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Rush-era freight wagons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State Parks curators Ross McGuire and Nancy Jenner, as well as State Parks Librarian Ellen Halteman, tell the stories of the items below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read and listen to the full story at \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201307051630/d\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a>. (All photos by Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/001/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102371\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102371\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/001.jpg\" alt=\"The California State Parks warehouse \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state parks warehouse northeast of Sacramento is vast -- and crowded with an array of objects that gives it the air of a Hollywood back lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/002/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102372\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102372\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/002.jpg\" alt=\"Historical Frieght Wagon\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Nancy Jenner, the parks department curator, the freight wagon on the left was donated by Charles Henry Huffman, who came to California at the start of the Gold Rush in 1848. He decided he'd make a better living hauling supplies to the mines than he would as a prospector. Huffman had this wagon built in 1855 for a cost of $2,700. He used a team of 12 mules to haul the wagon and freight to the gold fields.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wagon was donated to historic Sutter's Fort in downtown Sacramento in the 1890s. One observer wrote that \"though many museums and historical societies wanted this old freighter, Mr. Huffman believed that the one place it should go was Sutter's Fort, past which it had traveled many times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It ended up at the fort, where it was parked outside, exposed to the elements, for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/004/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102375\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102375\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/004.jpg\" alt=\"Detailed Bathtub\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bathtub that was used in the Governor's Mansion in the 1920s now sits protected in the parks warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/005-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102376\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102376\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/005.jpg\" alt=\"Barber Chairs\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These 1860s-era wooden barber chairs feature velvet cushions. One was used at the Hotel Truckee and eventually ended up in the Sutter's Fort collection. The larger barber chair date from the 1910s to the 1940s and would have been the kind of chair used in a classic barber shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/006/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102377\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/006.jpg\" alt=\"Dairy Equipment\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A collection of dairy canisters and distilling equipment sits on shelves. They are from a small-scale dairy farm from the late 19th or early 20th century. The state parks system includes several parks in Sonoma and Mendocino that were coastal dairies, shipping butter and cheese by ship to San Francisco, according to Ross McGuire of the parks department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/007-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102378\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102378\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/007.jpg\" alt=\"Railroad Ledgers\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,400 ledgers from the Southern Pacific Railroad, or subsidiary and predecessor companies, are housed in the warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most are accounting records from the 19th century, but there are also records from the land and operating departments. The earliest ledger is a township tract book dated 1856 and the latest is a Southern Pacific Transportation Co. Interline Freight Account ledger from 1980, according to California State Parks librarian Ellen Halteman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/008/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102379\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102379\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/008.jpg\" alt=\"Processed Ledgers\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the 1,400 railroad ledgers after they've been cataloged, cleaned, boxed and wrapped in acid-free paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/009/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102380\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102380\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/009.jpg\" alt=\"Protecting the treasures\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Victorian baby carriage is one of the many thousands of items that are placed on blocks of Styrofoam, strapped into stabilizing contraptions of wood and Plexiglas, and carefully housed in a concrete room with light, temperature and humidity controls. You can't stop organic materials from decaying, but you can slow the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/010/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102381\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102381\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/010.jpg\" alt=\"Details\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Victorian baby carriage was donated to Sutter's Fort in the 1940s by a family that had brought it from Iowa; they believed it had been in their family's possession since the 1860s. It is an example of how the fort was a repository of immigrants' heirlooms during the time it was the State Historical Museum, according to Nancy Jenner, a state parks curator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A strap across this carriage appears to be the first sign of a seat belt, and the detail in the iron side rails is not something that is found nowadays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/003/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102374\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102374\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/003.jpg\" alt=\"Hearse involved in California's only Civil War conflict\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hearse was used to smuggle a cannon into the Amador County town of Volcano during the Civil War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the request of local supporters of the Union, who called themselves the Volcano Blues, the cannon tube was obtained from the Presidio in San Francisco as surplus from the Mexican War. It was shipped to Ione, then hidden in a casket, loaded in the hearse, and smuggled into Volcano under cover of darkness. The cannon was unloaded at the blacksmith shop, next to Sibley's Brewery. The blacksmith constructed a cannon carriage for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cannon was used in the only Civil War skirmish in Volcano.. When local Confederate sympathizers marched down the street, intent on taking possession of the next gold shipment to help fund the Southern cause, the outnumbered Volcano Blues lined up to stop them. When told to move, the Blues stepped aside, revealing the loaded cannon. That was enough to cow the would-be Confederates, and the confrontation ended without a shot being fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/011/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102382\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102382\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/011.jpg\" alt=\"Worlds Largest Collection of Indian Baskets\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross McGuire stands in front of one of the largest collections of Indian baskets in the world—4,400 housed in the state parks' North Highlands warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baskets that range from as tiny as a teacup to large enough for bushels of acorns are individually wrapped and filled with Styrofoam peanuts to keep them from collapsing on themselves. Each has a tag describing its provenance and location in the collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their former home the baskets were triple-stacked and overcrowded. Here they are well spaced and take up a linear mile of metal shelving, 15 levels high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the baskets may have a new home in coming years, at the \u003ca title=\"California Indian Heritage Center\" href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=22628\" target=\"_blank\">California Indian Heritage Center\u003c/a>, but for now they remain protected and available to loan out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1379112747,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":933},"headData":{"title":"The Treasures Living in the California State Parks Warehouse | KQED","description":"Northeast of Sacramento, on a remote part of the former McClellan Air Force Base, there's a massive warehouse that holds a treasure trove of artifacts from early California -- items ranging from historic railroad ledgers to enormous Gold Rush-era freight wagons. California State Parks curators Ross McGuire and Nancy Jenner, as well as State Parks","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The Treasures Living in the California State Parks Warehouse","datePublished":"2013-07-05T18:19:35.000Z","dateModified":"2013-09-13T22:52:27.