Youth center head may be fired after drunken driving

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Monday, Dec. 20, 1999 | 9:27 a.m.

The center's operations committee has unanimously recommended firing Steve Mathews following his Nov. 22 arrest in Silver Springs on suspicion of drunken driving.

"We thought the credibility of the program needs to be very healthy," said Lyon County Manager Steve Snyder, chairman of the committee made up of local government officials in the five rural counties served by the center.

The center's oversight committee, composed of three judges from the region, will meet Dec. 30 in Carson City to take final action on the recommendation.

The $1.5 million youth center in Silver Springs primarily will serve as a drug treatment facility for youth convicted in Carson City, Storey, Douglas, Lyon and Churchill counties.

Mathews was hired Oct. 4 from a list of 80 applicants and seven finalists.

Plans had called for the facility to open in early February, but the opening could be pushed back to April if Mathews is fired, Snyder said.