BY MICHELLE RINDELS
State officials say they’re ready to break ground on a 96-bed veterans’ nursing home in Reno this spring, but whether construction actually begins then will depend on limited pot of federal money and how high Nevada’s request falls on a long priority list.
Gus Nunez of the Nevada Public Works Division said Wednesday that Nevada recently learned there was no more leftover federal money for the planned Northern Nevada Veterans Home in the current fiscal year, and funding in the fiscal year that starts in October is “iffy.”
Nevada lawmakers allocated $14 million in state funds to the planned nursing home, and state officials said at the time that they expected a $34 million federal match would help them finish the project as early as late 2016.
“Absolutely unacceptable,” Republican state Sen. Ben Kieckhefer said Wednesday about the delay. “This is something that the veterans in our state have been looking forward to and have been asking for a long time.”
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