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Nye County Water District board approves tentative FY2026 budget, 6-0
Summary
The board accepted the tentative FY2026 budget and directed staff to incorporate requested corrections and clarifications into the final budget, scheduling a final hearing for May 27.
The Nye County Water District Governing Board voted unanimously April 10 to accept the tentative fiscal year 2026 budget, with direction to staff to incorporate several corrections and clarifications before adoption at a final public hearing scheduled for May 27.
Nye County Comptroller Helen Bey presented the tentative budget and explained that the document to be submitted to the Nevada Department of Taxation is a preliminary filing and that the board may amend figures in the final budget. Bey said the district’s primary revenue source is the parcel assessment ($5 per parcel) and that tax-office parcel-count guidance projected only a slight decrease for the coming year. The tentative budget shows projected expenditures near $600,000 and an estimated ending fund balance of approximately $766,010 to carry into FY2026.
Board members raised questions about the draft in several areas: budget year labels and headers that misidentify fiscal years, the full-time equivalent (FTE) allocation shown for an in-house geoscientist (John Klinky), the inclusion of a Bureau of Reclamation/DES-funded groundwater modeling grant (and associated in-kind match), and line-item detail for service and supply vendors. Comptroller Bey said that schedule detail for service and supplies is available and can be added as a supplemental schedule, and that grants that come in after adoption can be spent under special rules without budget augmentation, although matches should be shown in the tentative budget.
Board members asked staff to correct headings showing incorrect fiscal years, adjust FTE and salary estimates to reflect realistic time accounting for Mr. Klinky, include the anticipated Bureau of Reclamation grant match where applicable, and make the fund-balance column headings clearer. The board also discussed capital outlay and the possible need to show a capital outlay line for an anticipated drone purchase should its unit cost exceed the county’s capital threshold.
A motion to accept the tentative FY2026 budget as presented, with direction that the changes discussed be incorporated into the final budget, passed unanimously (6-0). The board will review the final budget at its May 27 meeting in Pahrump.
