We're now on to agenda item three, and I'm telling you, Pastor Peggy is ready.

God is our anchor.

He's faithful and true, loving and forgiving, and his mercies are new every morning.

Father God, as all of America celebrates the two hundred and fiftieth year of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

And as we honor our past and build on our future, we are mindful of the faith and trust we have in you.

We rededicate ourselves to you and humbly ask for your grace, guidance, and blessings for Carson City, for our great state of Nevada, and for our United States of America.

We pray for unity and peace as the garrison flags are raised at the gateways of our city on Saturday as symbols that inspire hope, unity, strength, and national pride.

May the flying colors be a reminder to us to be thankful for the freedoms that you have given us and for the freedoms that have been fought for in battle.

Let freedom bring.

According to your word, we pray and intercede with Thanksgiving for all those who are in authority over us.

We ask for divine protection for President Trump, Vice President Vance, and their families, for our governor, Joe Lombardo, and for our mayor, Lori Bagwell.

Bless our supervisors with confidence to continue to perform their tasks with excellence.

Give wisdom and courage as they make vital decisions that have an impact on our lives.

We also pray for Sheriff Kenny Fernong and the Sheriff's Department, the fire department, our first responders, our teachers, and our children, as well as those serving in harm's way.

May you be glorified in all that we do and all that we say by his holy spirit and in Jesus' name we pray.

Amen.

Thank you so much for those great words of wisdom.

Robert, would you do us the honor of leading us in the pledge?

Which allegiance through the flag of the United States of America and to the republic or which stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you so much, Robert.

Thank you, Peggy.

We're now on to our opening public comment.

Um, Miss Sullivan, I have you signed up.

Thank you, Mayor Hope Sullivan, Director of Community and Economic Development.

I have a couple introductions to make this morning.

First to my right is Kyle Fisher.

He is our new deputy director of community and economic development.

Kyle has a master's degree in architecture from UNLV.

He worked at a private architecture firm in Las Vegas for four and a half years, and then he opened his own firm, which he ran for six years.

He worked for the state for a year and then joined us.

Kyle has great credentials, but when he was asked on his application why he wanted to work for Carson City, Kyle wrote, although I'm relatively new to Carson City, I've grown to love everything the community has to offer.

It feels like home.

Deeply committed to seeing it thrive while preserving its small town charm.

Working for the city gives me the opportunity to contribute to the community I care about and help ensure it continues to grow in ways that maintain its character, livability, and sense of place.

As I've discussed with the mayor, I can teach people a lot of things, but I can't teach people to care.

And I was really appreciated that we had somebody with such great credentials, a good person who I had the chance to work with, and just somebody who was ready to work hard for the city.

Next to Kyle is our new building official, Andrew Armenio.

Andrew has 29 certifications, including Master Code Professional, Certified Building Official, and Certified Fire Marshal.

Andrew started his career spending seven years in the field installing wood and metal stud framing, performing and installing carpentry, operating heavy equipment, and maintaining and repairing insulation, sheetrock, plumbing, and electrical systems.

Andrew worked as a building inspector for various municipalities for six years.

And he was most recently the building official in Humboldt County for just shy of two years.

I will mention Andrew's family who's watching is still in Winnemuca, his wife and four kids.

And we really thank them for the sacrifice they're making and letting us have Andrew every day of the week.

Um Andrew came on my radar when I contacted a third party vendor to let him know I might need an interim building official.

That person said, Why aren't you talking to Andrew?

Why aren't I?

So I called Andrew.

Andrew said a lot of things that resonated with me that day.

And these are my words, not his.

He became the building official in the department that was a bit wild west.

He immediately started working with us to get the staff certified and created forms, policies, and procedures.

He told me that I wouldn't find anyone who would work harder than he does.

I said, I work pretty hard.

He said, No, I said you won't find somebody.

He literally said that to me.

Um Andrew and Kyle have already started reviewing systems and procedures to identify efficiencies while maintaining excellent customer service.

I'm really glad to have them on board, and both of these gentlemen are exceeding my expectations.

Thank you.

Welcome to Carson City.

We're gonna hold you to all those expectations, you know.

There's a problem when we say something.

Got a rebel in the house, though.

I don't know about that.

It's Nevada Blue up here.

Perfect, thank you.

Um, Mr.

French, I have you.

Denny French, Carson City, Nevada.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, I had questions this morning and they were taken care of that I won't need to bring those matters up.

I do want to suggest to everybody that hasn't read it to consider the walk about Wilson Street and Williams.

And I want to take it further.

I know our budget is tight, and I'm actually here to suggest we don't spend as much because we're getting a little out there, but I do feel that the compensation should be given to the businesses that have been hurt the most.

Their rents are high.

Keeping businesses in this town are one just to find appropriate locations for each of them to find a niche, but also the rents, and um this has knocked a few of them nearly on their butts, and I would suggest that the city compensate them somehow.

This is a great idea.

I think it's getting community informed and will allow people to get to meet and greet the people that are in those businesses and running them, but I don't think it's taken far enough, and I think we should consider more.

I also want to bring up the fact that I don't think the transparency matter um has been really addressed when it comes to the city uh considerations of joining with the Hop May Adams Foundation in a collaborative situation for City Hall, considering that it's been apparently going on for years.

I find it very hard to find any real new information, but it's coming to a head and sooner or later it's gonna come to you.

It's unfortunate that it hasn't been put to the people for a vote, and I think it could have used this time to write a good deal to go on it a ballot that would have addressed what we're facing, let people know the financial aspects as well as what I think are the aesthetics of something or the communities uh inheritance to the others is our culture and our people, and those things that will be changing.

It's already started with the state's buildings, and that will change the the downtown area in a peripheral sense.

But I'm also concerned about the birds and the bees and the heat that it might bring up depending on the architect.

So I really want to get the transparency there, get us all up to date on the same page.

We can disagree what's there, but we need to know the facts.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Do I have any other public comments?

All right, then we're gonna move on with agenda item 6A.

It's approval of our minutes of June 4th, 2026.

Do I have anyone with any corrections?

Supervisor Giomi, a motion, please.

I'll move to approve Carson City Board of Supervisors and meeting minutes from the 4th of June 2026 as presented.

I have a motion and a second for approval.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye, any opposed, say no.

Let the record reflect it was four yeses and one absent.

Uh Supervisor White.

Thank you.

Now, now if you will join me on the floor, we will do our park and recreation.

Cooperation.

Come on, we had a whole party.

I don't know that we could uh pick a better month really than with the Fourth of July and everything else.

How perfect is this?

Wow.

This is pretty fantastic.

Come join me.

Oh, yeah, I know, right?

I'm in the middle.

It's like a donut room.

I have to go on the front.

Shorties.

We're not giving Nickelication.

You're not sure.

Yeah, I guess it's yeah, you know, we we could have landscaping stallouts for licenses.

Yeah, any landscaping business.

That's right.

Yeah, he's like, boys, this is my parting gift.

That's right.

That's right.

Okay, well, what a great time in Carson City, and I really appreciated the pastor's um prayer this morning that just even talked about our civic pride.

