Nye County commissioners will consider paying up to $25,000 to hire attorney Bonnie Drinkwater to investigate harrassment complaints against county staff and elected officials.

The commissioners will meet at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Bob Ruud Community Center.

On another item, commissioners will debate whether to enter into a $30,500 contract to connect water and sewer lines at the proposed Calvada Eye administration building with Utilities Inc. of Central Nevada -- which would require the purchase of 42-acre feet of water rights at $208,000 -- or have the county drill its own well and sewer for the property at cost of up to $385,291. The county expects to pay $10,000 annually in water and sewer fees to connect to Utilities Inc.

Utilities Inc. Chief Operating Officer Lisa Sparrow said her company would file a protest with the appropriate agencies if Nye County chose not to hook up to their system. She said it would be up to the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection to decide whether the county would be granted an exception to the rules as a governmental entity, requiring customers to hook up to the utility serving that area.

A report on the privatization of the county planning department, using research from other counties in the West, will be presented during the 11 a.m. planning agenda. At a previous meeting Commissioner Butch Borasky suggested Nye County look into privatizing its planning department.

Commissioners will also consider firms submitting proposals for engineering services for the Nye County Public Works Department.

A resolution supporting the establishment of a National Center for Nuclear Security at the Nevada Test Site is up for approval.

The planning agenda also includes a Pahrump Regional Planning Commission recommendation to approve a master plan amendment and zoning change for 10 parcels totaling almost 31 acres surrounding the former Willow Creek golf course.

The alteration would change them from the golf course land use zone to multi-family and medium density residential.

An airport overlay zone surrounding the Calvada Meadows Aeropark and a related item to rezone 39.5 acres on Jenny Circle to a business park/light industrial land use, is on the planning agenda.

Nevada Health Centers Inc. has a request to modify their contract, allowing them to operate the Beatty and Amargosa Valley clinics 40 hours per week, instead of five days per week, eight hours per day, which will be heard during a 10:45 a.m. timed item.

The consent agenda -- which includees numerous items seen as non-controversial that can be approved with one motion -- includes consideration of four grants totaling $208,000 for technical support to conduct investigations under a Nye County groundwater evaluation grant.

A $1,680 annual contract with Lexis Nexis to conduct case searches for the Beatty Justice Court is under consideration.

Another consent agenda item would amend a U.S. Department of Energy renewable energy grant to study the exporting of energy instead of mapping out Beatty for wind potential and a green landfill feasibility study.

Still another consent agenda item would be a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management establishing Nye County as a cooperating agency in the National Environmental Policy Act process for all renewable energy projects on BLM land in Nye County.

An Internet-based company, PropertyRoom.com, would be hired to hold auctions for property cleared for disposal from the sheriff's department evidence room if another agenda item is approved.

A joint workshop with the Nye County Water Board will be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday to define the role of the board, staffing, possible revenue, county water rights, acquiring utility systems, community drinking water quality and the implementation of well head protection plans for other areas of the county.