The Nevada Secretary of State’s office denied the appeal of the verification of signatures for petition to recall the Incline Village General Improvement District Trustees Sara Schmitz and Matthew Dent. In two letters dated March 1, 2024, NV SoS Deputy Secretary  Gabriel Di Chiara concluded, “In summary, the Secretary of State finds the petition remains insufficient. No further action will be taken on the appeal.” Letter re: Sara Schmitz Recall   

The recall effort failed to gather sufficient signatures. The minimum requirement to qualify for a recall special ballot: 1801 valid and verified signatures of voters in the 2020 election. For IVGID Trustee Matthew Dent, there were 1,726 valid signatures submitted. For IVGID Trustee Sara Schmitz, there were 1,687 valid signatures submitted.. Both fell short. The process is now over unless there is a challenge with the Secretary of State.

On October 20, 2023, we obtained audited financial statements back to Fiscal Year 1990 for the Incline Village General Improvement District. Analyzing the data, we can now state that the fraud explained in Cooking the Books (Part 1) has been ongoing since 1990, and likely before that time. In that article, we explained that IVGID had improperly capitalized costs as LAND, and that this scheme is one of the ten most common fraud schemes involving financial statements. We analyzed data from audited financial statements CAFR/ACFR 2009 to 2022. With the older CAFRs obtained (1990 – 2007: links at end of … Continue reading →

by Sara Schmitz   Reasons NOT to Recall   Sara voted √    To protect property rights and ensure our beaches aren’t vulnerable to lawsuits; √     Spearheaded the robust Audit Committee where she’s been working to have accurate financial reports; √     Initiated the effort to create and use contract templates and was tasked by the board to review contracts to protect the District; √     Voted to approve the anonymous whistleblower process after 2 years of delay and; √     Voted to begin the effluent pipeline project after years of delay.   She has NOT and does NOT … Continue reading →

The recall crowd  has provided false statements as reasons  for Matt Dent’s recall.   The facts are simple. 1)  As a chairman of the Board of Trustees the  only  designated is to prepare an agenda.  Controlling other Trustees is not the job. [link: Trustee Handbook] 2)   Employees leave for a variety of reasons.  To pin employee lack of retention on Trustee Dent  is false and the recall group cannot back it up with evidence. 3)  A loan on his residence is not required to be disclosed  to the state. [see graphic]  No teeth in this allegation. 4) There was no evaluation … Continue reading →