assembly

California Speaker of the Assembly Anthony Rendon has appointed Belinda Valles Faustinos to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) Governing Board. Her appointment follows the recent resignation of Governing Board member Elizabeth Carmel, a fine art landscape photographer who represented the Speaker’s office on the board for the last three and a half years.

Protecting Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada is the job of many stakeholders. Its not just a local job, not just a California job, not just a Nevada job, not just a national job, and as witnessed through President Obama's visit to the Lake Tahoe Summit Wednesday, it can only be successful through partnerships of all of those entities along with agencies, local and private investment.

On Tuesday, August 29, the day before the Summit, California Senator Diane Feinstein hosted a lunch for local officials, agencies and federal counterparts, described as the "Lake Tahoe Stakeholders Luncheon".

EA at SNC Tahoe working sessions are held on the first Wednesday of every month. Students and community members with business ideas and businesses that need help are welcome to attend. The event is also open to potential mentors.

Each monthly session provides an opportunity for you to set and accomplish new goals in moving your business forward. During the sessions you receive support from experienced mentors and your peers on your business.

More info: http://www.sierranevada.edu/community/community-info/

Location

The City of South Lake Tahoe sent out emails to local businesses this week, advising them it is time for their required annual life and safety inspections of all existing commercial buildings which, among others, are used to sell merchandise, public assembly, hotels and motels.

Travis Taylor, the City's Fire Inspector, has begun the drop-in inspections which can take place Monday through Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

Entrepreneurs who have already started a business or are dreaming of starting one are often seeking the freedom to define their quality of life. Tahoe is appealing as one assumes they can work and “live the life,” however, many aspiring entrepreneurs and new business owners find the reality is often stress over licensing, logistics, finances and marketing.

Location

EA @ SNC - Entrepreneur's Assembly at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village holds working sessions on the first Wednesday of every month. Each monthly session provides an opportunity for you to set and accomplish new goals in moving your business forward. During the sessions you receive support from experienced mentors and your peers on your business. Students and community members with business ideas and businesses that need help are welcome to attend. The event is also open to potential mentors.

From 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in TCES139.

Location

The Lake Tahoe Historical Society is bringing historical characters back to life in their "Chautauqua at Lake Tahoe 2015" on September 20 at 5 p.m. in the Valhalla Grand Hall.

Experience Mrs. Tevis, John Muir, Yank Clement, Julia Bulette, Charley Parkhurst and Kit Carson as you've never imagined.

Last year's sold out event in the Boathouse Theater was so successful the Historical Society decided to move into a larger venue and add dinner to the evening.

The controversial bill that would give California one of the country's strictest vaccination laws headed on Monday to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk, with supporters urging him to sign it and opponents promising to stand vigil around the clock to convince him to veto it.

On Monday, a majority of the California state Senate again passed Senate Bill 277, incendiary legislation that would require almost all schoolchildren to be fully vaccinated in order to attend public or private school, regardless of their parents' personal or religious beliefs.

The only exception would be for medical reasons.

California took the first step June 5 to regulate its nearly 20-year-old medical marijuana industry, one that lawmakers said currently resembles something out of the “wild, wild West.”

AB266 merges what were two competing bills and attempts to set up state regulations that will pass muster with the federal Department of Justice. It was one of dozens of pieces of legislation advancing through the Legislature Thursday as lawmakers faced a Friday deadline to move bills out of their house of origin.

Retiring South Tahoe Middle School Principal thought it was an assembly to honor the school's staff who are retiring. Words were said and plaques were given at the Wednesday morning ceremony. Then, the fire alarm sounded and hundreds of students and staff moved out onto the soccer field.

The documented ill health effects from inhaling secondhand smoke were squared off against individual rights at a hearing Thursday on a bill that would ban smoking in cars while children are present.

Assembly Bill 322 by Mike Sprinkle, D-Sparks, was supported in the Judiciary Committee hearing by health advocates who argued that children should not be exposed to an adult who is smoking in a confined space such as a vehicle.

Drivers violating the law could be pulled over for the offense by police and fined $25. It would not count as a moving traffic violation.

A bill meant to solidify students' First Amendment right to religious expression stirred up a hornet's nest in the Nevada Legislature on Monday over its unintended consequences, even attracting the disapproval of a Christian priest.

"I believe this bill pushes the Christian position, which I do, but not in school," said the priest, testifying before the Assembly Committee on Education, holding its first hearing for Assembly Bill 120.

