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Campo Board Meeting - January 14, 2026: Approval of 2050 Regional Transportation Plan and Officer Elections

Board of SupervisorsWednesday, January 14, 2026
BodyCarson City, Nevada
SessionBoard of Supervisors
DateWednesday, January 14, 2026
StatusFILED
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5:36

All right, it's 4 30 p.m.

5:39

on Wednesday, January 14th, 2026.

5:42

It's Greg Novak, Chair of Campo call to order.

5:46

Can we have a roll call, please?

5:48

Chair Novak.

5:49

Here.

5:49

Vice Chair Maloney.

5:50

Yeah.

5:51

Member Bagwell.

5:52

Here.

5:52

Member Casanelli.

5:54

Here.

5:54

Member Costa.

5:55

Here.

5:56

Member Nordlow.

5:57

Member Shuty.

5:58

Here.

5:58

Ex officio capular.

6:00

Here.

6:00

A quorum is present.

6:02

Okay.

6:03

Thank you very much.

6:04

And at this point, it's our first opportunity for public comment.

6:08

Uh at this point, anything anybody in the audience would like to bring up.

6:12

We will have a couple of action items with public comment and a final polling comment at the end.

6:19

But initial public comment.

6:20

Are there any volunteers coming up?

6:24

All righty.

6:25

Seeing none, we'll move ahead.

6:28

Number four, possible action approval of our minutes of the December 10th, 2025 meeting.

6:34

And Brianna did the minutes, and I had no problems with them.

6:39

I will move for approval of the minutes as presented.

6:44

All those in favor say aye.

6:46

Aye.

6:47

Any opposed?

6:48

Nay.

6:49

Motion passes unanimously.

6:51

Um I was gonna abstain because I wasn't on the council last month.

6:57

So I'm abstaining.

6:59

Okay, thanks.

7:00

I forgot to ask that one.

7:02

Okay.

7:03

Moving ahead.

7:04

Public meeting item.

7:06

Uh, we're on to uh 5A, possible action.

7:10

Discussing and possible action regarding nomination and election of a chairperson and vice chairperson for Campo with terms expiring in the first regular meeting of Campo in 2027, essentially one year apportionments.

7:29

We have a little staff report.

7:31

Do we have any other uh suggestions or actions here?

7:37

Just you're both happy doing the job.

7:40

You want to be stuck another year, both of you, or what we did.

7:44

Okay, I thought so.

7:45

It doesn't matter whether you think so.

7:47

We might do it to you anyway.

7:49

So you're ready, I'll make a motion.

7:52

All righty, I guess we are still fire at will, though, right?

7:55

Very good.

7:56

Okay.

7:57

I moved to appoint uh Greg Novak as chairperson for a one-year term expiring at the first regular meeting of Campo in 2027, and Lucia Maloney is the vice chair person for a one-year term expiring at the first regular meeting of Campo in 2027.

8:16

Second.

8:23

You better.

8:24

Okay.

8:25

All right, just check.

8:26

Show some enthusiasm there.

8:28

Aye.

8:32

All right, the motion carries.

8:35

All right.

8:37

Pay is great.

8:39

Yeah, still the big big check.

8:44

All right, we'll go on to our our next item is the uh regional transportation plan update.

8:52

And this is something that's been in the works for pretty much a year, and we've had lots of meetings back and forth, a lot of public input, a lot of opportunities, a lot of press coverage.

9:04

So I'll listen to uh Kelly Norman's presentation.

9:08

She's been our lead on this, doing a great job listening to everybody's comments.

9:12

And after that, I think some of the board might have some questions or comments too, and we'll open it up for public comment.

9:18

But this is one of the more important things that we do as Campo.

9:22

So Kelly, thank you very much.

9:24

Thank you, Mr.

9:24

Chair.

9:25

Kelly Norman, Senior Transportation Planner.

9:28

So staff has given regular updates of the Campo 2050 RTP to the board throughout the update process.

9:45

The Campo Regional Transportation Plan is attached in exhibit one, beginning on packet page 15.

9:53

Please note the minimal edits on the eight pages staff has included as late material for transparency.

10:00

These these minor edits will be incorporated into the final document and are and um will be posted online on the Campo agenda web page, and where the Carson City agendas are posted as late material.

10:15

There was a 30-day public comment period from November 5th through December 5th in 2025.

10:22

Forty-four comments were received.

10:24

These comments and the responses are included as exhibit two, beginning on packet page 287, and are also included as part of the Campo 2050 RTP within appendix C.

10:38

There is an approving action document for the chair to sign in support of the Campo 2050 RTP attached as exhibit three.

10:47

And on packet page 292.

10:51

That concludes my comments.

10:57

All right.

11:06

And there's quite a bit in the appendices that if you need to dive in, it's all there.

