Our ski schools are filling up, which is the way we track it. From talking to our lodging partners in the area, many of them are booked solid for the week, and the last-minute bookings are filling up as well.

This gives our season pass holders an extra opportunity to ski. All the Nevada schools will be out next week. It's more of a benefit for the community than tourists.

You're talking about neighborhood schools on one hand and about pulling out two of our neighborhood schools ... on the other. That's why we want to keep a neighborhood school in Turtle Creek.

That was kind of tough because my father (Raymond) taught in the schools here. She was always talking to young people about education, always counseling young people to go to school, get an education. 'Education is your ticket to anything you want to do.' That's why she paid for so many kids to go to school.

Based on talking to other schools, it typically takes two to three years to get the numbers up.

We are not talking about a tax issue, we are talking about a constitutional requirement.