It doesn't take much to make Tom Fitzgerald happy.
Give him a white board he can use during meetings.
Or maybe a closet employees can use to store boxes of office supplies instead of stacking them next to their desks.
Fitzgerald, the chief executive officer of NevadaWorks, is happy these days after his organization moved to its new quarters at 5905 S.
Virginia, Suite 200.
That's the second floor of the Bank of America building near Meadowood Mall.
NevadaWorks, which acts as a conduit for federal job-training funds in 13 northern Nevada counties, last month completed its move to the 4,100-square-foot office from its previous location at 600 Mill St.
In its four-plus years on Mill Street, NevadaWorks had outgrown its 3,000- square-foot offices.
But more important was the image the Mill Street office left with the businesspeople and top government officials who turn to NevadaWorks for assistance in training workers.
"I would never take a customer over there," said Stan Thomas of Sierra Pacific Power, who serves as the volunteer chairman of the NevadaWorks board.
"Now, it's more business friendly.
It gives a nice business presence." Best of all, Thomas said, NevadaWorks dramatically upgraded its quarters while paying essentially the same rental price per square foot.
The improvements are more than cosmetic, Fitzgerald said while taking a visitor on a tour.
The new space, for instance, is all on one floor compared with the two-floor arrangement of NevadaWorks' office on Mill Street.
"The communication was not as good as it could have been," Fitzgerald said.
"We'd taken to e-mailing each other rather than walking up the stairs.
Now we feel like a team." Space was limited in the old office for NevadaWorks' 10 employees to conduct monitoring and training sessions with the groups that contract through NevadaWorks for federal job-training funds.
Now even the 44-member board that oversees NevadaWorks operation can gather within walls of the agency.
"For us to be effective, we have to train well," said Fitzgerald.With the new facilities, the agency can provide Webcasts of its training throughout the far-flung region it serves.