11:12

It just takes a while to find it.

11:14

But uh I just had a couple of comments, and I'll I'll let it go for the rest of the folks.

11:18

But this is between you know 2025 and 2050.

11:22

So you know, trying to look 25 years in the future, and I'd mentioned in an earlier meeting, look back 25 years to see how far we've come.

11:30

The biggest thing probably around here was the freeway, which is almost done, but not quite.

11:36

Uh you know, between now and 2050, there's a good chance the planning area might change.

11:42

Never know.

11:42

That happened usually with the census every time.

11:45

So uh, you know, uh the RTP itself gets updated every five years.

11:50

So uh, you know.

11:52

This is not the the final version of the RTP forever and ever, but you don't have to start on the new one for a few years, I hope.

11:59

See how that goes.

12:00

Uh the process you went through is very very thorough.

12:03

I saw the list of partners, quite a few folks that you checked in there.

12:07

The one I didn't see, and maybe between now and 2050, you didn't do it officially, but washo RTC, since they're our neighbor right at the top of the hill.

12:17

They have been included.

12:18

Okay, I didn't see their little logo on the thing.

12:21

Maybe I missed it.

12:22

It's okay.

12:24

I don't catch everything.

12:25

Sometimes I see things that aren't there.

12:27

Okay.

12:29

So the executive summary kind of uh some of the highlights for me were tying what we do in transportation to land use planning.

12:37

And I think there's enough discussion back and forth in the document and what the planning commissioners have said as well that we need to keep that dialogue ongoing because there's a lot of give and take, and your your plan is based on land use, and if land use changes, then some of our projects might need to change as well.

12:55

On the public input side, besides your uh survey with 267 responses that I saw on the list.

13:04

Another version that we came up, I came up with was looking at the uh the complete streets funding that we have in Carson City.

13:13

And uh somewhere around 7,312 individual registrations paid for complete streets at $2 a pop.

13:24

So I think that shows an additional interest in complete streets.

13:27

It's not an official thing, but there is a there's enough interest out there.

13:31

And I think that's very important to take uh uh take knowledge of.

13:36

The other uh aspect I saw was a discussion on public and federal lands, and depending on how future lands bills go, who's gonna own what and when that will affect our transportation network as well.

13:50

And I think there was one you know recently introduced that was essentially would allow Carson Street to tie to Curry Street at some point, but that would take federal action.

13:58

But again, all these discussions of what's federal, state, and local land and private land.

14:03

I think you're well on top of that as well.

14:06

Uh we've said that you know safety is number one, and we see all the proven countermeasures.

14:13

My particular emphasis for ones that we haven't done yet is on access management, and I think we do have some of that concern coming up in the future, and that will affect everything.

14:22

Uh the project list that you have there in appendix D, it shows a map on page 810.

14:29

And it's uh for the scale of the all overall projects.

14:33

I found if you go to packet page 209 or 211, you can see all the projects maybe in a better format in Carson and Douglas.

14:43

And there's not that many new roads in the short term, but in the long term, we are considering uh filling out the network as well.

14:51

Um the financial side, that's the best numbers we can come up with now.

14:56

I think we all realize that federal legislation is going to change, and will these current categories stay?

15:01

And will these current categories stay?

15:03

I have no idea.

15:04

I kind of doubt it, but that's for Congress to approve in the coming uh weeks and months.

15:11

Uh, one of the things I had mentioned uh to the endot folks is there's state money, and we don't really capture it in this or any of the regional transportation plans.

15:21

But and uh does a fantastic job on asset management, either pavement or bridges, and all those current and future projects really don't show up in here, but they are coming forward.

15:32

So uh we'll see how that goes.

15:34

Quite a bit coming as well.

15:36

And uh, if folks would pay all the registration fees, end up would be better off financially, and hopefully that that keeps going as well.

15:45

Uh let's see, I'd say overall that's my version of some of the highlights, and uh I didn't really see anything that needed to be changed uh between federal and state and local, we have less than uh the funding we'd like, but enough to get all the basics done, and there are opportunities to increase funding in the future.

16:06

So I think we're all aware of that.

16:08

So with that series of comments, I'll open it up to the other board members here.

16:12

Mayor.

16:13

Um thank you so much.

16:15

Kelly, um, I'm actually looking at the late material and and wanting to actually understand the edits in and what language was added.

16:27

So in several of these, like in uh the comment number two, you're at you you're just indicating additional language added to chapter four, but you don't tell me what the language changes.

16:41

Do we have a new redlined document?

16:45

Because I didn't see that with the late material to know.

16:49

I'm not bothered by any of the ones that say updated a map or updated a linkage, but I I really would like to know what the language is that I'm agreeing to.

17:03

So what did we add for number two?

