Nugget Project ballot question petition submitted to clerk
The people behind the petition effort to force the Carson City Center aka Nugget Project on the ballot submitted 4,559 signatures to the Carson City Clerk-Recorder's office for verification this morning.
The group needs have have 2,935 signatures verified by the clerk to qualify the petition. Day Williams, an attorney who is part of the petitioners' group, said they did their own verification check of the signatures against the voter rolls and are confident they have more than enough to qualify.
The question asks Carson City voters if they want the Nugget Project to be approved by a vote of the people.
Once verified, the petition question would then go to the Board of Supervisors, who can choose to enact the question as an ordinance. If they don't, then it would automatically go on the ballot in November.
Last week, the supervisors approved their own ballot question for the Nugget Project, asking voters to approve a 1/4 cent sales tax increase to fund the $28 million effort to construct a knowledge and discovery center on land behind the Carson Nugget.
Sonia Taggart, who serves on the Carson City Library Foundation Board, said they would have to wait to see how the process of this ballot question petition plays out.
"We would prefer to see one question on the ballot so the people better understand it." Taggart said. "People might get confused seeing both of these questions on the ballot at the same time."