Appointments, Brown Street plan go to supervisors

Three rounds of committee and agency appointments are scheduled for the Carson City Board of Supervisors meeting Thursday, which begins at 8:30 a.m. in the community center.

First up are two potential appointments to the city’s 911 Surcharge Advisory Committee, which oversees funding for the city’s emergency telephone system.

“The committee is a body that must have at least five members but no more than seven,” reads a staff report. “There are currently two general membership vacancies, one of which must be filled and one of which can be filled. Denise Bauer has requested a reappointment. A new application was submitted by Yvonne Battaglia.”

Both positions would be for two-year terms.

“I have been on the 911 Surcharge Advisory Committee since December 2013, and I am currently the co-chair,” Bauer wrote in her application. “I am a Public Safety Communications Supervisor with Carson City Dispatch with 20 years of experience as a dispatcher with 16 of those years as a supervisor. I use the 911 systems on a daily basis, and I’m able to give feedback to the committee as an actual user including any issues we are having with the equipment.”

In applying, Battaglia also pointed to work and life experience.

“I would like to serve on this board because I can offer expertise on emergency healthcare due to my nursing experience,” Battaglia wrote. “I am a newly retired nurse who used to work in an ICU and float ER position as an RN. I am seeking a way to serve my community as well.”

Second up for supervisors are two appointments to the city’s Audit Committee, which oversees the city’s audit processes and financial reporting.

“Carson City Municipal Code 2.14.030 provides for a five-member Audit Committee, comprised of one member from the Board of Supervisors and four members from the public as citizens-at-large,” reads a staff report. “There are two citizen-at-large vacancies due to expiration of terms. Bonnie Duke is seeking reappointment. New applications were submitted by Roylen Stack, Curtis Lannen and Christopher Wahle.”

Both positions would be for two-year terms.

Duke was an audit supervisor for the Nevada Department of Taxation before retiring, according to her application. She was also the finance director of the City of Fernley as well manager of Lander County.

Stack and Lannen have backgrounds in accounting, and Wahle has a background in law enforcement, according to their respective applications.

The last appointment supervisors will make is for an alternate member to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. The westernmost section of Carson City lies in the Tahoe Basin.

“In January 2023, the Carson City Board of Supervisors appointed Shelly Aldean to the Governing Board of the TRPA for a two-year term ending on Dec. 31, 2024,” reads a staff report. “This agenda item is to appoint an alternate member to the Governing Board in the event that Ms. Aldean is not available to attend a meeting. While the appointment of an alternate is not specifically addressed in the TRPA Bi-State Compact, the executive director of TRPA has informed Carson City that an alternate can be appointed to the Governing Board by official action of the Board of Supervisors.”

The report says Aldean will not be able to attend the Dec. 13 TRPA meeting, but that the board may select a supervisor to go as an alternate.

In other action, supervisors will consider a Master Plan amendment that would eliminate the roughly 14-acre Brown Street Specific Plan Area located along Brown Street and North Edmonds Drive.

“Through the annual review of the Master Plan, the board and staff have identified the Brown Street SPA as appropriate for consideration of modification or elimination,” reads a staff report. “At the planning commission meeting of Oct. 25, 2023, the commission adopted a resolution approving the Master Plan amendment and recommended approval of the amendment to the board.”

The vote at the planning commission was unanimous. The Brown Street Specific Plan was adopted in 2005. At the planning commission hearing, staff, commissioners and members of the public agreed the plan was unnecessary.