About Us

We are North Tahoe residents working to give our community a stronger voice in its own future.

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We believe you should have more say in the decisions that affect your roads, services, growth, and quality of life. This effort is about one simple question: should North Tahoe have its own town government?

Our goal is to help you understand what incorporation could mean for your community, your family, and the future of the place you call home.

Want to get in touch? Contact us here.

Why We Are Doing This

Too many important decisions that affect North Tahoe are made outside the community.

We believe it is worth asking whether those decisions should be made closer to home, by people who live here and live with the results. For you, that means a stronger local voice and a bigger role in shaping what comes next.

How This Effort Got Here

This work began with Eastern Placer Future, a local nonprofit created to study whether incorporation was a real option for North Tahoe.

That early work helped fund research, gather community input, and support the petition effort that moved this process forward.

The Committee to Incorporate North Tahoe is building on prior and ongoing work by Eastern Placer Future. Learn more HERE.

Now the effort is moving into a more public stage. Eastern Placer Future continues the underlying process work, while the Committee to Incorporate North Tahoe leads public outreach and community engagement.

What This Means for You

You do not need to be an expert to care about this.

If you live here, this effort is about your voice, your community, and your future. Whether you already support incorporation, have concerns, or are still deciding, you deserve clear information and a real chance to be part of the conversation.

Who We Are

Meet the Interim Executive Committee of Eastern Placer Future.

Alex Min

Alex Min moved to Tahoe City in 2000 from Breckenridge Colorado where he started his Real Estate career. Upon arriving in Tahoe, Alex continued his Real Estate career with Sierra Sotheby’s International Realty where he remains today. Alex has also served on the Tahoe Sierra Board of Realtors for two consecutive terms and Alex has also volunteered with Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue for many years on the snowmobile team. The highlight of Alex’s life has definitely been raising his two amazing Tahoe kids who were born and raised in the area and are now in middle and high school, both of whom are outstanding athletes and thriving in the Tahoe region. “My kids are the main reason I am so passionate about taking care of the beautiful area we call home. I want to see our community grow into an area that we can all be proud of and that our kids can steward into the future generations.”

Andrew Ryan

Andrew Ryan has been a North Tahoe resident since 1997 and operates a local civil engineering business. He is a strong advocate for bottom-up, community-driven governance and believes that true stewardship grows from the lived experience of small business ownership, stable housing, and/or raising a family within the community. With decades of regional project experience, including his and his partner’s own small-scale local developments, Andrew supports incremental, resilient redevelopment. He prioritizes improvements that strengthen a community’s sense of place and reflect the needs of its people. He envisions North Lake communities that continually evolve and adapt in response to the stakeholders who live, work, visit and love them.

Christian Brown

A local attorney and longtime Tahoe City resident, Chris is a 1993 graduate of North Tahoe High School. After attending the University of Michigan Law School, he practiced with a large, international law firm in San Francisco for 10 years before moving home with his wife Jamie (a 1994 North Tahoe High grad) to raise their kids. Chris is the founder of Elevation Law P.C. in Tahoe City, where he focuses on litigation, real estate, business law and employment matters.

Gene Roeder

Gene Roeder is a forensic psychologist who earned his Ph.D. in 1979 and opened his practice in Auburn in 1984. He has been appointed by the Superior Courts throughout Northern California in thousands of cases, his opinions have been cited in numerous appeal court decisions, and he has appeared on programs such as Dateline and 20/20. He and his wife Candace built their first home in Northstar in 2010 and have been living here fulltime since 2020. He was appointed by the Board of Supervisors to the North Tahoe Regional Advisory Council in 2014, has served as Chair and Vice Chair and continues to serve on the Council presently. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the Northstar Property Owners Association in 2024 and is the association Treasurer, while Candace is on the board of the Northstar Community Services District. He recently served as the treasurer for the Measure U campaign to provide long term funding for defensible space work in the Northstar community.

