Because of President’s Day Monday, the Carson City Open Space Advisory Committee will take up its business Tuesday.
The meeting starts 5:30 p.m. in the board room of the community center. OSAC members will consider the Open Space budget for fiscal year 2027, which begins July 1, among other items.
Open Space is funded by the Quality-of-Life quarter-cent sales tax passed by voters in 1996. Open Space is allocated 40 percent of the revenue.
“For FY25, the sales tax revenue for the Quality of Life – Open Space fund was $1,698,248,” according to a staff report. “In FY2026, the revenue is anticipated to be approximately $1.7 million. This is a conservative estimate based on an average of the previous three fiscal years.”
Budget worksheets for Tuesday’s meeting show a proposed fiscal year 2027 operating budget of about $1.67 million, with employee salaries and benefits accounting for $1.1 million of that.
OSAC members will also consider a work plan for the next fiscal year. The plan is divided into capital improvement projects, land acquisitions/transactions, management activities and planning activities.
These include ongoing water rights acquisitions at Buzzy’s Ranch; final design and construction bid for the Riverview Trailhead project, which is backed by a $2.3 million SNPLMA grant; and the 20th year of west Carson wildfire fuels reduction using grazing sheep.
OSAC members also will pick their chair and vice chair for the year.
More information: https://granicus_production_attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/carsoncity/d56bce3ba3df9418e984bd296c2753d10.pdf.