Budget expert Miles leaving legislative post

Monday, June 19, 2000 | 10:56 a.m.

CARSON CITY -- Dan Miles, the longtime budget expert who advised the Senate Finance Committee, is leaving to become interim vice chancellor for finance and administration at the University and Community College System of Nevada.

Miles, 56, will be a temporary replacement for Tom Anderes, who is leaving to take a job in Oregon. Anderes had been interim chancellor, but that position is now being filled by Vice Chancellor Jane Nichols while a search continues for a permanent replacement.

The appointment is on the agenda for the university Board of Regents, which meets June 22-23 in Elko. The board will also vote to continue extending the contract of Joe Crowley, who is retiring as president of the University of Nevada, Reno. Crowley would be retained for six months so he could help lobby for the university during the 2001 Legislature.

Miles has been a fiscal analyst for the Legislative Counsel Bureau since 1977 and its administrator since 1982. He has been the top staff member to the Finance Committee, which helps build the state budget.

Miles has been in state government since 1965, working for the state Highway Department and later in the state budget office before coming to the Legislature. In his new job, he will be paid $118,000. He intends to keep it only one year, after which he will retire.

Crowley retires from the helm of UNR in December after 22 years as president. The regents will discuss extending his contract to June 30, 2001. The Legislature starts in February and closes on June 4, 2001.

Also on the regents' agenda is approval for the appointment of Sherwin Iverson as interim vice chancellor for academic and student affairs, replacing Nichols; Anthony Flores as vice president for finance at UNLV; and Rebecca A. Mills as interim vice president for student life at UNLV.

The regents will get an update on the progress of the dental school at UNLV, which has been subject to debate whether it will require state money to operate.

The board will set the priorities for its building program and budget request for the next two years. Final action on the budget will come at the August meeting of the regents.