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IVGID 101

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  • IVGID 101
  • General Info
    • What Are GIDs?
    • How GIDs Differ From Municipalities
    • How GIDs Are Created
    • How GIDs Are Merged or Dissolved
    • How a GID’s Powers Differ From Those of Municipalities
    • Why The Need For GIDs?
    • IVGID According to Past Boards/Staff
    • IVGID According to Those With an Agenda
    • IVGID According to Us
  • History
    • Early Years
    • How, When, And Why The Incline Village General Improvement District (“IVGID”) Was Created
    • Was it Purely Coincidental That The Incline Village General Improvement District (“IVGID”) Was Created Immediately After Adoption of Nevada’s General Improvement District (“GID”) Law?
  • Powers
    • Powers All GIDs Can Exercise
    • Basic Powers All GIDs May Exercise Once Granted
    • Basic Powers IVGID Has Been Granted
      • Streets And Alleys
      • Curbs, Gutters And Sidewalks
      • Facilities For Water
      • Sanitary Facilities For Sewerage
      • Facilities For Garbage/Refuse Collection/Disposal
      • Facilities For Storm Drainage/Flood Control
      • Facilities For Recreation
      • Electric Light And Power
      • Electric Energy
        • Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
    • Essentially All Powers Have Been Abdicated to Staff
    • Some of The Impermissible Powers IVGID Exercises
      • Introduction
      • Operating The Public’s Recreation Facilities as if They Were Commercial Business Enterprises
      • Operating The Public’s Recreation Facilities as if They Were Private, Commercial, Business Enterprises
      • Operating Facilities For Food And Beverage
      • Operating Retail Sales Facilities
      • Use of Village Green as an Emergency Helipad
      • Marketing The District’s Public Recreation/Other Facilities/Services to The World’s Tourists
      • Snowplowing The County’s Public Dedicated Streets And Highways
      • Public Relations/Communications
      • Regional Transportation
      • Massive Philanthropy in Favor of Special Interests And Favored Collaborators
      • Lobbying For/Against Federal/Statewide Legislation
      • Fuels Management/Defensible Space Services
      • Legislating
      • Landscape Maintenance Services For Others
      • Acquiring Property For Open Space
      • Fourth of July Fireworks
      • Community Programming
      • Exempting Itself And Its Favored Collaborators From Paying The Fees It Assesses
      • Facility/Event Sales
      • Child Care
      • Magazine Publishing
      • Clothing/Hard Goods/Sports Equipment Sales at Retail
    • Staff/Board Justification For Exceeding District Powers
    • Staff’s Refusal to Recognize Limits
    • No Remedy to Enjoin IVGID’s Exercise of Ultra Vires Acts
  • Fees
    • What is a Fee?
    • The Differences Between Fees, Taxes, And Special Assessments
    • The Fees All GIDs Can Charge
      • “Rates, Tolls or Charges Other Than Special Assessments”
      • “Service Charges…For Services or Facilities”
      • “Charges For The Availability of Service”
      • “Standby Service Charges For Services”
      • “Standby Service Charges For…Facilities”
      • “Annexation Charges”
      • “Minimum Charges”
    • The Fees IVGID Charges
      • Introduction
      • “Rates, Tolls or Charges Other Than Special Assessments”
        • Water Charges
        • Sewer Charges
        • Solid Waste Charges
      • Facility Fees
      • Charges For The Availability of Facilities
      • Defensible Space/Fuels Management
      • Solid Waste Franchise Fees
      • “Minimum Charges”
      • “Annexation Charges”
      • Other Peoples’ Fees
    • Some of The Impermissible Fees IVGID Charges
      • The District’s Beach Facility Fee (“BFF”)
      • The District’s Recreation Facility Fee (“RFF”)
        • How The District’s Recreation (“RFF”) And Beach (“BFF”) Facility Fees Are Levied And Collected
        • No Remedy to Challenge The Validity of IVGID’s RFF/BFF
      • Defensible Space/Fuels Management
      • Solid Waste Franchise Fees
      • Other Peoples’ Fees
    • No Remedy to Enjoin IVGID’s Assessment of Impermissible Fees
  • Taxes/Assessments
  • Financial Reporting
    • Nevada’s Local Government Budget And Finance Act (“LGBFA”)
    • Understanding IVGID’s Funds Structure
    • Budgets
      • Budgets
        • What is a “Budget” Insofar as Local Governments in Nevada Are Concerned, And How is it Adopted?
        • Do The Incline Village General Improvement District’s (“IVGID’s”) Budgets Guaranty Staff Will Not Spend Public Monies, Nor Incur Public Liabilities, Nor Enter Into Public Contracts Which By Their Terms Involve Expenditures in Excess of Those Expressly Appropriated?
        • Whenever The District Budgets to Overspend, Local Parcel Owners Who Are Forced to Subsidize That Overspending With Their Beach (“BFF”) And/or Recreation (“RFF”) Facility Fees End Up Paying, Whether or Not That Overspending Actually Takes Place
    • Audits
      • Audits
        • What is an “Audit” Insofar as Local Governments in Nevada Are Concerned, And What Must it Include?
        • What Type of Audit Does The District Commission?
        • What Does an Audit For a Nevada Local Government Cost?
        • Do The Incline Village General Improvement District’s (“IVGID’s”) Audited Financial Statements Provide The Reasonable Assurance They’re Free From Material Misstatement?
    • Violations of Nevada’s Local Government Budget And Finance Act (“LGBFA”)
      • Is The District in Violation of The Local Government Budget and Finance Act (“LGBFA”) Because of Its Failure to Create New Major Reporting Funds For Ski, Champ Golf And Possibly Mountain Golf?
    • No Remedy to Address IVGID’s LGBFA Violations
  • Legal Issues
    • How The Legislature Instructs We Construe The Limited Powers a General Improvement District (“GID”) May Exercise
    • How Courts Instruct We Construe Those Statutes Which Impact General Improvement Districts (“GIDs”)
  • Misc
  • Contact
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Exempting Favored Local Parcels/Dwelling Units, Including Those Owned by the District, From Payment of Beach and/or Recreation Facility Fees

