Fair Share Call-Out at the City of Reno

Budget Workshop presentation March 5, 2025 - City of Reno.

Reno's city leadership puts on quite the show pretending everything's fine while facing a budget crisis. Yesterday's budget meeting revealed the ugly truth.

With the city drowning in red ink, would it kill council members to take a 25% pay cut? After all, they created this mess. They blew through ARPA funds like sailors spending on shore leave, and now residents face service cuts (though it's hard to imagine services getting worse), and fee increases, lots and lots of fee increases.

Budget Workshop presentation March 5, 2025 - City of Reno.

The political theater was on full display when "Wannabe Mayor" Devon Reese seized an opportunity to attack a resident who dared speak up via a submitted public comment. It started when developer-friendly Councilmember Brandi Anderson set him up perfectly: "Can we talk about how new development is keeping our heads above water on property tax?"

This gave Reese his opening: "I saw one of the public commenters sent us a letter today, Ms. Beth Dory or Kevin Dory... they own like 20 properties in Reno and it's clear their interest is personal because they do not want to pay their fair share of taxes."

Shocking? Not really. Reese is still nursing a grudge because Mrs. Dorey helped kill his and Mayor Schieve's attempt to keep the "At-Large" council seat in 2023 down at the legislature. Reese can't resist a revenge zinger.

Here's our own zinger: If Robert Beadles had stayed out of the Ward 5 race, and not attacked Reese, Reese wouldn't have won Ward 5. He squeaked by with only 1,500 votes—hardly the beloved figure he pretends to be. And if the gutless Nevada Commission on Ethics had held his ethics violation hearing before the election, we'd have a Councilmember named Cassidy.

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But let's get back to the point: A reader sent us the "Top 100" City of Reno salaries. Grab your defibrillator—these inflated paychecks explain the financial disaster. Whatever happened to "public service"? This is Mayor Schieve's legacy after twelve years.

The city has only two options left: grow revenue or slash expenses. Slash, slash, slash …

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