July, 1997 issue
CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences, Part 4
“Change is hard for any organization, but especially so for employees in the government and public sector,” observes the 12-year-old independent Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) advisory firm, Panorama Consulting. “Long...
Is civil forfeiture a boon for law enforcement?
Senate Bill 358, currently under debate in the Nevada legislature, proposes to reform the law-enforcement practice of civil asset forfeiture. Civil asset forfeiture is controversial, in part, because of concerns...
CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences, Part 5
During the first six months of 2008, Ken Forrest, an independent consultant and the principal of the LDRShipSolutions firm, was employed as a top-level Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project advisor...
CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences, Part 6
It was 2009 when CCSD’s purchasing director let employees and consultants know she was intent on keeping district trustees in the financial dark. As reported earlier in this series, Bramby...
CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences, Part 7
In late September 2013, CCSD Trustee Erin Cranor came across information indicating that she and fellow trustees had been misled regarding the actual costs of an insurance contract the district...
Police union ‘tricks’ LVMPD into more millions for higher salaries, pensions
As if Clark County residents needed a reminder, the unrivaled political power of local government unions is again on full display. This time, the involved union is the Las Vegas...
CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences, Part 8
In October 2013, the executive director of the administrator union for the Clark County School District was highly agitated. The reason? A school trustee was offering draft policy guidelines for...
CCSD’s sexual-misconduct epidemic shows need for bargaining transparency
A recent epidemic of sexual-misconduct revelations has the Clark County School District scrambling to draft new policies. The new rules are intended to better govern communications between district employees and...
IVGID’s efforts to concealpublic records gets bizarre
Has Incline Village’s often-criticized local government — the Incline Village General Improvement District, or “IVGID” — finally gone off the deep end? According to district staff, members of the public...