IVGID 101 Posted on April 9, 2021 by AdminMarch 4, 2022

As demonstrated elsewhere, general improvement districts (“GIDs”) are limited purpose special districts. Therefore their powers are to be strictly construed and limited to those provided by the Legislature as explicitly conferred by their County Boards of Commissioners (“County Boards”) in the GID’s initiating … Continue reading →

Using Recreation Facility Fees to Cover the Financial Shortfall Caused by Snow Plowing and Sanding Someone Else’s Publicly Dedicated Streets and Roadways

IVGID 101 Posted on April 8, 2021 by AdminMarch 4, 2022

As demonstrated elsewhere, general improvement districts (“GIDs”) are limited purpose special districts. Therefore their powers are to be strictly construed and limited to those provided by the Legislature as explicitly conferred by their County Boards of Commissioners (“County Boards”) in the GID’s initiating … Continue reading →

Snow Plowing and Sanding Washoe County’s Dedicated Public Streets and Roadways

IVGID 101 Posted on April 7, 2021 by AdminMarch 4, 2022

Introduction: As demonstrated elsewhere, the purpose of general improvement districts (“GIDs”) is supposed to be “to provide various urban type services (to real property in)…areas where such services (a)re not available and (cannot) be provided (for) by general purpose government(s)” such as counties, … Continue reading →

Irrigating, Powering, Repairing, Maintaining and Improving Washoe County’s Two Dedicated Parks Without The Knowledge or Approval of The Current Incline Village General Improvement District (“IVGID”) Board of Trustees at Both Intersections of Lakeshore Blvd/SR-28

IVGID 101 Posted on April 2, 2021 by AdminMarch 3, 2025

Introduction: As demonstrated elsewhere, the purpose of general improvement districts (“GIDs”) is supposed to be “to provide various urban type services (to real property in)…areas where such services (a)re not available and (cannot) be provided (for) by general purpose government(s)” such as counties, … Continue reading →

Membership in the North Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce

IVGID 101 Posted on April 1, 2021 by AdminMay 2, 2022

As with the propriety of all local governmental powers, we begin our analysis with the Nevada Constitution given it “is the ‘supreme law of the state which ‘control[s] over any conflicting statutory provisions.’” Nev. Const. Art. 8, Sec. 8 instructs that … Continue reading →

Maintaining the Washoe County School District’s Upper Athletic Field at Incline High School

IVGID 101 Posted on March 21, 2021 by AdminApril 2, 2022

Introduction: As demonstrated elsewhere, the purpose of general improvement districts (“GIDs”) is supposed to be “to provide various urban type services (to real property in)…areas where such services (a)re not available and (cannot) be provided (for) by general purpose government(s)” such as counties, cities … Continue reading →

IVGID Staff’s/the Board’s Justifications For Exceeding the Limited Powers the District May Permissibly Exercise/Expending Recreation and Beach Facility Fees and Utility Rate Charges For Purposes Other Than Those Represented

IVGID 101 Posted on March 15, 2021 by AdminMay 2, 2022

So if the subject power which has led you to this discussion has not been expressly provided for by the Legislature; or if it has, it has not been expressly granted to the District by the Washoe County Board (“County … Continue reading →

The Early Years

IVGID 101 Posted on February 28, 2021 by AdminJune 17, 2026

Yes we all know about the Washoe and Paiute Indians who populated the Lake Tahoe region for ten thousand (10,000) or more years before the white man’s purported arrival in 1844. And the tens of thousands of emigrants who stopped … Continue reading →

How, When, And Why The Incline Village General Improvement District (“IVGID”) Was Created

IVGID 101 Posted on February 28, 2021 by AdminDecember 23, 2024

As Incline Village’s largest property owner, why would Crystal Bay Development Co. (“CBDC”), Incline Villager’s developer, ever choose to abdicate operation and regulation of its holdings to anyone, let alone a general improvement district (GID)? Wouldn’t this frustrate its intent … Continue reading →

Was it Purely Coincidental That The Incline Village General Improvement District (“IVGID”) Was Created Immediately After Adoption of Nevada’s General Improvement District (“GID”) Law?

IVGID 101 Posted on February 27, 2021 by AdminDecember 24, 2024

Recall that Art Wood and Company’s purchase of the lands which would eventually become Incline Village was consummated in September of 1959. So when was Nevada’s GID law adopted? March 30, 1959. And what was its stated purpose? To “promote … Continue reading →

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