Well, when I look at the parks department, parks recreation open space, I kind of see that fits us too, right?

That when you look around at everything we do, that's right.

See that pride?

I already put mine on.

But uh I think everywhere I go in the city when I talk with people, they're always telling me how proud they are of our park system, right?

That Carson City is so fortunate and lucky in our trails and I was at a legislative meeting the other day, and even one of the senators says, I brag about Carson City all the time, and I'm like, and you don't even represent us.

But it was really neat to see that that we really have that statewide uh impact, and that they think a ton of the work that we do, and they were super excited about the fact that we've been doing sheep for 20 years, but um, so that not only are you giving great recreation, but safety to the community at the same time.

So hats off to all of you.

Okay, whereas parks and recreation are an integral part of communities throughout this country, including Carson City.

Whereas Carson City Parks Recreation and Open Space Department's mission is to provide exceptional parks, open space, and diverse recreational opportunities to enhance the quality of life in Carson City while preserving our natural resources for future generations.

Whereas Carson City is proud to provide safe spaces for people to connect with nature, find solace, and recreate outdoors.

Whereas Carson City has more parks per capita than the national average, the city's park system consists of uh more than 8,000 acres, providing recreation opportunities that help build a healthy active community, which aids in the prevention of chronic disease, provides therapeutic recreation services for individuals of all abilities, and improves the mental and emotional health of its citizens.

Whereas Carson City's natural areas are fundamental to environmental stewardship by improving air and water quality, protecting groundwater, preventing flooding, and preserving wildlife habitat.

Whereas Carson City is honored to be a tree city, USA and the first B city USA in Nevada.

The Capitol City is the only municipality in Nevada that has dedicated and a voter-approved sales tax to fund the acquisition, development, and maintenance of parks, open space, trails, recreation facilities, and the boys and girls club, known as the Quality of Life Initiative.

Whereas the U.S.

House of Representatives and the National Recreation and Parks Association has designated July as parks and Recreation Month and called upon communities throughout the country to recognize the importance of parks and recreation.

Now, therefore, I, Lori Bagwell, Mayor of Carson City, Nevada, on behalf of the Board of Supervisors, do hereby proclaim July 2026 as the Parks and Recreation Month and the 30th anniversary of the Quality of Life Initiative in Carson City.

And I urge all residents and as many visitors as possible to spend time in their favorite parks and enjoy this beautiful region we call home.

Yay.

Thank you, Mayor.

I'm Jennifer Bajan, the Parks and Recreation Director.

I just wanted to acknowledge the team here today.

Our department is amazing.

They're wonderful, hardworking people.

They work so hard for our community.

They are very unnoticed, but they're out there working so hard to keep your parks in open spaces open, clean, safe, and beautiful.

And it is the 30th anniversary of the Quality of Life Initiative.

There are stickers on the back table.

These amazing stickers were designed by Erin Larson, our outreach coordinator.

She's so talented and wonderful.

So please take one.

There's also activity guides on the back table as well, so you can see all the great things that we're doing.

So fantastic.

Like I said, I just don't know how you could America's birthday and celebrating parks.

What better uh thing could you put together, right?

And uh so congratulations.

So much.

Thank you.

Really?

I somehow think it might be good for you, but not us.

Really?

I truly, truly appreciate it, you guys.

We don't get to say thank you very often, right?

Because it's what she said.

You're working in a park.

Thank you for all you do.

Thank you.

Hey, buddy.

I'm gonna be around.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Just thank you for all you do.

Really, it's appreciated.

We don't get to say thank you very often, so I'm really happy to do this.

Thank you for all you do.

Thank you.

All right, thanks.

Okay.

All right, we're ready to come back onto the agenda, and we're on our consent agenda.

I didn't have any requests this morning, so Supervisor Giomi, motion please.

I move to approve the consent agenda consisting of item 8A9A, which has resolution number 2026-R-19.

9B, 10A, 11A, 11B, 11C, 11B, 11E, 11 F.

Uh, all as presented.

I second.

I have a motion and a second for approval.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed say no.

Um, let the record reflect it was four yeses and one absent uh Supervisor White.

Thank you.

We're now on to agenda item 13A, which is discussion and possible action regarding the recommendations for the growth management for this next uh few years going on around here, huh?

So we have hope.

Are you gonna lead it off?

Okay, I'm just trying to get down the screen.

Not going.

Can you see what IT?

Do you have the magic touch on the dongle?

No, it's not.

Maybe we turned it on.

I'll go ahead and start while we wait on this.

Sorry, Mayor.

So as this board knows, the Planning Commission serves as the Growth Management Commission.

Are we on?

No.

It's red.

Okay, we're on.

Thank you.

It's not going.

Oh, well.

Okay, the Planning Commission serves as the Growth Management Commission.

The Growth Management Commission reviewed the annual growth management report on May 27, 2026.

The Growth Management Commission annually reviews information from various city departments, including public works, fire, sheriff, parks, and the school district, and makes a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors regarding three things.

One, establishing a fixed number of residential building permits to be made available in 2020 and the next two years, so in this case 2027 and 2028, estimating the number to be available in 2029 and 2030, establishing the distribution of the total building permits, building permit entitlements between the general property owner category and the development project category, which development projects are if you're pulling more than 31 permits in the first quarter, you would go in the development quarter category.

So that might be a large apartment complex.

And they also recommend on establishing the maximum average daily water usage for commercial and industrial building permits as a threshold for growth the growth management commission review.

The following are identified as essential resources in the code: water, quantity, quality, supply capacity, and infrastructure, sewer treatment, disposal capacity, and the ability of the system and infrastructure to transport sewage from the source to the treatment system, sheriff protective services, fire protective services, traffic and circulation, drainage and flooding, school enrollment and capacity and parks and recreation.

The board also has the ability to add, if you'd like to, another essential resource if you'd like that studied.

The planning commission has recommended, and I'll look for your direction on this at the end, that we study this coming year energy to determine how our private utilities are doing in terms of serving Carson City and being able to accommodate increased development in Carson City.

I hope you said you can we can add A, which implied one, but you can add more than one.

Just wanted to confirm.

Yes, yes, you can it it has the in the code, it has the list, and then there's a catch-all phrase that anything else the board supervisor deems appropriate.

Um you have memos addressing each of the established essential resources to help you understand each of these departments' capacity and the impact on development on the level of service at each of these departments.

No one has suggested reducing the development rate to less than 3%.

So as I mentioned, per municipal code 18.12.040, each calendar year the residential allocations are put into two categories.

You have the general property owner category and you have the development project category, which is more than 31 units.

The division between those has traditionally been 43% in the general property owner category and 30 or 57 percent in the development project category.

After the first quarter, they're combined in essentially a first come, first serve basis.

Traditionally, the number of building permit allocations available each year is based on the maximum growth rate of 3%.

The planning commission for the past I think four years has suggested that we revisit this formula, and again this year they are recommending that we revisit this formula.

They just feel like the formula is arbitrary, and since we know our utilities are designed for a population of 80,000.

They feel like that should factor into to how we're doing these allocations.

I have in front of you a graph that shows the amount of allowed allocations each year for housing starts for the last 20 years.

