Supervisors Meeting notes, Thursday, July 16

City Supervisors:
* Fined the liquor license holder of the Silver Dollar Casino at Fairview near Highway 50E $500 for his establishment being caught selling alcohol to a minor during a Sheriff’s Alcohol Sting Operation, the second instance within a six month period. The license holder’s alcohol servers will also have to undergo Sheriff’s Office training on how to serve alcohol and not have it fall into the hands of those under the age of 21.
* Agreed to re-examine the way the Board of Supervisors handles alcohol-to-minors violations. The point was raised that trying to watch-dog all alcohol servers 24/7 is an impossible job for most liquor license holders so some sort of built-in leniency might be in order. Under a proposal that will get reviewed over the next month is one that requires the first two violations go to the Board of Supervisors. The third could go to a hearings officer with tough fines. Same with a fourth with the possibility of a cancellation or suspension of the liquor license in addition of an even tougher fine.

* Approved a plan to import water the city owns from Douglas County via a pipeline system from Minden, routed through Carson City, to western Lyon County. Cost of the first section is around $6 million which would necessitate a water rate increase on Carson City water customers within a few years. The pipeline would channel high quality drinking water to Carson City which would then dilute down some of Carson’s uranium and arsenic contaminated water sources that otherwise would have to undergo very expensive treatment.
* Approved providing the Boys and Girls Club with $120,000 in maintenance funds as outlined in the 1996 Quality of Life initiative whose voters pamphlet indicated that part of the raised sales tax rate would produce funds for the Boys and Girls Club maintenance activities. Supervisor Molly Walt voted against the allocation saying the Boys and Girls Club has no legal right to those funds, since the Question 18 ballot language didn’t mention the Boys and Girls Club provision. She also said there are other city needs not being met that the money would be better spent on. But four other Supervisors voted for it, saying it was always understood that because the Boys and Girls Club provides child services for thousands of kids in the community, the city has an obligation to help the club, since to not do so would put a huge additional burden on city resources if it had to provide those services itself.
* Selected Holiday Inn Express owner Malkiat Dhami to fill a vacancy on the city’s Planning Commission. Also approved, for another term, current Planning Commissioner Bill Vance.