New issues facing Tahoe Citizen's Committee

Back in the mid-1990s, the Tahoe Citizen's Committee pursued the creation of a new county at Lake Tahoe, succeeding the lake portion from the rest of Douglas and Washoe counties. The group felt that all Nevada side communities at the lake did not get their fair share of funding from their counties. The proposed county would have stretched from Incline Village at the north to Stateline on the south.

At the time, Lake Tahoe-area residents were increasingly complaining that they were not getting adequate services for the amount of taxes they paid and felt their tax dollars were being used to subsidize growth in other areas of the counties.

Studies in the 1990s showed that forming a new county would be financially feasible. The committee had a goal of raising $400,000 by the end of 1996 to fight for the new county in the legislature. The Lake Tahoe Gaming Alliance had dedicated $200,000 for the cause.

Even though succession never happened, the Tahoe Citizen's Committee is still in place and will hold their annual community meeting on Friday, June 19 at 5 p.m. in the Tahoe Chamber offices. Officers of the group include Kelly Krolicki as Presient, Robert Chester-Director, Treasurer Douglas Patterson and Secretary Victor Beelik.

They will be discussing new issues facing the lake residents of Douglas County including the future of the Douglas County Sewer Improvement District process of pumping their treated effluent over Kingsbury Grade into holding ponds in the Carson Valley.