{"id":3242,"date":"2008-12-15T14:26:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T22:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2008-12-15T16:11:54","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T00:11:54","slug":"tahoe-gets-its-block-knocked-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3242","title":{"rendered":"Tahoe Gets Its Block Knocked Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/block-1.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/block-1.jpeg','popup','width=300,height=180,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/block-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"120\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Block 1\" \/><\/a>City of South Lake Tahoe officials swarmed <strong>Marc Frank Montoya&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblockhotels.com\/tahoe\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Block Hotel <\/a><\/strong>last Thursday (December 11, 2008) and shut the place down until the hotel can pay up on more than $100,000 in back taxes it owes the city.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Customers who occupied the hotel (Thursday) were allowed to stay, but the hotels will remain closed until the TOT is paid,\u201d City Attorney <strong>Catherine DiCamillo<\/strong> said Friday. . . . The Block failed to pay TOT between January 2007 and January 2008, and owed penalties and interest from September and December 2006, according to the police statement. . . . Managing partner of the hotels \u2014 37-year-old Las Vegas resident <strong>Eneliko Smith<\/strong> \u2014 appealed Vuletich\u2019s decision to City Manager David Jinkens, who upheld the finance director\u2019s decision on Nov. 21.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Smith said that the back taxes had not been paid because &#8220;financial records detailing the unpaid takes were lost.&#8221; Nice of the city to close the hotel right before the holidays, but it shouldn&#8217;t have been a surprise to Smith as he <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2995\" target=\"_blank\">was arrested in September<\/a><\/strong> over the same issue. <\/p>\n<p>The biggest bummer is for all the shreds who invested in this place and trusted Smith to run the business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tahoedailytribune.com\/article\/20081215\/NEWS\/812149985\/1068&amp;ParentProfile=1056&amp;title=City%20shuts%20down%20motels%20in%20tax%20dispute\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"City%20shuts%20down%20motels%20in%20tax%20dispute\">Tahoe Daily Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of South Lake Tahoe officials swarmed Marc Frank Montoya&#8217;s The Block Hotel last Thursday (December 11, 2008) and shut the place down until the hotel can pay up on more than $100,000 in back taxes it owes the city. Customers who occupied the hotel (Thursday) were allowed to stay, but the hotels will remain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3250,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}