17:08

You talked to N V O R A to work with RTC to establish the concept, but I'm not I'm not understanding what language was added that we're gonna continue to maintain OHV parking lots or we're gonna expand them.

17:25

I I don't know what you're sorry, I just got this late, so it's late for me to ask you.

17:33

I was just looking at that one as well, Mayor.

17:35

I think a couple more of them too.

17:37

I think um Kelly, I think you're looking for packet page 42.

17:41

Um, and there's some there's a second paragraph there that talks about um OHV access.

17:47

And I I have gathered, I think that's the language that's being added.

17:51

Is that right?

17:54

I don't know.

17:55

Did you guys post a new document?

17:58

How did you see that?

17:59

I'm not seeing that.

18:00

Madam Chair, I I know I know Kelly's gonna look this up, but I want to just clarify the the late material was issued.

18:09

Yes, the late material is issued.

18:11

There were very few textual changes to the RTP itself.

18:14

Though the in that particular late material, this is the response to public comments, the new exhibit 5B.

18:22

The the only two things that changed in this late material were uh a revision to the response in comment number seven and a revision to the response in comment number uh 19.

18:36

The other material in this late material is exactly as it was published, and there were no changes to the RTP as a result of the RTP edits column spemming from the late material.

18:48

So I can point you to the direct directly to the the edits we made to the RTP in response to the public comments, but the late material issued was specific to the response to the public comment and didn't generate any necessary edits to the RTP itself.

19:03

From what you submit correct you're saying this material in the packet already responded to this.

19:10

This is just a matrix that you supplied.

19:13

Correct.

19:14

Okay, because I I really okay.

19:17

All right, let me, I guess I understand what you're saying.

19:20

You just wanted to add the matrix so that the public understands.

19:22

Yeah, there were a couple of edits what happened to their comments.

19:25

There were some mistaken comments.

19:27

There was a couple of copy and paste, one was deleted.

19:29

We corrected those responses and reposted the response to public comments, but made no edits to the RTP as a result of the late material public comments.

19:39

Okay, because it said, never mind.

19:41

I'm just saying it says RTP edits, which made me believe you made edits.

19:46

Oh, yeah, we're based on the column.

19:48

We did make edits to the RTP, but not as part of the not a result of the late material.

19:54

Okay.

19:55

Is that right?

19:56

That's right.

19:58

That's correct.

20:00

Okay.

20:03

So the late material is just extra information for the public.

20:07

Yes.

20:07

No changes for us.

20:09

It was intended to be transparent so that everybody can see a fair response to the comments.

20:14

There were a couple of edits that didn't make sense in terms of response.

20:17

And so we wanted to provide that as transparent as possible about their responses.

20:22

Okay.

20:23

Thank you.

20:24

But do we want to those are changes then from the last time that we saw it to this time?

20:32

I guess that's a better way to look at it.

20:34

Between our last version and this version, this can be used as the guide to say what you changed between the two versions.

20:42

Correct.

20:43

Okay.

20:44

So maybe you can I I still would like to know what let's see, chapter 4.1.

20:55

Commissioner Maloney is correct.

20:57

It is that second paragraph, the first and second sentence in the federal uh public and federal lands section.

21:16

Where does it talk about the off highway?

21:19

Uh the second sentence, this would include parking areas large enough for off highway vehicles, OHV or equestrian trails in terms of accessing public lands, OHV use coupled with the increase in low-speed electric mobility devices such as e-bikes and e-scooters, present challenges to the way agencies typically plan for.

21:40

Okay.

21:40

In design transportation facilities.

21:43

Okay.

21:44

All right.

21:44

Thank you.

21:50

Version diversion.

21:51

We're not getting redlined, which means you're reading over from scratch every time, but just saying it would be helpful to mark the changes each time.

22:02

So you're not re I get it.

22:04

It's a lot.

22:05

It's a lot.

22:06

Thank you.

22:06

Thank you.

22:07

Thank you.

22:08

Okay.

22:11

Then let me go to the next one.

22:14

Mark Costison in.

22:16

Go ahead.

22:16

Go ahead.

22:17

I just wanted to say I I felt it was very well organized and it's um, you know, a process looking into the future, considering the growth patterns, the the changing demographics.

22:29

Um I I thought the public surveys really were reflected well and the comments, uh, and I appreciated seeing the replies.

22:38

Um, and it it just really shows the differing opinions and priorities expressed throughout the community.

22:46

Um revenue sources uh will continue to look at them.

22:52

And I I think that this was uh an excellent report in terms of or an excellent plan in terms of really looking at uh the challenges and and what's in store and and really the whys behind the process.

23:08

So well done.

23:10

Thank you.

23:11

Vice Chair.

23:12

Thank you, Mr.

23:13

Chair.

