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Showing support
May 7, 2008
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It’s refreshing to see public officials support projects, and work to solve problems in their constituency. In a show of unity, the Washoe County Board of Commissioners, Incline Village General Improvement District and Incline/Crystal Bay Citizens Advisory Board expressed support for funding a U.S. Forest Service study which should lead to better defensible space in Incline Village.
The study will allow the North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District to complete a protective halo around Incline, ensuring the best possible defensible space for years to come.
The support is appreciated. When county and local officials show commitment to a project — namely a public safety project — it demonstrates their ability to do their job well. An elected official’s duties don’t stop with his or her own house, whether that means IVGID or Washoe County, but includes the entire community.
By writing letters of support, officials at IVGID, CAB and Washoe County showed a great sense of responsibility to every facet of this community.
The fact illustrated by supporting the study is that officials know they can lean on one another. They don’t put an issue out of sight, out of mind, just because it doesn’t fit under their direct purview.
And because of that, our community has the potential to be much stronger. Hopefully, that means $1 million in Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act funds will find its way to the Forest Service so it can complete a study on thousands of Incline forest acres, paving the way for the NLTFPD to finish a defensible space halo around the community.
Hopefully, it will also mean officials can count on each other in the future, and any major issue in Incline has the full support of many organizations and can approach any problem as a team.
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