[Vision2020] Sen. Schroeder Proposes Plan to Gut Parks andRecreation Board

[Art Deco]

This confirms what many of us concluded last year:  Schroeder is in his dotage.

W.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Hansen 
  To: Moscow Vision 2020 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 3:14 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Sen. Schroeder Proposes Plan to Gut Parks andRecreation Board


  Courtesy of the Lewiston Tribune.

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  Sen. Schroeder proposes plan to gut Parks and Recreation Board

  January 27, 2010, 3:07 pm
  Bruce Wyatt - State Farm

  BOISE - A north central Idaho lawmaker angry over the Parks and Recreation
  Board move to end state funding for Dworshak State Park has retaliated by
  proposing to gut the six-member panel's power.

  Sen. Gary Schroeder, R-Moscow, accused the Parks Board today of
  mismanagement by locking Dworshak's gates in December while it still had
  nearly a dozen parks planners at agency headquarters east of Boise,
  positions he called "fluff."

  His bill would make the Parks Board's role advisory only and strip its
  members of authority to appoint the agency's director, giving that to the
  governor instead.

  Schroeder suggested Parks Director Nancy Merrill's and Gov. C.L. (Butch)
  Otter's plan to fire 25 employees, including the planning staff, to help
  save $4.5 million in fiscal year 2011 could be in danger, without his
  bill.

  Merrill and Otter declined separately to comment. Parks Board Chairman
  Steve Klatt didn't return a phone call.

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  Hmmm.

  Seeya round town, Moscow.

  Tom Hansen
  Moscow, Idaho

  "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
  and the Realist adjusts his sails."

  - Unknown


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