person for this and then we have all this extra money. Who’s getting all the money and then I looked at some of the breakdowns of where the money is, it didn’t make any sense. It’s like Beth says and these people that are arguing these points with me and about this stuff have a lot more experience in this field than I do. I didn’t work in public government, so, I listened to them. I’m talking about Marianne and all the others. They know what they’re talking about. We need more explanation for what you guys are paying out for these people. Where is all this money going because the explanation that we get in the backup isn’t working. I don’t understand how you can spend this kind of money in that department. Almost every meeting you have there’s another bunch of money going to HHS. Seems like an awful lot of money, explain please.

Motion passes 5 yeas. 24. For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation to appoint a person from the panel of substitute justices of the peace pursuant to NRS 4.340 as a justice of the peace to attend to his or her official duties from the following list of persons: Michael Foley and Philip Bovee. A temporary vacancy from absence, disability or other cause must not be filled by another justice of the peace or a substitute justice of the peace for more than 30 days at any one time.

Public Comment: Ammie Nelson — I would like to ask you to put in Michael Foley. Linda Clark Michael Foley is the only choice. He should have been the choice from the beginning, but he didn’t get picked. I’ll be glad when this is all over and I’m sure you will too. We have a decision coming up in November or whenever we’re going to be voting again. It must be for Mr. Foley. We don’t need any more of this. It is disastrous. January 21 2026 , 24. For Possible Action — Discussion and deliberation Cont. ... It’s embarrassing for this community, and we should never have gone there in the first place.

Motion passes 5 yeas. 26. For Possible Action — Discussion and deliberation to: 26a. Approve or reject the addition of one Full-time Paralegal for the District Attorney’s Office to handle matters related to risk; and 26b. Fund from 10607 and 10608 Risk Management Fund.

Public Comment: Ammie Nelson I scratch your back you scratch mine. I don’t see why this wasn’t included in the 25 A&B where we had that discussion including Hannah Gomel that isn’t licensed yet, but I guess you guys do it the way you want to do it. I’m not sure who you have in mind because there’s no name on here, so I’d like to hear further comment, so we know exactly who’s going to be the paralegal. Beth Borysewich I understand the need for a paralegal however it was just brought to our attention that we’re going to be in the negative $1 ,000,000 at the end of the fiscal year. I was wondering if the new budgets are going to come out for next year, if the DA could put this person in the new budget and we hold off hiring her until July 1st That way it doesn’t impact us currently. Hopefully it’ll help us, for next year it could be allocated to without causing us to be in the negative. January 21 2026 , 26. For Possible Action — Discussion and deliberation to: Cont... DA Kunzi This is something that that we’ve done in my office because we really have the expertise to do this and we’ve been having a lot of cases which is saving a lot of outside counsel. This is not a general fund item. It’s not coming out of the general fund well I the general fund but it’s not a normal budgeting item. I did a lot of research to try to look at the options that we have available and in talking with some law firms in Vegas, starting paralegal usually starts about 65 to 70,000. One with one to five years of experience we’re looking at 72 to 90,000 and then if you get into one who can do a lot of tech and video which would be very helpful, I would love to be able to find somebody like that, it could go as high as 125,000. I really think it would be most beneficial if I could be able to get a paralegal in that one to five experience level and that’s why I would ask that you consider capping it at not to exceed $90,000 for a salary. That’lI give me the flexibility of finding someone with.

Motion passes 4 yeas. Commissioner Koenig voted nay. 27. For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation regarding selecting

Motion passes 5 yeas. January 21 2026 , CLERK 28. For Possible Action — Discussion and deliberation to: 28a. Appoint two members to the Central Nevada Museum Advisory Board due to expiring terms from the following list of applicants: Phyllis Sorhouet; andlor 28b. Readvertise for the appointments. Con Freidhof just to let you know there are 2 of them that are still going to need one, but we’re not going to advertise and waste the money until somebody approaches us.

