How to show up in Lyon County

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• Lyon County Board of County Commissioners

  Watch this one

  This is the board that bought the county's surveillance, and it is still buying. It approved a Flock plate reader contract in 2023, accepted a federal grant for a mobile plate reader in November 2025, and approved an artificial intelligence patrol guidance subscription on the consent agenda six weeks later. Residents are already raising surveillance here, in written comment on the data centre proposals. Public comment is taken after the discussion of each action item and before the vote, which is a better opening than most boards give you.

  When

  Twice a month, on the first and third Thursday, at 9:00 a.m. That is the pattern 94 of the 102 board agendas we read follow, and 83 of them fall on a Thursday. Special meetings sit outside it, so check the posted agenda. Within the same meeting the board also convenes as the Liquor Board and as several district boards, including the Central Lyon Vector Control District and the Silver Springs General Improvement District, so those bodies appear on this agenda rather than on their own.

  Where

  Lyon County Administrative Complex, 27 S. Main Street, Yerington, Nevada 89447, printed at the top of every agenda.

  Remote

  Zoom, with the meeting link, ID and passcode printed on each posted agenda. We do not reproduce them here because they change. Virtual public comment is allowed: raise your hand in Zoom, or dial *9 from a phone to raise your hand and *6 to unmute.

  Public comment

  Three minutes per person. There is a public participation item near the top of the agenda, and the agendas state that the board "will conduct public comment after discussion of each agenda action item, but before the Board takes any action", so you can speak to a specific purchase before the vote rather than only in general at the start. Written comment can be mailed to the Lyon County Manager's Office at 27 S. Main Street, Yerington, Nevada 89447, or emailed to countyclerks@lyon-county.org with PUBLIC COMMENT in the subject line. To be included in the meeting it must arrive by 4:00 p.m. the day before. Anything later is added to the county website as supplemental material and sent to the commissioners within 24 hours after the meeting.

  Written comment

  — not confirmed

  Who to ask

  Lyon County Clerk, countyclerks@lyon-county.org, which the agendas name as the address for written public comment. (checked 4 Sept 2026)

  The agenda packets are the record here and they are very large, several of them over a million characters, carrying staff reports, contracts and the previous meeting's minutes as text. Separate Minutes documents are also posted. Of the 467 documents we fetched from the board and emergency planning categories, 456 were readable and 11 were not, eight of those because they are scans with no text layer. Some older minutes have a corrupted text layer, and for those the readable copy is the one carried inside the following meeting's packet.

  Their agendas and schedule ↗

  Confirmed · 4 Sept 2026