Agenda items include:
- Smoke Shop faces revocation after selling methamphetamine pipe, vape with THC to detectives
- Parks and Rec requests delinquent property parcel for open space use
- Legislative update
- Property tax rate and 2026 budget preparation
- Ambulance Fund write-off request
- Concrete, asphalt, software purchases
- Easement to reroute power lines requested
- Financial activity
The next Carson City Board of Supervisors meeting will be held Thursday, Feb. 20, 2024, beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Bob Crowell Board Room of the Community Center located at 851 E. William St.
Items include a potential business license revocation, a legislative update, the potential acquisition of a river parcel for Carson City Open Space, and more.
Smoke Shop faces revocation after selling methamphetamine pipe, vape with THC to detectives
Supervisors will discuss a show cause determination on whether My Vape & Smoke Shop, located at 1800 East William Street, should have its business license suspended, cancelled or revoked after allegedly selling a methamphetamine pipe and vapes containing THC to detectives against city code.
According to the agenda, these sales occurred after Carson City Sheriff’s Office had already provided warnings about these sales.
Carson City Municipal Code establishes the process for suspending, cancelling or revoking a business license based on “good cause,” which includes any act in the operation of a business which is unlawful or prohibited by Carson City ordinance or law.
State law prohibits the sale, manufacture, possession or delivery of drug paraphernalia, according to CCSO, as well as selling THC outside of an approved cannabis dispensary.
On July 18, 2024, uniformed officers visited smoke and vape shops throughout the city and gave warnings regarding selling these items. On Oct. 23, 2024, a plain clothes detective visited My Vape & Smoke Shop and purchased a “quag,” which is a methamphetamine pipe, as well as a THC vape.
During the purchase, the employee advised they “are not supposed to sell them because of what they are used for, that law enforcement had come around a few months earlier to warn about selling methamphetamine pipes, and that the sale had to be a cash transaction,” according to the staff report.
When the detective then asked to purchase a THC vape, the employe showed the officer a rack of them and “explained that they would soon have to come off the shelf.”
The employee was then arrested after the sale was completed. Supervisors ordered the hearing on Jan. 16, 2025.
The owner is ordered to appear before the board Thursday.
Parks and Rec requests delinquent property parcel for open space use
The Carson City Parks and Recreation Department is requesting the city acquire a parcel of undeveloped land of approximately 12,196.80 square feet along the Carson River for use as open space.
The property has had no property tax payments in some time. The last registered owner of the property died in 2008, and the successor passed away in 2019. The last known heir of the trust was identified and a notice was provided to her to submit within 90 days the amount of delinquent taxes, penalties, interest and cost as required by state law.
If after 90 days, no payment comes in, the city will be allowed to acquire the title for inclusion into the city’s Open Space Program.
Legislative update
Supervisors will hear an update on the ongoing Nevada 83rd Legislative Session, and will discuss coordination of legislative activity, and whether to adopt any official policy positions or advocate for specific legislation.
On Jan. 16, 2025, the board voted to endorse the following bills: AB14, AB51, SB51, SB65, and SB73.
AB14 requires a person to be a qualified elector to be eligible for a public office in Nevada, meaning they need to be registered to vote within Nevada.
AB51 relates to public record requests, and would allow governmental entities to charge a reasonable fee if a record request requires personnel or technological resources, and requires that any request to inspect, copy or receive a copy of a public book or record must be made in writing and must identify who the requester is. It also requires that the requester makes a “reasonable effort” to focus their request to assist the entity in locating the document.
SB51 relates to affordable housing funding. The bill would create an Account for Housing Expansion Through Local Partnership which would reimburse cities and counties for the cost of reducing or subsidizing certain fees to assist in maintaining or developing affordable housing projects. The bill establishes a process for a city or county to request reimbursement from the state for affordable housing fees. If approved, the bill will then appropriate $20 million.
SB65 relates to coroner’s reports as public record. The bill requires that the final report of a coroner within an investigation relating to homicide, suicide, or sudden death under certain circumstances is a public record. It authorizes the coroner to redact or withhold information from the final report that is “confidential, privileged or unrelated to the cause and manner of death,” and states what information is considered confidential including photographs or video recordings of an autopsy, crime scene, scene of death, location of death, postmortem imaging, fingerprints, documents with identifying information of a dependent, biological species, notes, medical records obtained by a third party, etc.