The white bar is the number of allocations available, the red bar is the number of housing starts that we had.

So you can see for the last 20 years, we've always been pretty well below the allowable allocations.

2018, as I tell you, every year since 2018 is a little bit manipulated because that was Carson Hills apartments, and they front-loaded their growth management entitlements, even though it took a couple years to build out.

So they could have paced that in 2019-2020.

We've had a couple more allocations.

In 2025, there were 779 allocations available and 595 housing starts.

As you'll see on this graph, most of the allocations are in the general category.

So that means building less than 31 units in the first quarter.

In 2025, we did have Altair apartments at William Street and Stewart apply for their permits and obtained their permits actually in January.

So what you'll see is because that was more than 31 units and they did all of their buildings for all the entire apartment complex, we did have a lot of units in the development category, but that's actually fairly unusual to see.

In terms of diversity of housing, which is my next chart, you'll see that we have all sorts of residential housing starts happening.

And we have single family stays pretty steady, multifamily, we're seeing more multifamily each year.

I'll say for the last maybe 10 years.

We don't really have too many duplexes getting built.

Occasionally a mobile home will go in, and we're having both the single family detached and the single family attached built in town.

And this chart is just showing you that distribution.

In terms of apartments in 2018, as I mentioned, you see a lot of orange on that chart.

That's Carson Hills apartments.

In 2023, we had Marlette apartments and Sierra Flats, so on Lil Lane and over on Bud Eye Way.

In 2025, is Altair Apartments.

As part of the master plan that was updated and adopted in May 2025, there was an effort to create a stronger linkage to growth management and the master plan.

And we like showing this graph because we've taken out the state land and the federal land from this graph because there was a perception that the city was really allocating a ton of land for high density residential.

And that's actually not the case.

Most of the land is designated as conservation reserve, which right now the corresponding zoning would say one unit dwelling unit per 20 acres.

Second most 21% is designated as open space, which you just recognize the open space in parks and recreation department.

And third on the list is low density residential at 15.22%.

So the city has definitely made an effort to have a diversity of land uses, but we certainly haven't put a huge emphasis on the high density residential.

In fact, when we take out the state and federal land, 1.81% of the land is designated for high density residential.

And again, those lower density or intensity areas are bulk of the land at more than 50%.

I will just mention that goal 3.1 of the master plan is to promote the efficient use of water of land, water, and infrastructure.

And in the action matrix in chapter 12 of the master plan, includes an action item to continue to monitor growth trends and review the city's growth capacity and residential allocations on an annual basis, which is what we're doing.

Per the state demographer, the city's population on July 1, 2025 was 61,888.

The state demographer anticipates a consistent growth rate of 0.7% over the next five percent five years.

So the question is how can we have all this development and not even hit 1% growth?

The answer is our household size has shrunk.

If you look at 2010, we had a household size of 2.53.

In 2020, that household size shrunk to 2.34.

So although we have more dwelling units, we have fewer people in each of those dwelling units.

Each year the assessor's office shares with us sales information.

So, oh I'm sorry, before I do that, I should talk about the non-residential.

In terms of commercial development, what we've been doing, we've kind of moved around a little bit.

Right now, we're at 10,000 gallons per day average before you need to go to the growth management commission because that's the threshold before you need growth management commission approval for a dwelling unit.

The public works department is suggesting that we stay at 10,000 gallons per day.

That's the 90 percentile.

That said, um in 2021, we started looking at growth management applications and identifying expiration dates.

So on this chart, you'll see the top three have actually expired.

The ones below it don't say expired, but a lot of those have expired.

That said, for those that have been built, like Olive Garden and the car wash on William Street.

I've asked Public Works to look at the actual water usage against the anticipated water usage, and without exception, the actual water usage is less than the anticipated water usage.

Now the sales information.

So in 2025, there were 672 single-family home sales.

That's up slightly from 2024 when there were 662 sales.

There were 108 condo sales in townhouse sales and 40 manufactured homes were sold.

Um I lost my place.

Here we are.

That's the my sales.

Okay.

The price actually increased.

Sorry, I should have gone to sales price.

So in 2025, the sale price for a single family home per the assessors data increased from 540,000 to 550,000.

What you'll see in 2025 is the amount of sales also increased.

So that was interesting because you'll remember in 2022 we had no inventory, and the number of sales decreased significantly.

Now I'm not my recommendation.

The Growth Management Commission is recommending using the existing formulas that in 2027 there be 811 allocations available.

In 2028, 8135 allocations, 2029, 860 allocations, and 2030, 886 allocations.

They're also recommending that the daily water use threshold stay at 10,000 gallons per day, and they are recommending that the additional criteria for the non-residential uses, which was put in the resolution back in 2021, continue to be there that says the use has to identify the use conservation measures, and if that finding can be met, they then have to show that it will promote health welfare and safety, create quality jobs, or promote recreation and tourism.

So again, or is between each of those three items.

If those findings can be met, the growth management commission would approve the use of or the building permit for that high water use.

I'm going to talk about active land development projects now, and then Supervisor Shuty asked that I invite the assessor Kimberly Adams to the meeting to talk about the impact of growth on the assessor's office.

So I'll go quickly through active construction so you can see a snapshot of what's happening right now in town, and then I'll ask Kimberly to report out on growth the impact of growth to the assessor's office.

So residential growth is everywhere.

Um you can see it's up north, it's down south, it's east, it's west.

We have it everywhere.

Oh, and I didn't, I failed to introduce McKenzie Ray.

McKenzie Ray is sitting with me today because she puts together all the data.

She tracks our data every day.

Anytime I need statistics, it's McKenzie.

If I need it presented, it's McKenzie.

If I can't figure out the laptop, it's McKenzie.

But she also does, she's our planning and building permit tech.

So every single building permit, she's looking at it.

She's talking to our customers, she's explaining, you know, what the rules are.

So McKenzie's been with us three years and is growing with the department and is just again another really impressive woman who's part of the emerging leaders program.

Um, so Adams Estate, this was Hopp and the May Foundation pursued this subdivision for custom homes over off Longview, and it's 12 lots with custom homes still under construction.

I'll tear apartments.

I reference it's 207 units over on East William and North Stewart Street.

They are going vertical.

Anderson Ranch is almost done.

I keep checking with Mackenzie.

Are they done yet?

Not quite, but they're close.

203 lots.

Lenar picked up this property between Mountain Street and Ormsby.

And that again, they're nearly done and occupied.

I think people are really enjoying living there and using that trail system.

Arbor Villas, Capstone Builder started this around 2017.

They stopped, they sold the remainder of it to DR Horton.

So DR Horton's in there finishing the project.

It's a total of 147 lots, and I suspect DR Horton will be done this year.

Blackstone Ranch Phase 2.

This is Rider Homes, 204 lots, and that tentative map was approved in 2023.

They have not gone vertical yet.

Blackstone Ranch South, that's at the end of Railroad.

They just re-upped that tentative map in January because they were having trouble getting through the Army Corps of Engineers on the property just south of Fifth Street, where that road will cut through to provide secondary access to the property.

