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"Fowles" at county meetings

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This is new, and it runs on new software, so it will not be perfect yet. Where the county has posted minutes, the words and names are the clerk's. Where it has not, the words are our transcription of the county's video, made by software: it can mishear a word, a name or a number, and speakers are shown as letters, not names. Please double check anything you rely on against the minutes and the recording, which are linked on every page.

Right now it covers 748 meetings, from July 9, 2012 to August 18, 2026: 740 from the county's minutes with the speaker named, and 8 from our own transcript of the recording, where the county has not posted minutes yet and speakers are not named. More are coming.

25 turns across 13 meetings.

Board of County Commissioners, August 18, 2026transcript of the tape, speakers not named

Item 3: Commissioner/Manager Comments (This item is limited to announcements, 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).Watch this item

  1. Voice Fat 1:45:42...Corey Files, FOWLES undersheriff. I wanted to bring two matters to the board's attention. Had some trouble last week. We tried to hire a lateral deputy that's post...

Source: our machine transcript of the county's recording. No minutes posted yet. Check the tape before quoting.

Board of County Commissioners, June 18, 2026transcript of the tape, speakers not named

Item 15: For Possible Action - Discussion and deliberation to approve, amend and approve, or reject filling four vacant dispatcher positions, seven vacant patrol deputy positions (two from detention transfer) and two vacant detention deputy positions (created from the detention transfers) for the sheriff's office.Watch this item

  1. Voice Cat 2:44:01...Corey Fowles, undersheriff of the county sheriff's office. So first and foremost, what I'm asking here is to fill three of these prompt patrol positions from prompt PSST...

Source: our machine transcript of the county's recording. No minutes posted yet. Check the tape before quoting.

Board of County Commissioners, May 27, 2026

Item 9: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT (U to three-minute time limit per person) PublicWatch this item

  1. From the minutes...Under Sheriff Cory Fowles I missed some of this. I was on the road. I’m up here tonight to go to the town board meeting. I was told as...

Source: the county's minutes (PDF)

Board of County Commissioners, April 28, 2026

Item 12: For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation to approve or reject:Watch this item

  1. From the minutes...Undersheriff Cory Fowles I know that the Sheriffs Office is a rather large expense for the county, but the fact of the matter is we’re a pretty modest operation...
  2. Commissioner Strickland...Cody, could you tell us? Undersheriff Fowles That ratio only applies to category one police officers who answer calls on the road; it does not include detention services personnel. They...
  3. Comptroller Teich...Undersheriff Fowles I can clarify that. I am talking about category one: the street, coming to your house, handling your traffic accident, and taking the drugs off the street. Right...
  4. Comptroller Teich...Undersheriff Fowles I have two open detectives, a detective sergeant, four deputies, a detention sergeant, a food service worker, a detention tech, four dispatchers, a Beatty deputy, four detention deputies...

Source: the county's minutes (PDF)

Board of County Commissioners, April 21, 2026

Item 3: CommissionerlManager Comments (This item is limited to announcements, briefWatch this item

  1. From the minutes...Undersheriff Fowles The last three weeks between here and Tonopah, our deputies and detectives have seized well over 100 grams of illegal narcotics, to include fentanyl, methamphetamine, and heroin. There...

Item 32: For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation to approve theWatch this item

  1. Commissioner Bayne...Undersheriff Cory Fowles I would like to clarify a few points. First, you know that this county is geographically challenging to govern. It is challenging for you, for the clerk...

Source: the county's minutes (PDF)

Board of County Commissioners, April 7, 2026

Item 3: Commissioner/Manager Comments (This item is limited to announcements, briefWatch this item

  1. Sheriff McGill...Undersheriff Cory Fowles — To touch on the vehicle maintenance, there are three solutions that may be looked at. One is possibly outsourcing that labor to a private shop third party...
  2. Commissioner Jabbour...Undersheriff Cory Fowles I know there’ve been conversations. I didn’t talk to them myself, but I know that people in my office did. I’ll follow up on...