SB73 relates to elections. The bill requires the county or city clerk to allow any person to inspect the signature of a registered voter at the office of the county or city clerk, and prohibits a county or city clerk from providing a copy or allowing a person to copy the signature of any registered voter.
However, this list is not exhaustive for the entirety of the session, as staff states that due to the unpredictability of session, a bill may be introduced that warrants board discussion that might occur after the printing of the agenda, and the board is allowed to discuss it so long as they have made every effort to update the public on the bill once they became aware of it.
Property tax rate and 2026 budget preparation
Staff will present the recommended property tax rate and assumptions in preparation for the 2026 Carson City Budget. The board is required to approve a property tax rate to be levied for 2026, and the Department of Taxation requires local governments to inform them of the rates by Feb. 21, 2025.
Staff is projecting a 5% increase in assessed valuation and property tax revenues for 2026. The 2025 estimate is $34.9 million, an increase of approximately $570,000 over the budgeted $34.3 million.
Since 2022, year over year there have been increases of between 5.5% and 7.1%.
The 2025 tax rate for Carson City is $3.5700, making it the 12th highest out of Nevada’s 17 counties. The highest rate is $3.6600, which is tied by ten counties. The lowest is Eureka county at $2.2896.
Carson City’s share of projected consolidated taxes for 2025 is $44.1 million, and $44.5 million for 2026.
The final revenue projects will be sent from the state by March 17, 2025.
The final budget will be presented on May 1, 2025, and the final budget will be due to the Department of Taxation on June 1, 2025.
Ambulance Fund write-off request
Staff is requesting to remove $348,820.41 from the ambulance fund as these bills have been determined to be uncollectible. The Carson City Fire Department’s emergency medical billing and collection services contractor, Wittman Enterprises, told the city that they will not be able to collect the bills from those accounts.
According to Wittman, most of the uncollectible amounts are due from transient individuals with no income or assets, or from individuals who are deceased or bankrupt. The unpaid amounts will remain on the credit records of the debtors for seven years. The total write-off is $343,820.41 for July 1, 2024 through Dec. 31, 2024.
The accounts will be sent to a different collections company, and if they are successful in collecting the funds, the city will receive 70% of the amount collected according to the agenda.
The available budget amount for write-offs is $966,019.
Concrete, asphalt, software purchases
City staff is asking to purchase concrete and asphalt as-needed by the Public Works Department for an amount not to exceed $150,000 through Dec. 31, 2025.
Spanish Springs Construction was determined to be the lowest responsive and responsible bidder for the contract. Public Works also requests an authorization to renew the purchase authority in obeyer increments for up tot five additional years.
In addition, a purchase authority request will be discussed regarding a proposed contact with Axon Enterprise Inc. for the transfer and storage of digital data from the District Attorney’s Office in an amount not to exceed $256,737.60, payable in 10 year installments beginning in July 2025.
If approved, the agenda states the contract will facility a “reliable method for the seamless transfer of digital data” from CCSO to the DA’s office for storage and use as evidence in the prosecution of crimes.
Easement to reroute power lines requested
The city is requesting permission to grant NV Energy a new easement of Carson City-owned property to reroute an existing electrical line in preparation for the city’s Fleet Tire and Welding Shop Project next month.
According to the agenda, an existing utility primary electric service line needs to be rerouted at the Carson City Corporate Yard as part of the Fleet Tire and Welding Shop Project. The service line is located underneath the proposed slab for the new Fleet Tire and Welding Shop.
Construction on the new project is planned to begin in March 2025, and the easement will provide NV Energy the ability to adjust electrical line systems in the area.
Financial activity
The Chief Financial Officer of Carson City will provide the monthly condition of the treasury showing the “cash activity” between Jan. 24, 2025 and Feb. 7, 2025 including the condition of each fund and the statements of receipts and expenditures.
Currently, the city has a balance of $244,228,275.38, with $7.37 million in disbursements during that time period.
The full treasury report can be viewed here.
For these and other agenda items, you can read the full agenda at https://www.carson.org/agendas
