Dear Editor,

The Measure S Citizens’ Oversight Committee is committed to ensuring transparency and accountability in the use of Measure S funds, the Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) increase the voters approved in 2022 for the sole purpose of removing snow and maintaining existing roads in the unincorporated portion of the Tahoe Area of the County. As stewards of taxpayer dollars, the committee’s role is to review revenue and expenditures, ensuring that funds are allocated as intended.

The committee’s 2025 Report to the Community can be found at ​https://www.eldoradocounty.ca.gov/Land-Use/Transportation/Transient-Occupancy-Tax-Measure-S and provides an overview of the revenue generated by Measure S since its inception on January 1, 2023 thru June 30, 2024 and how those funds have been utilized to support snow removal operations and road maintenance.

Janet McDougall,
South Lake Tahoe

Hi Editor,

I don’t know any of the players here. I wanted to give an unemotional response to Parker’s response to the superintendent’s original post which I have not seen.

I did not read Parker’s comment as being about immigrants or Mexicans. What I saw was a concern for lawlessness. Parker wants laws enforced. It seems Parker and the superintendent don’t see eye to eye on current immigration issues. You have assumed Parker is opposed to immigrants and Mexicans. His narrative does not support your conclusions. Unless you have further proof of racism and hatred, you have borne a false witness. Your assumptions and the unwise posting of this conversation by the Tahoe Tribune have done a great injustice to Parker, his business and his family. My challenge to you both is how are you going to reconcile this offense? How will you make this right?

To the wider audience, I would like to enlighten you about this argument. Both the superintendent and Parker are expressing love, but different loves. In the English language, love expresses itself in 4 very different ways. Sexual, empathy, relational (friendships), and principle (doing the right thing). The most difficult and most important is the last, doing the right thing. Principled love will at times have to abandon sexual, empathy, and friendship loves if it is to stay true to doing the right thing. Some call this hate. I call it prioritizing which love you think is the most important. I feel if the priority is not doing the right thing, we are all in for a rough ride. To prioritize friends and family, sex, and helping the disadvantaged, over observing the law put in place by legitimate authority is to promote lawlessness. By definition, it is unjust and unwise.

To the wider audience, I propose, do justly, love mercy, walk humbly. To Parker, your inflammatory rhetoric needs to be policed. To Kelly, your inflammatory rhetoric also includes bearing a false witness. To the Tahoe Tribune, you have broadcast this false witness to the community and are equally guilty.

Let’s keep Tahoe blue. Let’s keep Tahoe true.

Kevin,
South Lake TAhoe

To the editor,

I am proud to read of the swift action taken by this community, and its affiliated business, to call for action towards this individual’s business. His written ‘most hateful’ expression requires consequence. If nothing else, his pocketbook will be the recipient of such consequence for his ‘terrible, and hate-filled words’.

I congratulate those who ‘stepped up’ to speak!

Kerry Emery
Boulder Creek