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Gov. Jim Gibbons addresses the media after meeting with Assembly and Senate leaders behind closed doors on Day Four of the special legislative session Friday, February 26, 2010 in Carson City.
Friday, Feb. 26, 2010 | 2:18 p.m.
Sun Coverage
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons emerged from a meeting with legislative leadership this afternoon, saying it was a "good start" to solving the state's $887 million budget crisis.
Gibbons said his staff and the Legislature were working to settle disparities over the exact costs and savings of his proposed budget cuts — and looking at a number of revenue measures to fill the remaining gap, including using the state's unclaimed property fund and instituting a series of "minor fees."
Disagreements over the financial savings of reducing K-12 and higher education are a sticking point, he said. "We want to cut through the filters saying what the numbers will be," he said.
Gibbons said how the gaming industry fits into the budget crisis is unclear. "We've yet to figure out if gaming is needed in this picture," he said.
Still, Gibbons said progress was being made.
"We're sitting in the same room. We're talking," Gibbons said. "It's a good start."
He added: "I'm still maintaining that the state doesn't need nor can it afford tax increases," he said.
Here's a novel idea, how about a complete audit of all of the public school systems in our state. Let's find out what our tax dollars are being spent on, no more money for education until the audit. Please don't send me to the CCSD web site, the posted budget is written in Greek so no one can understand it.
the school district has been audited. Up, down, inside, outside, backwards and forwards.
I'm sure if mar100 wants information that she can't understand via the website, Dr. Rulffes would be more than happy to help!
"Gibbons said how the gaming industry fits into the budget crisis is unclear. "We've yet to figure out if gaming is needed in this picture," he said."
Yes, it makes more since to layoff employees and cut pay than to bring gaming into the picture. I sure hope he is rewarded by gaming after his first and only term.
Let's raise the room tax. That worked out well last time. Maybe we could tax arrivals at the airport as well. Maybe a $5.00 a ride surtax on every taxi ride. There are plenty of ways to price ourselves further in the hole.
neiman1, it's kind of you to admit Gibbons' plan to raise the room tax made tourism suffer. You need to convince the other Gibbons apologists of that, while you're at it.
Newmont earned
$558 million (net- after all of the bills were paid)
IN THE LAST 90 DAYS of 2009!
Poor gold companies need more tax breaks to survive.
If Newmont were playing by Alaska rules, 25% of that profit would go to the state- or roughly 130 Million dollars. Newmont will pay Nevada 5 million. Anybody see a problem here?
Harrahs didn't have a problem with giving bill clinton a cool million bucks right at the sametime they're telling our states legislators to go take a hike when it comes to filling budget gaps.
The solution is simple Nevadans. Vote out the foxes once and for all from the hen house. Vote indpendent/nonpartisan this november for all offices that have a candidate representing the above. All this talk on here with your new technology will not change anything: voting them out will.