OPINION: How Does -27 + 33 + 17 = +23 in Washoe County?

Easily …

1) When the -27 is the projected $27 million Washoe County budget deficit for 2025.

2) When the “17” is the $17 million in annual savings that could be realized by closing down Washoe County’s 12 anachronistic public libraries.

3) When the “33” is the $33 million in annual savings that could be realized by Washoe County turning over the operation of the CARES Homeless Campus to a privately-funded nonprofit collaboration of local churches.

4) When the “23” is the $23 million budget SURPLUS the County Commissioners could realize immediately by:

·      Saving $50 million ANNUALLY on items 2 & 3 above.

·      Using $27 million of the $50 million savings to cover the current $27 million deficit,

·      Using the ANNUAL leftover surplus of $23 million per YEAR to cover future budgets.

Why does Washoe County have a $27 million budget deficit?

• With the exception of Sheriff’s deputies, the County, on average pays their 3,100 employees over 20% more in salary, benefits, and pensions than comparable employees in other counties. The average Washoe County employee’s salary of $87,000 is far more than almost ANY of them would be paid doing similar jobs in the private sector.

Why should Washoe County close its 12 public libraries (besides saving a bloated budget of $17 million annually)?

Take your pick from the following excellent reasons.

Washoe County should close its 12 public libraries …

• Because public libraries in general have become a human dewclaw: an irrelevant, vestigial (and expensive) remnant of days gone by.  

Almost no one goes to a library to read anymore, and this has been true for decades. You can get any book you want to read on your computer or phone. for free or almost nothing, and enjoy it in your own home.

Washoe County should close its 12 public libraries …

• Because the Library Trustees have allowed county libraries to be mis-directed by an individual who’s turned them into vagrant drop-in centers/porn hubs. Vagrant men, comprising the large majority of all Washoe library visitors – spend all day watching unlimited and uncensored internet pornography.

When they need a break, these men eat, play on their phones, or take naked sponge baths in the same bathrooms used by children (on the rare occasion when foolish mothers actually take their children to the library.) Seldom, if ever, do you see even one of the vagrant clientele reading a book.

Washoe County should close its 12 public libraries …

• Because Washoe County ALREADY has 104 public libraries in its 104 public schools, stacked with books that are also primarily wall decorations. Do student visitors to school libraries talk to friends? Sleep? Play on phones? Eat lunch?…yes, but it is a rare event when any child actually sits down and reads a book.

Washoe County should close its 12 public libraries …

• Because our County libraries have been taken-over by Leftist activists who have turned them into Child Indoctrination Centers.

Our libraries have almost nothing to do with reading unless it’s books mis-teaching children about under-age sex, falsely promoting the “harmlessness,” and “normality” of homosexuality and transgenderism, or brainwashing children with DEI philosophies that slander America’s history, denigrate religion, and promote “systemic racism” as a present fact.

 Why should the Washoe County Commissioners save $32 MILLION per year by ceding the CARES Campus property and homeless operation to a non-profit coalition of local churches, led by proven organizations like the Reno/Sparks Gospel Mission or Victory Outreach?

• Because the CARES program has been indescribably violent, drug/alcohol saturated, and 100% ineffective since the day it opened.

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• Because neither the Commissioners nor County Manager have any experience or interest in managing Washoe’s exploding homeless problem, and the CARES Campus’ total dysfunction.

• Because having the CARES Campus operated by a church coalition would save lives, reduce local crime rates, increase the availability of emergency services, and decrease Washoe’s homeless population by 70-80% almost immediately.

Dear Washoe County Commissioners:

The situation I’ve described offers all of you the chance to change the course of Washoe County’s future. All that’s required is for you to have the moral courage and commitment to do what’s best for your constituents.

 • Replacement of the current Library Director is strongly rumored to be occurring soon.

• Simultaneously, county residents are awakening to the need for radical new direction in stopping our homeless epidemic and fixing the CARES Campus debacle.

The 5 of you, representing 500,000 county residents, have a choice to make.

1) You can fearfully avoid both the library and homeless issues and maintain the status quo. Choosing to take no action will force your constituents to shoulder out-of-control debt, pay higher taxes, be victimized by more crime, and see the quality of government services decline still further.

OR …

2) You can seize this synchronistic opportunity to work together in implementing the suggestions mentioned above. Your cooperative effort would eliminate our current deficit and solve our county’s number one problem of epidemic-level homelessness.

Additionally, it would provide the County budget with a comfortable surplus for building Washoe County’s future on a strong fiscal foundation.

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