January 6 2025 meeting

  • Item 29 – to raise property tax and other fees for trash landfill

This is a new tax on property due to a shortage in the garbage/landfill fund.

VOTES:

DID NOT PASS/Vote to Postpone to February 4 2025 meeting

Bayne PRESENT/NO
Boskovich YES
Jabbour YES
Koenig YES
Strickland YES

  • Item 20 – to appoint a substitute Justice of the Peace; between 3 candidates: Judge Mike Foley, Eric Murphy, Phillip Bovee

VOTES: (there are 2 votes)

FIRST VOTE: FAILED – to appoint ERIC MURPHY

Bayne NO
Boskovich NO
Jabbour YES
Koenig NO
Strickland YES

SECOND VOTE: PASSED – to appoint JUDGE FOLEY

Bayne YES
Boskovich YES
Jabbour YES
Koenig YES
Strickland YES

January 22 2025 meeting

  • Item 12 – Regarding suspension of the liquor license for Sander’s Winery (already suspended)

VOTES: (there are 2 votes)

FIRST VOTE: FAILED – to reinstate Sander’s Winery liquor license

Bayne NO
Boskovich NO
Jabbour YES
Koenig YES
Strickland NO

SECOND VOTE: PASSED – to continue suspension of liquor license

Bayne YES
Boskovich YES
Jabbour YES
Koenig YES
Strickland YES

  • Item 32 – funding for a program that would place social workers in police cars, and encourage law enforcement to take a “treatment” approach to criminals (“FASTT/MOST” program)

VOTES:

DID NOT PASS/VOTED TO REHEAR THE ITEM AT THE SECOND FEBRUARY 2025 MEETING

Bayne PRESENT/NO
Boskovich YES
Jabbour YES
Koenig YES
Strickland YES

February 4 2025 meeting

  • Item 11 – to raise property tax and other fees for trash landfill

VOTES:

PASSED

Bayne NO
Boskovich NO
Jabbour YES
Koenig YES
Strickland YES

  • Item 8 – Accountability in Government Initiative

THIS IS PROPOSED BY COMMISSIONER BAYNE

This would change Rules of the Board to prevent unelected government staff from placing tax hikes and other items on the agenda without commissioner approval 

VOTES:

THIS ITEM FAILED TO REACH A VOTE FOR PASSAGE DUE TO LACK OF SUPPORT

CLICK HERE to watch my personal video statement on both Item 8 and Item 11

March 4 2025 meeting

  • Item 12 – “Renew” Statement that Nye County is not a sanctuary county

PASSED 5-0

VOTES:

Bayne YES
Boskovich YES
Jabbour YES
Koenig YES
Strickland YES

February 19 2025 meeting

  • Item 14 – Renew contract with Dominion Voting machines for Election Day operations

The company at the center of controversy during the 2020 election just received an 8 year contract from the majority of the Nye County commissioners. Nye County will have elections administered by Dominion, and has for at least the past year.

PASSED 3-2

VOTES:

Bayne NO
Boskovich NO
Jabbour YES
Koenig YES
Strickland YES

  • Item 17 – Approve design plan for Civic Center

The Fairgrounds is a large area of land proposed for down Rt 160 by the racetrack. The Board voted to pass the project prior to my term beginning.

Wednesday there was a vote to approve a specific design for a “Civic Center” that will be built on this land.

One of my objections to building this area was the ability of homeless to camp on the site. Since the Grants Pass U.S. Supreme Court ruling from last year decided that local communities can ban overnight camping, the likelihood of the Fairgrounds project to become a homeless camping center can be stopped if we can pass an overnight camping ban.

I did not cast a vote on this plan because the Civic Center was not my project, I didn’t vote for it, and it made no sense for me to weigh in a project I never wanted.

VOTES:

PASSED 3-1

Bayne (did not vote)/NO
Boskovich YES
Jabbour YES
Koenig NO
Strickland YES

  • Item 18 – Funding for anti-ICE police program (Sanctuary County program)

Funding for a program called FASTT/MOST. This program is intended to divert criminals away from law enforcement and into the care of social workers.

My objection is that this creates a de facto Sanctuary County out of Nye County in the very likely event that illegal aliens are “diverted” away from custody of the sheriff’s office and into those who run this program. 

I directly questioned the person who manages the program and he told me that he has never reported an illegal alien and would have to defer to whomever is his supervisor should he be faced with the problem of knowing one of the criminals he has diverted away from police came into his care.

Every criminal arrested by Nye County sheriff deputies is checked with ICE. Any criminal diverted away under FASTT/MOST will not be reported to ICE.

VOTES:

PASSED 3-2

Bayne NO
Boskovich YES
Jabbour NO
Koenig YES
Strickland YES

April 8 2025 meeting

  • Item 16 – Rename the proposed Pandemic Refuge Center

Failed on motion by Commissioner Strickland

(I argued against passage)

April 15 2025 meeting

  • Item 10 – Creation of a new marijuana license

VOTES:

PASSED 4-1

Bayne NO
Boskovich YES
Jabbour YES
Koenig YES
Strickland YES

  • Item 12 – Make Pahrump Parks & Shopping Centers Safe Initiative (Hire security to patrol parks and stop homeless crime)

THIS IS PROPOSED BY COMMISSIONER BAYNE

This would allow the county to hire security to patrol homeless areas and protect the public from homeless and other crimes in public areas, parks.

VOTES:

DID NOT PASS

Bayne YES
Boskovich YES
Jabbour NO
Koenig NO
Strickland NO

CLICK HERE to watch my personal video statement on Item 12

  • Item 13 – Revoke Liquor License for Sanders Winery

VOTES:

PASSED 4-2

Bayne YES
Boskovich YES
Jabbour NO
Koenig NO
Strickland YES

  • Item 20 – Create County Employee Out of Funds that Will Run Out

This is to make a contract position funded by grants instead assigning responsibility to Nye County taxpayers for an employee to seek out what is typically liberal social welfare federal money that usually attracts homeless and the mentally ill from Las Vegas and California.

VOTES:

PASSED 4-1

Bayne NO
Boskovich YES
Jabbour YES
Koenig YES
Strickland YES

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