More news on Sacramento mismanagement of state parks funds
August 20th, 2012 by Geoff, Executive Director
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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 has been investigating the millions of dollars that were set aside and covered up by Sacramento administrators of the state park system. The initial news led to the resignation of State Park Director Ruth Coleman; over the past weekend the Bee reported more details.
Official investigation reports are still pending and will reveal the full story. But with State Parks scrambling to stay open, it’s never good to read quotes like this about the administrators in question: he “fell into the trap of thinking of it as—as his own money … that money is the department’s and it needs to be spent on the department’s priorities.”
Sacramento Bee: California parks officials were looking to spend while shortchanging parks, documents show
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/19/4738279/california-parks-officials-were.html#storylink=cpy
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August 23rd, 2012 at 10:49 am
It makes me hurt that the people in California have to suffer losing tax money meant for the parks which we deserve to go to on our vacations. Shame on the people who did that to us, “we the people”.