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County leaders stress mandated services, infrastructure scorecard as budget priorities
Summary
Assistant County Manager Dave Solero and staff explained statutory mandates and presented an infrastructure scorecard showing deferred maintenance and asset needs; commissioners discussed trade-offs among mandated services, discretionary programs and workforce implications.
Washoe County leaders used the Feb. 3 budget workshop to separate legally mandated services from discretionary programs and to show a data-driven infrastructure scorecard that tracks roads, stormwater, parks, facilities and sewer assets.
Assistant County Manager Dave Solero said Nevada law contains hundreds of chapters and that roughly 116 impose specific service obligations on county government. "Of those 823, 116 of them actually mandate that Washoe County provide a service," Solero said, explaining that statutes often set timeframes (for example, the assessor must…
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