Category Archives: Legal Issues

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?

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Many residents mistakenly believe District staff’s expenditure of public monies is protected from inappropriate financial deceit/manipulation/wrongdoing simply because: those expenditures must be budgeted to be appropriated; District budgets must be filed with the State; and, it’s unlawful for staff to … Continue reading →

Do The Incline Village General Improvement District’s (“IVGID’s”) Audited Financial Statements Provide The Reasonable Assurance They’re Free From Material Misstatement?

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Many residents mistakenly believe that the District’s financial transactions and reporting are “top notch” because year-after-year we receive “clean audits.” However, by abdicating to our staff (the very people being audited), its responsibility to provide independent “assurance” that the District’s … Continue reading →

Assuming Arguendo The District’s Recreation (“RFF”) and Beach (“BFF”) Facility “Fees” Are Actually “Fees,” Have They Been Transformed Into Invalid “Taxes” Because The District Provides For Exemptions From Payment to Itself as Well as Its Favored Collaborators?

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No it doesn’t! The District’s Exemptions From Paying The RFF/BFF Are Not Allowed Under NRS 318: We expect the District will continue to exempt favored collaborators, including itself, from paying the RFF/BFF notwithstanding nowhere in NRS 318 is it allowed. … Continue reading →

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?

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The answer is yes! As elsewhere stated, the District is subject to the LGBFA, and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board’s (“GASB’s”) standards. GASB Statement No. 34 instructs that “major funds are funds whose revenues, expenditures/expenses, assets, or liabilities (excluding extraordinary … Continue reading →

Are Our Recreation (“RFF”) And Beach (“BFF”) Facility Fees The NRS 318.197(1) “Standby And Service Charges” Current/Past Boards of Trustees (“Boards”) Tell/Have Told Us They Are?

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In a word, no! As we’ve elsewhere discussed, standby service charges represent: 1. Some sort of monetary levy against and of direct benefit to real property; 2. Imposed for the mere availability to access and receive water and/or sewer services; … Continue reading →

Why Isn’t Each Hotel/Motel Guestroom Within the Incline Village General Improvement District’s (“IVGID’s”) Boundaries Assessed a Separate Beach (“BFF”) and/or Recreation (“RFF”) Facility Fee?

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As elsewhere discussed, IVGID purchased the beaches from Crystal Bay Development Co.’s (“CBDC’s”) successor (Village Development Co., Inc.) on June 4, 1968. According to the express language in the beach deed, beach access was granted to the occupants of each … Continue reading →

Assuming Arguendo it is Permissible to Collect Beach (“BFF”) and/or Recreation (“RFF”) Facility Fees Against Dwelling Units vs. Parcels of Real Property, Why Isn’t Every Incline Village/Crystal Bay Dwelling Unit Assessed a BFF and/or RFF?

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Introduction: As discussed elsewhere, and not that we agree it is appropriate for the District to separately assess and collect multiple RFFs/BFFs against multiple dwelling units, assuming arguendo it is, there are literally hundreds of multiple dwelling units on single … Continue reading →