No fewer than a dozen stadium and arena proposals have emerged in Southern Nevada over the past 15 years, and most of those have fizzled. Today, the Board of Regents meets to consider whether to provide exclusive negotiations to Majestic Realty with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, regarding the construction of an on-campus stadium and other major improvements.
The Clark County School District might be joining the ranks of those unable to make their monthly payments if legislators accept the governor’s proposal to divert state school systems’ capital reserves to their operating budgets.
The state’s college and university presidents said Thursday that their schools would be decimated by the governor’s budget cut proposals.
The College of Southern Nevada would lose $26.7 million if Gov. Brian Sandoval’s budget is adopted, the community college’s president, Michael Richards, said Wednesday. He said the cuts amounted to 29 percent of its state support.
Hundreds of people were lined up this morning, prepared to testify to state legislators about proposed budget cuts.
College students and faculty made up a large part of the crowd.
What was billed as an informational town hall meeting to talk about budget cuts Friday at UNLV was really more of a pep rally.
