Giving Nevada’s Future Vision Some Thought
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
As an alternate, non-voting member of the soon-to-be convened Nevada Vision Stakeholders Group, I’ve been giving the task ahead some thought and looking into some background information on which to be prepared for our first meeting, scheduled for January 8th. This group is charged with making recommendations of strategies for improving Nevada’s standing in key quality-of-life components. These areas for concentration are:
As you logically consider the seven quality-of-life components, you could consider the potential for private sector handling all of the possible enhancements desired for advancement. You can also logically consider that given the Nevada Legislature’s interest and pre-programmed thinking for “revenue stabilization” – the deck is stacked to play out for more government being the solution across the board.
Getting consideration for non-governmental alternatives is likely to be an up-hill, difficult route, but should not be disregarded just because it will be unlikely.
Patrick Gibbons of the Nevada Policy Research Institute has been working on expanding the public ideas on the very important subject area of Education. His piece on decentralizing schools has been added to with another background piece on the ideas of financing entrepreneurial education. These policy-oriented idea papers are part of an overall library of noteworthy concepts which require greater exposure and further study. Just the idea of how much money is being spent needs an improved understanding, outside of the self-serving pursuits of the education community’s “show-us-the-money” advocates.
Hopefully, with a strong citizen turn-out and input for non-governmental alternatives in the quality-of-life visioning we might be able to establish more of a balanced viewpoint than what it appears to be possible at this point in time.
As an alternate, non-voting member of the soon-to-be convened Nevada Vision Stakeholders Group, I’ve been giving the task ahead some thought and looking into some background information on which to be prepared for our first meeting, scheduled for January 8th. This group is charged with making recommendations of strategies for improving Nevada’s standing in key quality-of-life components. These areas for concentration are:
- Economic Diversification
- Education
- Energy Use
- Health and Human Services
- Job Creation
- Public Transit and Transportation
- Public Safety
As you logically consider the seven quality-of-life components, you could consider the potential for private sector handling all of the possible enhancements desired for advancement. You can also logically consider that given the Nevada Legislature’s interest and pre-programmed thinking for “revenue stabilization” – the deck is stacked to play out for more government being the solution across the board.
Getting consideration for non-governmental alternatives is likely to be an up-hill, difficult route, but should not be disregarded just because it will be unlikely.
Patrick Gibbons of the Nevada Policy Research Institute has been working on expanding the public ideas on the very important subject area of Education. His piece on decentralizing schools has been added to with another background piece on the ideas of financing entrepreneurial education. These policy-oriented idea papers are part of an overall library of noteworthy concepts which require greater exposure and further study. Just the idea of how much money is being spent needs an improved understanding, outside of the self-serving pursuits of the education community’s “show-us-the-money” advocates.
Hopefully, with a strong citizen turn-out and input for non-governmental alternatives in the quality-of-life visioning we might be able to establish more of a balanced viewpoint than what it appears to be possible at this point in time.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 12/23/2009 10:00 AM 
Categories: Nevada Vision Project
Tags: Nevada Nevada Budget and Taxes Nevada Vision Stakeholders
Categories: Nevada Vision Project
Tags: Nevada Nevada Budget and Taxes Nevada Vision Stakeholders
Great post Doug.
I've been wondering when the first meeting of the NVSG was going to be. I was half worried they were going to try and sneak one in next week when no one would be paying attention.
Hope you have a Merry Christmas!
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