So that once they get through their federal permitting, I think we'll see them moving on this.

KDH owns this property.

Border Crossing is Mark Turner's property.

That's a 28 lot subdivision that he is going vertical.

He did the property to the west of that and then just went across the street.

Brown Street Apartments, Dwight Millard's still active.

And he's got a couple of those buildings complete, and I think he's in the home stretch.

It will be a total of 81 units.

Capitol Crossing is America Homes for Rent, 137 lots over at Lampa.

If you haven't been there, it's a cute little playground over there.

They told us their best seller are the five bedroom units.

And they're getting families, but they're also getting retirees.

Cross Creek subdivision that is rider over across from the high school, and they are continuing to build 119 lots.

Little Lane Subdivision is Bates Homes.

You'll recall this has been underway for quite a while.

Since 2021, they had a number of phases, and they created that connection on a lane to create access over to Fifth.

And these are these are moving, they're going steady on this.

Lampo Ranch West Apartments is Rider.

That's on the north side of Fifth Street.

You'll see they have started going vertical on that.

This has been entitled since 2020.

They did the site improvements and it looked like it stalled out, but now they are going vertical.

Plateau subdivision is near the county line.

You'll see the yellow line there.

For another phase, so that they can keep building.

This one, it did go into foreclosure.

The bank asked Brandon's business, I can't, Carter Hill, Carter Hill to keep building them.

They're rethinking their product, but it's a total of 51 units.

So he is completing the ones that had started.

Stafford Way apartments, this is 12 units.

It was a vacant lot over on Stafford Way in Silver Sage, and this is well underway.

I'm surprised it's not done yet, actually.

Total of 41 lots, and that's that's getting close to the finish line.

Silver Oak Subdivision, Mark Turner's last phase, and then Silver Oak will be done.

Silver Oak Town Homes is not Mark Turner.

This is DR Horton behind Glen Eagles.

So a lot of people have looked at this property, but it looks like DR Horton's going to pursue it with townhouses.

It will be 92 units.

Terms of commercial development, again, we have a spattering throughout the city.

Um the airport.

The airport's like doing a lot.

And uh Corey Jenkins gave a great presentation to the planning commission.

If you didn't see it on the role of the airport in economic development.

So they did snow removal equipment building, they've done some hangers that I think you've seen the leases for.

Here they are, four hangars.

There's motorcycle storage going in over on Boeingway, covered parking over on Koontz Lane.

Is this associated with Southwest Gas?

Associated, see, I have to check with Southwest Gas.

Um Vitality is pursuing their building over on Vista Lane.

Um Toyota.

Uh the Toyota dealer did a detail is pursuing a detailing facility over on Curry Street.

There's self-s storage on Eagle Station Lane, um, more self-storage over on North Lampa.

I think that's behind the Salvation Army store.

Um we have this is exciting.

We have seven lots that got built near that Bank of America by the Walmart up north, and they have come in for buildings for different restaurants, retail office.

They're not listing what the business will be, but they're building the shells, so we'll see more development up north.

I think that's my last slide.

And with that, I'll turn it over to Kimberly.

Good morning, uh Kimberly Adams, Carson City Assessor.

I didn't realize you were gonna recap all of that.

I think I need some water.

That's a lot of people.

I like to dedicate when I give presentations about active development.

I like to dedicate them to Kimberly Adams.

It goes to show why staff is so tired, that's for sure.

Um, first off, with all this new construction, I just want to thank the board for approving the additional appraiser.

Um, this is a lot, and I'm gonna try not to get emotional, but it's a lot, and we're tired.

Uh yeah, I'm just tired.

Yeah.

Okay.

Uh this year alone, we added 83,429 of assessed valuation just for this year for new construction.

I'd have to go back and look to see what if ever we've added that much.

Um my staff is incredible.

I have put in so many hours.

So many hours.

And they're happy.

They're dedicated to the city, they're dedicated to their jobs.

Um over the past two years, we've had to utilize overtime.

Unfortunately, this year we've exhausted our overtime, and I'm probably $4,000 over budget for overtime.

The fear with uh this type of department for the assessor's office is we have to be statutorily compliant, and with this amount of growth, that's a huge challenge.

I don't doubt that even with our best efforts that there's property escaping taxation, unfortunately, because we can only do what we can do with the amount of hours in the day.

Um, I hope that there's not.

That's my goal is to definitely do the uh and staff to do the best possible job that they can.

Um over the previous years, we've definitely had to rush through appraisal processes in order to even meet those deadlines, um, which means that there's corners being cut.

There's probably things that are being missed, and there's uh possibly accurate accuracy that's being um jeopardized, if that's the right way to say that.

The quality and quantity of the work is what suffers.

Um, our job is to ensure that we're picking up all of the taxable property, which then trickles down to your general fund.

So it's uh again by you adding that position, it's a huge, huge help.

We did find a very qualified candidate that starts in a couple weeks.

He has an appraisal background, not only in the fee appraisal world, but also um he's worked with a county and he knows commercial properties, which is something that our staff um is having to really dig in and and learn more um of.

Additionally, I I feel like the growth has affected our level of customer service um we pride ourselves with being able to provide as much information to the taxpayer as possible and I feel like we because we have so much so much on our plates that we have not been able to provide the level of customer service that we're we're hoping to we may be a little short with customers or we may be not as thorough or provide them with uh what they're looking for I hope not but I I I got I guess that that's also happening um even with the commercial businesses we sent out 200 new business letters this last week that has trickled down to the personal property appraisers where they are having to again rush through things they they might not be able to spend that time with the taxpayer showing them what it what their personal property declaration means and and how to accurately file their um assets we're trying we're doing the best that we can um but the growth is I've been with the assessor's office for 26 years and I don't think I've ever seen anything like this ever with the amount of new construction um yeah yeah I don't know what really what else to say other than we're we're chipping away we're doing the best that we can and um again I appreciate the new position uh I'm hoping that this next year we won't have to utilize overtime that's the goal and that between the four real property appraisers we can divide and conquer and get everything done as required by statute.

So um Kimberly maybe just a question when you have all the new new stuff that you have to bring on that that's really coordinated though right so it those ones aren't escaping you because they got a building permit.

Correct.

You're talking about are is your concern that people are doing residential improvements without building permits and that's what you're missing.

Yes.

I think it's important that the public understand yes 100% okay because we're not missing the brand new guy coming in because that's flowing across both desks no and it's more so when we're in reappraisal.

So when we start our reappraisal cycle which will begin now right in the next few weeks because we've finished new construction in the beginning of the reappraisal cycle you know staff is able to take that time look on uh the Eagle View Pictometry program go out in the field there they're able to really dig in and and compare what was there to what is there now but as we get closer to that November deadline when assessment notices happening we then have to get it done.

One thing that we've added this year with the Eagleview program, they have the technology where based on the aerial photography that they have taken they can now overlay the prior the prior buildings so that what was there is in green if there's something gone it appears in red.

If there's something new it appears in yellow that's going to streamline streamline yes we are going to be able to um really utilize that program more efficiently and more effectively and not have to go out in the field so much.

