Primary Election 2022: Carson City Supervisor Ward 3 (nonpartisan)

Applicant Margaret Mello didn’t reply to several e-mail or a letter despatched to her mailing deal with.

Curtis Horton
Occupation: Retired
Age: 61
Make contact with information: www.electcurtishorton.com  [email protected] www.fb.com/electcurtishorton

Education and learning: Carson City Higher School.

Briefly describe the core duties of the placement you are operating for
The Board of Supervisors is the community’s determination makers. The Board enacts laws and are the crucial political policymakers. Supervisors are dependable for soliciting citizen views in forming insurance policies and decoding them to the general public. They approve budgets, identify tax premiums, prioritize major tasks, capital funding, and execute strategic setting up.

A short assertion about your platform
My platform is easy I want to be certain that Carson Town is a risk-free and perfectly-served local community exactly where men and women want to increase their families, do company and enjoy all of the things our town has to give.
To have this sort of ecosystem, we will need to maintain our infrastructure, assist general public basic safety, and encourage a pleasant company natural environment. We must manage and increase our out of doors parks and services, maintain the gateways to the city inviting, and preserve our metropolis clear so individuals want to go to our city. To carry out this, we want to take care of the budget very well, seek funding options at the Federal and State degree, and make sound monetary choices. Eventually, we have to keep efficiency in all of our functions. These things will enable make Carson City a good area to dwell.

What will make you the most competent prospect for this position?
My numerous a long time of expertise operating for Carson Town, serving my local community as a respected leader, and solving difficulties substantial and tiny on a day-to-day foundation. I know how to react to emergencies, and establish remedies in crucial situations. I have regularly been challenged with earning tricky choices, which I am comfy undertaking.
In my situation, I was privileged enough to have assisted and labored with each section in the city, some additional frequently than others. This has permitted me to understand the operational wants and worries in finishing jobs. In addition, I have worked with outside the house companies, sharing my knowledge and expertise, and helping to build regional relationships.  
Around the a long time, I have developed packages, policies, and methods to boost functions and enrich our skill to deliver a better excellent of support to the group. I have assisted numerous other inside and exterior departments and organizations in accomplishing the similar.
I have worked with our inhabitants and dealt with just about every complaint and concern imaginable throughout the total city. Doing work with people in the neighborhood who are in tricky circumstances has offered me a special perspective of their desires and concerns. I truly listen to persons, I want to fully grasp their difficulties, and as we all know, some difficulties do not have easy options. Having said that, working with those people complicated troubles and creating hard choices has assisted make me a potent chief.

James ‘Jim’ Wells
Profession: Retired
Age: 54
Get hold of: E-mail: [email protected]
Internet site: www.Wells4Ward3.com

I begun doing work for the Condition of Nevada in 1992 and held a number of management positions, together with: Chief Deputy Point out Controller (2001-2002) Main Fiscal Officer, Community Employees’ Added benefits Plan (2003-2006) Deputy Superintendent for Administrative and Fiscal Companies, Nevada Section of Schooling (2006-2010) Government Officer, General public Employees’ Gains Plan (2010-2015) Director of Administration/Finance and Condition Finances Director (2015-2018)
I retired from the Point out of Nevada in 2018. I also held the Accounting Supervisor position for the Town of Roanoke, Virginia (2002-2003).
I have also served on numerous non-revenue boards and committees, which includes:
Nevada Committee on Area Govt Finance (2006-2010)
Affiliation of Govt Accountants: Northern Nevada Chapter President (2008-2010) Regional Vice-President (2011-2012) Northern Nevada Chapter Treasurer (2012-2013)
Governmental Accounting Expectations Advisory Council (2016-2018)
Nevada Point out Prison Preservation Society – President (2020-2022)
Nevada Commission for the Reconstruction of the V&T Railway (2021 – current)
Carson Town Audit Committee (2021- present)
Carson Metropolis Board of Equalization (2021 – present)

Schooling:
Valedictorian, Carson Higher University, 1985
College of Nevada, Reno – Bachelor of Science in Enterprise Administration and Accounting, 1989

Briefly describe the main responsibilities of the place you are running for.
The Mayor and Board of Supervisors are dependable for the legislative and government functions of the City, and for appointing a Metropolis Manager who is responsible for each day operations. Board duties contain, keeping the municipal code by passing ordinances, approving the funds, and environment the City’s eyesight, targets and priorities.

A brief statement about your platform
Inhabitants deserve a responsive authorities that is conservative in spending community methods, transparent in conducting its company and accountable for conclusions manufactured on the people’s behalf.
As a former Condition Price range Director, I realize the great importance of conservative budgeting ideas as effectively as obtaining a ample Rainy Day Fund to weather conditions the future economic downturn.
Aligning with the not long ago adopted five-year strategic plan, I would like to see the Board:

• • Evaluate and, if necessary, update the City’s master approach to assure it conforms to what residents want their Metropolis to glimpse like.
• • Put into practice a extensive asset administration system to be certain there are ample methods to preserve City property, together with roads, h2o and sewer techniques, and recreational belongings.
• • Make sure the Town maintains its crisis preparedness and addresses development needed for City Law enforcement and Fireplace departments to retain sufficient assistance degrees, as effectively as making certain information and facts engineering units and individual knowledge are risk-free and protected from cyber protection attacks.
• • Look for opportunities to give citizens effortless to have an understanding of info relevant to Metropolis operations and funds.
• • Boost financial development by preserving a basic, good and secure regulatory natural environment that is beautiful to each new and present businesses.

What helps make you the most certified prospect for this position?
I have around 30 many years of governing administration finance and operations practical experience. My management and federal government finance history supply me with a distinctive perception into how governing administration will work, and I will deliver that practical experience and point of view to the Carson Town Board of Supervisors.
I have knowledge building and employing govt strategic plans alongside with measurable plans and performance goals to assure government is performing the suitable points. Measuring effectiveness is an important element of a sturdy strategic strategy. Only when a govt steps its performance does it know where to implement minimal resources to get the very best return.
I have a observe record of determining and utilizing process efficiencies to lower operational expenses and remove duplication.
In the course of my career, I challenged departments to make government more effective and effective by tasking them with answering the subsequent:
What routines does your section conduct that you would prevent executing if you could?
How would you reprioritize people sources to do one thing you must be but are not?
What new initiatives would you suggest? What final results would they realize? How would results be measured?
What reduced-charge or no-price coverage or operational strategies would you suggest?
These are the sorts of queries a authorities need to check with as it tries to allocate its limited means.
My objective is to perform with the other Supervisors and staff members to keep Carson Metropolis transferring ahead. Keeping the local community knowledgeable about matters that have an impact on their wallet and good quality of lifetime is a precedence for me. I feel the major function of a supervisor is to evaluate the data, question crucial questions and make audio decisions that gain our local community.