Plans for Moana Pool, police headquarters move ahead
April 15, 2021
Nevada National Guardsmen from Fallon are posted outside the Reno Police Department to support the RPD in protecting the facility after riots May 30, 2020. Image: Trevor Bexon
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The Reno City Council on Wednesday moved to rebuild the Moana Pool and establish the Public Safety Center, two projects that were in jeopardy of losing grant dollars if further progress didn’t occur on either premises.
Moana Pool, 240 W. Moana Lane, was in need of repairs and closed in 2007. The council last year accepted a $9 million grant from the William N. Pennington Foundation to rebuild it. A condition of the grant requires the project, which collectively costs $44 million, meet specific financial milestones by the end of the 2022 fiscal year.
Published: January 22, 2021
Early construction of Western Nevada College’s Carson City campus in the 1970s.
What did former Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt and millionaire business magnate and philanthropist Howard Hughes have in common?
For Nevadans, the two powerful men were directly responsible for the creation of community colleges in the state.
When Laxalt became Nevada’s governor in 1967, he followed through on his campaign and formed a council to study the feasibility of creating a community college system. However, despite the governor’s vision and support from key political leaders, a proposed state community college system was rejected because the legislature was concerned that it would dilute funding for public schools, as well as its universities located in Reno and Las Vegas.