Category Archives: Legal Issues
Is The Incline Village General Improvement District (“IVGID”) Permitted to Maintain And Repair Someone Else’s Property (Here The School District’s Upper Incline High School Athletic Field), And Involuntarily Assess Local Parcel Owners The Costs?
Is The Incline Village General Improvement District (“IVGID”) Permitted to Maintain Someone Else’s Property (Here The County’s East-West Parks), And Involuntarily Assess Local Parcel Owners The Costs?
The Incline Village General Improvement District’s (“IVGID’s”) Strategic Plan is Worthless For Any Purpose Other Than Propaganda
As elsewhere stated, in Nevada GIDs are limited purpose special districts. Meaning their powers are limited to those expressly provided by statute and none others1. And if you the reader examines the powers which have actually been granted to IVGID, … Continue reading →
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?
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?
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?
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 →
Do The Incline Village General Improvement District’s (“IVGID’s”) “Central Services” Cost Transfers Represent Payment For The Allegedly Necessary, Reasonably Priced And Equitably Allocated Central Services Staff And Past/Present Boards Have Told/Tell Us They Are?
In a word, NO! As we’ve elsewhere discussed, central services represent The “core services almost all (governments require in order)…to support their operations and mission provided by a central service provider.” And in Nevada, the costs associated with those services … 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?
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 →
Techniques District Staff Use to Hide Their Excessive Fund/Sub-Fund Overspending
Allocating The Cost Amongst Multiple Funds/Sub-Funds, Whether or Not The Allocation is Justified: The Recreation (“RFF”) and Beach (“BFF”) Facility Fees, and the water/sewer utility rates local parcel owners involuntarily pay. But annual audits of all local governments’ financial statements … Continue reading →