Champagne Paychecks, Bologna Service at Washoe County Government

Washoe County Government Senior Lunch, January 16, 2025. That is one dry sandwich.

Eight days of sad sandwiches and counting, while Washoe County's highly paid staff keeps serving up excuses like they're going out of style. Permits, then frozen pipes, next they'll blame it on Mercury being in retrograde.

Let's talk about numbers, shall we? While the median Washoe household scrapes by on $81,531, our crack team of sandwich architects is pulling in six-figure salaries faster than they can say "cold lunch."

Transparent Nevada, January 17, 2025.

But wait, it gets better. While seniors are getting meals that wouldn't pass state nutritional guidelines (thanks for the comment to the RGJ, Ms. Badolato), County Manager Brown has a cozy $150,000 fund to protect staff from being "unfairly disparaged." Because nothing says "priorities" quite like lawsuit protection while seniors eat like college students during finals week.

Here's the real kicker we reached out to a few local chefs and community kitchens to learn if they could help, we received comments they'd "all be down for helping seniors get a warm meal."

Meanwhile, Brown (the $34,000-bonus guy) couldn't be bothered to have his team develop a Plan B. MacGyver could've solved this with a paperclip and some duct tape, but county staff are still working on how to heat up soup.  

Hey, Washoe County taxpayers - how's that return on investment for those staff salaries looking? Because right now, it's about as warm as those sandwiches.

Commissioner Mike Clark forwarded this to various media outlets trying to get the word out about the problems with Washoe County Senior Meals since the 9th Street Center has closed for remodeling. You’d think the county would have had a Plan B and, just in case a Plan C.