So it's those things that we're concerned with Shannon Silva my chief deputy assessor she just overhauled our permit tracking system prior to we had everybody had their own kind of permit tracker for their areas well now we have one permit tracker that they all use there it's all the same format can't pick and choose how it looks and so this way they are able to keep track of okay this permit issued it's now here it's now here it's now final and the building department has been incredible they have changed some of their processes to where we get notified immediately when that final is done through an email so they don't have to go into Munis and then look and yeah so that that process also has been incredible and her building inspectors are now and the techs the way that they're inputting that permit status they're changing so that if if they've done fire sprinklers but it's not final well my appraisers don't have to go out yet they can look at where the status is and not waste time by going out in the field and realizing oh well there's nothing here that I can change because it's really not to that level of completion that I can do anything with it.

So that has also um been a tremendous help for the appraisers to get the work done ultimately so yeah sounds great yeah well I look forward to seeing uh what another year looks like with another employee and changes in technology and hopefully we're moving in the right direction um to bring relief to your team I think we definitely are I I definitely think we are we we are trying to work smarter not harder and streamline processes that have been there for years you know sometimes just because we've always done it that way that doesn't mean that's change is hard yeah changing is hard it's not any easy task so but please thank your team and and let them know we're gonna have a big barbecue when we're all done there you go there you go supervisor geomi yeah I I you covered some of the things I was going to mention I mean I think uh as they say uh necessity's the mother of invention sounds like you've developed some of that internally and um I I think we have to continue or you have to continue to find ways to to automate what you can and it sounds like you're you've built those connections and and um the the one question I did have is is and and probably not for this year because of the timing but um is there a way to sort of outsource some of that work that needs to be done in a really short amount of time so if that's the case that might be something to look at for next year if there's a way because if so if you you know you have from July to November to to do reappraisals essentially and personal property and all that.

It's a really short amount of time yes and instead of you know paying for a full-time employee for the whole year maybe there's some sort of relief you can get if this full-time position doesn't fill the need and perhaps the way to address that is to just ask you to report back next year and provide an input we we're we're doing NV energy let's add the assessor to it I mean it's it's not that big a deal you can add the assessor you can do a report and you know you can um make a decision you know um because I think by the time we do this again next year you'll have had at least nine months with that new position.

But I have no idea if there's a company out there who can do that.

Well we have there are other jurisdictions that um may contract with or have part time staff to just do the data collecting that we have looked into because they then can go out in the field they have a list of things that they're looking for they mark it up they bring it back to the appraiser done that is definitely something that we have looked into we are part time she is also certified in as a personal property appraiser so she can now help with parts of that and our goal is to get her certified as a also in real property so that she can aid in that as well but I am certainly not opposed to looking into that because we have heard that from other jurisdictions that that do that it has to be cost effective too as far as you know as you know.

Yeah but we we aren't we're in it's gonna be more cost effective to to contract out for a short period of time correct versus hiring another full time position.

Absolutely absolutely especially with PRUs at the rate it is and all of that.

So absolutely I you know I think I I think it's easy enough for us to in my opinion add your uh an assessor's report to to to the group to this.

I don't know if we need to do it in a motion, you can just do it.

So um, you know.

That's my comment.

Thanks.

Supervisor Shuddy.

Thank you so much.

And I really appreciate uh the opportunity to hear the concerns because while um the essential services and we hear from the reports and to make sure that we're providing the essential services, it's the ripple effect of services.

And so this is our opportunity as we consider um growth.

Um what we should take into account, and so um I appreciate and we all appreciate so much you and your staff and and the efforts and and the hard work you're putting into this.

So thanks for presenting.

Thank you.

Supervisor Horton.

Jim, I I just wanted you to know I I agree with everything Stacy said and that uh Lisa said, but I would be very supportive of some temporary staff if you needed it, you know, to catch up or or you wanted to change your operation a little bit in doing that.

I think that'd be a wise thing to do.

You know, your operation's critically important to us, and that way you know they're good.

I would definitely support that.

Thank you.

Appreciate that.

Do you have further?

Thank you.

I was just gonna mention I have the slide up with the recommendation from the planning commission.

I did not include in the motion or in the resolution the idea of the discussion of um the formula for determining how how to determine how many allocations should be allowed.

I did not include the separation of formula forty-three percent versus 57% in terms of development category and general category, and I also did not include the commission's um recommendation that they study energy and it was energy, so they wanted to look at Southwest Gas as well as electrical.

And um I felt like that you could just give me oral direction on that and I would pursue it based on that direction.

And if you'd like to add the assessor's office, I can just tell you our team is uh it's trying, I think Kimberly and I work really well together and any changes she needs on our end to make her end more efficient, whether it's business license, building permitting, building inspections, we I don't think we've ever rejected a single idea.

So we're doing what we can to support them as well.

I I think the um oh, Mr.

Martell, you wanted to comment.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um I think if we're gonna go down the road of looking at how we may expand your growth management process, um if that's the direction the board would like to go rather than and respond to this quick today.

I'd rather have staff, if that's your direction, have you direct staff to come back, look at the process in total because as you go down this road, there's a lot of other pieces that come in.

This system has been functioning well for 30 years, it's so clearly laid out earlier.

So if that's where the board would like to go, happy to look at that and bring that back as a discussion item for this board later.

Uh thank you.

I I was gonna mention that so what I don't want to do is mix items.

And while I completely understand the impact that you're talking about, I'm looking at a growth management ordinance.

That's about whether or not we're gonna issue a permit to someone, and and I think that's totally two different issues.

I have no issue with Kimberly bringing a report whenever.

Um, to me, it's really an opportunity, even in the budget cycle to say this is what's happened this last year, and here's my ideas to meet those impacts, such as temporary staff to come in and bring because we've had X impact.

I like the catch-up that Curtis just said.

What I don't wanna do is confuse that the planning commission would actually now start saying, Oh, I'm sorry, Kimberly says she needs pretend another appraiser, so we're not gonna approve building projects.

We she has no more capacity, so we're I just want to make sure that when we're putting an item in, it's about a will serve.

The idea was now I don't mind the energy if but don't we require will serve letters anyway.

I I think it's slightly different.

Um the process would not change, and what's before you today is to identify the number of allocations in 27, 28, although 28 you're gonna look at again in 27.

Anticipate 29 and 30, the daily water usage and the criteria for the non-residential.

That's your action item.

That's your action item every single year.

What the growth management commission said is we feel like we should gain an understanding of where the city is vis-a-vis energy with the energy providers, not necessarily making a change, but just an understanding of that.

And they also said we feel like we should kind of explore if there's other formulas that could be applied.

Now, all they can do is make a recommendation to you, they can't change anything, and so that would be a separate item that came before you if they studied that.

But again, the action item before you is the same action item you get every year.

And then if you want to provide direction to study something during the year, that's uh it would be a separate item and it would be agendized.

Right.

I just I just want to be clear so that we're all on the same page and having an understanding of what we did or didn't do it's it's very important to do that.

And I don't have any issue ever saying, okay, is three percent the right answer in the future?

And maybe that's where you look at the totality of the city and the to right to say, hey, we wanna I personally don't think at 0.7% that we've actually had that I don't see a lot of necessary tweaking at 0.7%.

