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MV Chamber Membership To Discuss Incorporation

Moapa Valley Progress
Submitted Mar. 26, 2008


The Moapa Valley Chamber of Commerce membership will hear a report from its Incorporation Committee at its monthly luncheon meeting on Thursday, March 27 at 12:00 noon in the Old Overton Gym. The Committee has spent the past year researching the process and viability of the greater Moapa Valley community becoming an incorporated city. At Thursday’s meeting they will be bringing their findings back to the general membership.

The Chamber’s investigation into incorporation began last year during the tenure of Past President, Bret Staley. “We took an informal polling of our membership to see where the interest was on incorporation,” Staley said. “The poll came back over 80% in favor of the Chamber looking into incorporation and seeing if it is a viable option. You can’t ignore those kind of numbers so that is what we have been working on.”

In May 2007, the Chamber Board of Directors appointed a committee to begin studying incorporation and to bring back some details to the membership. The committee, made up of a group of dedicated community members went to work familiarizing themselves with the process for incorporation and also researching specific budgetary numbers showing what the new municipal entity might expect to receive in revenues and to pay in expenditures.

“I think that most of our membership is open to the idea and even eager to see the community become an incorporated city,” said current Chamber President, Vernon Robison. “But most of us have questions about whether a new Moapa city could support itself financially without us seeing a big property tax increase. That is what we are worried about and that is what we wanted this committee to look into. They have worked hard on it and I think that they have come back with some facts and figures that we hope will answer a lot of questions.”

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