• Dina Cipollaro, who with Virginia Boyar runs Fundamental Training Solutions, will be leading two sessions on customer service at the Vacation Rental Management Association conference in Reno next month. Cipollaro is based in Arizona, while Boyar is in South Lake Tahoe.

Dina Cipollaro and Virginia Boyar

• On April 15 at 4 pm the South Lake Tahoe City Council is having a special meeting to discuss Councilman Bruce Grego’s reimbursement for outside legal counsel. Meeting is at Lake Tahoe Airport.

• Sudeep Chandra, an assistant professor of limnology and conservation ecology at UNR, received the American Fisheries Society California-Nevada Chapter highest honor of excellence award for work on Nevada — Lake Tahoe, Lake Mead, Walker Lake, Pyramid Lake and the Truckee River.

• The Reno-Tahoe Open is boosting the purse for the July tournament to $3.5 million from $3 million. Last year this PGA tournament had the smallest purse on the tour.

• Squaw Valley plans to keep its slopes open through May 9. Skiers and boarders can go to Mammoth until July 4.

• Gardnerville’s JT Basque Bar & Dining Room is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month.