Public Comment: Aimee Nelson — Phyllis looks like she’s the only one on here, so she’s the one I go for. Close public comment

Motion passes 5 yeas. 29. For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation to: 29a. Appoint one member to the Gabbs Town Advisory Board due to an expiring term from the following list of applicants: Jonathan Seeger; and/or b. Readvertise for the appointment. Con Freidhof said there were also two positions available, but again we are not going to advertise and waste the money until someone approached them.

Public comment open: Aimee Nelson We used to get comments from Gabbs in a while. There used to be a lady that used to call in if I’m not mistaken; hopefully she’s OK. but Jonathan Seeger looks like he’s the only one from there, so he has my vote Close public comment

Motion passes 5 yeas. January 21 2026 , 30. For Possible Action — Discussion and deliberation to: 30a. Appoint two members to the Nye County Park and Recreation Advisory Board due to expiring terms from the following list of applicants: Sonya Race; and/or 30b. Readvertise for the appointments.

Public Comment open. None. Close public comment.

Motion passes 5 yeas. COUNTY MANAGER 31 For Possible Action . — Discussion and deliberation to: 31a. Appoint eight members to the Nye County Peace Officer Advisory Review Board due to seven expiring terms and one vacancy from the following list of applicants: Cheryl Butler, Stephen Choate, Jennifer Clampit, Leilani Cook, Mark Dalton, Jerry Hashimura, Roy Holt, Thomas Mazzola, Deanna O’Donnel, Anthony Ruppersburg, Joseph Seaton, Jeffery Skrabak, Saul Weinstein; and/or 31 b. Readvertise for the appointment.

Public Comment open: Aimee Nelson I know a couple of people on this list, but the only one that i would say has my voice my vote is Mrs. Clampit. she’s retired police officer herself. Jennifer Clampit Hopefully you read my letter of intent for the peace officer Advisory Board. If not it’s there for you to look at. I came back and forth to Pahrump in 2007. I actually became a resident in 2011 At that time, I became a Casa volunteer and also a . Nathan Adelson Hospice volunteer. I’m here to volunteer, I know it’s a volunteer position for the police Advisory Board. I have two decades of law enforcement. I was post certified as a corrections officer; I was post certified with the metro police in Las Vegas NV. done years and years there, I’ve got over 2000 hours of training. I was promoted to Sergeant. I did have the opportunity to be an internal affairs investigator. I do understand the legal procedures of the officers Bill of Rights of 289. union representation officers Bill of Right’s I mentioned that also the Brady bill. You also have to work with the policy and procedures of the Nye County Sheriff’s Office what the rule books are what the officers have to do. So, when the allegation comes forward, the officer will have a due process. With that being said, with the advisory police board after January 21 2026 the judication and after all the witnesses and everybody who’s been notified, the police Advisory Board would get the opportunity to see what the outcome of the investigation is. Mark Dalton I recently retired from 23 years in law enforcement in Idaho. I spent 15 years with Blame County Sheriffs Office and the last almost eight years with the Idaho attorney general’s office, with the Internet crimes against children task force. I’ve spent I 7 years as a detective. I’ve worked Internet for internal affairs cases all over the state. I’m pretty sure you guys have read my resume and my application, so I just want to thank you guys for the opportunity and to thank you for the education I’ve gotten.

Public comment closed

Motion passes 5 yeas. FINANCE 32. Report by Zena Comptroller Teich, regarding the budget status for the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2026, for Nye County and all sub-entities pursuant to NRS 354.290.

The motion to approve passed with 5 yeas. PUBLIC WORKS 34. For Possible Action — Discussion and deliberation to: 34a. Approve filling the vacant Automotive Mechanic position in the Light Duty Shop prior to July 1, 2026; and 34b. Fund from 10101 General Fund, Mechanic Department. Manager Waggoner This position became vacant. I’ll speak on behalf of the Sheriffs Department and the fire department and admin. all of the departments that this is definitely a necessary position to refill ASAP. they are so behind on maintenance and repairs right now it’s crazy.

