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Board approves $50,000 stipend for public administrator and directs code change to raise hourly extraordinary-services rate
Summary
The board approved increasing the public-administrator stipend to $50,000 (with a separate $15,000 mortuary allocation) and directed staff to pursue a code amendment to change the extraordinary-services hourly rate from $70 to $90 under NRS provisions; two commissioners abstained from votes that involved a relative.
Churchill County commissioners approved an increase in the annual stipend for the public administrator from $40,000 to $50,000 and instructed staff to pursue a code change to raise the public-administrator extraordinary‑services hourly rate to $90.
Bob Ghetto, the public administrator, told the board the additional $10,000 would be used to cover the labor and administrative costs associated with managing unclaimed or complicated estate matters. "The change where we're at currently is $40,000 per year and we move…
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