Timeshare Resort Dissolves Board, Special Master to Oversee Future Election

    Alex Hoeft
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    Timeshare Resort Dissolves Board, Special Master to Oversee Future Election
    A SPECIAL MASTER has been appointed by the Washoe County Second Judicial Court to oversee a special election for the Club Tahoe Association, a timeshare resort in Incline Village. The appointment comes after nearly a year of allegations over unfair elections, recall efforts, ongoing litigation, and a paralysis of resort operations. Photo by Nina Miller/Moonshine Ink

      INCLINE VILLAGE

      An April 1 order in Washoe County’s Second Judicial Court requires that a special master be appointed for Club Tahoe, a 50-year-old timeshare resort based in Incline Village that has faced multiple disputes over the past several months, including the attempted functioning of two boards, neither of which recognized the other. 

      As a result, there is currently no board of directors for the Club Tahoe Association. In lieu, the special master will oversee an election for the association’s board of directors, as well as “manage, supervise, and maintain the Association up and until a new Board of Directors has been elected and fully established within their roles and corresponding responsibilities,” according to order documentation.

      Over the past couple years, Club Tahoe has faced numerous challenges, not limited to recall efforts; two simultaneous boards; changing management companies and litigation; and a paralysis of operations amid the aforementioned events. Moonshine Ink last reported on the situation in February 2026 in the article titled Save Club Tahoe: Owners Push Back as Legal Battles and Board Infighting Threaten Near 50-Year-Old Resort.

      Serving as special master is E. Alan Tiras, who performed as Incline Village–Crystal Bay Justice of the Peace from 2006 to January 2025 and has lived in the jurisdiction full-time since 1990. He described the special master position to Moonshine as a “junior judge” who is “assigned to look out after a certain subpart of the larger matter and then to report back to the presiding judge and keep her/him apprised of what’s going on.”

      Tiras said he sees the situation at hand as more of a mediation than a strictly special master situation. “I’m trying to get everyone on the same page [so] at the end of it everyone can say yes, everything was fair.”

      At present, he said both legal parties are in a healthy and collaborative environment, undergoing discussions to create procedures for the election, which Tiras anticipates taking place in October or November.

      “I really want there to be as much participation as we can possibly have because this is their board and I want them to have a say in who their board is,” he said. “The more the merrier.”

      Tiras is being paid for his work, the cost of which is to be shared evenly between the parties. “Any fees and costs paid by a party may be reallocated by the Court in its discretion,” states the court order, “and an award of costs at the conclusion of the case may include an award of all fees and costs incurred with the Special Master.”

      Brian Arnold, Club Tahoe owner and treasurer of what was known as the recall board, said of the court decision, “I don’t see it as a home run, [but] it’s definitely a huge turning point. The fact that [the previous board] is no longer in power and that we’ll have a fair election … I like where we’re at now.”

      Read the court order in full here. Read Tiras’s first letter to Club Tahoe owners here.

      Owners seeking ongoing information about the situation, including future Q&As and FAQs, should visit clubtahoe.com and sign into the ownership portal.

      ~ AH