<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>What is the Senator's beef with this park? Doesn't he know the Idaho Republican Leadership screwed our budget up and some things have to be cut?</DIV>
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<DIV>They should hire private corporations to manage state parks. That would save millions for the state.</DIV>
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<DIV>If he wants to get overheated about something, how about the elimination of Idaho Public Television? It is sad that we have a Governor that thinks Family Guy is an adequate replacement for Sesame Street, so we don't need public educational television. </DIV>
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<DIV>Your Friend,</DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan Arnold<BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 1/27/10, Tom Hansen <I><thansen@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><BR>Subject: [Vision2020] Sen. Schroeder Proposes Plan to Gut Parks and Recreation Board<BR>To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><BR>Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 11:14 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Courtesy of the <SPAN>Lewiston</SPAN> Tribune.<BR><BR>--------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Sen. Schroeder proposes plan to gut Parks and Recreation Board<BR><BR>January 27, 2010, 3:07 pm<BR>Bruce Wyatt - State Farm<BR><BR>BOISE - A north central Idaho lawmaker angry over the Parks and Recreation<BR>Board move to end state funding for Dworshak State Park has retaliated by<BR>proposing to gut the six-member panel's power.<BR><BR>Sen. Gary Schroeder, R-Moscow, accused the Parks Board today of<BR>mismanagement by locking <SPAN>Dworshak's</SPAN> gates in December while it still had<BR>nearly a dozen parks planners at agency headquarters east of Boise,<BR>positions he called "fluff."<BR><BR>His bill would make the Parks Board's role advisory only and strip its<BR>members of authority to appoint the agency's director, giving that to the<BR>governor instead.<BR><BR>Schroeder suggested Parks Director Nancy Merrill's
and Gov. C.L. (Butch)<BR>Otter's plan to fire 25 employees, including the planning staff, to help<BR>save $4.5 million in fiscal year 2011 could be in danger, without his<BR>bill.<BR><BR>Merrill and Otter declined separately to comment. Parks Board Chairman<BR>Steve Klatt didn't return a phone call..<BR><BR>--------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Hmmm.<BR><BR>Seeya round town, Moscow.<BR><BR>Tom Hansen<BR>Moscow, Idaho<BR><BR>"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change<BR>and the Realist adjusts his sails."<BR><BR>- Unknown<BR><BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR> <A href="http://www.fsr.net/" target=_blank>http://www.fsr.net</A>
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