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Central Nevada Health District board confirms bylaws, reorganizes staff structure and ratifies multiple grants and contracts

Central Nevada Health District Board of Health · January 16, 2026
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At its Jan. 15 meeting the Central Nevada Health District board adopted amended bylaws, approved a new organizational chart and administrator pay scale, authorized a streamlined hiring process, and ratified several grant awards and contracts — including web and dashboard work and security upgrades.

The Central Nevada Health District Board of Health on Jan. 15 approved a series of governance and operational changes and ratified multiple grants and vendor contracts intended to expand services and improve public communications.

Chair Mary Anne Tedford called the meeting to order and the board moved, seconded and voted to approve the agenda and the Nov. 13, 2025 minutes. The board accepted a county appointment to seat Matt Hyde as the Churchill County representative and then voted to confirm Mary Anne Tedford as board chair and Don Whitten as vice chair for 2026.

Shannon Ernst, interim administrator, told the board the amended bylaws standardize board terms to two years and recommended final approval. “Basically, it was a clean up,” Ernst said of the bylaw changes. The board approved the final reading and adopted the amended bylaws.

The board also approved an updated organizational chart that removes the combined administrator/doctor position and…

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