That amount represents a 25 percent increase over what the state was projected to bring in up to this point in the fiscal year, which was about $3.2 billion.

Although the Forum isn’t required to take action or make new projections for several months, members said that they’re already feeling the pressure of trying to predict the behavior of Nevada’s economy amid an unprecedented global pandemic.

Monday’s meeting of the Committee on Local Government Finance — an appointed board within the Department of Taxation that oversees local governments under fiscal watch, or state oversight of finances — was less contentious than the meeting last month that saw the board spar with district Chief Financial Officer Jason Goudie over an alleged lack of budgetary information.

In an at-times contentious meeting on Friday of the Committee on Local Government Finance — an appointed board under the Department of Taxation that oversees municipalities placed under ‘fiscal watch’ — district CFO Jason Goudie told the eleven-member board that while the district was on an eight-year plan to restore its budgetary reserve account to the necessary 4 percent required under state regulations, it nonetheless requires additional cuts to avoid a deficit in the 2021 fiscal year.