Manny's position
Clark County has seen its budget grow in recent years, reflecting the needs of a rapidly expanding community. With that growth comes a responsibility to ensure transparency, performance, and public confidence keep pace.
Residents deserve clarity about how decisions are made, how funds are allocated, and what results are being achieved.
Manny Kess will bring a results-driven, transparent approach to the County government. Spending will be clearly tied to measurable outcomes. Contracts will be reviewed based on performance and effectiveness. Ethics and disclosure standards will be straightforward, consistently applied, and easily accessible to the public.
Strong government isn't about more spending — it's about smart management, accountability, and earning the public's trust through consistent, measurable performance.
The plan, in five actions
- Tie spending to outcomes — publicly. Every line item that funds a program should publish what that program is supposed to achieve and what it actually achieved. If a program can't articulate its outcomes, that's a tell. Manny will press for an outcomes column in the County budget documents — not buried in an appendix, on the same page as the dollar.
- Performance review every contract. Multi-year vendor contracts should not just roll over. Manny will push for performance reviews tied to renewal — with the data published before the vote, so residents (and reporters) can see what they're paying for.
- Ethics rules anyone can find. Disclosure requirements should be written in plain English, posted in one place, and consistently enforced. The Nevada Commission on Ethics has had to admonish multiple Clark County commissioners over the F1 ticket scandal. That should not have been complicated.
- Read the deal before voting on it. Approving the F1 Grand Prix extension through 2037 in roughly two minutes of discussion is not serious public governance. Significant agreements should be on the Commission agenda long enough for the public to actually read them.
- Open data, on a working website. The County's data portal should be the single source of truth for residents, reporters, and watchdogs — not a graveyard of broken links and outdated spreadsheets. Manny will push for a real, maintained civic-data platform.
Why this matters
Government works when residents trust it. Trust comes from a thousand small acts — answering an email, publishing a budget anyone can understand, enforcing the same rule for the politically connected as for the rest of us. Accountability isn't a punchline. It's the whole job.
What this is not
"Accountability" doesn't mean reflexive austerity. It doesn't mean punishing departments doing good work. It doesn't mean scoring political points off public servants. It means doing the careful, sometimes boring work of making sure public money produces public value.
What Manny will not support
- Multi-million-dollar contracts approved without published performance data.
- Renewed contracts where last cycle's outcomes were never audited.
- Ethics disclosures buried in PDFs that no one finds.
- Votes on consequential decisions with no meaningful debate.