Churchill County commissioners file tentative 2025–26 budget after cutting health stipend, approving four reclassifications

Churchill County commissioners voted to file a tentative fiscal-year 2025–26 budget with the Nevada Department of Taxation after directing the comptroller to remove a proposed health-insurance stipend and to approve several personnel reclassifications.

Comptroller Sherry Wiedemann said the tentative budget includes a 2% cost-of-living adjustment, an item for a health-insurance stipend for elected and appointed department heads and a set of personnel and capital-outlay adjustments the board discussed. "We put in a 2% COLA. We added in the health insurance stipend for elected appointed department head increase. And we removed personnel," Wiedemann said while walking commissioners through the revenue and expenditure worksheets.

The board approved a motion on voice vote to file the tentative budget with the Department of Taxation after directing specific changes. The motion, moved by a commissioner and seconded on the record during the meeting, instructs the comptroller to (1) remove the health-insurance stipend from the tentative budget; (2) reclassify an election technician in the Clerk-Treasurer's office (listed in materials as a Clerk reclassification); (3) reclassify a position in the Recorder's office; and (4) reclassify two captain positions in the Sheriff's Office. The motion…