As elsewhere stated, in Nevada¹ GIDs are limited purpose² special districts³. Meaning their powers are limited to those expressly provided by statute⁴ and none others¹. And if you the reader examines the powers which have actually been granted to IVGID⁵, one of the ones you won’t find is engaging in “for profit” commercial business enterprises. So why the need for a “Strategic Plan (which by definition) focus(s)…on five critical questions that all organizations must ask? In other words: 1. What is our Vision and Mission? 2. What Services do (we) provide? 3. Who are our Customers and what do they value? 4. What have been our Results? 5. What’s our Go-Forward Plan?”⁶ So why the need for a strategic plan? And why the need for any of the following key components to a government’s Strategic Plan? So let’s examine those components⁷:

The District’s “Vision Statement:” “With passion for quality of life and our environment, Incline Village General Improvement District will enhance the reputation of our community as an exceptional place to live, work, invest, and play.” Really? Isn’t Incline Village/Crystal Bay a “hidden gem?” Why then do we want to spread the word to the uninformed so they can overwhelm our community and the limited services it is capable of providing? In other words, for whom does IVGID exist⁸?

The District’s “Mission Statement:” ‘The Incline Village General Improvement District delivers exemplary recreational experiences and provides the highest level of water, sewer, and solid waste services while striving for fiscal and environmental sustainability.” Really? Rather than you telling us how exemplary your services are, how about you let the public figure this out for themselves?

The District’s “Value Statement:” “We are dedicated people providing quality service, for our community and environment, with integrity and teamwork.” Really? Quality of service? Integrity? Insofar as quality of service is concerned, how about you let the public figure this out for themselves? And insofar as integrity is concerned, you the reader need only conduct a cursory examination of this web site to learn of the lack of integrity!

The District’s “Mantra:” “One Division˒ One Team:” Right! Tell this to our Crystal Bay residents who are denied beach access and use!

Your Tahoe Place: This one isn’t one of the “key components.” But it communicates the same message. Do a google search for ivgid.org and see what you get. The Incline Village General Improvement District. Now do a google search for yourtahoeplace.com and see what you get. The Incline Village General Improvement District. Several years ago our IVGID staff got the bright idea they could quietly market the District’s recreational facilities to the world’s tourists by making them believe Incline Village/Crystal Bay is really their “Tahoe place” even though they don’t live here. Again, subliminal messaging and why do we want to spread the word to the uninformed so they can overwhelm our community and the limited services it is capable of providing?

Remember. All of The Above is Not What The District Strives For. It’s The Message The District Sends to The Public!

These “Key” Components Have Turned Into Seven (7) Long Range Principles⁹:

LONG RANGE PRINCIPLE #1 – SERVICE: The District will strive to “initiat(e) and maintain…effective practices of environmental sustainability for a healthy environment, a strong community and a lasting legacy. (It) will provide superior quality service through responsible stewardship of District resources and assets with an emphasis on the parcel owner and customer experience.”

LONG RANGE PRINCIPLE #2 – RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT: The District will strive to “initiat(e) and maintain…effective practices of environmental sustainability for a healthy environment, a strong community and a lasting legacy.”

LONG RANGE PRINCIPLE #3 – FINANCE: “The District will (strive to) ensure fiscal responsibility and sustainability of service capacities through prudent fiscal management and maintaining effective financial policies for internal controls, operating budgets, fund balances, capital improvement and debt management.”

LONG RANGE PRINCIPLE #4 – WORKFORCE: The District will strive to “attract, maintain and retain a highly qualified, motivated and productive workforce to meet the needs of district venues, facilities, services and operations.”

LONG RANGE PRINCIPLE #5 – ASSETS AND INFRASTRUCTURE: “The District will (strive to) practice perpetual asset renewal, replacement and improvement to provide safe and superior long term utility services and recreation venues, facilities, and services.”

LONG RANGE PRINCIPLE #6 – COMMUNICATION: “The District will (strive to) engage, interact and educate to promote understanding of the venues, facilities, services, and ongoing affairs.”

LONG RANGE PRINCIPLE #7 – GOVERNANCE¹⁰: “The District is a local agency that delivers exemplary recreational experiences and provides the highest level of water, sewer, and solid waste services while striving for fiscal and environmental sustainability through collaboration, civic participation, and transparency.”

Like We Need a Strategic Plan to Tell Us Any of This?

Moreover, What Does Any of The Above Have to Do With IVGID’s Raison d’ê·tre¹¹/Its Permissible Powers? 

Propaganda, Propaganda: In CoralBridge Partners‘ February 3, 2015 letter agreement with the District, it represented that the strategic plan it would assist in creating would consist of “a shared vision and establish a strategic plan of operations which emphasize(d) manageable and achievable goals.” So take a look at the above-key components. Do you the reader believe they represent “a strategic plan of operations which emphasize…manageable and achievable goals?” Or do they represent spoon fed propaganda? Now return to doing a google search for “the Incline Village General Improvement District” and see what you get: “The Incline Village General Improvement District is a fiscally responsible community partner which provides superior utility services and community oriented recreation programs and facilities. With a passion for quality of life and our environment, IVGID strives to continually enhance the reputation of our community as an excellent place to live, work, recreate, visit and invest.”¹² And that’s the point. A regurgitation of the propaganda which has been inserted into the District’s Strategic Plan. In other words, the District’s Strategic Plan is nothing more than one of a number of propaganda pieces¹³ insofar as less knowledgeable members of the public are concerned. Instead of telling the world how wonderful you are, how about allowing we the residents who live here to come to our own conclusion?

Conclusion: So now you know! And as we have observed, another expensive and worthless assemblage of paper.

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1. See NRS 318.010.
2. See A.G.O. No. 63-61, p. 102, at p. 103 (August 12, 1963).
3. See NRS 308.020(2) which defines the term “special district” to include “any…general improvement district, or…other quasi-municipal corporation organized under the local improvement and service district laws of this State.”
4. See the discussion at our What Powers are General Improvement Districts (“GIDs”) Authorized to Exercise web page.
5. See the discussion at our What Powers Have Actually Been Granted to the Incline Village General Improvement District (“IVGID”) web page.
6. See page 2 of the packet of materials prepared by staff in anticipation of the Board’s March 5, 2015 meeting (“the 3/5/2015 Board packet”).
7. See page 4 of the 2021-22 and 2022-23 Strategic Plan.
8. The District tells us that its “strategic planning…provides (it)…with the ability to channel resources in a direction that yields the greatest benefit to parcel owners” (see page 5 of of the 2021-22 and 2022-23 Strategic Plan). So you tell us. Does this vision statement “yield the greatest benefit to (local) parcel owners?”
9. Go to https://www.yourtahoeplace.com/uploads/pdf-ivgid/December_2022_Update.pdf.
10. This principle is really not a principle. Rather, it is nothing more than the equivalent of a key component to a government’s Strategic Plan.
11. Reason for being.
12. Go to https://www.yourtahoeplace.com/ivgid.
13. Such as The IVGID Magazine fka The IVGID Quarterly Magazine.