Game, Set, Match: Your Chance to Serve Complaints to Councilmember Reese

City of Reno Community Tennis and Pickleball Day on April 26, 2025. You’ll note Councilmember Reese posted the event on social media and is featured in the photo.

Attention Ward 5 and City of Reno residents.

While Ward 5 Neighborhood Advisory Board meetings seem to have mysteriously vanished from Councilmember Devon Reese's calendar, he has managed to find time for something truly essential: Community Tennis and Pickleball Day.

Yes, while your concerns about the Lakeridge development, ADUs on your lot line, and that charming Jiffy Lube proposal for Mayberry and Hunter Lake, you can rest easy knowing your elected representative is perfecting his backhand. Sure most of this, except ADUs are not in Ward 5 but activist citizens have been using their voices to push these issues forward at NAB meetings and should have the right to be heard in Ward 5.

But don't despair. This Community Tennis and Pickleball Day presents a perfect opportunity for civic engagement. Why wait for a NAB meeting Reese might never schedule, when you can air your grievances courtside? We encourage all concerned citizens to show up and transform Community Tennis Day into Grievance Day. After all, if the councilmember won't come to the residents, the residents must go to the councilmember. Thus, send a message to the City of Reno; if the councilmember won’t ‘do the right thing’ you know have a NAB meeting, then you’ll protest at community events so voices can be heard and residents can be informed.

Grab your protest signs (tennis racket-shaped ones get bonus points for theme consistency), practice your "NO ADUs'‘ chants, and show Councilmember Reese that when it comes to avoiding constituent concerns, love means nothing.

Remember: In tennis and in politics, it's all about showing up for the match.