Dayton resident Bob Scholes, left, addresses concerns he has about the South Dayton Valley Area drainage master plan in June at a Lyon County Commission meeting in Dayton.
Interim Lyon County Manager Andrew Haskin and staff members have refocused their priorities after former county manager Jeff Page announced his retirement in September.
Haskin told the Board of Commissioners at its Oct. 20 meeting that he reviewed the most recent projects with administrative assistant Erin Lopez and listed the most pressing work to be accomplished in the coming months. He sought the board’s direction, including capital projects, policies and committees they thought should be included.
Haskin’s initial list included: organizing a records committee for a new ordinance and administrative policy; records request policy; facilities/building use form update; determining plans for a hospital in the Central Lyon County corridor; pursuing a Mound House Community Center grant; holding a Mound House and Stagecoach fire station discussion; drafting a festival ordinance; determining the stormwater rate structure for Dayton; planning a workshop for the commission and county departments in January 2023; holding a Ken Harvey canal ceremony; and working on the emergency manager position.
• Before his retirement, the board gave Page its authority to begin researching options for bringing a full-service hospital to the Central Lyon County corridor that would service areas and abbreviate transportation for medical responders who usually drive to Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center in Carson City or South Lyon Medical Center in Yerington. Page made one of his most recent updates to the commission at the Aug. 4 board meeting.
• The emergency manager position was approved during the board’s Oct. 6 meeting and would be the first time the position has been separate from the county manager position since Page retired.
• The Mound House Community Center has been an item of discussion all year, with the Mound House Citizen Advisory Board most recently discussing the possibility of remodeling the local fire station at 56 Red Rock Road in Carson City as an existing facility for public events with a $200,000 Community Development Block Grant. This would spare the county from having to expend upward of $500,000 or more for a new building.
• The commissioners noted a few projects that were not on Haskin’s list but should continue in staff development, such as the Dayton bridge, storm drainage issues, code and speed enforcement.
The board approved the motion, 5-0.