"I'm not suggesting there are bad intentions on the part of Metro's leadership, but 12 breaches of that policy are definitely problematic," said Gary Peck, former head of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada.

Either the reporter got Peck's quote wrong or Peck doesn't grasp the issue. This isn't about 12 improper accesses to the system since 2005. This is about 12 people making (possibly THOUSANDS of) improper accesses to the system since 2005.

What internal controls do they have in place? Is a valid case number required to be attached to the request? Are audits conducted to verify that the case numbers, the issues in the case, and the persons being investigated all match or bear relevance to each other?

I agree with Sisolak. All applications should include a question about county employed relatives. Why hasn't the county's lawyer ever caught this? (Because of a conflict of interest she didn't want exposed?)

"when you're an LLC you need a couple of members..."

Not true. Do a search of the LLC records and you'll find hundreds where only one person is listed in each of the capacities.

Update your LLC and go back to work.

Isn't that Howie Doit?

Pay staff to sit on their hands while a contractor performs work staff can be doing? Money is going to BOTH. So, where's the savings?!

Savings only accrues in such a situation when staff is terminated.

If anything this shows that staff are over paid and something needs to be done about it. Like when thousands apply for a fireman's job should serve to prove the job pays more than the market will bear.

"I do have a very short temper, and I wish I didn't."

METOPROLOL.

Lueck is correct.

The issue here is not that it was too late, as a matter of statutory law, to place Teuton's name on the ballot.

The issue is the expiration of the term, as defined by a superior document. The constitution.

Another appointment process must be conducted to appoint someone to the position.

Plain and simple.

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Be sure to read the informative postings.

If you didn't present your budget until December then you missed the deadline. Missing the deadline is the same as not cooperating.

The problem is as much in the inspections as it is in the construction. Typically, the inspector arrives and a foreman walks him/her into a particular house. The shill house. Nothing is wrong and the inspector assumes the other 299 are identical. Then proceeds to sign off on all 300 inspection certificates without looking at the others!

For example, my neighbor had outrageous power bills. He called a local company to come add insulation. The contractor went into the attic and there was no insulation at all! The contractor admitted that his crew insulated that subdivision. He explained that his trucks go out in the morning with enough insulation to spray x number of houses. That sometimes the house at the end of the day gets shorted because the crew used too much on other houses. This is supposed to be caught by the inspector. It wasn't!

Fortunately for my neighbor he was dealing with an honest contractor who then double insulated his attic for free.

Get the inspectors off their lazy butts and make them do the jobs! How about criminal penalties for them?