Brad Hunt announced his resignation from the Beatty General Improvement District board of trustees at its Aug. 6 meeting.

He had been chairman and had served on the board for seven years.

Some people have made public claims that Hunt resigned because of the burro issue, but he says this had nothing to do with it.

Hunt cited several reasons for his resignation. For one, he said he was tired and had been feeling burned out for a couple of years.

Besides his supervisory job with the state Department of Transportation, Hunt has been putting in a lot of time working with Dave Spicer, owner of Neanderthal Stone, to build that business, which he said could bring more good-paying jobs to Beatty.

"I felt like I was trying to get 26 hours out of a 24-hour day," he said, "and BGID was suffering."

Hunt also expressed frustration with red tape and bureaucracy in working with some of the BGID projects. "I'm the physical type," he said. "I just want to get out and do stuff."

Hunt can look back at some significant achievements of his tenure with BGID, probably the most visible of which is the redesign of the town park. The organization also brought people to town for paintball tournaments, worked with off-road racers and accomplished a major cleanup and flood-control project in the Amargosa River bed through town.

Another aspect of the river cleanup was the channeling of water to avoid stagnant pools that would breed mosquitoes. Hunt also oversaw the mosquito control program, something he says he will continue.

"When we started, Beatty had the highest concentration of mosquitoes in the state," said Hunt, adding that only a couple of those trapped tested positive for the West Nile virus.

Now the count in the traps has dropped from 150 to 300 down to one or two.