Legislative subcommittee approves Department of Administration budget closings, authorizes new positions and technical adjustments

A Nevada Legislature subcommittee closed multiple Department of Administration budget accounts on unanimous votes Monday, approving reserve reductions and administrative charges to fund new positions, converting intermittent positions to permanent status and accepting technical budget adjustments.

The Subcommittee on the Department of Administration accepted fiscal staff recommendations to close several accounts and specific decision units, including approval of administrative charges and reserve reductions to fund new accountant, administrative assistant, fleet, and human-resources positions; adoption of a budget amendment to replace a proposed management analyst position with consulting funds; and several technical adjustments to align revenue and reserves.

The approvals came after staff presentations by Damien Meeks of the Legislative Counsel Bureau—s Fiscal Analysis Division. Meeks detailed each recommended closing and technical adjustment, noting examples such as a governor-recommended $181,503 in administrative charges over the 2025–27 biennium for a new supervisory accountant technician in the Administrative Services Division, and a budget amendment (A255211371) that eliminates a recommended management analyst position and adds contract expenditures for internal service fund rate consulting instead.

Subcommittee members moved and seconded each closing in sequence; Chair Neal made most of the motions and Vice Chair Bacchus seconded. For each item presented, the committee voted "aye" and the chair stated the motions were adopted by those present.

Key approvals and technical decisions at a glance:

- Administrative Services Division: Approved the governor—s recommendation of administrative charges totaling $181,503 over the 2025–27 biennium to fund one new supervisory accountant technician position to assist with increased account volume and oversight (motion made by Chair Neal, seconded by Vice Chair Bacchus; adopted).

- Administrative Services (rate consulting amendment): Approved budget amendment A255211371, which eliminates the governor—s recommended management analyst position (decision unit E332, $208,956) and adds decision unit E335 with $191,090 over the 2025–27 biennium to fund contract expenditures for internal service fund rate consulting (motion made by Chair Neal, seconded by Vice Chair Bacchus; adopted).

- Administrative Services: Approved two new administrative assistant positions with administrative charges of $303,942 over the 2025–27 biennium to address payroll and personnel workload (motion made by Chair Neal, seconded by Vice Chair Bacchus; adopted).

- Fleet Services Division (Carson City): Approved reserve reductions of $152,658 over the 2025–27 biennium to fund one new fleet specialist (grade 31) and related costs for Carson City (motion made by Chair Neal, seconded by Vice Chair Bacchus; adopted).

- Fleet Services Division (Las Vegas): Approved reserve reductions of $121,898 over the 2025–27 biennium to fund one new fleet service worker (grade 23) and related costs for Las Vegas (motion made by Chair Neal, seconded by Vice Chair Bacchus; adopted).

- Agency HR Services (conversion): Approved reserve reductions of $528,736 over the 2025–27 biennium to convert three intermittent positions (two personnel technician positions and one personnel analyst position) to full‑time permanent positions, citing retention and continuity concerns after the Smart 21/CoreNB projects (motion made by Chair Neal, seconded by Vice Chair Bacchus; adopted).

- Human Resource Management budget: Approved multiple items including a new training officer (reserve reductions totaling $180,946), two new accountant technician positions (reserve reductions totaling $304,012), conversion of three intermittent positions to full-time (reserve reductions totaling $602,887), and the transfer of three Equal Employment Opportunity officer positions from other agencies into the Division of Human Resource Management (reserve reductions totaling $770,438). Each of these recommendations was presented by fiscal staff and adopted by the subcommittee (motions made by Chair Neal or as stated by staff; seconded by Vice Chair Bacchus; adopted).

- Closing of additional Department of Administration accounts: Fiscal staff recommended, and the subcommittee adopted, closing recommendations and technical adjustments for the Deferred Compensation Committee, Fleet Services Capital Purchase account, Unemployment Compensation account (including an updated assessment revenue projection), and the Insurance and Loss Prevention account (including revenue projection updates that increased net revenue by roughly $4.3 million across the biennium). A consolidated motion closing the remaining staff-developed budgets and technical adjustments was made and adopted unanimously.

Questions from committee members focused on implementation details rather than policy direction. During discussion of the Human Resource Management items, a committee member asked whether the state would be able to complete the agency—s system transition by July 1, 2025. Joy Groomer, a department representative, said, "At this time that is the plan," referring to implementing the Advantage 2-to-Advantage 4/CoreNB transition on the July 1 schedule. Later, when a member asked whether Equal Employment Opportunity complaints are referred to the federal EEOC, Kimberly Smith, EO administrator, replied, "Yes, ma'am, we handle that in house, Senator Neal." Those statements were made during the HR budget discussion and recorded in the hearing.

The subcommittee did not take any separate policy votes beyond the budget closings and technical adjustments. Several items were noted as "other closing items" and were closed as recommended by the governor with staff-approved technical adjustments to align revenue and reserves. The motions were consistently presented as "as stated by staff," seconded, and adopted "by those present." The committee did not record a roll-call vote for each motion in the transcript provided.

The subcommittee concluded its budget work and moved to public comment, where no callers or speakers were present. The meeting was then adjourned.

Ending: The matters recorded in this session reflect the subcommittee—s budget-closing actions and staff recommendations; no implementation milestones or follow-up reports were specified in the transcript beyond the technical adjustment authority requested for fiscal staff to make additional corrections as necessary.