Stan Vaughan proposes the following solutions:

1. Enact meaningful spending controls to protect taxpayers
2. Clarify the goals and metrics for performance-based budgeting
3. Create a charter agency framework whereby Agency directors who opt in sign performance contracts
4. Extend a mandate and sufficient funding to the state controller to conduct performance audits
5. Give the state controller explicit authority to conduct performance audits
6. Incorporate a competitive bidding process into the performance-based budgeting method
7. Pursue tax reform on a revenue-neutral basis
8. Expand the sales tax base while simultaneously lowering the statewide sales tax rate to 3.5 percent
9. Repeal commerce tax and abandon gross receipt taxes
10. Eliminate film tax credit
11. Do not create a state-run lottery as it is a highly regressive form of taxation on individuals at the bottom of the income scale
12. Ensure online checkbook is developed
13. Enact strict penalties for officials who withhold public financial data
14. Require PERS to incorporate a market-based accounting approach
15. Change composition of PERS board
16. Restructure pension benefits around a Utah style hybrid system
17. Require local government employees to make personal contributions toward their retirement as intended
18. Make required Other Post Employment Benefit payments
19. Reduce construction costs by repealing prevailing wage requirements
20. Enact a municipal bankruptcy statute
21. Maintain current per pupil spending levels as being appropriate
22. Build on reforms enacted in 2011 and 2015
23. Maintain Education Savings Accounts
24. Create a parent trigger transforming failing traditional schools into charter schools if a majority of parents petition
25. Create a charter school incubator
26. Encourage systematic integration of vocational training into the educational curricula
27. Allow prospective teachers to test out of coursework requirements
28. Recognize teaching credentials earned in any other State
29. Implement longitudinal data tracking system
30. Reward top 10 percent of teachers with merit pay
31. Experiment with flipped classroom model at low performing schools
32. Require students to take at least one online course for graduation
33. Create an incentive program to reward students for productive behaviors in education
34. Eliminate class size reduction program
35. Eliminate full day kindergarten and divert funds to more cost effective educational programs
36. Do not implement universal early education
37. Phase out premium pay for advanced degrees in non-content fields
38. Limit availability of leave time provisions
39. Offer bonuses for perfect attendance at work
40. Require teachers to call principal prior to any absence
41. Restrict school district spending on administrators, private consultants and other outside-the-classroom expenses
42. Fund students not institutions
43. Allow regents to set and keep tuition rates
44. Eliminate general fund subsidies
45. Eliminate low eligibility threshold and instead require genuine competition for originally available funds
46. Amend state constitution to repeal the Nevada minimum wage law
47. Repeal Nevada’s prevailing wage laws
48. Remove the powers of compulsion enjoyed by union leaders
49. Pass a Public Employee Bargaining Transparency Act
50. Phase out longevity pay within local governments
51. Give local government administrators more flexibility by easing mandates for collective bargaining
52. Allow workers to periodically vote on their representation
53. Remove exclusive bargaining agent language from Nevada law and allow workers to select representation of their choosing
54. Repeal conclusive presumption provisions
55. Cap manifestation period to five years
56. Discontinue immediately the CLS exemption
57. Clarify and restrict the Economic Development Board
58. Clear the path for entrepreneurs
59. Repeal SB 75
60. Monitor effectiveness of the reform legislation to ensure its goals are met on Construction Defects
61. Restrict occupational licensing to professions that meet a narrow definition for substantial risk of physical harm
62. Limit availability of welfare
63. Reserve prison space for violent and high-rate offenders
64. Pass a Recidivism Reduction Act
65. Pass a Community Corrections Performance Incentive Act
66. Protect innocent third party property owners
67. End police agencies’ profit incentive
68. Repeal Renewable Portfolio Standard in its entirety
69. Eliminate or delay coal divestment mandates
70. Disallow construction of new generating capacity unless NV Energy can demonstrate it is the most cost-effective means of acquiring power
71. Install High-Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes to parallel congested urban interstates
72. Pass a Community Transportation Corporation Act
73. Streamline operations at the Department of Transportation
74. Pass legislation to systematically evaluate and respond to federal actions
75. If Congress fails to comply with SJR 1 Nevada should pursue legal remedy to have public lands transferred to state

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