Spending Taxpayer Money Like It’s Your Own
A multibillion-dollar budget, your money, and one simple question: where does it go, and can you actually see it?
The Clark County Commission oversees roughly $10.1 billion across the county's governmental funds, inside a $12.9 billion all-funds budget one of the largest local-government budgets in the country. At that scale, small inefficiencies compound into very large numbers very quickly, and most residents have no practical way to track whether that's happening.
To balance the budget at the end of 2025, the county moved roughly $56 million in one-time capital-project funds rather than cut current services a workable short-term fix, but the kind of move that deserves to be explained, not just executed quietly.
Manny's standard, carried over directly from running his own businesses: spend it like it's your own. That means scrutinizing contracts and renewals the way a business owner reviews expenses line by line, against results not approving them out of habit because that's how it's always been done.
Manny's Five Action Items.
1.
Review county contracts and renewals line-by-line, the way a business owner reviews expenses.
2.
Require public explanation any time one-time funds are used to balance the budget.
3.
Push for spending tied to measurable outcomes, not historical habit.
4.
Scrutinize the full $10.1B governmental-fund budget, not just headline line items.
5.
Apply the same "spend it like it's your own" standard across every department.
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