County Commissioners Approve 2025-2026 Tentative Budget
Yerington, Nevada – The Lyon County Board of County Commissioners met Wednesday, April 2, 2025, to approve the 2025-2026 tentative budget . Comptroller Josh Foli presented an Executive Summary and an overview of each Department’s budgets to the Board and answered questions from Commissioners on specific budget line items. The motion to approve the tentative budget, including minor revisions, was made by Commissioner Henderson and approved unanimously. The second budget hearing will be scheduled for a Board of County Commission meeting in May.
Total revenues, excluding grants, for the General Fund are projected to increase by 2.3% compared to the current fiscal year.
- Consolidated taxes are projected to increase 0.3% and represent 42.3% of the General Fund revenue.
- Property taxes in the General Fund are projected to increase 7.3% and represent 34.7% of the General Fund revenue.
Budget Highlights
Significant items in budgeting for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 are as follows :
- Salaries and wages are budgeted to increase by 6.2%.
- Position changes (net increase of 2 FTE overall) to include two Instrument Controls Tech positions were added to Lyon County Utilities
Benefit Estimates
- Health insurance rates are estimated to increase by approximately 12.7%.
- Workers’ compensation insurance costs are estimated to increase by 5%.
- Health insurance costs are estimated to increase by 5%
- PERS increases of 3.25% for the Lyon County Employees Association, confidential, and management employees, and an 8.75% increase for sworn employees.
Capital Outlay Requests
General Fund
- Replace pavement at Dayton Juvenile Probation building - $55,000.
- Three replacement trucks for Facilities - $207,000.
- Replacement of County phone system for IT - $140,000.
- Replacement of 2 Storage Attached Network (SAN) devices for IT - $160,000.
- One IT truck replacement - $57,000.
- Two replacement vehicles for the District Attorney’s Office - $60,000.
- Three replacement vehicles for the Sheriff’s Office - $240,000.
Vehicle Acquisition Fund
- Four replacement vehicles for the Sheriff’s Office - $280,000.
Road Improvement Fund
- One replacement loader - $265,000.
- One truck with dump/plow/sander - $130,000.
Medical Indigent Fund
- A portion of the funding towards a Dayton Government Center - $3,500,000.
Senior Services Fund
- Two replacement vehicles for Human Services (match for grants) - $21,463.
Capital Improvement Fund
- Justice Complex Improvements - $3,878,309.
- Fernley Justice Court Expansion (federal grant funding) - $5,260,000.
- Dayton Government Complex (multiple year project) - $25,319,883.
County Utilities
- Grosh/Rose Peak water main replacement, Phase I - $2,230,700.
- Upper Booster Water Tank Generator - $231,386.
- HWY 50 at Dayton Valley Road gravity line replacement - $4,836,000.
- Rolling A Sewer Plant expansion (multiple year project) - $4,000,000.
- Rolling A Sewer Plan rehabilitation - $4,668,6000.
- New and replacement vehicles - $250,000.
Lastly, the Board of County Commissioners adjourned to reconvene as the Mason Valley Mosquito Control District, Central Lyon County Vector Control District, Walker River Weed Control District, Silver Springs General Improvement District, and the Willowcreek General Improvement District Board to approve each District’s tentative budget as separate agenda items.
The complete agenda and back up materials are posted online at www.lyon-county.org/Agendacenter.
For more information, visit our website https://www.lyon-county.org/ and follow our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/LyonCountyNV. Residents can view recordings of previous Board of County Commission meetings on the Lyon County YouTube Channel.