By MARK WAITE

PVT

TONOPAH — A request by the Symphony Animal Foundation for a 50-year lease agreement at $1 per year, for a no-kill animal sanctuary on two acres just behind the Nye County Emergency Services Building on Siri Lane, is up for approval during the Nye County Commission meeting at 10 a.m. Tuesday

Under the agreement, the facility will have to be operating within two years. It is a project of former brothel madam and author Laraine Harper.

The commissioners meeting can be viewed by video conference from Pahrump at the county administration building at 2100 Walt Williams Drive as well as by computer streaming on the Internet at <a href=www.nyecounty.net.

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* Southwest Environmental Services, which operates the Pahrump landfill, has asked for an eighth change order of $188,250 for a new scope of services.

* Closed circuit television equipment would be installed at a $14,880 cost in the Nye County district attorney’s office, if another agenda item is approved.

* A $473,648 bid to provide inmate medial services for Tonopah and Pahrump jails is up for approval. The commission will consider funding sources.

* A $46,900 low bid for remediation of the Calvada duck ponds is up for approval.

* During an 11 a.m. timed item, commissioners will consider accepting a $117,193 subgrant from the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services to fund the women, infants and children WIC clinic in Pahrump and Tonopah.

The program will provide nutrition education, fund a food delivery system and help deliver health services, with no county match required.

* A $100,000 agreement with PBS&J for engineering services to update the Tonopah Airport layout plan is up for approval. The Federal Aviation Administration would pick up $95,000 of the cost.

* An annual contract to house youth offenders at the Douglas County Juvenile Detention Center for $110 per day is up for approval.

* Commissioners will vote on accepting a $107,300 Nevada Bureau of Land Management Rural Fire Assistance Award from 2009 to purchase equipment for fighting for wildland fires for volunteer fire departments and $81,000 in the 2010 program.

* Hardy Construction Inc. has asked for a $80,000 change order on construction of the new Tonopah fire and ambulance station. Commissioners in June accepted a $1.16 million bid from Hardy Construction, the second lowest of nine bidders for the job.

* The Belmont Town Board has requested $13,299 to improve the town cemetery and campground.

* An agreement with Sambooka Group LLC to update public information, video development, planning and management at the Tonopah Historic Mining Park is up for approval.

* Ed Ringle, manager of Raintree Holdings Group in Beatty, has requested permission to subdivide four tracts totaling 328.9 acres into parcels ranging in size from 1.76 to 18.23 acres, Ringle intends to donate the lots to the Nature Conservancy to preserve the Amargosa Wash.

* The acceptance of seven more roads as county roads under the RS 2477 program is up for a vote by the Nye County Board of Road Commissioners.

The board will set a time for public hearings on accepting another six more roads.