Editorial: State Parks cuts save 0.05% of budget shortfall
September 3rd, 2009 by Geoff, Executive Director
closeAuthor: Geoff, Executive Director
Name: Geoffrey McQuilkin
Title: Executive Director
About: Geoff's goals for the Committee are: assuring Mono Lake's continuing protection, restoring Mono Lake's tributary streams, developing a permanent education program, and assuring that the strong tradition of scientific research at Mono Lake continues. A graduate of Harvard in the history of science, Geoff has worked for the Committee since 1992 and was an intern and volunteer before that. He's happy to live close to the lake with his wife Sarah and their daughters Caelen and Ellery.See All Posts by Geoffrey (105)
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The Sacramento Bee points out the many problems, and a few solutions, to the State Parks budget woes:
For starters, the park closures would save only $14 million, or one-twentieth of 1 percent of the $26 billion shortfall the entire budget plan sought to solve. For that relatively tiny amount of money, the state is going to go through, and cause, a tremendous amount of heartache.
Full editorial: Sacramento Bee State parks are economic engine
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