A land use map for the city as part of a draft of the Master Plan update. Proposed land use categories include corridor mixed-use, medical, and state and federal lands.
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Before the Christmas holiday, the Carson City Board of Supervisors will be busy. They’re scheduled to meet 1:30 p.m. Thursday with the Planning Commission to review the latest draft of the Master Plan update.
Before that joint meeting, supervisors will meet 8:30 a.m. Thursday in the community center boardroom to take up several items.
Action items for the regular meeting:
• Supervisors will consider the appointment of three members to the Carson City Cultural Commission for three-year terms. The commission oversees art and culture projects in the city, such as the process for the commissioned roundabout sculpture at South Carson and South Stewart streets.
“There are three upcoming vacancies due to expiration of terms on Jan. 1,” reads the agenda. “A reappointment request was submitted by Bethany Drysdale and Valerie Moore. New applications were submitted by Casey Otto and Lauren Casto.”
• Supervisors will decide whether to allocate unexpended ARPA dollars to local road projects.
Specifically, on the heels of a Regional Transportation Commission recommendation, they’ll be asked to allocate $456,837.20 to local roads and around $40,000 to the Quill Water Treatment Plant Rehabilitation Project.
“In anticipation of the obligation deadline of Dec. 31, staff is recommending that $456,837.20 in unused funds identified above be reallocated to Transportation District 1-5 Projects as recommended by the RTC,” reads a staff report. “Of that, $256,837.20 would be used to fund a portion of Contract No. 25300285-ARPA District 2 and 4A Pavement Preservation projects, and $200,000 would be used for two new, relatively small pavement preservation projects proposed on Hillview Drive and Lepire Drive.”
The additional $40,000 for the Quill project “would reduce the amount needed from the Water Fund,” the report says.
• Supervisors will consider adopting on second reading an ordinance approving a tentative commercial Planned Unit Development (PUD) changing the zoning of 3.64 acres east of Emerson Drive, south of the end of Louise Drive, from single-family 6,000 to tourist commercial PUD and grant a special use permit for an RV and boat storage facility.
Many neighbors opposed the change in previous hearings. The first reading of the ordinance was unanimously approved by supervisors Nov. 21 but only after a related Master Plan amendment for the project was narrowly passed 3-2, with Supervisors Stacey Giomi and Lisa Schuette opposed.
New ordinances must see two public readings before adoption.
• Supervisors will review the final subdivision map for Blackstone Ranch North Phase 1 creating 64 residential lots and related improvements on 28.71 acres of a 41.07 acre parcel zoned multifamily duplex and multifamily apartment. The property lies in the Lompa Ranch North Specific Plan Area north of E. Robinson Street and west of I-580.
According to staff, supervisors approved the tentative subdivision map for the project on Jan. 20, 2022.
“Since that time, AMH NV17 Development LLC (applicant) has obtained a site improvement permit and has commenced construction of the improvements. To the extent improvements are not completed, the developer has provided a subdivision improvement performance bond,” according to the agenda.
• Supervisors will review the Carson City Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the 2024 fiscal year that ended June 30.
The annual audit is required by state law.
The city’s independent auditor, HintonBurdick CPAs and Advisors, gave the city an unmodified or clean opinion finding the city in accordance with “accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America,” according to audit documents.
Presentation materials provided by the city show Carson had $690.5 million in assets and deferred outflows of resources in its governmental activities during the last fiscal year. Liabilities and deferred inflows totaled $323.7 million, equaling a net position of $366.8 million. General Fund revenue for the year was $113.9 million versus expenses of $92.1 million.
In the city’s business-type activities (user-generated revenue like for the water utility), the city had $310.8 million in assets and deferred outflows the last fiscal year, $119.8 million in liabilities and deferred inflows, and a net position of $191 million.
HintonBurdick found two instances of expenditures over appropriations: the Ambulance Fund by $269,167 and the Workers Compensation Fund by $88,187. They also found a $76,705 deficit in the Workers Compensation Fund “due to an increase in insurance premiums and claim payments.”
The auditor otherwise had no findings related to compliance or internal controls over financial reporting.
“The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) awarded a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting to Carson City for its annual comprehensive financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2023,” wrote Carson City Chief Financial Officer Sheri Russell-Benabou. “The Certificate of Achievement is a prestigious national award recognizing conformance with the highest standards for preparation of state and local government financial reports.”
Russell-Benabou added: “Carson City has received a Certificate of Achievement for the last 34 consecutive years. The finance department believes that our current report continues to conform to the Certificate of Achievement program requirements, and it’s being submitted to GFOA.”
• Supervisors will consider a memorandum of understanding concerning the Lake Tahoe Path System and East Shore Trial, an agreement between the Tahoe Transportation District (TTD), Carson City, and Douglas and Washoe counties.
A similar agreement was reached in 2012 leading to Douglas County’s path from Laura Drive to Nevada Beach and Round Hill Pines and the popular path from Incline Village to Sand Harbor.
Plagued by traffic congestion and safety concerns, the State Route 28 corridor will be transformed with a unified pedestrian and cyclist path and more public transit and parking, planners and participating agencies hope. A section of the corridor lies in Carson City.
The memorandum of understanding states that Carson and Washoe County will authorize TTD to go after grants “to match the approximately $2,000,000 of Conserve Nevada funding for the design and construction of the Thunderbird Cove to Secret Harbor segment.”
The Parks and Recreation Commission, reviewing the item Dec. 3, recommended supervisors enter the agreement. The Open Space Advisory Committee was expected to hear the item on Monday.
At 1:30 p.m. Thursday, supervisors will reconvene in the joint meeting with the Planning Commission focusing on the Master Plan update.
For over a year, Clarion Associates has been working with the city and the public in various meetings and workshops to update the Master Plan first adopted in 2006. Adoption of the update is expected to occur in the coming spring.
“In August, the consultant released a draft of the Master Plan and met with Planning Commission and various stakeholders to obtain input,” according to a staff report. “The Planning Commission held workshops in October and November to review the text of the draft Master Plan. Input from those workshops was provided to the consultant. Utilizing input received, the consultant has updated the draft of the Master Plan. The purpose of this item is for the board and Planning Commission to review the draft and provide input.”
The draft can be found online: https://legistarweb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/pdf/3029212/MasterPlan_CCNV_AdoptionDraft_Dec2024.pdf.