"This was the best school assembly ever," said a South Tahoe High Junior after hearing youth motivational speaker Mike Smith on campus Wednesday. "His message was amazing."

Smith spoke of how the words that you say can leave a mark on someone’s life forever. And if you’re a bully, that mark is a scar.

Douglas County has now counted 100% of the ballots for Tuesday's election.

State Senate 17 Senatorial District
REP - SETTELMEYER, JAMES A. 15,301 100.00%

State Assembly Dist. 39
IAP - GIORDANO, AL 3,716 22.33%
REP - WHEELER, JIM 12,924 77.67%

County Assessor
DOUGLAS W. ''DOUG'' 15,195 100.00%

County Clerk/Treasurer
REP - THRAN, TED 14,966 100.00%

County Commissioner District 2
REP - THALER, STEVEN 14,585 100.00%

County Commissioner District 4
REP - MCDERMID, NANCY 14,156 100.00%

District Attorney

Months before they are scheduled to open, the Hard Rock Casino of South Lake Tahoe donated goods and materials from the former Horizon property to several local charities.

The company has a history of local philanthropy, and South Lake Tahoe will be no different.

The likelihood of four-year degrees coming to Lake Tahoe Community College just got a major boost. A bill authorizing California’s Community College System to launch a limited baccalaureate degree pilot program was just approved by the State Assembly Committee on Higher Education. Senate Bill 850 (SB 850) allows 15 California community colleges to offer one 4-year degree as early as January 1, 2015, and starting no later than the 2017-18 academic year. The bill already passed through the state Senate back in May by a 34-0 vote.

There are several choices for South Lake Tahoe voters in Tuesday's primary election.

Local Issues and Offices
El Dorado County Supervisor: Kevin Brown, Kenny Curtzwiler, Gerri Grego, Sue Novasel, Teresa Piper, Angela Swanson

Assessor - Karl Weiland

Auditor/Controller - Michael Owens, Joe Horn

District Attorney - Judson Henry, Vern Pierson

Recorder Clerk/Registrar of Voters - Chris Amaral, Bill Schultz

Sheriff - John D'Agostini

Surveyor - Rich Briner

Treasurer/Tax Collector - Ron Briggs, C.L. Raffety

In a remarkable interfaith gesture, area leaders of various religions and denominations are gathering at Lake Tahoe to celebrate International Day of Peace, also known as "Peace Day" on Sept. 21.

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, will open the “Interfaith Peace Service” with invocation from oldest scripture of the world still in common use Rig-Veda; besides Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita, both ancient Hindu scriptures; in Sanskrit followed by English translation.

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 1266 which allows transgender youth to use whatever bathroom and participate on whichever sports team they believe matches their gender identity. This groundbreaking bill gives students in public K-12 schools the right "to participate in sex-segregated programs, activities and facilities" based on their self-perception, regardless of their birth gender.

Dear Community Members, 

In recent months, Barton Memorial Hospital’s Skilled Nursing Facility has been challenged with keeping patients, staff and the facility in its entirety, safe from the effects of the California senate bill, AB97.

If passed, this bill would create devastating cuts to reimbursement for Medi-Cal services provided by distinct part skilled nursing facilities (DP/SNFs) throughout the state, including South Lake Tahoe’s only long- term-care-facility located at Barton Memorial.

Gov. Brian Sandoval signed legislation Thursday legalizing online gambling in Nevada, capping a dizzying day at the Legislature as lawmakers passed the bill through the Assembly and Senate as an em...

A bill before the Nevada Assembly would make it illegal for pedestrians to read, browse the internet or enter data with hand-held devices while crossing highways in the state.Democratic Las Vegas A...

The Assembly Democratic caucus late Wednesday issued a statement saying North Las Vegas Assemblyman Steven Brooks is no longer a member of the caucus.That effectively leaves Brooks on his own in th...

California and Nevada reached a historic agreement over Lake Tahoe this week with the passage of an extensive plan designed to shape development at the lake for years to come.

The Tahoe Regional Planning's Governing Board approved an update to its 1987 Regional Plan by a 12-1 vote at Harveys Lake Tahoe late Wednesday afternoon. Mara Bresnick, the California Assembly Speaker's appointee to the board, was the lone vote against the plan update, which has been under discussion for the better part of a decade.