8 Thursday, February 13, 1997 Pahrump V alle Gazette , ,,
No new taxes for C CSN center noted
by Mary Ann McNeiU
Gazette Staff
A task force compiled to study the situation wants to
emphasize that Pahrump citizens will not be levied new
taxes to build a Community College of Southern Nevada
Rural Education Center proposed to be placed next to the
Pahrump Valley High School.
Governor Bob Miller em-
phasized during his state of
the state address on January
23rd that the bulk of the State' s
ad valorem taxes should be
used for education. And
Pahrump wants its share of
those tax monies.
Ad Valorem taxes are sim-
ply the property taxes that
homeowners pay yearly. Sally
Devlin, a Pahrump citizen activist and proponent of the
center, stated that from the $.15 rate taxpayers pay to the
state on annual property tax bills, only a Department of
Motor Vehicles building has been built by Nevada in
Pahrump. Pahrump now has to put forth an urgent, concen-
trated effort to get the education center built here, the task
force concluded. It was reported that areas like Overton,
Logandale (7,000 combined population), Mesquite (7,700
population), and Gardnerville (4,400 population) are also
interested in a CCSN facility, and Pahrump might have to
lobby against them to get it. The Task Force believes that a
convincing argument can be made to bring the facility to
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NOTICE
Pursuant to NRS 244.085(7), the Nye
County Board of Commissioners will hold
its second meeting of February on Tuesday,
February 18, 1997, at the Bob Ruud
Community Center located on Highway 160
& East Basin Road, Pahrump, Nevada. The
meeting will begin at 9:30 a.m.
Publish: February 13, 1997
it t m iJ i i t Hml
"$3 million to make
appropriations for a
high-tech center in
Pahrump"
Pahrump with an estimated population of between 20,000 to
25,000.
At a special town board meeting held Saturday, January
18, a motion to form a task force to lobby state legislators to
build the education center in Pahrump was passed 5-0. The
task force was to be composed of school representatives,
town officials and citizens.
The effort has already paid
off since Assemblyman Roy
Neighbors has drafted a bill
number 1195 for $3 million to
"make appropriations for a
high-tech center in Pahrump,"
according to Orlando
Sandoval, Associate Vice
President for Planning and
Campus Sites for CCSN. As-
semblywoman Kathy Von
Tobel of the Mesquite and Overton areas has also drafted a
bill asking for $6 million tbr a CCSN center in those areas.
It is not certain whether two centers could be built, or only
one. The $3 million for Pahrump includes the building and
equipment.
Appropriations for these rural centers have been in the
planning stages for 2 1/2 years. Very clear lines of defini-
tion have been drawn between county school districts and
state education expenditures, said Sandoval. "There are.
things like 50-year leases drawn for property," he said, "and
the system has worked for other areas."
The newly-formed Pahrump task force met for the first
time at the PVHS library on February 6. The task force is
composed of: Reggie Knight, Chairman, a retired member
of NARFE (National Association of Retired Federal Em-
ployees, who has a lot of previous lobbying experience;
Jerry Hill, Principal, PVHS and school district representa-
five; Len Smith, Town Attorney; Scott Neilson, Town
Manager; Charlie Gronda, Town Board Member; Candice
Trummel, high school student representative; Mary Ann
McNeill, Pahrump Valley Gazette Publisher; Bob Dandy,
leader of the School to Work program; and Don Rust.
Committee leaders chosen at the February 6 meeting
were: Speaker Committee, Bob Dandy; Petition Commit-
tee, Diana Stiles; Publicity, Mary Ann McNeill; and Sally
Devlin will serve as a liaison to the town. Scott Neilson will
serve as secretary for the group.
All meetings of the task force are open to the public for
their input and everyone is urged to sign petitions which will
be circulated in the next few weeks at many local busi-
nesses.
Everyone is urged to write our State Representatives to
voice support for the project. Addresses are: Assembly,
Roy Neighbors, P.O. Box 33, Tonopah, Nevada, 89049, and
Senate, Mike McGinness, 770 Wildes Road, Fallon, Ne-
vada, 89046-78434.
Chuck Hudson won $10,000 this weekend on the
newest table game in the valley at the Saddle West
Casino. Chuck won the $10,000 on Vegas Aces, an
exclusive game to the Saddle West. The game was
just put on the floor on Saturday, February 1 at
noon, said Rodney Duesing Casino Manager. Chuck
got the 4 Aces Sunday afternoon to win the $10,000.
Duesing said the probability to win is a big number,
but Chuck, a retired utility supervisor from Boston
was at the right place at the right time. Chuck
started playing the game on Saturday because he
was tired of the traditional video poker and
blackjack. Good move Chuck!
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