An email from the Washoe County Deputy Treasurer Linda Jacobs indicates a delinquent bill from The Arch Society was paid this week only after Our Town Reno posted a picture of a notice of seizure at its new location across from the Wild Orchid at 538 S Virginia Street.
A reader had sent the photo to us Wednesday, and would be customers were confused about it, with some telling us they decided not to go in because of the notice.
“With Arch [S]ociety, we billed them December 13, 2023 and mailed to her residence the additional 4 delinquent notices and then went to the property twice. We also made numerous calls where we were told payment was forthcoming with no results,” Jacobs wrote to Our Town Reno today, Friday September 6th, after we emailed the Washoe County Treasurer’s office about it.
“Ms. Archer made her payment yesterday and resolved the matter. She is now able to take the notice down,” the email indicated.
Jacobs also explained the seizure process which is mandated by Nevada Revised Statute.
“With commercial personal property we bill between September and April of each year. We mail five notices; the original tax bill and if not paid we will send out a delinquent notice, followed by a notice of intent to seize a final notice and then the seizure notice. If we still do not receive payment we go to the business and post the seizure notice on the door,” Jacobs explained.
An Anne Archer wrote to us messages on our BiggestLittleStreets Instagram, saying we needed to take the photo down, but did not answer when asked several times if she wanted to do a full interview about this situation.
In her messages, she indicated she had paid her taxes weeks ago and that our post was a violation of her privacy, even though the notice which was photographed and sent to us by a concerned reader from a public area was an official Washoe County document.
Others critical of our post included a Washoe County spokeswoman, Bethany Drysdale, who wrote it was “irresponsible to leave it up this long without correcting it,” even though there was no correction needed and we hadn’t received a response from the Treasurer’s office yet, as well as repeated condescending comments from a local cheerleader for expensive restaurants, Jaci Goodman, listed on LinkedIn as Publisher and Ad Director for the Edible Reno-Tahoe Magazine.
Our Town Reno finds it extremely disturbing that there is this atmosphere of messengers being blamed in Northern Nevada, with some of our other posts as well, and residents wanting to put limitations on citizen journalism, such as this case, when the photo was totally accurate and the bill owed had yet to be paid when we posted it.
The First Amendment is very important, and to us it’s unfortunate to see people so belligerent in this instance and others.