BEATTY -- Teresa Sullivan will retain her seat on the Beatty Town Advisory Board, and Erika Gerling will fill the seat occupied by Mike Lasorsa.

Sullivan with 71 votes, and Gerling with 68, won out over Kelly Carroll (62 votes) and Gary Reid (14) in the informal election held at the board's Nov. 11 meeting. Jan Cameron, from Amargosa Valley, supervised the election process. The names of the winners were forwarded to the county commission for appointment.

Sullivan, wife of Justice of the Peace Gus Sullivan, has been a Beatty resident since 1986. A former drug and alcohol counselor, she is currently the counselor at Beatty High School. She said she loves Beatty and its lifestyle and sees the need to balance progress with maintaining that lifestyle.

"Past generations have put their heart and soul into this community, and it is our time to step up," said Sullivan.

Gerling, a 28-year Beatty resident has served in a number of volunteer organizations and agencies in town, including youth athletics and Little League. "I'd like to see whatever unfinished projects we have get finished," she said, and she also would like to see more collaboration and communication between different groups in the community and the citizens.

Carroll, who ran a close third, is a captain in the volunteer fire department, and has served with that organization for 12 of his 17 years in Beatty. He has also been active with the youth in Boys Scouts, school sports, and Little League.

Reid, who said he has lived in Beatty for about 10 years, admitted he hadn't done much but said, "I have a vision -- actually several visions. And as you can see (apparently referring to his long hair), I'm different."

Sullivan made the board aware of a 60-by-60-foot modular medical building that was available from Chino, Calif., for $133,615 plus shipping. It would also need new flooring and baseboards. She said she had put the item on the agenda simply to open it up for dialogue.

Bert Bertram said, based on his past experience with such structures, he was not impressed with the building from looking at pictures of it. He said you couldn't expect the building, originally built in 2000 and renovated in 2005, to be usable for more than 20 years.

He added that he recognized the air conditioning units and they "would eat you alive."

Lasorsa said transporting the modular building from Chino would be expensive, on top of the cost of set-up and preparation.

Bertram suggested the first question would be whether the town wants to stay with the clinic owned and maintained by the Beatty Health and Welfare Committee or replace it with one owned by the county.

The board agreed to look further into the matter.

The board strayed from the agenda item into a discussion of the lack of emergency primary care at the clinic, with Lasorsa noting the "pain and suffering" involved in transporting emergency patients by ambulance to Pahrump.

"These EMTs are great," said Lasorsa, "but they need a clinic -- they need help. They need a clinic they can take people to."

Bertram said he had researched Nevada Revised Statutes and there is provision for rural emergency clinics when a hospital is at least 30 miles away. The nearest hospital to Beatty, Desert View in Pahrump, is 75 miles.

Sullivan said this was one of the issues that was to be discussed in a meeting, which was recently canceled, with Nevada Health Centers.

The board also approved the expenditure of up to $400 for refreshments for a ceremony at its Dec. 9 meeting to seal the time capsule in the cornerstone of the Community Center (actually a free-standing boulder with a plaque).