Each year, the Board of Supervisors identifies our top priorities – our “objectives” – during the Board’s January workshop. These objectives aim to address community challenges, help prioritize staff time and resources, and guide the development of the County’s budget. During the workshop, the Board hears presentations from County staff on progress or challenges on each objective from the previous year. At this year’s workshop, in addition to hearing from County staff, the mayors and managers from the City of Grass Valley, City of Nevada City, and Town of Truckee made presentations to the Board, as did the County’s state and federal advocates, who provided updates on policy issues impacting Nevada County.
The Board’s newly chosen 2023 objectives remain largely the same from 2022: fiscal stability, emergency preparedness, economic development, broadband, climate resilience, housing, homelessness, and recreation.
Highlights from progress on the Board’s 2022 objectives:
- Broadband: Received $500,000 from the California Public Utilities Commission to provide network design and engineering for broadband across the county and is to receive almost $75 million total for broadband projects from the California Advanced Services Fund
- Housing: Celebrated the completion of Brunswick Commons and Cashin’s Field Housing developments, adding nearly 100 new affordable housing units in Grass Valley and Nevada City.
- Economic Development: Secured $122,860 from California Office of the Small Business Advocate to support 43 Nevada County microbusinesses, and granted over $2 million in funding to nonprofits, small businesses, and special districts through Nevada County’s American Rescue Plan Act allocation.
- Recreation: In the first year of this objective, the County secured $200,000 from Sierra Nevada Conservancy to fund a countywide Recreation and Resiliency Master Plan, which will be one of the first of its kind in the state of California to comprehensively integrate resiliency adaption measures as part of planning for parks, trails, and open spaces.
