Only because the District tells us The Recreation Facility Fee (“RFF”) and Beach Facility Fee (“BFF”) its Board adopts each year…represent fiscal year “Recreation…Standby…Charges” for “the availability of the use of IVGID’s beaches; boat launch ramp; Championship golf course; Mountain … Continue reading →
Given NRS 318.197(1) gives GID Boards the power to fix “rates, tolls and charges,” here we investigate the limits on a GID Board’s power. And as with the propriety of all sorts of governmental powers, we begin our inquiry by … Continue reading →
As stated elsewhere, all general improvement district (“GID”) Boards have the power to “Fix, and from time to time increase or decrease: electric energy, cemetery, swimming pool, other recreational facilities, television, FM radio, sewer, water, storm drainage, flood control, snow … Continue reading →
Well it depends upon what type of “fee” we’re talking about. For instance, Water And Sanitary Sewer Fees: If it’s a sanitary sewer or a water facilities fee, NRS 318.199(2) instructs that the District’s “Board of trustees (‘Board’) shall hold … Continue reading →
Again, it depends upon what type of fee we’re talking about. However for starters, NRS 318.197(4): NRS 318.197(4) expressly instructs that “the Board may provide for the collection of (those rates, tolls and) charges” provided for in NRS 318.197(1). NRS … Continue reading →
We’ve elsewhere shared: the authority all GIDs have to adopt “rates, tolls, and charges,” the kinds of “fees” in a vacuum they’re permitted to adopt, the limits on those “fees,” and the various “fees” past and current Boards have actually … Continue reading →
In a nutshell, taxes. Not fees, but taxes. And invalid ones no less! Nevertheless, let’s not go there…yet. Let’s assume for purposes of argument the RFF/BFF are fees. Fees “based on the rights of (a governmental) entity as proprietor of … Continue reading →
If one examines NRS 318, nowhere will one find the terms “fuels management” or “defensible space” (go ahead and do a word search). If one examines IVGID staff’s accounting glossary within the budget the Board adopts each year, one will find the … Continue reading →
Given we’ve shared that a general improvement district’s (“GID’s”) Board of Trustees’ (“Board’s”) power to “fix, and from time to time increase or decrease…rates, tolls or charges” flows from NRS 318.197(1), and that this NRS fails to expressly identify “franchise … Continue reading →
As demonstrated elsewhere, the purpose for 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 and … Continue reading →