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March 31, 2006
COUNTY COMMISSION PREVIEW Williams' promotion to manager to be finalized
By PHILLIP GOMEZ
The meetings get underway on both days at 8:30 a.m. Monday's meeting is to officially promote Planning Director Ron Williams to be the county's new "assistant county manager." The schedule also calls for ratifying Williams' contract and discussing the creation of up to an additional two county administrative positions. The commissioners will convene in their conference room at 1510 E. Basin Ave in Pahrump. At the same meeting commissioners are scheduled to discuss and act on the appointment of Wiley Jung as interim comptroller and to ratify his contract. The commissioners also plan to discuss and give direction to staff regarding revisions to the job descriptions of both the county manager and the comptroller. The commissioners are then to appoint persons to serve on a selection committee for the recruitment of a permanent county manager and comptroller. Tuesday's meeting has two prominent agenda items, beginning with a presentation at 11 a.m. of the proposed contract with Hogle-Ireland to "hard zone" the Pahrump Valley according to the Pahrump Regional Planning District's master plan. The cost of combined phases of the project is $617,225, to be paid from the sale of excess county land. The other outstanding item is a proposed donation to the town of Pahrump of $300,000 for its fairgrounds project in south Pahrump. Another $250,000 donation is proposed for the purchase of 25-acre-feet of water rights for the barren site. Other items on the agenda include the following: • Approval of the lease of office space in Tonopah and at the Job Connect in Pahrump for the Veterans Affairs service representatives recently appointed by the commissioners. • Appointment of a successor to ex-Comptroller Marie Owens on the senior citizens advisory committee. • Discussion and possible action on the continuing contract with Ann Barron for her work on economic development in the county. • The county's consultant-rich office for oversight of the Yucca Mountain Repository will get richer yet when 17 new scientific consultants come up for approval, plus the augmentation of one long-term consultant's contract by $8,000. The overall increase in costs for professional services comes to $14.68 million, ranging from Cash Jaszczak's small increase of $8,000 to an unknown amount for the University of Texas at El Paso. • The new International Building Codes are up for review with recommendations from the county's building official related to their implementation in the Pahrump Regional Planning District. • Final subdivision maps are scheduled for approval of the Tivoli Subdivision and Paradiso Villas. Respectively, they comprise a 71-residential lot subdivision and a 47-lot subdivision located on the north and south sides of the north loop of the Mountain Falls Parkway. • Amargosa Valley is apparently feeling the development pressures from over the range in Pahrump, the valley now undergoing considerable parcel divisions. Eight parcels comprising 120 acres are proposed for subdivision into 16 five-acre parcels. Tentative and final large parcel maps propose subdividing approximately 240 acres into six 40-acre parcels. Another request is to subdivide nine acres into two four-acre parcels and one 1-acre parcel. A large parcel of 149 acres is proposed for subdivision into one four-acre parcel, one 62-acre parcel and one 83-acre parcel. A 27-acre parcel is proposed for subdivision into 12 one-acre parcels and one 15-acre parcel. Finally, a 47-acre parcel is proposed for subdivision into one 37-acre parcel and two five-acre parcels. In public works, a $19,342 agreement with an engineering consultant is up for approval: The work involves the closure of the old Tonopah and Round Mountain landfills. |
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