Incline Village General Improvement District Board of Trustees Meeting Synopsis
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Time: 6:00pm

Meeting Location: The Board Room at the Administration Building, 893 Southwood Blvd. Incline Village, NV 89451

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If we are what we eat, well, today we can become a previously extinct prehistoric animal that nobody has seen for thousands of years. Yes the Aussies have created a humongous meatball made entirely of wooly mammoth meat grown in a laboratory. No one has yet dared to try a forkful of this delicacy, for fear he might start growing toenails a foot and a half long, then start scratching an itchy ear with that foot. Imagine having an itchy ear, and accidentally removing that ear with a 5,000-year-old foot. Or maybe growing a three-foot tail to get caught in the car door. 

Without any takers, and not ready yet to replace the hotdog in Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4^th, Australia’s mammoth meatball remains on display at a science museum.

When I was a kid, we would sometimes call a windy politician a, “meatball.” I don’t hear that epithet anymore, I suppose it’s too mild, but it might be coming back into vogue with the arrival of the Wooly Mammoth Meatball. I would not like to be called a Wooly Mammoth Meatball, but it could happen. 

The ungetaroundable fact is, we are going to have to start engineering our food in a lab or starve. Cultured meat will not require land or water, and, will be resistant to pollution. 

I confess to having always wanted to be in the Guinness Book of World Records, and I thought once I might make it, after I became the first clown diver in the world to miss the pool and land on his feet, but they didn’t believe me at Guinness, and I didn’t have the video. However, that door was opened again by the possibility of my becoming the first person in the world willing to subsist entirely on Wooly Mammoth Meatballs. Then that door was closed by a friend who reminded me that the Wooly Mammoths died from climate change.

But were I a chicken, and could write in chicken-scratch, (some say I do) I would be holding up a chicken-scratch sign today that would read, “Eat Engineered Chicken! Maybe McDonalds is already doing that and not telling us.

There is some good news that comes with the arrival of an engineered chicken. Now when we are asked, “Which came first the chicken or the engineered egg?” Well, we should know the answer. And it now occurs to me to ask AI’s Bard, “Which came first the chicken or the egg?” but I digress.

Why not treat plastic with a protein so it will taste good, then treat that plastic with pepsin and other powerful enzymes to make it digestible. That way, we could come home from the grocery store, unload the groceries, then sit down and eat the plastic bags. Well, I might make it into the Guinness Book of World Records yet if I can just pull that one off…onward & upward!

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Originally published in the Sierra Sun on 4/16/23. Submitted to the Sun.

CRYSTAL BAY, Nev. – Tahoe Preservation Alliance invites you to their first meeting in response to Placer County and TRPA’s proposed Tahoe Basin Area Plan code amendments. 

We’ve heard the pitch from TRPA, the County, Developers, and special interests in plenty of forums.  This is a unique opportunity for those concerned with the urbanization of the North Shore and those who may have unanswered questions.  Do you have concerns about TRPA’s and Placer County’s proposed code changes and new attempts to tax residents/tourists?

The meeting will be held at the North Tahoe Event Center on Friday, April 21 at 5:30-7 p.m.

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Originally published in the Sierra Sun on 4/14/23. Submitted to the Sun.

NORTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Eight local business leaders representing West Shore lodging, food & beverage businesses at large, the Tahoe City Downtown Association, Northstar Business Association, Homewood Mountain Club, Northstar California Resort, Everline Resort & Spa and The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe were elected by the North Tahoe Community Alliance (NTCA)/Chamber of Commerce membership to join the volunteer board of directors for the NTCA.

The members seated will help make recommendations about how to leverage TBID and TOT funds generated in the community. Each will serve a three-year term.

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Originally published in the Tahoe Daily Tribune on 4/14/23. Written by Staff Report. Photo from the Incline Lodge.

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev.— The Incline Lodge, a 38-room mountain modern inspired boutique hotel, will debut early summer as Incline Village’s first and only boutique hotel property.

Located adjacent to The Hyatt Regency Hotel on Lake Tahoe’s north shore, the family-owned Incline Lodge is now accepting reservations with availability stating July 1, 2023. The location is poised to provide a new year-round accommodation option and is open to Tahoe travelers and locals alike. 

“After a historic winter a huge effort by our thoughtful team, we are thrilled to be opening this summer,” said owners Natasha and Ali Warner. “The Incline Lodge is envisioned to be a welcoming and happy place that provides guests with unforgettable moments in the mountains. It means a lot to us to be part of the Incline Village community and we feel lucky to operate in one of the most beautiful places on earth.” 

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Originally published in the Sierra Sun on 4/12/23. Submitted to the Sun. Photo from TERC.

For the last five months of 2022, Lake Tahoe was the clearest it has been since the 1980s. That is due in part to a resurgence of the lake’s native zooplankton. They’ve provided a natural clean-up crew to help restore the lake’s famous blue waters. 

Clarity is measured as the depth to which a 10-inch white disk, called a Secchi disk, remains visible when lowered into the water. 

In 2022, Lake Tahoe’s average annual clarity was 71.7 feet compared to 61 feet in 2021. The key finding from 2022 was the great improvement in lake clarity from August through December, when the average Secchi depth was 80.6 feet. This coincided with the highest numbers of the zooplankton Daphnia and Bosmina.

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Lake Tahoe School is celebrating 25 years of educational excellence with a Celestial Ball on May 19th at the Hyatt in the Lake Side Ballroom. There will be live entertainment, dinner, drinks, a live and silent auction and dancing under the stars.

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Lake Tahoe School, originally founded in 1997 under the name Incline Academy with a mission to provide a carefully articulated, highly academic program, quickly grew, adding grades yearly, into a Pre-K through Eighth Grade School by 2001. Incline Academy became Lake Tahoe School (LTS) in 2002 and then within a year, its visionary Board of Trustees, acquired a new three-story building with room for 24 classrooms and appreciable office space.

Today, a highly dedicated team of teachers, administrators, and staff totaling 36 professionals (44% holding advanced degrees) with an average of 10 years teaching experience, sits at the core of LTS’s success. The student: teacher ratio is 10 to 1 with an average class size of 18. A dedicated Board of Trustees, steadfastly working to support the creation of a superlative independent school in the Lake Tahoe region, helps to guide and support LTS and the Head of School. Its recent approval of a campus renovation and expansion plan that includes a new Athletic and Performing Arts Center as its cornerstone will greatly benefit the School and entire Incline Village community is an example of its vision for the future.

Lake Tahoe School remains rooted in the founding vision of an educational community focused on honoring the individual creativity and passion inherent in every child, to nurture disciplined minds, strong character, healthy bodies, and creative spirits among all LTS students.