23:14

Um when I'm looking through the RTP, I'm looking for a couple of things.

23:18

One, does it meet the federal requirements for adopting a long-range transportation plan with the constraint and the unconstrained list?

23:26

Um you guys did a tremendous job.

23:30

It it to me it covers everything that needs to be covered, and then some Northern Nevada is one of the fastest growing regions in the country, and so the job of staff to capture this picture of where we are right now, where we think we're going, all of this data and inputs, this projections of how much money we're having in the future, depending on you know who's in office, it's it's a big job, and I think you guys did a really good job at um providing a clear vision and balancing of goals with flexibility and sort of nimbleness to accommodate what we just don't know that we don't know.

24:06

So I thought it was very well done.

24:09

Good job.

24:10

Thank you.

24:16

Yes, hi.

24:17

Um, I want I submitted my comments during the open comment period that we had um a couple months ago.

24:24

I appreciate the staff's responses to those.

24:27

Some of the responses were very useful.

24:29

Um particularly like the level of service explanation that you had there, and um appreciate the comments and realize that we're looking at the immediate objective of getting this report completed, but I think there's some things or this plan completed, but I think there's some things that need to be mentioned.

24:49

I know some people have talked about the the funding issue.

24:53

Um I have to bring that up again.

24:55

I'm really concerned about um apparently we got a super large deficit.

25:00

Apparently, we got a super large deficit.

25:02

And you know, we already have tracked that our road conditions are going to go ahead and deteriorate by I think it was 65% over the next 25 years.

25:14

And I think we need to go ahead and make sure that's clearly brought out to everybody, including the Board of Supervisors.

25:22

Um I'm new, so I'm not sure what the process is for that or how much time they will review this because they got a lot of other things to go ahead and take care of.

25:31

But I think this is a larger problem than what us in this room can go ahead and settle.

25:38

But we need to go ahead and continue to emphasize on that.

25:43

Um looking here, I'm looking at the prioritized projects.

25:54

Um I got the information that I needed about what our projects are, how they're prioritized, but I think there needs to be some revisiting of how we prioritize these projects.

26:09

And I also need to point out that the good news is that the Board of Supervisors just approved a couple weeks ago using the funds or the taxing capacity formerly used for the VNT, a railroad to go ahead and apply that to our local roads, which I think is very important.

26:28

And we're talking about 2.1 million dollars per year and a startup of 1 million dollars for that.

26:36

And I think this gives us an opportunity to go ahead and not only have more money for funding the maintaining and repair of roads, but also to go ahead and maybe give a jump start on some of the really badly damaged areas of the city that they can go ahead and get care taken care of right now.

26:59

And um, so I'm looking forward to you know discussing that in more detail on that.

27:06

And I'd like to go ahead and um just cover briefly um comments on 24, 25, and 26 regarding the transit by comped and uh safe routes to school.

27:24

My comments or concerns were a long were similar along the lines, even though talking about three different programs here, and that we need to go ahead and make sure we incorporate our head account and compare that with our modeling to make sure how accurate the modeling is because we do have to go ahead and revise how we do this in the in our area.

27:51

For I heard um I think a couple meetings ago that our transit routes have been pretty much fixed over a number of years.

28:00

I think we need to go ahead and take a look at that.

28:03

Um this plan gives us an excellent opportunity to go ahead and you know, use that as a empath to go ahead and get that done for that.

28:15

Finally, I want to go ahead and um I guess this gentleman here is representing Douglas County.

28:21

Was the I moved from Douglas County uh a couple years ago, and I was out in the Johnson Lane area and was concerned about the Johnson Lane Road there.

28:32

The the painted rock mine is creating a lot of traffic, heavy traffic from trucks that are towing one, two or three trailers at a time to that.

28:43

I don't know what the latest figures are for that.

28:46

I did see the project that staff pointed out to me for Johnson Lane, but that only covers really a small portion of that from Hayborn to Vicky Lane, and um there are the trucks are traveling on a lot farther or a lot more of Johnson Lane than just that area.

29:05

So I think that's something that is gonna have to be looked at in terms of maintaining that roadway.

29:10

I don't driving on Johnson Lane a couple times a day for years.

29:14

I don't know how that road is gonna hold up to all those trucks, but I think that's a certainly a concern.

29:20

And so there are other things that I want to go ahead and bring out about this report as I think it's very useful.

29:27

Um I thank the staff for making this as clear as as possible for that, and I'm gonna be referencing it throughout the year and seeing how we tie in our various types of programs because I've heard um and I understand from being in a similar position that there's um many plans that you have to do.

29:49

Um seems like dozens of plans, and tying them all together is sometimes very difficult to go ahead and do.

