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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — This question will be at the forefront next week at The Chateau, and it could serve as the transformative theme as to how the Incline Village General Improvement District — the closest thing to a government that we have in Incline Village — is run and governed in the future.
Next week's IVGID board meeting will no doubt be one of the biggest in the history of the organization. A certain number of programs and services could potentially be axed, ones that continually operate in the red, yet are still subsidized by IVGID taxpayers via the Recre ation Facility Fee.
Diving deeper, the district has come under fire during the past few years — and much more loudly the past few months — for operating, in some eyes, under a “being all things to all people” mantra; in other words, providing services to both full- and part-time residents as well as tourists, while also funding programs that might not fit under IVGID's purview of water, sewer, trash and recreation, as defined by Nevada law.
As we reported at the end of 2010, this has become a growing concern of the district, something former trustee Gene Brockman made clear during his exit in December 2010: “I am concerned that IVGID provides certain programs and activities that increase our costs that are beyond the purpose of our district,” he said. “I think we need to re-examine the purpose of our GID ... re-examine every program and activity that we have.”
That's what next Wednesday's meeting, which begins at 3 p.m. at The Chateau, should be all about — the first step toward the district's administrative team re-examining IVGID and what it is and asking the board of trustees for guidance on how to move forward. That direction could be a hard one to swallow for a lot of IVGID residents. Just imagine if the Incliners program is axed (which is a possibility). How many mem bers of that organization would be affected? How much money would the district save? How much less would the rec fee be for all IVGID taxpayers?
These questions — and many more like them — are all on the table now, and they figure to be among the discussion items next week at The Chateau.
As your newspaper, we urge everyone who cares about this community to at tend and be a part of the discussion.
Next week's IVGID board meeting will no doubt be one of the biggest in the history of the organization. A certain number of programs and services could potentially be axed, ones that continually operate in the red, yet are still subsidized by IVGID taxpayers via the Recre ation Facility Fee.
Diving deeper, the district has come under fire during the past few years — and much more loudly the past few months — for operating, in some eyes, under a “being all things to all people” mantra; in other words, providing services to both full- and part-time residents as well as tourists, while also funding programs that might not fit under IVGID's purview of water, sewer, trash and recreation, as defined by Nevada law.
As we reported at the end of 2010, this has become a growing concern of the district, something former trustee Gene Brockman made clear during his exit in December 2010: “I am concerned that IVGID provides certain programs and activities that increase our costs that are beyond the purpose of our district,” he said. “I think we need to re-examine the purpose of our GID ... re-examine every program and activity that we have.”
That's what next Wednesday's meeting, which begins at 3 p.m. at The Chateau, should be all about — the first step toward the district's administrative team re-examining IVGID and what it is and asking the board of trustees for guidance on how to move forward. That direction could be a hard one to swallow for a lot of IVGID residents. Just imagine if the Incliners program is axed (which is a possibility). How many mem bers of that organization would be affected? How much money would the district save? How much less would the rec fee be for all IVGID taxpayers?
These questions — and many more like them — are all on the table now, and they figure to be among the discussion items next week at The Chateau.
As your newspaper, we urge everyone who cares about this community to at tend and be a part of the discussion.