Now, if we had a year that came in and go, what happened?

We issued every permit for the last three years, and my population growth is going faster than we can keep up with.

Then I say, Okay, we got to look at this and figure out why is Carson City suddenly the hot spot.

When I looked at all of those um documents that you were flashing on them, I I think the other thing the public doesn't understand is look at the different years of those entitlements.

I think the sadness is sometimes wow, that was out there four years, that one's out there three years, but they might culminate.

Oh, lot wasn't that nice of them.

They all got done the same year, actually came online, but the public sees it as look at everything's under construction.

I know, but that one's four years old, that one's three year old.

This this board or the planning commission has not been approving a ton every year.

It's just they're coming to fruition, and I don't know if that's because financing's becoming available to all these companies.

I don't know what's causing the quick one.

I just again want to make sure we don't mix the two items that one we're dealing with population and what the city has to do in every department because I agree that it's not it's not just fire, just the sheriff, the assessor, it's gonna be every single department will feel the stress, and so maybe that's our honest answer is looking at what every 1000 residents, what does that do?

I don't know, maybe there's some formula or something there to address, but supervisor Giomi.

Um, yeah, I mean uh I think the key is to make sure that we hear um our elected uh peers.

Um and so I I I would be fine with and and you're right.

I mean, the budget process is your opportunity to talk about the problems that you're having in the department and for ways to solve it because nothing absent trying to streamline what you already have.

Um nothing is gonna get done without more budget, right?

You know, just it's the nature of what we do.

We're a people business, right?

80% of us are it's people, so um, you know, um, either making it easier for the people we have or adding more people, and and that does have to tie back in the budget.

So, you know, uh, I as I think back on your comments, Mayor, and I I think we're probably all in agreement of what should happen, it's the method to do it.

And you're right.

Maybe adding it just automatically to this is not the way to do it.

Um the the part about the energy thing.

Well, while I think that's very interesting.

We don't have any way to influence that.

Um so I I again I I I'll agree with your comment.

If we ask, first off, I think NV Energy and Southwest Cast are going to be very coy with any answers they give us.

Um I've I've dealt with them privately.

Um I dealt with them in the fire department, and even when it came to public safety, they're pretty coy about what's where, particularly when it has to get presented in a public forum.

So I don't really know that um I yes, I have an interest in that.

I don't know that putting it in here is gonna make a bit of difference because I don't think we're gonna hear what we need.

I I don't know that they're gonna say, yeah, you better stop because we're not gonna serve anybody.

They're not gonna say that.

Um, I guess unless you live in the Tahall Basin.

I guess they can say it up there, but not here.

Um, so um so that that's the one issue.

So I I guess I can put aside my suggestion previously, and and as long as I I guess my message to you, Kim is that don't feel like you have to get to the point where you are so exhausted that you have to that you can't come to us, because that's really we we rely on those constitutional elected officers to tell us what's going on.

You're you I mean, from my perspective, you are welcome here any time, and and so don't I would just say to you, don't wait till you get to the point where it's this much stress to you that you come to us and at least share your concerns um publicly, you know.

I think it's important for you to do that.

Um, but but I I would I would say maybe not do it as a flat out part of this.

Then we don't have to revise the process.

Perfect.

Um, now one more comment, because we have had this discussion before at least a couple of other times where we've talked about holding the number at a certain number, at a flat number.

Um we don't we talk about it here, but we don't talk about it before here.

So we're we're left to get to this point where right now, do we just say, no, I'm not gonna increase it from 26, I'm gonna leave it.

Or do we suggest to you that you come back sometime before the end of this year and come up with an idea for uh a formula that perhaps is in the ordinance, or at least for us to have a discussion on, or um yeah, I mean, I do we just keep going up in numbers when the numbers are not getting all used?

And and I I I know there's an argument both ways, because if if you start restricting the building permits, even the perception of that, I mean we are restricted.

Let's be clear about that.

There is a restriction without a doubt, obviously, because we're looking at uh a capped number.

But as you start to cap that, you run the risk of increasing the cost of a building permit to the people who are gonna get one.

And that does the opposite of what we're trying to do from uh from a housing perspective.

So I'm I'm really very torn, and I don't know what the answer is.

I just know anecdotally that you know, uh, I mean, if we drop that number, and I'm not suggesting we do that, but if we drop the number, you start to get the concern that the ones that are there are more valuable than than they are.

So I I'm really kind of torn, but I guess I just wanted to bring that up because I feel like it's a discussion point that we should have.

And I feel like we keep kind of kicking it down the road.

Not you, we don't keep provide I'm not being critical of you.

I'm I don't feel like we've provided you clear direction to do something with it.

We sort of talk about it like this, then we approve this and we move on.

So, so it's not broken.

Well, and maybe that's the case.

Maybe don't we need to do that?

For me, it's not broken.

Okay, right, and so.

I I can live with it.

I can live with it.

You just start to see some pretty big numbers, I'll come to you, going out in those out years.

And and that's the that's the you know, I think the overall answer for us as a board or even the community is to decide.

I for me, the three percent was fine because I think that's what I call manageable, right?

And so we don't want population growth exceeding three percent because then we can't handle it.

We can't respond timely enough, even within a year to accommodate that growth, and so for me to change the formula from three percent to some, okay, two percent.

I don't think I'm gonna have any great rationale for that either until we start getting reports that we can't keep up, or that we're exceeding, and and then it's like, okay, then we'll have to go to more austere processes, but I'm just not finding a reason to change the three percent at this point.

I don't have a rationale for it.

The other side to my previous comments, I'm arguing against myself here, is that even at even at the planning commission, um, and and here today, we get very little comment one way or the other, and and and almost never get comments about this ordinance.

Correct.

Um, and we hear uh, you know, pr privately um from people in the community that they you know growth is going crazy, yet when we have an opportunity to comment on growth, we don't really get a comment on the one way that we have to really control that.

So um maybe your comment about if it ain't broke, don't fix it is is fair.

I just wanted to bring that up because we seem to sort of have this round table discussion every year, which is good good discussion.

Supervisor Shooty.

Absolutely, and I agree with everything that's said.

Um I I guess though, I don't know, there's nothing to fix because it isn't broken, but I don't want to wait for a major break.

So I think these kinds of discussions are incredibly important because they do impact um service to the community, and so as we continue to think about growth, uh it's really important to look at how growth impacts um our ability to serve the community, our budgets, our needs for other um, you know, whether it's employees or you know, going through the report, you know, the the allowances that we have for the departments and our abilities to meet those needs, and so um while it's an uncomfortable situation, I think it's incredibly important.

So thank you.

Supervisor Horton.

The three percent works, and the discussion is very healthy and it's good that we're having it, but we're not gonna be surprised in this instance.

We're gonna see it coming if something changes.

So we'll see it happen.

She'll bring it to our attention as we see escalation in the permits.

It won't happen overnight.

It w it won't be a shock.

We'll we'll be able to analyze this information and say, okay, we're we're trending in this direction.

This is something we need to address.

And I think we'll have time to see it and to react to it.