Item 26: For Possible Action Presentation, discussion and deliberation to approve aWatch this item

  1. Commissioner Boskovich...Undersheriff Cory Fowles Much like Chief, I appreciate you taking up the issue, and I understand everyone’s position. I may have the title of undersheriff, but I am a...

Source: the county's minutes (PDF)

Board of County Commissioners, January 6, 2026

Item 4: Approval of the Agenda for January 6, 2026 (Non-action item)Watch this item

  1. Sheriff McGill...Under Sheriff Fowles I just wanted to update everybody, this morning we saw off 7-new recruits to the Nevada Post Academy in Carson City. Our staffing is full; on...

Item 55: I don’t understand why we did all that great work, and when we used to be able to go

  1. From the minutes...Under Sheriff Cory Fowles We are currently using nothing. This is a new program, new software. It allows detectives to input data received from cell phone dumps, GPS coordinates, social...
  2. Commissioner Bayne...Corey Fowles I just want to clarify a couple of things the Sheriff’s Office is not over budget for the year as of November 30th, we’ve used 37...
  3. From the minutes...Cory Fowles My background investigator was on the phone for public comment and said he was #11 so if you want to reopen or hear from him, he can explain...

Source: the county's minutes (PDF)

Board of County Commissioners, December 16, 2025

Item 2: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT (Up to three-minute time limit per person) PublicWatch this item

  1. Commissioner Jabbour...Cory Fowles The board. A quick update about staffing and equipment. I know that we we’ve heard this before, and I hate to sound like a broken record, Nye...
  2. Sheriff McGillI’m going to piggyback on Undersheriff Fowles’s comments. There were a lot of things that we need, and we need to get our ability to use our PST...

Source: the county's minutes (PDF)

Board of County Commissioners, December 2, 2025

Item 2: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT (Up to three-minute time limit per person) PublicWatch this item

  1. From the minutes...Cory Fowles The incident that happened in Tonopah with the knife, Deputy Boni was not in Round Mountain. He was in Tonopah and on scene within 4 minutes. Lieutenant Ramirez...

Source: the county's minutes (PDF)

Board of County Commissioners, November 4, 2025

Item 16: For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation to set a date, time andWatch this item

  1. From the minutes...Cory Fowles It’s critically important that we retain our trained and dedicated professional techs and dispatchers. Without them, operations at the Sheriff’s Office would crumble.

Source: the county's minutes (PDF)

Board of County Commissioners, October 21, 2025

Item 0: Attendance

  1. Commissioner Boskovich...Cory Fowles I know that this is a negotiated item between this bargaining unit and the county. Nobody else can do what a dispatcher does. We need to do everything...

Item 23: For Possible Action Discussion and deliberation regarding a ProgramWatch this item

  1. From the minutes...Undersheriff Fowles We are in need of money to buy new police canine. The current canine, Charlie, assigned to Deputy Rumker in the Smoky Valley Round Mountain area is a...

Source: the county's minutes (PDF)

Board of County Commissioners, August 5, 2025

Item 8: 10:00 a.m. For Possible Action Public Hearing, discussion and deliberation

  1. Commissioner Strickland...horses, mules, mustangs, burros, cattle, buffalo, swine, goats, sheep, chickens, turkeys, and other farm fowl. I do not understand how graffiti has anything to do with these items. August 5...
  2. Commissioner Bayne...have the confidence in the leadership of Joe McGill and the under-Sheriff Cory Fowls and speaking with them about these issues. We just need to help them do what...

Source: the county's minutes (PDF)

Board of County Commissioners, June 3, 2025

Item 3: CommissionerlManager Comments (This item is limited to announcements,

  1. Commissioner BayneThere is additional information on item 11 over there by Sergeant Fowles on that table if anyone is interested. I noticed AB 540 passed and it said that it had...

Source: the county's minutes (PDF)