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JFAC has approved a parks budget for next year that includes a 79.4 percent cut in state general funds from this year, a 25.9 percent increase in federal funds, and a 13.4 percent decrease in dedicated funds, for an overall reduction of 20.8 percent for fiscal year 2011. The joint committee also agreed unanimously to give the parks department “lump sum” authority, allowing it to move funding around if necessary to cope with the cuts; plus spending authority to spend any amount it receives from donations or fees. The budget matches the revised “business plan” that the parks director and governor agreed on and that was OK’d by the parks board.
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State_of_Idiots on March 09 at 1:41 a.m.
Of the handful of Idaho’s significant natural (economic) handicaps is its isolation (the others: weather & xenophobic culture). One way to overcome that isolation is to have a first-rate state park system, especially in a state with such unsurpassed natural beauty.
But nooooo, the morons in the Idaho Legislature, who always (since wee childhood) have focused their economic gaze on costs, costs, costs… totally neglect the entire other side of that equation: income.
As a result they never see the (easily) justifiable mission of state government as “investing” in things for a “return”. (Wow! what a concept!)
The same low-brow, low-class, “budget-budget-budget” mentality is applied to everything Idaho state government could be ‘investing’ in– i.e. parks, education, healthcare, infrastructure, etc. We’re near the absolute tipping point in terms of massive negative returns to the state, as this kind of thinking is several decades old.
Get ready folks…any day now.