LVCVA To Provide Administrative Services For Las Vegas Stadium Board Through Sept. 2026


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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Officially speaking, the Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board and the LVCVA public tourism agency are separate.

But Steve Hill is a common link.

Steve Hill, LVCVA head

He’s chairman of the stadium board, which is charged with making sure the Raiders and A’s comply with the state stadium subsidy bills that earmarked more than $1 billion in public assistance to help the NFL and MLB teams build their palatial venues in the Strip corridor.

Hill is also CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), charged with attracting money-spending visitors to Las Vegas’ this tourism-based economy.

So, when Las Vegas consultant Jeremy Aguero stepped down as the administrative support for the stadium board because he took a consulting job with the A’s in 2023, Aguero’s friend, Hill, did not have to look far to fill the job opening.

Jeremy Aguero and Steve Hill after Aguero’s final Las Vegas stadium board meeting in 2023.

 

Steve Hill far left and Jeremy Aguero far right with A’s executives Marc Badain and Sandy Dean at A’s spring training game in Las Vegas Saturday.

Hill the stadium board chairman hired his tourism agency, the LVCVA, to take over for Aguero, an owner of Applied Analysis.

On Tuesday, the LVCVA board cemented the relationship between stadium board and tourism agency by renewing the work contract between the stadium board and the LVCVA. It was a formality as there were no objections. The LVCVA services for the stadium board were extended through Sept. 30, 2026 with a fiscal impact of $150,000.

The LVCVA’s Ed Finger, the tourism organization’s chief strategy officer, is the staffer who handles the stadium board work load.

Here’s the cost for the work:


 

Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.