30:00

And we should go ahead and use this certainly as a linchpin for making sure that we're all our plans and how we implement our plans are all in harmony with this regional transportation plan.

30:12

So with that, I'll go be I'll be quiet for the time being.

30:16

Thank you all very much for getting this together.

30:19

Okay, thank you.

30:21

Any comments from uh Lion Com County at all.

30:25

Uh yeah, just thank you, Chair.

30:27

Just uh clarification on the prioritization.

30:32

Um the project numbers, do they have any correlation with the priority uh order?

30:41

Kind of a dumb question, I guess.

30:43

But the local public agency can still prioritize one over the other, depending on the local public agency's priorities.

30:54

Okay.

30:55

So with respect to like say Lion County, uh project number L1 point LY point six, may not necessarily be ahead of you know point seven.

31:10

And that's just what I'm wearing.

31:12

It doesn't we can still okay.

31:15

Thank you.

31:16

And good job, by the way.

31:17

Yep, yeah.

31:18

Some of it's just as an identifier.

31:20

There's a master list, and so you can track them down.

31:23

Needed clarification.

31:24

Yep.

31:25

Okay.

31:26

Okay.

31:27

Good.

31:28

Any comments from Douglas yet?

31:31

Congratulations.

31:32

Well, sorry, there's an asking on the years.

31:38

That's okay.

31:39

Okay.

31:41

Okay.

31:42

Do we have any other comments at this point or discussion before I open it up to public comment?

31:52

Okay.

31:53

Any end odd comments on this thing?

31:56

Are you happy with it?

31:59

Thank you.

31:59

Um, for the record, Rebecca Capulaire.

32:02

I just want to thank staff again.

32:04

You guys met with us starting in July last year, and um we're really open to meeting with our staff and having comments, and our staff brought the information back to the front office, and we had some internal conversations and gave you guys feedback.

32:16

So I appreciate the um collaboration, and um, we look forward to seeing all the great things happening out of the plan.

32:23

So good job, and thank you.

32:25

Yep, and just for the record, if you go to packet page 113, we're talking about kind of the performance measures, and it shows the national highway system roads and bridges that Campo has.

32:36

So thanks for adding that.

32:38

And uh, as you take care of those, your statewide performance measures look even better.

32:43

So thank you very much.

32:45

Okay, with that, I'll open it up uh for public comment.

32:48

Anyone in the audience wish to come up and speak.

32:54

Okay.

32:55

I saw we had one public comment under a late material that folks have probably seen about light rail and other things, and we'll consider that.

33:04

But I think there's other places in Nevada that that's more appropriate for at this point.

33:10

Okay.

33:11

So not seeing any more comments.

33:13

I'm ready for a motion.

33:17

I move to approve the RTP as presented and with the late material and to approve staff to make administrative and non-substantive changes as required.

33:30

Okay, do I have a second?

33:32

I will second.

33:33

Okay, we have a motion and a second.

33:36

All those in favor say aye.

33:38

Aye.

33:38

Aye.

33:39

Any opposed, nay.

33:42

Any abstentions?

33:44

Okay.

33:45

The motion passes.

33:46

We have a revised transportation plan, and I get the sign off at some point.

33:52

All right.

34:04

All right, Chris, you're ahead of me on that.

34:06

Our non action item 6A, the Transportation Manager's report.

34:12

Thank you, Mr.

34:13

Chair.

34:13

Chris Martinovich Transportation Manager.

34:16

I wanted to start off by introducing Erica Rosilius, who's in the audience here.

34:20

She's our new safe rounds to school coordinator for Western Nevada Safe Rounds to School.

34:23

So schools in Lyon County is Douglas County, Carson City, and Story County as well.

34:28

Ierka joined our staff uh a couple of weeks ago.

34:30

So welcome, Erica.

34:32

Thanks for being here.

34:33

And she'll she'll be our contact going forward for that.

34:36

So if you have a question, does she wear costumes?

34:39

Oh, sorry.

34:39

Well, we're gonna hit on Sally.

34:42

So there you go.

34:43

Sally is gonna be awakened, hopefully.

34:45

We'll get her get her going again here.

34:46

She's a big hit.

34:48

I know.

34:48

Yeah.

34:50

Uh so welcome, Erica.

34:51

I also wanted to acknowledge um Josh is here for Douglas County.

34:55

John Erb has retired.

34:56

I have a little bit surprised for me, but I I appreciate Josh being here.

35:01

Um definitely missed John.

35:02

We're gonna get him a plaque.

35:04

Uh he was he just served on the Campo board for over a decade.

35:07

I was looking through previous agendas and staff reports and found some of his name on as a member of Campbell going back to 2014.

35:14

So I wanted to just acknowledge John Herb's retirement and thank him publicly for for his effort and his time.

35:20

Um we'll get him uh we'll get him back there.

