Supervisor Stacey Giomi reads a proclamation in recognition of Fire Prevention week, Oct. 3-9. (Photo: Faith Evans/Nevada Appeal)
The Carson City Board of Supervisors approved a final subdivision map for Silver View Townhomes at their meeting on Thursday morning.
Located off the corner of Clearview Drive and Silver Sage Drive, the development is proposing to add 34 single-family residential lots on a 2.75-acre parcel. The map also includes seven common area parcels.
With the board’s approval, the final step for the subdivision to begin construction is to permit their buildings through the Community Development Department.
Additionally, to supplement American Rescue Plan funding for city projects, the board enacted the second step in a five-step process to issue general obligation bonds that will fund the Quill Water Treatment Plant Upgrade project and a new fire station with emergency operations and dispatch. The board contracted with Sherman & Howard and JNA Consulting Group to help facilitate the bond issuing process.
The water treatment plant project bonds are not to exceed the aggregate principal amount of $7 million, and the fire station shall not exceed $8.1 million.
Convened as the Board of Health, the supervisors heard presentations from health officer Colleen Lyons, Health and Human Services Director Nicki Aaker, and CCHHS intern Celeste Pierini.
Their reports largely covered COVID-19 in Carson City and the Quad County area. Currently, 63.2 percent of Carson City’s population aged 12 and older are vaccinated. Over 99 percent of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the Quad County area are of unvaccinated individuals.
CCHHS also reported it is no longer leaning on personnel and resources from the National Guard to administer vaccines.
In her report, Pierini presented on a statistical data analysis she conducted over the course of her internship. She has been working in healthcare since the beginning of the pandemic, and she and other healthcare workers perceive a disparity, with a greater proportion of Hispanic residents being infected and hospitalized for COVID-19.
Pierini said her analysis of over 6,000 cases in Carson City did not produce substantial evidence of an ethnic disparity.
She did say Hispanic residents are significantly more likely to spread COVID-19 within their households compared to non-Hispanic residents. The top source of infection overall continues to be community spread, followed by household and workplace spread.
The Board of Supervisors also had a special guest at their meeting – Toffee, a chocolate Labrador who works with minors in Carson City’s Juvenile Detention Center. Toffee accompanied Chief of Juvenile Services Ali Banister at the meeting.
To maintain compliance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act, the supervisors moved to amend an interlocal contract with the Western Nevada Regional Youth Center. Banister explained that the youth center is already in compliance with the act, but the state asked that the interlocal contract be amended to reflect that.
The board again postponed a Collective Bargaining Agreement between the city and the Carson City Employees Association. Deliberation is ongoing.