So I feel comfortable with it.

Okay.

And and I think it's why we come every year.

Even though, as Stacy said, we're not making a change.

The point is to do exactly that.

Every year we have a chance to say, is there anything on the horizon that we need to address?

And I think maybe that's our honest answer to everyone, is I say, hey, every year I get a chance to look at everything.

We've just gone through a budget.

We can hear, and I think the timing for this is perfect because we just went through a budget process and I get to hear from every department head, right?

And go, okay, how are we doing?

How are we doing?

How are we doing?

So I think it really does align, and I think it's good for the public to understand that we really do we look at all of it.

It's it's not in a vacuum.

It's everything put together.

So again, I'm comfortable.

Just saying for now we're not for now, we're not broken.

There you go.

Okay, um, I'm gonna go to is there any public comment?

Mr.

French?

Thank you, people.

Thank you, Keeper.

Thank you, Mary Denny French, Carson City.

I appreciate this discussion.

I would like to, I just think they're essential as the police, the sheriff, and all of those, and that if they at least get on the list and you ask that year what's up, or even in the interim of the year that people feel comfortable to come forward.

Our staff is dead, we need assistance.

It's no shame on them.

It's the additional work.

There, their quality is part of their essence and their necessity for jobs preservation for them and keeping those employees.

We don't want to lose them because we burn them out.

They love their jobs.

You can tell when they relate to the community that they are truly engaged.

Don't screw that up.

Make them an essential part of any conversation you have about what do we need if we're going to grow.

Thank you very much.

Do I have any other?

Okay, I don't see any.

Would someone like to make a resolution for this?

I mean, a motion to adopt this resolution.

Let's put that out right.

I move to adopt resolution 2026-R-20.

Second.

I have a motion and a second for approval.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, say no.

Let the record reflect it was four yeses and one absent.

Supervisor White.

Thank you, uh Miss Adams and everyone for your comments and work.

And again, please thank your staff.

We know how much how hard they're working.

Okay, we're now gonna go to agenda item 13Bs and boy.

This is a application for abandonment of approximately 15,798 square feet on research way.

Miss Ferris, did you want to give us a briefing here?

Sure.

The Heather Ferris for the record.

The request before you today is to abandon a nearly 16,000 square foot portion of an access drainage and public utility easement that bisects the subject parcel, which is at the end of research way on the west side of the freeway.

The portion of the easement to be abandoned was never developed for access drainage or utilities, with access provided via research way and drainage and utilities accommodated along the property lines.

The easement is no longer needed for this parcel or um adjacent parcels.

The planning commission considered this request at their May 27th, 2026 meeting, made all seven findings, and is recommending approval subject to the conditions of approval included in the staff report.

I'm available for questions.

Thank you.

Does any member have a I don't see any questions?

Is there any public comment on this item?

Mr.

French.

Thank you, Mary Danny French, Carson City, Nevada.

I'm opposed to giving up any land.

Easement for bugs is not ever considered, and I'm thinking that it had been in historical uh easement, and that area had not been developed, and I'd like to have it left that way.

Um having to keep track of it, maybe uh added, got to stop and look at it thing for the city, and and if there's any kind of a consideration for litigation against something or a safety hazard or such like that.

Maybe it's a place for milkweed.

Maybe it's a place for some other plants that would be uh vital to this community that's losing open space like crazy around developments.

It's already established as non developed.

There are maybe considerations down the road that say, hey, it's my property, I'd like to develop it.

If you abandon it, I will.

So I just I'm opposed to banning anything.

That's a piece of property, a piece of land, how narrow it is, or such.

So that's my position, and and thank you.

Is there any other public comment?

Okay, and Supervisor Horton, a motion, please.

I move to approve the abandonment as presented.

I have a motion and a second for approval.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, say no.

Let the record reflect it was four yeses and one absent supervisor white.

Okay, we're now on to agenda item 14A discussion and possible action regarding our 2026 language access plan as required.

Mr.

Gresh is here, uh, the fastest talker in Carson City.

Uh we're we had a timer on.

Oh, God, I'm just harassing them.

Well, it is language access, so you're here, right?

Uh good morning, Mayor and Supervisors.

Thank you.

Um, what you have before you is Carson City's second ever submission of a language access plan as required by Assembly bill two sixty-six, which was passed in the 2023 legislative session.

The purpose of this document is to identify the resources Carson City has to assist individuals with, as the bill defines it, limited English proficiency.

The document contains data about how many of these people reside in our community and what their preferred language is.

For the purposes of our discussion, that is overwhelmingly Spanish, as evidenced by the American community survey from the Census Bureau for 2020 through 2024, as you'll see cited in the document.

So when we talk about limited English proficiency persons, we are talking about Spanish speakers.

In other jurisdictions, this can include many other languages, but as the data supports, we really only have to worry about Spanish.

And we continuously monitor that information to make sure that we stay current should our demographics change there.

This LAP is streamlined from previous versions, and it documents the procedures Carson City has to designate certain information as vital and needing to be translated.

And it documents the resources we have available to assist limited English proficiency persons when interacting with various departments of Carson City.

I'll just note here that Carson City has been assisting the limited English persons since before this law was written.

It's simply a fact of our community.

And so this doesn't really talk about doing anything new.

It simply writes down what we have already been doing and that it is effective, as evidenced by the rest of our community and the public survey that we are required to put out every year or excuse me, every two years in advance of our publication of the plan.

This year it was run for uh about two weeks in May, mid-to-mid to the end of May.

And so just to kind of quickly go over some of the highlights, when we talk about vital documents, we are talking about mainly emergency communications.

Before our last submission of the language access plan, our very first one, we were onboarding a brand new emergency notification system called uh alert Carson.

Uh this is now fully in effect, and we have utilized this in training scenarios to produce emergency messages by text message and phone in both English and Spanish.

Um, and so that is working very well.

And when we talk about a definition of vital documents, while each department is free to define whatever they want as their vital documents for the larger umbrella term for Carson City, that is always going to be emergency communications, as those are the most important things that I think we could ever talk about to our citizens.

You'll also notice that jurisdictions departments are given wide latitude to determine the resources and procedures that work for their department when interacting with LEP individuals.

Um the previous language access plan looked to see how these uh tools and procedures might be standardized, but in all my conversations with every department, we realized that you know, public works and the senior center and our fire department, when they're in front of um people with limited English proficiency, it's in wildly different contexts, requiring the use of various tools, and to force them all to standardize or use the same ones would constitute a reduction in service, frankly, to um limited English persons.

And so that's why you'll see in the rest of the document, and really the only major change is that departments are given wide latitude to determine what is effective for them, how to train those employees to use those tools, and then how to communicate the availability of those tools to their uh to the wider LEP audience.

And so that's really um, it's a it's a much briefer document than it was in our last iteration.

Um, that is because in our last iteration uh we had to create it basically in the dark.

Um, it was our very first one.

No other jurisdiction in the state had done it that wasn't an executive agency, and those weren't widely applicable to our operations.

This time, we were able to look at what all the other jurisdictions have done and tailor our plan um more to what we are seeing uh actually being published by other much larger jurisdictions who have a much bigger responsibility when it comes to LEP engagement.

