Clark County - File #: 21-864

• File #: 21-864
• Status: Filed
• File created: 6/3/2021
• In control: Clark County Board of Commissioners
• On agenda: 6/15/2021
• Title: Recognize Clark County on winning four 2021 National Association of Counties (NACo) Achievement Awards.

Date	Action By	Action	Result
6/15/2021	Clark County Board of Commissioners	Recognized as Recommended; Agenda note: DISCUSSION: Following introduction of the item, Commissioner Kirkpatrick recognized the following four winners of the 2021 National Association of Counties Achievement Awards: (1) Driveway Mobile Dance Party, a socially distanced dance celebration for the community; (2) Honk or Treat, where over 15,000 bags of candy were distributed; and 15 community center neighborhoods and a children’s hospital ward were served; (3) the Recorder’s Office for the remote, interactive, recording kiosk; County Recorder Debbie Conway advised that the goal was to place one kiosk in each commission district, and further advised that the kiosk was engineered by the same company who designed the marriage certificate kiosk; (4) Truancy Prevention Outreach Program (TPOP), launched October 2020; over 3,800 referrals had been received, and was designed to reduce and eliminate chronic absenteeism through a family-focused and community-based approach.

CLARK COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

AGENDA ITEM

Petitioner:

Yolanda T. King, County Manager

Recommendation: 

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Recognize Clark County on winning four 2021 National Association of Counties (NACo) Achievement Awards.

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BACKGROUND: 

Commissioner Kirkpatrick has requested an agenda item to recognize Clark County on winning four (4) 2021 National Association of Counties (NACo) Achievement Awards.

The NACo Achievement Award Program is a non-competitive awards program that seeks to recognize innovative county government programs.

For 2021, Clark County received four (4) NACo Achievement Awards for four (4) innovative programs aimed to improve the lives of citizens and service delivery. The four (4) Clark County programs that were recognized this year are:

-Driveway Mobile Dance Party;
-Honk or Treat;
-The Remote Multipurpose Interactive Recording Kiosk; and,
-The Truancy Prevention Outreach Program.

Clark County staff are present to receive recognition for the four (4) NACo Achievement Awards.