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The HUNT for a reason to recall Trustee Matt Dent

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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 of the GM because the GM asked for the separation according to an email from IVGID [see graphic: right].  How did Trustee Dent mishandled anything? This is another false statement.

5) Public meetings are held at least 2 times per month.  The budget process is over a 5 month period with public comment at each meeting. How did Trustee Dent change operations? What operations were changed?  None.

  •        Raising rates  at venues is an annual event.  Costs and Expenses go up annually.
  •        Eliminating  the Recreation Facility Fee is good not bad.  IVGID had too much money – which it seems was unable to spend on Community Service projects, as the Engineering department only has the bandwidth to handle one major project at a time.
  •        Directing the Recreation Facility Fee to the Beach Fund was to build a new Incline Beach Building in 2023/2024.  Building cannot be done without funding.  Funds cannot be transferred from the Community Service Fund as the Beaches can only be used by owners under the 1968 Beach Deed decision  [MAP LINK], and so funds for the Beach must be separate from Community Services Fund.

6) The Ordinance 7 committee, Indra Winquest and external legal counsel were involved  to produce an updated Ordinance. A written opinion was finally obtained that said employee access was not authorized per the Beach Deed.  The Beach Deed also does not  allow use for commercial purposes. The Board approved an updated Ordinance 7 based on these facts, and protected the Beach Deed as this is their fiduciary duty

So the HUNT  for a reason is in process and the Recall claims are bogus and farfetched.

Petition signers should be concerned if the allegations in the petition are  false.

If the written declaration contains any false statement of material fact, the Secretary of State and county clerks may bring a civil action to recover the actual costs of the signature verification against each person who signed the written declaration, and each person who signed the written declaration is jointly and severally liable for the actual costs of the signature verification. NRS 306.016(4)

Any person who signs a petition to recall any public officer may request that the county clerk remove the person’s name from the petition by submitting a request in writing to the county clerk at any time before the verification of the signatures is completed, by sending an email to electionsdepartment@washoecounty.gov.  Example:

      Remove my name from the petition for the recall of Sara Schmitz.

     Remove my name from the  petition of the recall of Matthew Dent.

Send a follow-up email to ensure that the Elections Department has followed your instructions.

Only registered voters who actually voted in the election in which the subject of the recall was elected may sign a petition to recall, per NRS 306.020(3).  Of a preliminary list obtained of 1500 petition signer names, the Village Alliance found a substantial number of names that were not voters in the 2020 election (about 13%), as well as some duplicates. Some of the names were not even registered voters in the District.  In 2019, Nevada law was updated to make obtaining the signature of a voter not authorized to sign the petition a category E felony. NRS 306.210.

Voters should be asking who is behind the recall? Who will be making donations to the Political Action Committees setup for the recall?

Trustee Dent is currently engaged in solving  and executing  corrections to an awful  dilapidation of the accounting and financial systems created during the Wong and Callicrate regimes.  Part of this relates to the failed Tyler MUNIS implementation begun in 2020.  He has been Chairman for only  8 months. Give him a chance to succeed  – and he will.

The author, Cliff Dobler, is a long-time resident and property owner of Incline Village and a registered voter.

Comments

The HUNT for a reason to recall Trustee Matt Dent — 6 Comments

  1. Hear Hear! To All Those Complainants: GET INVOLVED
    Yourselves (rather than trying to complain or finding out if said complaints are valid) and if you did try and weren’t voted in I say: Sour Grapes. (and don’t give up – try again!)

  2. Trustee Dent was included so the recall Cabal has a better chance to seize Control of the board and resume Ivgid as usual. We all know which special interests are behind this and who profits.

  3. I find it fascinating that Mr Dobler in this piece has separated himself from others who can not talk about IVGID accounting without the use of “ theft” and “ fraud”. Could it be that the hunt for thieves and frauds is finding zip. Could it be that there is no there, there ?
    Instead mr Dobler speaks of a “delapidated “system . Huge schism between theft fraud and delapidated .Prrhaps Mr Dobler is preparing us for disappointment ? Maybe the sky is not falling ? Could it be that MR Dobler is dialing back the vitriol passionateky enjoyed by the forever aggrieved ?
    An expensive forensic probe wil rock us with the finding that the IVGID accounting offices needed more staff. Any person in that department could have told us that . But what would have been the “ fun” in that ?

  4. The recall is further damaging relationships in an already fragile community. Perhaps this is what the organizers want, in order to gain yet more power and control. If you are not a realtor, golf club member or an employee of IVGID, you quickly find yourself on the outside looking in at a closed community. Very sad.

    • One of the stated goals of the recall committee is the beaches. And giving employees access even while Crystal Bay residents do not have access – neither group has access because of the Beach Deed. And there are between 800 and 1,012 employees of IVGID, which Crystal Bay has about 330 per 2020 census records.

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