Letters to the editor for Sunday, June 5, 2016

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Moellendorf, Fahrenbruch will be missed

Carson City has lost two of its outstanding employees in the Parks and Recreation department with the retirement of Roger Moellendorf and Scott Fahrenbruch.

They and their staff have seen to it that we have great parks in our city and diverse recreational programs for all to use.

I wish them well in their future days and thank them for all they have done. It has been a pleasure working with them as a volunteer for the many years they have been here. Our city is fortunate to have had employees like you. Thanks, fellows, and enjoy retirement.

Jo Saulisberry

Carson City

Chris Forbush is eligible to run for Assembly District 40

On May 26, 2016, Assemblyman Ira Hansen issued a letter on his official Assembly letterhead questioning the eligibility of current Carson City resident Chris Forbush to run for Assembly District 40. The eligibility question was raised respecting whether Forbush has been an “actual resident” of Nevada as required by law for 1 year prior to the November 2016 election (NRS 218A-200(2)). As defined by Nevada statutory and case law, Chris Forbush has been an “actual resident” of the State for the time period required and is fully eligible to be elected.

Forbush is eligible to run by virtue of his legal residence always being Ely, Nevada and because Forbush was actually physically present in Nevada during each and every one of the months questioned by Hansen, for extended periods, November and December 2015, and January 2016. Forbush was only absent from Nevada, and stayed at his temporary residence in Provo, to work at a temporary job he acquired in Utah doing contract work as a document review attorney on a project-by-project basis. His permanent habitation was Ely.

Thus, Chris Forbush has always been an “actual resident” of Nevada, as required by election law, because his legal domicile in Ely, Nevada, and his permanent habitation and actual physical presence in Ely, Nevada, clearly establish he has always been a Nevada citizen resident. Forbush, therefore, remains fully eligible to run for Assembly District 40.

Campaign to Elect Chris Forbush

Carson City

Recycle furnishings in new units for homeless

In response to Ms. Bagwell’s article on furnishing the new permanent homeless housing, why, oh why, do we need to furnish the 39 apartments with brand new furniture when you already have a store full of perfectly good furnishings?

And if perchance you do not have enough used furniture, a plea to the community will bring a veritable blizzard of donation of nearly new furnishings. I tried to donate and was told (phone call) the store was “too full” already and you could not take any donations!

John Wood

Carson City

Community urged to help keep Catmandu’s doors open

We’ve lived in Carson City for more than 23 years and if you’ve ever had or loved a cat, then you might have heard about the crisis at a no kill, no cage cat sanctuary called Catmandu that opened March of 2014 here in Carson City. Linda Buchanan rented the 3,900-square-foot building at 1829 Brown St., off Highway 50, one block from SlotWorld. She’s in imminent danger of having to close down for good if she can’t get volunteers and donations every month from the public.

These cats and kittens are in a homelike setting, cage free.

We adopted a 4-year-old cat in October 2014 after our 20-year-old cat had to be put to sleep for kidney failure. We are both disabled seniors and on a fixed income, but we donate some cat and kitten food every month, but since we can’t volunteer we’re begging the community to come together and in some way help the cats and kittens of Catmandu, so they won’t have to close down for good. Since opening in 2014, more than 550 cats and kittens have found forever homes.

If you can volunteer an hour or two a week and/or donate $5 or $10 or whatever you can a month, every dollar helps the kitties. Catmandu is a nonprofit and donations are tax deductible.

Catmandu is a real asset to our community and beyond. The telephone number is 775-297-3419.

Roberta and Bill Bays

Carson City

An open letter to P.K. O’Neill

To Mr. P.K. O’Neill,

I voted for you because you ran as a conservative. I put my trust in you. What a mistake that was!

The Nevada Margin Tax for Public Schools Initiative in 2014 was defeated by the voters by a 3-1 margin. Then, Mr. O’Neill, in 2015 you and your fellow legislators created and voted for the highest tax this state has ever seen ... the Commerce Tax (a margin tax alternative). This was a total betrayal of your constituents.

How can you ever be trusted again? What you did is like stabbing your constituents in the back.

Joe Lopez

Carson City

Beware of rental scam

Recently our daughter was searching online for a rental. She found an ad for a mobile/modular home for $1,000 per month with a $600 security deposit. All utilities were included. Sounded too good to be true — and it was.

He said he was a missionary who was now living in Southern California, although his phone number was in New York. He told her she could drive by and look inside through the windows, but when we drove over there we found it was inside a gated mobile home park so we couldn’t get in. He wanted her to send him the first month’s rent and security deposit, but she told him first she needed to get inside to see it. Then he called her a swear word and hung up on her.

We called the sheriff to report the incident and we also called the manager of the mobile home park. The manager told us that this was not the first time that he had tried this scam because just a few days earlier someone else had tried to get in to see this place. The mobile home park doesn’t even allow rentals. So beware — this “missionary” is out there looking for the opportunity to steal your money.

How disappointing that people like this are out there preying on us. I wonder if his parents know what he’s doing?

Patricia Hamilton

Carson City