Dave Williams

Dave has been part of the Lake Tahoe Tahoe Community since 2002, originally as a second homeowner and eventually becoming a permanent resident in 2013. He and his wife, Cindy, live on the West Shore where they raised their three kids (Ryan, Lola & Josh). Throughout his professional career, Dave has served in various executive leadership roles (including CEO of four different companies). Since settling in Lake Tahoe locally, he founded and current operates a property management business, Mountain Getaways. He has also actively served on various local Boards including Treasurer of the Lake Tahoe Park Association and Treasurer of the Truckee-Tahoe Swim Team. Dave believes in sound fiscal management that’s reflective of good planning and supportive of the business community and those who live, work, and visit our beautiful area.

Heidi Spirigi

Heidi is an executive coach, consultant, and strategic advisor with three decades of operating experience as a founder and executive in high tech and professional services. Heidi works with companies and leaders seeking to scale by building leaders and teams willing to challenge themselves and undergo deep change. She serves on the TOT Advisory Committee of the North Tahoe Community Alliance and previously served on the board of the SNOW Sports Museum. A long-time visitor to Tahoe, Heidi moved to Tahoe City in 2020 and cares deeply about cultivating a vibrant and sustainable North Tahoe community.

Kevin Drake

Kevin is co-founder and CEO of Alibi Ale Works, which operates two community-centric brewpubs in North Lake Tahoe and Truckee. Prior to founding Alibi in 2014, Kevin spent 15 years working in watershed science and restoration consulting in the Tahoe area. He also serves on the Board of North Tahoe Community Alliance, as Placer County’s representative on the TRPA Advisory Planning Commission and is a member of the Kings Beach District Committee (formerly the NTBA’s Economic Vitality Committee). Kevin is a 20-year resident of Kings Beach and is passionate about creating lasting vitality and resilience in our community.

Maggie Steakley

Maggie has been a resident of King Beach for over a decade and works from home as public policy constant, providing facilitation; project management; policy analysis; interest holder engagement; strategic planning; and written, visual and verbal communications. Maggie specialized in education and early education policy, but has also worked with a number of local clients on strategic planning processes. She also serves as the chair of the North Tahoe Regional Advisory Council (NTRAC), and is an appointed member of the First 5 Placer Children and Families Commission (First 5 Placer). Maggie enjoys skiing, time on trails, birding and naturalism, board games, reading, and traveling. She holds a Masters of Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at University of California Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History, University of Vermont.

Samir Tuma

Samir is active in local civic life as a board member of the Tahoe Housing Hub, North Tahoe Community Alliance and as a member of the Interim Executive Committee of Eastern Placer Future. He is the Founder of Kila Properties, a real estate development firm focusing on lodging and workforce housing projects in the Tahoe basin. Previously, Samir served as a planning commissioner, start-up executive and an attorney in private practice.

Sarah Coolidge

Sarah Coolidge has been deeply rooted in the North Tahoe region since the 1960s and has dedicated much of her life to the well-being of our mountain community. With decades of leadership and community organizing experience, Sarah brings both heart and strategy to local efforts that protect the environment, support working families, and foster long-term sustainability. She currently serves her third term on the Board of Directors for the North Tahoe Public Utility District, where she has held the role of Board President and worked to ensure responsive, transparent governance. Sarah’s passion for collaboration and local control is what fuels her involvement with Eastern Placer Future, a natural extension of her lifelong commitment to helping this region thrive now and well into the future.

Steve Teshara

Steve has been active in community service for more than 40 years, with a focus on public-private partnerships and community-based initiatives. As a volunteer, he has supported various special events and programs unique to our region. Steve is widely recognized for his ability to “connect the dots” bringing people and organizations together to identify and implement solutions to a variety of community challenges and opportunities.

Wally Auerbach

Wally is a 45-year resident of North Tahoe and the President of Auerbach Engineering Corporation in Tahoe City. He served for many years as the Chair of the Infrastructure Committee of the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association (now the North Tahoe Community Alliance) and as the Chair of that board. He also served on the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation for many years, with several years as Chair. Wally has been an advocate for investigating the possibilities of local control in North Tahoe since assisting the Town of Truckee through their initial years of local government formation in the early 1990s.

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