Public comment open. None. Public comment closed

Motion passes 5 yeas.

comment will be for all matters off the agenda. Public comment must be limited to matters that are within the jurisdiction and control of the Board of County Commissioners. Action will not be taken on the matters considered during this period until specifically included on an agenda as an action item (SECOND). Aimee Nelson Mention this many times before we need an additional day. Not only for town board, but we need an extra day for agendas like this. So, we can break them down, and certain items can be heard on an additional day. You guys get a little testy and a little goofy when you have a long agenda and you’re trying to race through it. Many of you have discussion, and we all know it, before you come to these meetings, so you have an idea of what’s going on. The rest of us have to listen to it. So, I suggest January 21 2026 , that you put a certain number of items on an agenda and then make it an extra day if you have an agenda like this today. Goodnight and thanks. Linda Clark there’s some kind of misunderstanding here that some of us in this community, especially Mountain Falls, don’t want the kids to have their playgrounds and all that stuff. That’s not true. We do. It’s just the wrong location for all the other garbage you want to put in there. if that’s what you want to do to those poor people over there, including me, who were hoping to live there till I die. We need to change something. It’s terrible what you’re doing to the people in that area. I just want you to reconsider what you’re doing over there. We’re still waiting to find out how much all of it will cost. we’re entitled to it. I mentioned before about HSS, and I have nothing against the sweet lady that runs the department or her people, but every agenda just about has something in there for HSS. I don’t understand why we don’t have money in this town to do the things that need to get done. Why can’t we spend some money and cut someplace else so we can start doing some of these things. And one place we can cut out is some of this for this 400 plus acre playground that you want to put over there. We’re going to need all of the infrastructure to go with all of that. So, it doesn’t do any good to have all these pretty shiny things over there and the people are falling in the holes in the ground trying to get over there. Beth Borysewich- It’s disheartening to me and to the other people that actually go out and look up old meeting minutes and talk to people and do things and then we actually sit here and we tell you what we find out, and it goes right over your head. There’s no acknowledgement of anything that we say. It’s like we’re stupid and you guys are the teachers and you’re going to teach us a lesson. It really does bother me. I’m pretty damn smart, and I just don’t understand that. You made the decision that you were going to freeze hiring, but so far there’s been three different positions. I understand the mechanics, we need a mechanic, but other positions have become before you and you just go ahead and vote for new employees. I’ve worked in skeleton crews before, and you can do it; you just have to be dedicated to your job. you guys shouldn’tjust say “OK let’s go ahead and forget what we said, were going to do it”. You need to have steadfast rules and follow up. I’d like to understand why so many of you guys get up and walk out during discussions. I think there’s an actual document that indicates the way that you guys are supposed to act, and one of the things is you’re not supposed to leave unless there’s an emergency. So, I’m just wondering what’s going on. I’m really disheartened. Have a good night. I’m sorry to bitch at you but it’s just the way I feel. Leah Aldridge we need a fishpond. Nye County needs a fishpond. If we can just get land and water, we can have private businesses come in. We could have bait and tackle shops, food trucks, all that kind of good stuff. If we get Fish and Wildlife to help a stock it with some bass, we could even have fishing tournaments. That stuff is pretty popular. OK, thank you ________ January 21 2026 ,

brief discussions of public comments, correction of factual inaccuracies, direction to staff, or topics proposed for future board meetings. Lengthy deliberation of topics not on the agenda is prohibited by the Nevada Open Meeting Law) Arnold Knightly Public Communications Manager I just wanted to let everybody know - - that this year we hit the grand total of I 000 public records requests, which has been an increase from 894 the year before and 735 the year prior. Jennica Sanders has done a great job keeping us compliant and transparent. Comments were made earlier today that Brett, Ron, and others know weren’t true. We are responsive, we give them the information that’s available and legal, and it’s been great working with the DA’s office. He knows our struggles. We talked to them constantly. Some people just don’t like the answer, some people there’s not a record, and if we have it there might be restrictions on why we can’t give it, and that’s why we work with the DA’s office. I have a great team, and I appreciate everybody’s time and support with our public records endeavors. Thank you.