Good afternoon to everyone in DCNR. This Director’s report is a couple of days early this month due to some important news concerning the upcoming flu season. Please read the information below carefully and stay healthy as we enter the fall and winter (and flu) seasons. A look at the flu season: prevention and recovery [...]
Good afternoon. Following is the Director’s update for September. I hope everyone is looking forward to the Labor Day weekend. The budget situation Despite what seems to be a bottoming out of the recession in some parts of the U.S., the Nevada economy still appears to be in the doldrums. Gaming and sales taxes, and [...]
Good morning to everyone in the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. I hope you have been enjoying the summer. It certainly seems to go quickly. Before we know it school will be starting and the leaves will be turning. To begin, on the financial front, state revenues are still not meeting expectations. We are [...]
NOTE: This was sent to DCNR employees today. Good afternoon to everyone in DCNR. Here in Carson City the weather is mild, the birds are singing and, best of all, the legislature has adjourned for another 18 months! As we begin to decompress and return to normal operations, this Director’s report will focus heavily on [...]
[NOTE: This was sent to DCNR employees last week.] Good afternoon to everyone in DCNR. I hope you are having a great late winter. Budget Update We have now gone through three sets of hearings where we presented our division budgets in detail and fielded a number of questions. One outcome of those hearings has [...]
[NOTE: This was sent to DCNR employees today.] Good afternoon to everyone in DCNR. The following is my November report on activities within the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Budget update As you have undoubtedly seen on television or in the newspapers, state tax revenues continue to decline and are not meeting revised expectations. [...]
Good morning to everyone in the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. I hope you all had a great summer. I know I am looking forward to those magnificent Nevada fall days. After months of preparation, DCNR’s biennial budget (it begins July 1, 2009 and ends June 30, 2011) has been submitted to the budget [...]
Good morning to everyone in the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. I hope you all had a great summer. I know I am looking forward to those magnificent Nevada fall days. After months of preparation, DCNR’s biennial budget (it begins July 1, 2009 and ends June 30, 2011) has been submitted to the budget [...]
Newsletter for DCNR employees Good afternoon to everyone in the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. In my almost four years as the Department’s Director, I have come to appreciate the extent and diversity of our natural resource mission. We have responsibilities for the protection of our land, air and water, the operation of state [...]
