It is time to elect an accountant into the Assembly from District 15
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