City of Reno News

 

As the State of Nevada has instituted a mandated increase to the minimum wage, we are expecting some increases to fees throughout the whole department.  The mandate states that the minimum wage must be at $12.00 by 2025.  Our goal within the department is to raise the fees slowly over the next 5 years along with the increases to staff of $0.75 per year to employees as our lifeguards start at $8.25 per hour right now.

 

As such, we will be forced to increase fees for rentals, passes, drop-in fees, etc.  However, as stated this will be a slow increase rather than doing it all at one time.  All of the fees are still being discussed and picked apart so nothing is established a set increase at this time.  We want to be able to set fees that are still responsible and that are only used to cover the increase in staffing fees.

 

These fees will go in front of the City Council on February 26th for discussion.  If you have any input, please look to attend that meeting or contact your representative on council prior to that discussion.

 

We are all in this together and while the increase in fees is never a good thing, we are hopeful that better paying positions will allow us to recruit and retain our more qualified and motivated staff for longer periods of time improving the quality of the programs offered.