[Clarkcty]

Originally Posted by Willy702

Do the casinos want this change? If not it never happens.

Yes more than likely they will be against it, knowing the Strip is in the town of Paradise in the jurisdiction of Clark County, it will be to their disadvantage if Spring Valley split away from Clark County considering the broad and large tax revenue the town of Spring Valley contributes to the Clark County coffers.

[kttam186290]

Originally Posted by Clarkcty

Actually the question should be who would take the initiative to start the talks about Spring Valley incorporating into a city within Clark County! It is a large township in Clark County and it is only a matter of time.

The Paradise Township should incorporate too! Since it pretty much encompasses the entire Strip, it would be the wealthiest place (revenue-wise) in the whole State of Nevada!

Where else in Nevada is there a Nordstrom? three Louis Vuitton stores? an Hermes store? Cartier? Harry Winston? Tiffany's? Christian Louboutin? a Ferrari-Maserati showroom, and such world-class dining?, etc., etc.?

Nowhere else but Paradise!

(Are you all really sure you want to go down this "incorporation road"???)

Seriously though, if I lived in Las Vegas and was politically active, the first thing I would focus on is petitioning the State Legislature to break up the behemoth that is the Clark County School District!

[Clarkcty]

Originally Posted by kttam186290

The Paradise Township should incorporate too! Since it pretty much encompasses the entire Strip, it would be the wealthiest place (revenue-wise) in the whole State of Nevada!

Where else in Nevada is there a Nordstrom? three Louis Vuitton stores? an Hermes store? Cartier? Harry Winston? Tiffany's? Christian Louboutin? a Ferrari-Maserati showroom, and such world-class dining?, etc., etc.?

Nowhere else but Paradise!

(Are you all really sure you want to go down this "incorporation road"???)

Seriously though, if I lived in Las Vegas and was politically active, the first thing I would focus on is petitioning the State Legislature to break up the behemoth that is the Clark County School District!

.....and Paradise township also has a large percentage of people in the lower end of the totem pole, welfare recepients.....not degrading those in the bracket but just telling it like it is. When townships breakaway same thing goes for the School district.

[lvoc]

Originally Posted by kttam186290

The Paradise Township should incorporate too! Since it pretty much encompasses the entire Strip, it would be the wealthiest place (revenue-wise) in the whole State of Nevada!

Where else in Nevada is there a Nordstrom? three Louis Vuitton stores? an Hermes store? Cartier? Harry Winston? Tiffany's? Christian Louboutin? a Ferrari-Maserati showroom, and such world-class dining?, etc., etc.?

Nowhere else but Paradise!

(Are you all really sure you want to go down this "incorporation road"???)

Seriously though, if I lived in Las Vegas and was politically active, the first thing I would focus on is petitioning the State Legislature to break up the behemoth that is the Clark County School District!

Why on earth would one want to incorporate the towns? Makes no sense.

If you break up the school system you end up with a couple of good ones and a couple of really terrible ones. How does that do any good? You still end up with the same schools with their performance driven by neighborhood demographics.

[BBMW]

That's likely because they've made so much money, they don't need to work their "regular" jobs any more. And they've become such a tourist draw in and of themselves, that they end up interfering with business.

Originally Posted by Raiderman

I'm just reporting what I know.. they don't work the counter anymore, and you'll never see them in the store.

[BBMW]

I think the county wouldn't want the change, and is likely in a position to block it. Note I said wouldn't, not doesn't. I've never heard of any real proposal to do this, so it's probably not even on the county commissioners' radar.

Originally Posted by Willy702

Do the casinos want this change? If not it never happens.

[BBMW]

I think breaking up the CCSD would be the best think that could happen to Vegas. Don't let the bad areas drag down the rest of the system. Right now the CCSD has a bad reputation. If it was broken up, you'd have at least some districts that would have good reputations, which would be a draw, instead of those being dragged down by the bad areas of the valley.

Also, there would be some areas that might be willing to spend more on the schools, and accept the tax increases necessary to do so, while some wouldn't. Let each area decide for themselves.

Originally Posted by lvoc

Why on earth would one want to incorporate the towns? Makes no sense.

If you break up the school system you end up with a couple of good ones and a couple of really terrible ones. How does that do any good? You still end up with the same schools with their performance driven by neighborhood demographics.

[lvoc]

Originally Posted by BBMW

I think breaking up the CCSD would be the best think that could happen to Vegas. Don't let the bad areas drag down the rest of the system. Right now the CCSD has a bad reputation. If it was broken up, you'd have at least some districts that would have good reputations, which would be a draw, instead of those being dragged down by the bad areas of the valley.

Also, there would be some areas that might be willing to spend more on the schools, and accept the tax increases necessary to do so, while some wouldn't. Let each area decide for themselves.

I believe any changes in taxes will require a Constitutional amendment. People don't seem aware of it but the school district is actually part of state government and is not local. And you will run into the standard problem of the low tax base inner city areas requiring much higher school expenditures to operate.

One could simply limit the size of districts I suppose. But most schemes are likely to use algorithms that break the system up into equivalent pain districts. So you go from one big pain to 5 or 6 littler pains. You could try for municipal boundaries but the complexity is pretty high with the interlocking of the county and the municipalities. You can also expect a vast battle from the County and Las Vegas to prevent Henderson from walking away without a big piece of the east side.