35:23

Um I'm going to also talk about a couple of other items here.

35:27

First of all, the staff is beginning the process for the next two year uh fiscal year 27-28 Unified Planning Work Program, our UPWP.

35:35

We are meeting with EndOt next week as well as Federal Transit and Federal Highways to start that process, kick that off.

35:40

Uh so we'll have a new two-year UPWP this spring.

35:44

We also are working on an amendment with NDOT for our current year year UPWP to fund the rest of fiscal year 26.

35:51

So that's in process.

35:52

The funds are available, and so that'll come up here in the next month, I anticipate.

35:58

I also wanted to let this board know that I've been appointed to the Regional Rail Transit Advisory Working Group, which was a group established under Assembly Bill 256.

36:07

Uh I was notified of that last week.

36:10

And so that group has been tasked with looking at regional rail and transit across the state of Nevada.

36:15

So I'll be serving on that interim uh working group as part of the legislative as part of the assembly and Senate Growth and Infrastructure Committee uh processes.

36:24

So I'll report on that as as things come up and relate to Campo, but um looking forward to being a part of that group over the next uh several months.

36:33

And with that, I concludes my report.

36:35

Thank you, Mr.

36:36

Chair.

36:37

Okay.

36:38

Thank you very much.

36:39

It's always busy.

36:41

We'll see what happens, and I'm guessing we haven't heard anything out of Washington, DC yet for reauthorization or they have to get through another government shutdown vote, right?

36:52

So I have not heard anything.

36:54

I don't have any updates, perhaps uh Rebecca has some updates now.

36:58

I haven't heard anything either.

36:59

No, if something happens, it'll be in the news.

37:01

Okay.

37:02

Okay, we'll see.

37:04

All right, item 6B.

37:06

Uh N DOT's report for Rebecca here.

37:10

Thank you.

37:11

Um so I want to start off with we um received some preliminary data for 2025 crash data.

37:18

Again, this is preliminary because it's still so close to December that things can change.

37:24

Um, but as Greg mentioned, or excuse me, the chair mentioned my um I always bring up at our meetings that safety is one of our top priorities at Endot.

37:33

Um tragically, there were five deaths here in Carson City in 2025, and that is up from two in 2024.

37:41

So, of course, that's a trend that we want to see change and go the other direction.

37:46

Together, our goal is ultimately zero fatalities, and um, we continue to work towards the few that fewer deaths and injuries on Nevada roads.

37:54

I do want to note that those two of those um crashes that involve the fatalities here in Carson were unbuckled people in the um vehicles.

38:05

So um I believe last month I talked about you know, um, with the holidays not to drink and drive, but always try to remember to buckle up or ask your passengers to do the same.

38:16

Um last month I also mentioned our strategic highway safety plan was underway and getting ready for the governor to sign.

38:24

Um, today I did receive an email that he has approved it and signed it, and we got um verbal approval from FHWA.

38:31

So um that's really great news.

38:33

Um, I do know we have a kickoff meeting coming up.

38:36

I believe it's January 20th.

38:38

And um, I also mentioned last month that um Chris's team has been instrumental in helping us put together that document, and I know moving forward we'll probably have key players from Campo helping us to um achieve the goals on the strategic highway safety plan.

38:53

And again, I want to offer if it comes up that you guys want a presentation on that just to let us know, and we can get the chief of safety, and she would be happy to do that.

39:03

Um thing I want to mention is um we have it's winter, it doesn't feel like it today.

39:09

It was nice.

39:09

I hope everyone got to go outside a little bit with the sunshine.

39:12

I sat outside and had my lunch, but um with traffic in mind, I want to mention that it's important to drive safe and um use our resources, which is Nevada 511.

39:23

Um it's our travel information system in case you weren't aware of that.

39:27

Um it's available online by phone or um you can even call online.

39:34

It's nvroads.com by phone, you just uh 511, and there's an app that you can do that has the 511 information.

39:42

It gives you highway conditions, um, it can give you if there's unpredictable weather, what's going on, and it can also tell you if there's crashes.

39:51

Um thing that's noteworthy is um in December of 2024, we saw a total of 333,000 visits and call to that site, which is an increase of 136%.

40:03

So we're really glad that people are kind of trying to be mindful of their trips and looking at that when they decide if they're gonna travel.

40:10

And it's a really handy tool.

40:12

I hope you have used it or will if you haven't.

40:15

The next item on my list, which I only have a couple, so don't get worried.

40:19

I'm gonna talk a lot, is um State Route 28 Marlette Creek Improvement Project.

40:25

Um want to give a shout out, and we're really proud of this project, which is near Carson City and the world um jurisdiction of the Tahoe Basin.

40:35

And partner agencies recently completed a water quality improvement project where Marlette Creek crosses underneath State Route 28 and south of Incline Village.

