Welcome to our recap of the Douglas County Board of County Commissioners meeting! It’s always a busy time as we work to make our county a great place to live, work, and play and there’s a lot to cover this week. So, let’s dive into the August 7, 2025 meeting and see what’s happening around Douglas County!
August 7, 2025 “Hot Topics” Administrative Agenda Items
Audit Committee to Consider FY 2024-25 Internal Audit Plan
The Board unanimously approved the Fiscal Year 2025-26 Internal Audit Plan prepared by Baker Tilly (formerly Moss Adams). Baker Tilly has served as the County’s internal auditor since 2018, overseeing areas such as risk management, internal controls, compliance, and performance.
The firm also manages the County’s Fraud, Waste & Abuse hotline.
Baker Tilly representative Halie Garcia shared, “We do a variety of different types of projects, assessing risk in certain areas and identifying whether the County has processes and controls in place to mitigate those risks.”
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Public Administrator Quarterly Reports for First Half of 2025
The Board voted unanimously to accept the Douglas County Public Administrator’s reports for the first and second quarters of 2025, covering activities from January through June.
Douglas County Public Administrator Wendy Sharp shared in her update, “There were 54 active cases, which shows our office successfully was able to close 17 cases, which after investigations revealed the estate was either privately administered or that we could find no assets or remains for the estate. I also want to point out that I’m counting as cases in all stages including those who are in the very beginning investigatory process as active cases. Then I also want to point out that NRS 253.0405 gives authority to the public administrator to identify and secure all tangible and intangible assets of the estate.
Although I have found it necessary for most cases to file a special administration to obtain certain needed documents from banks and other such places that are necessary for our research. We are finding that many of our cases, especially the older ones that had some work done by my predecessor, can ultimately be completed by filing an affidavit of entitlement, which requires no court hearings. Other than that, the cases that can be completed by affidavit are mostly affidavits of entitlement for estate cases where the total value is $25,000 or less.”
Chairwoman Hales asked, “One of my concerns prior to your taking this position was the number of inventories that had not been done on estates, and I wondered if you could explain to us how many of these cases or estates have inventories prepared and filed, or what your process is and where you’re at on that?”
Community Services Director Brook Adie responded, “Currently, the public administrator’s case has four properties that we’re in the process of managing. The properties that we have, we have gone in and we’ve taken videos and we’ve done our own inventories. Not all of them have been filed because they’re in various statuses.Some of the previous cases that were administered by the prior public administrator, he had filed some inventories on some of those properties. Some of the properties we no longer have as they have been sold and some of the assets have been dispersed. But any of the properties that we have taken over we’ve gone in and redone the inventories minus one case where we’re kind of in limbo… We have body cams that we’ll wear when we go into the property so that we’re filming everything that’s being done… We also have four travel trailers and we’ve done inventories on those as well.”
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Ordinance to Expand 9-1-1 Advisory Committee Membership
The Board heard the first reading of Ordinance 2025-1658, which proposes amending DouglasCounty Code Chapter 3.50 to expand the 9-1-1 Surcharge Advisory Committee from five to seven members.
Douglas County Emergency Manager Kara Easton said, “Per NRS, that’s how we determine how many committee members we have. And right now you have to have five committee members and they all have to be residents of Douglas County. So we are increasing membership because we sometimes have difficulty finding members who also fit the ILEC (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier) requirement.
So if we have seven members, then we can satisfy the five members that are Douglas County residents, but then also be able to get somebody who may be ILEC that is not residents of Douglas County.”
This change is intended to bring the County’s ordinance into alignment with state law (NRS 244A.7645), which requires five resident members in addition to an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) representative and a sheriff’s designee. The amendment allows for those two specialized roles to be filled even if the individuals are not DouglasCounty residents. The 9-1-1 Committee voted in favor of this change at its June 30, 2025, meeting.
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MORE ITEMS
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