Clark County Amends Criminal and Traffic Assessment Resolution

Clark County Board | September 18, 2026

Article Summary: At the circuit clerk’s request, the Clark County Board approved a resolution amending an already-amended 2021 resolution that establishes the criminal and traffic assessments charged by the Clerk of the Circuit Court. The amended resolution was not included in the meeting materials, and the record does not state what the amendment changes.

Court Assessments Resolution Key Points:

• The board approved the amendment unanimously, with all six members present voting aye.
• Circuit Clerk Ami Shaw explained the need for the amended resolution and asked the board for approval.
• The resolution being amended was itself an amendment, signed Dec. 17, 2021.
• No assessment amounts, effective date or resolution number appears anywhere in the public record of the vote.

CLARK COUNTY — The Clark County Board on Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, approved a resolution amending the amended resolution signed Dec. 17, 2021, establishing criminal and traffic assessments to be charged by the Clerk of the Circuit Court.

The item came to the board as new business. Circuit Clerk Ami Shaw explained the need for the amended resolution and asked the board for approval, according to the minutes, which record no detail of what she told members. The motion was made by Mike Parsons and seconded by Brandon Burkybile. All members present voted aye. Six of the board’s seven members were present, with District #3 recorded absent.

Court assessments are generally the statutory fees and costs added to fines in criminal and traffic cases and collected through the circuit clerk’s office, which makes the resolution one of the few county instruments that touches nearly every person who passes through the Clark County courts on a traffic citation or a criminal charge.

A Third Version of the Same Instrument

The title of the item establishes, on its own, that the board has now acted on this instrument at least three times. The document approved in September amends a resolution that was itself described as an amended resolution, signed Dec. 17, 2021. What the original resolution provided, when it was adopted, and how the 2021 amendment changed it are not stated in the materials.

Nor is the substance of the September change recorded. The minutes give no resolution number, no effective date, no list of the assessments affected, no dollar amounts, old or new, and no statutory authority. Unlike the engineering agreement approved earlier in the same meeting, this item is not marked “(See Attached)” in the minutes, and the amended resolution was not among the documents distributed with the meeting.

The record therefore establishes that the assessments charged in Clark County criminal and traffic cases have been changed, that the circuit clerk sought the change, and that the board granted it without any recorded discussion or question. It does not establish what defendants will now be charged, or when.

The resolution is a final action of the full County Board, not a committee recommendation; no further approval is recorded as required.