40:47

Um the creek has shifted to flow alongside the highway, and um has helped with the eroding you know, of the roadside.

40:57

So INDOT and our partner agencies have realigned the creek and extended the culvert on State Route 28, and that has helped us to eliminate some of those um problems we were seeing.

41:07

So hopefully you've seen that work, or if you haven't yet, you will.

41:12

Um, and that improvement is um something that we're really happy with.

41:16

Um, and that really concludes my end dot update.

41:19

But I do want to mention if you didn't hear, this is my last board meeting because I'm retiring in February.

41:25

So yeah, that's kind of exciting, but it's also terrifying.

41:30

And I want to thank all of you.

41:31

I've really enjoyed being on the campo board and working with staff, and um I hope to watch in the future what kind of um projects you do and all the great progress you're making.

41:41

And so thank you, and I hope you continue on and continue to do a great job.

41:44

So thanks.

41:45

And also be worried because there's retirements on this side.

41:48

So I don't know, Vice Chair.

41:50

You better not have an announcement.

41:54

Immune from that.

41:55

So we'll see how that goes.

41:57

Uh you know, what you mentioned the 511.

42:00

When I use it, you didn't mention specifically all those traffic cameras.

42:05

And it's a statewide look, so when it's snowing or this or that, you can see what's actually going on.

42:10

So it's I do look at that.

42:13

I live in Sparks and travel, and so sometimes I have blue sky and you guys don't hear.

42:18

And so I would look at the cameras to decide what shoes to wear and how to drive.

42:23

So it's really important.

42:24

Right.

42:25

And that the media makes use of them too.

42:27

So, you know, it's a good resource there.

42:30

Yeah, sure.

42:31

Well, we're gonna miss you, Rebecca.

42:33

Um, I personally have really appreciated the end dot update.

42:36

So I hope whoever takes your seat um is lives up at least even in half as good as your updates because they've been really wonderful.

42:45

So thank you.

42:45

Well, thank you.

42:46

I will add, thank you for bringing that up.

42:48

Um, we will continue the updates and um in our transition, since they haven't hired a replacement for me yet to please be patient.

42:55

Um, Sandra Rosenberg, Deputy Director Rosenberg is available if you guys ever have any questions or want to reach out to her.

43:01

She will try to make these, but um, in the meantime, um Kevin Very's here and he will also be coming and he will be doing the updates, and he's a great guy, so go easy on him too.

43:13

Good, good.

43:14

You can relay this.

43:15

I believe your director said she would like to attend a meeting sometime.

43:19

She normally goes to Vegas and Reno, but once in a while here would be nice too.

43:25

I will tell her that since I have limited days, I will make sure she hears that authority.

43:33

Okay, we'll move on to item six C and the other news that folks want to share at all.

43:40

Do we see any have any others here?

43:42

Okay, one that I saw in the news.

43:44

It looks like Tahoe Transportation District got a safe streets for all grants, so it's one of those things we uh compete for, but it's it's being put to use.

43:55

What 2.9 million?

43:56

They're gonna build some old trails up there.

43:58

So I know there's always uh discretionary funding we can compete for, so we will try.

44:04

Okay.

44:05

Uh all right, at this point, uh, it's our second or or final general public comment meeting.

44:12

Do we have any folks that want to come up and speak at this point?

44:17

Okay.

44:19

Well, seeing none, it's about 5 08.

44:22

I'll be closing the uh Campo meeting and we will start with RTC in five minutes.

44:27

Five minutes.

44:28

Thank you very much, everybody.

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Summary of Proceedings

Campo Board Meeting - January 14, 2026

The Campo (Carson City Area Metropolitan Planning Organization) board convened at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 14, 2026, with a quorum present. The meeting focused on the adoption of the Campo 2050 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP), election of officers, and routine updates from staff and NDOT. Chair Greg Novak presided.

Consent Calendar

  • Approval of minutes: The minutes of the December 10, 2025 meeting were approved unanimously. Member Casanelli abstained, noting they were not on the council the previous month.

