Property at 2621 Northgate Lane shown July 7, 2022.
Photo by Faith Evans.
With no sealed bids to open Thursday morning, the Carson City supervisors are exploring a new route to dispose of a city building on 2621 Northgate Lane.
During public comment, Chris MacKenzie said the Hop and Mae Adams Foundation is interested in the property but did not qualify to submit a bid. MacKenzie is a trustee for the foundation, and he said that Hop and Mae Adams did not meet the nonprofit requirements in Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 82 that the supervisors outlined in the resolution.
“We’re happy and available to try to work this out and help everybody involved,” he said.
The supervisors directed city staff to begin negotiations for the building with the Hop and Mae Adams Foundation.
According to its website, the Hop and Mae Adams Foundation was founded in Carson City in 2008 to support local charitable causes. It founded the Adams Hub for Innovation downtown in 2014.
Carson City currently leases 2621 Northgate Lane to Nevada Rural RSVP, the Ron Wood Family Resource Center, the Carson City C.I.R.C.L.E.S. Initiative, and University of Nevada Cooperative Extension.
MacKenzie said that the Hop and Mae Adams Foundation is open to working with the current tenants if the foundation does purchase the building.
The city decided to dispose of the building in 2021 after a 2020 report found that the city would need to invest $1.6 million in the facility over the course of 10 years for maintenance. That estimate has increased to $1.8 million with current market conditions.
The supervisors previously tried to auction the property in 1996 then sell it in 1997, but both attempts at disposal were unsuccessful.
Also at their meeting on Thursday, the supervisors reallocated funding for the Centennial Park tennis courts toward the Ross Gold Park tennis courts. Both need improvements, but the city does not have the funding to repair Centennial’s courts, Mayor Lori Bagwell said.
The alternative option was to forego a new pavilion at Ross Gold Park and invest that money into the tennis courts, but the supervisors did not feel that was appropriate.
The supervisors also accepted the recount of the 2022 Carson City Primary Election vote for governor. Republican gubernatorial candidate Joey Gilbert called for a recount of the vote last month after the 2022 Primary Election.
Rowlatt said that her team found one discrepancy that does not change the outcome of the governor’s race. Carson City Republicans voted in favor of Gilbert during the primary, but statewide results put Gilbert in second place to Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo.
