City Council Introduces Bill to Annex CC Communications Property

This week, the City Council introduced Bill No. 786: An ordinance providing for the annexation of 6.05 acres located at 879, 899, and 901 South Maine Street, owned by Churchill County, Nevada and contiguous to the corporate limits of the City of Fallon, Nevada. The agenda item this week was used to simply introduce the bill to the council.   
The bill will annex Churchill County Communications (CC Communications) property and structures to all be in city limits. This will help CC Communications to have all of their property be served by City utilities. Legal and Administrative Director Erquiaga said that the county was on board with the draft of the ordinance of annexation as well and was working with CC Communications and the city through the process.  
Now that the bill was introduced, a public hearing for the bill will be February 1, 2021. While the council took no other action on the bill during this meeting, the public hearing will allow for community members to give comment, and for the council to possibly adopt the ordinance.  
A city resident, Geof Knell, approached the council members during public comment, when you may not discuss any agenda items. He said he was upset he could not speak about the bill today. However, Mayor Tedford, and Councilwoman Kent reiterated that he would be allowed to give comments about the bill during the public hearing on February 1st but could not mention it during the two agenda items set aside for public comment, due to Roberts Rules and Nevada Open Meeting Law. Mayor Tedford also mentioned that he asked the council or those in attendance if they had anything to say about the bill during its assigned agenda item. It is to be noted that Knell did not use that time to comment on the bill.  
Chief Gehman also presented the Fallon Police Department for the month of December 2020. Chief Gehman said that the data was relatively consistent during the month. He also mentioned Detective Goodrick conducting the NAS Fallon indoctrination lecture and School Resource Officer Jacobs and the explorers serving meals at Fallon Daily Bread. Chief Gehman announced the department was reaccredited for four years through their Virtual Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) Assessment and is only one of three departments in the state who achieved that accreditation.   
Public minutes and agendas are accessible on the City of Fallon website, for more detailed information see:
 https://www.fallonnevada.gov/archived-meeting-agendas/    
The next meeting of the Fallon City Council is scheduled for Monday, February 1st, at 9 a.m., at City Hall, 55 W. Williams Avenue, Fallon. The Fallon City Council normally meets on the first and third Mondays of each month.