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Nye County begins FY2025 budget workshop, aims to rebuild reserves and trim costs
Summary
Comptroller Helen Bay led a tentative FY2025 budget workshop emphasizing conservative revenue assumptions, a target reserve equal to the greater of $5.8 million or 16.67% of operating expenditures, and personnel choices as the main lever; the board tested a live budgeting workbook and heard many departmental personnel requests.
Nye County commissioners spent the bulk of their April 30 meeting in a live FY2025 tentative budget workshop focused on rebuilding the general fund reserve and modeling personnel tradeoffs.
Comptroller Helen Bay told the board that the FY25 budgeting objective is to "get that reserve back up" to the policy target: the greater of $5.8 million or 16.67% of operating expenditures (two months of operating reserves). Bay said staff will use Department of Taxation projections for property and consolidated (sales) tax revenues and will model conservatively to avoid repeating FY23 revenue shortfalls.
Why it matters: the general fund covers core county services and interfund transfers (including jail support). Bay showed a live budgeting workbook that lets commissioners toggle department requests, reclassifications and cost‑sharing allocations with the Town of Pahrump. The workbook demonstrated how…
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