And so that was really helpful in streamlining this document, making it more accessible for anyone who might read it.

Um, with that being said, you are being asked today to approve this document as written for submission to the governor's office of new Americans by August 1st as required by law.

And with that, I uh stand ready for questions if anyone has them.

Does any member have a question?

Uh Supervisor Shooty.

Um I it's a fabulous document, and thank you so much.

And really, I just have one editing comment that I can um point out now, or just in the general policy principles, the last bullet.

Um I think it should read the city has developed and will continue to maintain, and there's an extra will that set that currently says the city will has developed so yes, I'm I apologize profusely.

No need to apologize.

It's it's all good.

I will correct that before our submission if the board You will correct it, and then um Cameron, on the the front, I what I understand is I'm guessing you're using the eight one date because that's a submission date to them, but I would prefer, would you change that to adopted Board of Supervisors 7226?

I just think every document and plans and things that we do need dates and volume numbers and anyway, whenever you're looking at stuff, it's really hard.

So if could it be adopted by the Board of Supervisors with today's date so that we can just continue to have great version control?

Thank you.

I'd really appreciate that.

Did anybody see anything else?

Okay, is there any public comment?

Well, maybe I just have a general question.

Do you know?

Do you see the departments starting to really want to utilize um electronic programs that the two people can communicate that way?

Where, you know, you get the question, the person asks it in Spanish and then it translates for me, and then I can answer in English and it gives it back to them.

Do you see a lot of electronic use starting to happen in the city?

Um I do, however, um I would say it mostly comes from uh, for instance, we use like the language line where an employee uh who does not speak Spanish has to interact with someone whose only language is Spanish, they call in and are given a live Spanish speaker to translate on speaker phone.

It's not so much that a machine or AI program is doing it, it's a real human being, which is widely considered to be the most effective, but that is also really a secondary measure when a bilingual employee of which we have very many interspersed across all departments, is for whatever reason unavailable to simply engage with that person in Spanish right then and there.

Um and the these instances from what I can tell with my discussions with the department are relatively rare.

Um but yes, those electronic methods you talk about, I have seen them.

Um I don't know that a straight up computer translation is what is being used most in Carson City.

I would say if not a human being in person, then a human being over the phone with a service that we pay for usually by the minute.

By the minute?

Uh yes.

We might want to look at the AI translation, unless it's not expensive.

And you can get back to me later.

Do we spend a lot of money on those translation services?

I think part of the problem is that the language line are certified interpreters.

Okay.

They're not certified yet.

So if you're doing if you're doing critical things like us in the medical world can't.

Right.

No, you have to like even us if we have employees who are bilingual, we have to certify that they're bilingual.

Um, because you're dealing with medical translation.

And I I think any time you're dealing with the public where they could be what could be costing them money because it's a public works issue or a legal issue, certainly um so I I don't know that the stuff that's out there yet electronically.

I think it's great for tourism, but I don't know that it's quite there yet.

Um, but uh with the way stuff is advancing, it will be.

I don't think it's that far away.

Right.

But the beauty of this plan, as Cameron mentioned is that we can deal with it it will allow for that.

I mean, it would allow for that at a department level if there's a department who wants to take a step out and experiment with something it this is this is I I mean uh you know I think that's a beauty of this maybe it works in the parks department as there yeah okay I know I use the translate feature uh even on menus you can do it in I've used it in countries I've been in just it's just the Google translate and it literally will you can take a picture of a document and it will translate it for you I mean it immediately it's a little small for my old eyes but it works.

It's translated.

Okay any public comment okay did you have a comment?

Okay uh supervisor Gionia motion to I move to approve the Carson City 2026 language access plan with the typographical correction under the general policies principle and by adding the BOS adopted date to the cover page I second I have a motion and a second for approval all those in favor please say aye aye any opposed let the record reflect it was four yeses and one absent thank you so much for your great work.

Okay we're now up to agenda item 15 which is our non-action items and certainly the for me uh I hope everyone is coming to the uh July 4th celebration uh to lift our uh garrison flag that's at 11 30 at the Carson Tahoe Hospital uh it should be pretty spectacular well I think so maybe I will admit that I will be happy when it is done too I think Mr.

Martell and I have been living it for months on end but I hope you all saw the polls we even went and looked at polls I don't know it just feels great and I've even got a picture with the biggest wrench I've ever seen right I was like what is that but uh it's really I I hope very patriotic and I hope a symbol for our community for many many many years to come that as they come into our our community they just know how proud we all are so 9 30 uh South Carson correct nine nine straight up nine is South Carson the museum at 10.

And then um 1130 at Carson Tahoe.

Yeah I saw and then don't forget the soapbox derby I just have to throw that out there even if you don't have any little kids and they're not doing it two o'clock at Bandango come watch the 20 kids right there.

I know right so that and then obviously I have a heartbreaking story about about soapbox derby when I was a boy scout but won't get into that.

So worked and worked and worked on it put it on the track didn't have enough clearance went about two inches stopped.

Never never entered again I still think about it today.

It hurt your feelings big time.

Yeah well I think honestly like I said I think I think Glenn and I are waiting for the final thing I I don't want to say something he said to the fire group and stuff don't drop that flag I said oh god don't put that into existence.

I saw them out there yesterday uh practicing last night practicing yeah on South Carson Street so they'll get it right they will get it right they are so proud to participate but does anyone else have anything to share just I hope everybody has a safe fourth of July while they're at it right um the fireworks are at 9 30 that's what's at 9 30 is the fireworks okay else to share then we will move on to agenda item 16 which is our final public comment Mr.

French did you have comments Danny French, Carson City, Nevada.

I have a concern about the development considerations um parcel numbers um 009 267 05 plus 009 2613.

And this is a curry off of uh the uh end of curry and it runs into the new one that's just going.

I can't think of the the chief, and it's just right on the tip of my brain.

Coaches, thank you very much.

Um I'm opposed to it for a number of things.

We are taking on Wharf Street.

Parking issue came up during the discussion and the planning commission will have some other information that they have asked to have gathered before they present it to you.

But I'm opposed to it for that.

I'm also opposed to the fact that their suggestions about changing their their um detention basins is not clarified yet.

And so those things have to to me really fit a different category, getting away from the rock and such, but also um the traffic consideration for five bedroom rental, and I'm opposed to the fact that we're giving out so many opportunities to do rentals and very few to have purchasable houses in this community, and I think it's not doing our citizenship a good favor to put them in a position where they could actually be just put out of a rental with no cost.

They have no invested and secured investment to pass on family members or whatever they decide if they need to sell it because they just need the money to get in an old home folks' home, like I will eventually.

But the deal is I'm opposed to it.

I think when you it's brought to you that if they haven't covered the requirements that the planning commission put before them, don't let them do it.

They have some real big requests to follow up, and if if they don't, I would say hold up until they do it.

I don't like the change in the zoning either.

So thank you.

Thank you so much.

Do I have anyone else?

No.

Okay, if there are no objections, no one has anything else, we're adjourned, and everybody have a delightful fourth.

I'll see you all at the ceremony.