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Inyo County presents project‑management office portfolio, seeks board input on revamped legislative platform
Summary
County administrative staff reviewed the new project management office’s project portfolio, funding strategy and a reorganized legislative platform; staff will return with a redline and final platform before the NACo conference and pursue grant opportunities for priority projects.
Inyo County administrative staff presented an update on the county’s newly created project management office (PMO), reviewed a live project portfolio and asked supervisors for feedback on a reorganized 2025 legislative platform ahead of the National Association of Counties (NACo) conference.
County Administrative Officer Nate Greenberg and the PMO team — Deputy CAO Megan McCammon and Operations Analyst Rebecca Graves — told the Board of Supervisors the office was created after the board approved it about a year earlier to help the county coordinate multi‑department and countywide projects and pursue grant funding. Greenberg said the PMO’s role is to connect projects with the strategic plan, improve governance and track progress so the county budgets to a plan rather than reacting to uncoordinated requests.
Rebecca Graves demonstrated the PMO’s live project dashboard. Staff reported the county’s project database includes more than 500 projects: 147 completed; roughly 89 actively being worked on; about 70 approved and funded but waiting for staff allocation; and more than 200 newly requested projects in a parking lot awaiting evaluation. The fiscal‑year budget included 22 deferred‑maintenance projects that public works is prioritizing; staff said additional emergent work has been incorporated into that queue.
The PMO described its funding strategy and partnership with the Ferguson Group (TFG) and CSAC’s grants initiative. The county has reviewed more than 200 grant opportunities, submitted close to 10 grant applications in the last year, and identified additional applications in the pipeline. Jeremiah Van Aken of the Ferguson Group joined remotely to outline federal advocacy and appropriations activity, noting the Lone Pine water infrastructure request submitted for FY 2025 had not been funded but that staff will continue pursuing federal funding and Army Corps opportunities tied to the Whitney Portal authorization.
On the county legislative platform, staff said they reorganized the document to present a short set of externally facing priority platform items in front and move more granular, department‑level positions to the latter half for internal use when crafting comment letters. Staff said the reorganization was intended to make the platform easier to use in meetings with legislators and to produce one‑page policy briefs on top priorities such as Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT), water/wastewater funding and wildland fire funding. Supervisors requested redline and final versions before the Feb. 25 meeting so board members can provide edits; staff said they will distribute a redline and a final version prior to NACo.
Supervisors and staff discussed several specific themes: more granular recognition of ‘‘frontier’’ or isolated communities in federal programs, ensuring opportunity‑zone designations and disadvantaged community definitions favor frontier needs, and separating public‑safety and emergency‑response legislative asks for clarity. The board directed staff to continue refining the platform, provide a redline copy and return Feb. 25 with a final version.
County staff also said they plan to make the project dashboard publicly available via the Inyo County website’s Inyo Insights portal and to provide quarterly PMO updates to the board.