Discussion Items

  • Election of Chairperson and Vice Chairperson: Chair Novak nominated himself and Vice Chair Lucia Maloney for reappointment to one-year terms expiring at the first regular Campo meeting in 2027. The motion was seconded and passed unanimously. Novak noted the role is largely ceremonial with no compensation.
  • Campo 2050 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) Update: Senior Transportation Planner Kelly Norman presented the final draft. A 30-day public comment period (Nov 5 – Dec 5, 2025) yielded 44 comments, which were compiled with responses in the plan’s appendix. Staff issued late material correcting responses to comments #7 and #19, but made no substantive changes to the RTP itself. The plan includes a project list, financial projections, and performance measures.
    • Chair Novak highlighted the plan’s tie to land use, public input (267 survey responses), and the need for continued dialogue with planning commissions. He noted that over 7,300 individual registrations for Complete Streets at $2 each indicated strong public interest in multimodal infrastructure.
    • Mayor Bagwell (Member Bagwell) requested clarification on edits, particularly language about OHV access. The late material was explained as transparency for comment responses, not changes to the RTP. A new paragraph in Chapter 4.1 regarding federal lands and OHV/e-bike challenges was identified.
    • Member Costason praised the plan’s organization and reflection of public input, especially regarding differing community priorities and revenue challenges.
    • Vice Chair Maloney commended the plan for meeting federal requirements and balancing long-range vision with flexibility.
    • Member Nordlow expressed concerns about a significant funding deficit, projecting a 65% deterioration of road conditions over 25 years. He noted the Board of Supervisors recently approved redirecting $2.1 million per year from the former VNT railroad tax to local roads, which could help address backlogs. He also urged reevaluation of project prioritization, incorporation of transit modeling accuracy, and attention to safe routes to school and heavy truck traffic on Johnson Lane (Douglas County).
    • A Lyon County representative asked about project numbering and priority; staff clarified that numbers are identifiers, and local agencies can set their own priorities within the list.
    • Ex officio Capular thanked staff for collaboration throughout the process.
    • Member Shuty noted performance measures on national highway system roads and bridges.
  • Transportation Manager’s Report: Chris Martinovich introduced new Safe Routes to School Coordinator Erica Rosilius, acknowledged the retirement of Douglas County’s John Erb (a Campo board member since 2014), and reported on the upcoming Fiscal Year 2027-28 Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) process. He also announced his appointment to the Regional Rail Transit Advisory Working Group under Assembly Bill 256.
  • NDOT Report: Rebecca Capular provided preliminary 2025 crash data: five fatalities in Carson City (up from two in 2024), with two involving unbuckled occupants. She emphasized safety as a top priority and announced the governor’s approval of the Strategic Highway Safety Plan. She also highlighted the NV 511 travel information system (333,000 visits/calls in December 2024, a 136% increase) and the completion of the State Route 28 Marlette Creek water quality improvement project. Capular announced her retirement in February 2026; Deputy Director Sandra Rosenberg and Kevin Very will continue NDOT updates.
  • Other News: Chair Novak reported that the Tahoe Transportation District received a $2.9 million Safe Streets for All grant for trail construction, noting that Carson City will continue competing for discretionary funding.

Public Comments & Testimony

  • No public comments were made during the two public comment periods (opening and closing). The chair noted one written comment about light rail submitted as late material but deemed it more appropriate for other regions.

Key Outcomes

  • Approval of Campo 2050 RTP: Motion carried unanimously to approve the RTP as presented, including late material and with authority for staff to make administrative, non-substantive edits. Chair Novak will sign the approving action document.
  • Reappointment of Officers: Greg Novak (Chair) and Lucia Maloney (Vice Chair) were elected unanimously for one-year terms.
  • Consent Calendar: Minutes approved unanimously (one abstention).
  • Acknowledgment: Recognition of John Erb’s retirement and Rebecca Capular’s upcoming retirement.
  • Next Steps: Staff to finalize the UPWP amendment for FY26, begin development of FY27-28 UPWP, and continue regional coordination on transit and safety initiatives.

Meeting Transcript

All right, it's 4 30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 14th, 2026. It's Greg Novak, Chair of Campo call to order. Can we have a roll call, please? Chair Novak. Here. Vice Chair Maloney. Yeah. Member Bagwell. Here. Member Casanelli. Here. Member Costa. Here. Member Nordlow. Member Shuty. Here. Ex officio capular. Here. A quorum is present. Okay. Thank you very much. And at this point, it's our first opportunity for public comment. Uh at this point, anything anybody in the audience would like to bring up. We will have a couple of action items with public comment and a final polling comment at the end. But initial public comment. Are there any volunteers coming up? All righty. Seeing none, we'll move ahead. Number four, possible action approval of our minutes of the December 10th, 2025 meeting. And Brianna did the minutes, and I had no problems with them. I will move for approval of the minutes as presented. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Nay. Motion passes unanimously. Um I was gonna abstain because I wasn't on the council last month. So I'm abstaining. Okay, thanks. I forgot to ask that one. Okay. Moving ahead. Public meeting item. Uh, we're on to uh 5A, possible action. Discussing and possible action regarding nomination and election of a chairperson and vice chairperson for Campo with terms expiring in the first regular meeting of Campo in 2027, essentially one year apportionments. We have a little staff report. Do we have any other uh suggestions or actions here? Just you're both happy doing the job. You want to be stuck another year, both of you, or what we did.

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