Gov. Butch Otter and state Parks Director Nancy Merrill have announced a plan to save $4.5 million at the state parks department next year - but not to eliminate it. “We will remain the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation, by changing our management philosophy and operating more like a business,” Merrill said. “The emphasis as we move forward will be balancing expenditures with revenues.”  Said Otter, “The whole idea that we were going to eliminate the parks department was dead wrong”/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise. More here. 

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