By Vernon Robison

Moapa Valley Progress

County Commissioner Tom Collins appeared before the Moapa Valley Town Advisory Board on Wednesday, October 12, to provide an update on how Moapa Valley Construction Tax dollars have been spent. Collins assured board members that more funds had been spent on local parks and facilities than had been collected in tax revenues for the district.

“There seemed to be some commotion going on with some folks about how poorly you’re being treated out here,” Collins told MVTAB members. “So I was asked to come and update you on the numbers.”

Collins said that from 2004 to the present Residential Construction Taxes (RCT) in Moapa Valley-District 9B had brought in $326,558. During that time $383,854 in disbursements had occurred.

Collins also specifically listed a number of projects which had been completed in District 9B over the past five years. These included the Moapa Valley Senior Center completed in 2010 at a cost of $5 million. Also improvements at the Fairgrounds rodeo arena completed in 2010 and 2011 totalling over $500,000. In addition, a project for ADA Playground safety resurfacing at Logandale and Overton parks is already funded and planned to be completed soon at $285,000.

“All of this actually puts you in the hole,” Collins said. “The point is that if there is $5 missing somewhere in all of this accounting, you still got fifty times more than what you put in.”