By Mark Waite

TONOPAH — Nye County commissioners will consider submitting invoices for payment totaling $351,831 for legal fees on claims assigned to the county’s insurance pool, when they meet at 10 a.m. here Tuesday.

The meeting can be viewed by videoconference from the Nye County commission chambers at 2100 Walt Williams Dr. on the Calvada Eye in Pahrump.

The invoices will be subject to review by the district attorney’s office. The money will come out of the $5.4 million balance remaining in fund 492, the capital projects fund from the Payment Equal to Taxes Nye County had received for the Yucca Mountain project.

In other business, commissioners will consider a recommendation to appoint former Pahrump Great Basin College Director Bill Verbeck to the Pahrump Regional Planning Commission to replace Bill Kimball, who was named a part-time ombudsman. Other applicants for the RPC vacancy were Anthony Greco, Jo Ann Cristal and Donna Lee LaDuke. Greco, who was a candidate for a town board position during the last election, is facing criminal charges related to an August 2010 house fire.

Two members are up for appointment to the Beatty town advisory board, the terms of Crystal Taylor and Teresa Sullivan are expiring. Three members will be appointed to the Belmont town advisory board, seven members to the Central Nevada Museum Board and one member to the Nye County Parks and Recreation Board.

Metallic Goldfield Inc. will make a presentation on its project in the Goldfield District in Esmeralda County, in a 10 a.m. timed item.

The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection will make a presentation on the Nye County solid waste minimization and household hazardous waste plan at 10:45 a.m.

BEC Environmental Inc. will make a presentation on the Nye County Renewable Energy Developers Workshop at 10:50 a.m.

Nye County Treasurer Mike Maher will present overdue monthly treasurer reports, which date back to March. Commissioner Joni Eastley threatened to file a complaint in District Court at the last meeting if Maher didn’t provide the treasurers reports through Oct. 31.

Commissioners will decide whether they want any of the 599 properties for public purposes before they go to the April 16, 2012 Nye County tax sale.

A JAVS recording system for the Tonopah courtrooms and the Beatty courtroom is up for approval on the consent agenda, in which a number of items can be approved with one vote. The Jefferson Audio Visual System JAVS is a court recording, presentation and video conference system that is already in use in the Pahrump district and justice courts. The price tag will be $103,790 for the Tonopah district court, $94,347 for the Tonopah justice court and $78,681 for the Beatty justice court, in addition the county will pay a $6,500 per year technical support fee for each courtroom. The installations can be funded from a district court improvement fund.

Another consent agenda item would authorize $26,410 worth of change orders to Wulfenstein Construction Co. for work on the Highway 160 and Homestead Road.

Two $25,000 deductibles are up for payment for medically indigent patient bills under the consent agenda.

Tyler Technologies submitted a $21,635 invoice for the annual web hosting and disaster recovering program.

A $360,790 addition to a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy for services to the Nevada National Security Site is up for approval, at no cost to Nye County.

The county commissioners, sitting as the Nye County Licensing and Liquor Board, will consider issuing a temporary brothel and liquor license to Dennis Hof, for the Area 51/Death Valley Alien Cathouse, formerly the Cherry Patch II on Highway 95 in Lathrop Wells, pending the completion of a full investigation.

Procedures for hooking up utility connections on Nye County construction projects will be up for discussion.

Commissioners will consider a recommendation to lift a restriction on $75,000 allocated for the repair of the roof and kitchen to the Bob Ruud Community Center, the county originally allocated $50,000 for the roof and $25,000 for the kitchen.

A resolution in support of a major expansion of the Duckwater Shoshone tribe reservation in far northeastern Nye County, from 3,850 acres to 235,000 acres, is up for approval.

Commissioners will consider issuing plaques to athletic directors of Nye County schools, recognizing the achievements of their athletic programs.

A contract for the publishing of the 2012 tax roll will be up for consideration, the Pahrump Valley Times submitted bids of $8,528 and $18,660 depending on whether the county sends out the list by direct mail or inserts it into the newspaper.

A $25,500 bid from AADS Office Solutions of Phoenix, Ariz. for a mobile shelving storage system is up for approval.

A $118,980 bid for janitor services from Legacy Environmental Concepts will be considered.

A sole bid of $99,999 from Ben F. Dotson Construction of Fallon for phase II of the Tonopah Main Street sidewalk project is up for approval, it will be funded out of the county roads budget.

A $251,026 bid from Floyd’s Construction for a well building at the Amargosa Valley Science and Technology Park is up for approval.

Beatty Graphics submitted a $12,249 proposal to convert Nye County History Project documents to an electronic format.

A request for qualifications on providing environmental services for the Brownfields Coalition Assessment Grant is on the agenda, the cost at this time is unknown, according to the county backup information.

Public comments on the applications for the Community Development Block Grant program will be heard. Commissioners Nov. 1 voted to request $100,000 to reline a water storage tank in Gabbs and $50,000 to train volunteers for the Court Appointed Special Advocate CASA program.

Commissioners will consider whether to hire a district court supervising and administrative legal secretary in the Pahrump district court, which will cost $72,075.

A public hearing will be set on a list of improved roads and streets maintained by Nye County this year.