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"102368 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=102368","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/05/the-treasures-living-in-the-california-state-parks-warehouse/","disqusTitle":"The Treasures Living in the California State Parks Warehouse","customPermalink":"2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/","path":"/news/102368/the-treasures-living-in-the-california-state-parks-warehouse","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>Northeast of Sacramento, on a remote part of the former McClellan Air Force Base, there's a massive warehouse that holds a treasure trove of artifacts from early California -- items ranging from historic railroad ledgers to enormous Gold Rush-era freight wagons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State Parks curators Ross McGuire and Nancy Jenner, as well as State Parks Librarian Ellen Halteman, tell the stories of the items below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read and listen to the full story at \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201307051630/d\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a>. (All photos by Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/001/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102371\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102371\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/001.jpg\" alt=\"The California State Parks warehouse \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state parks warehouse northeast of Sacramento is vast -- and crowded with an array of objects that gives it the air of a Hollywood back lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/002/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102372\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102372\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/002.jpg\" alt=\"Historical Frieght Wagon\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Nancy Jenner, the parks department curator, the freight wagon on the left was donated by Charles Henry Huffman, who came to California at the start of the Gold Rush in 1848. He decided he'd make a better living hauling supplies to the mines than he would as a prospector. Huffman had this wagon built in 1855 for a cost of $2,700. He used a team of 12 mules to haul the wagon and freight to the gold fields.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wagon was donated to historic Sutter's Fort in downtown Sacramento in the 1890s. One observer wrote that \"though many museums and historical societies wanted this old freighter, Mr. Huffman believed that the one place it should go was Sutter's Fort, past which it had traveled many times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It ended up at the fort, where it was parked outside, exposed to the elements, for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/004/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102375\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102375\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/004.jpg\" alt=\"Detailed Bathtub\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bathtub that was used in the Governor's Mansion in the 1920s now sits protected in the parks warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/005-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102376\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102376\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/005.jpg\" alt=\"Barber Chairs\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These 1860s-era wooden barber chairs feature velvet cushions. One was used at the Hotel Truckee and eventually ended up in the Sutter's Fort collection. The larger barber chair date from the 1910s to the 1940s and would have been the kind of chair used in a classic barber shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/006/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102377\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/006.jpg\" alt=\"Dairy Equipment\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A collection of dairy canisters and distilling equipment sits on shelves. They are from a small-scale dairy farm from the late 19th or early 20th century. The state parks system includes several parks in Sonoma and Mendocino that were coastal dairies, shipping butter and cheese by ship to San Francisco, according to Ross McGuire of the parks department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/007-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102378\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102378\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/007.jpg\" alt=\"Railroad Ledgers\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,400 ledgers from the Southern Pacific Railroad, or subsidiary and predecessor companies, are housed in the warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most are accounting records from the 19th century, but there are also records from the land and operating departments. The earliest ledger is a township tract book dated 1856 and the latest is a Southern Pacific Transportation Co. Interline Freight Account ledger from 1980, according to California State Parks librarian Ellen Halteman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/008/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102379\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102379\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/008.jpg\" alt=\"Processed Ledgers\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the 1,400 railroad ledgers after they've been cataloged, cleaned, boxed and wrapped in acid-free paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/009/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102380\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102380\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/009.jpg\" alt=\"Protecting the treasures\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Victorian baby carriage is one of the many thousands of items that are placed on blocks of Styrofoam, strapped into stabilizing contraptions of wood and Plexiglas, and carefully housed in a concrete room with light, temperature and humidity controls. You can't stop organic materials from decaying, but you can slow the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/010/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102381\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102381\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/010.jpg\" alt=\"Details\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Victorian baby carriage was donated to Sutter's Fort in the 1940s by a family that had brought it from Iowa; they believed it had been in their family's possession since the 1860s. It is an example of how the fort was a repository of immigrants' heirlooms during the time it was the State Historical Museum, according to Nancy Jenner, a state parks curator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A strap across this carriage appears to be the first sign of a seat belt, and the detail in the iron side rails is not something that is found nowadays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/003/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102374\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102374\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/003.jpg\" alt=\"Hearse involved in California's only Civil War conflict\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hearse was used to smuggle a cannon into the Amador County town of Volcano during the Civil War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the request of local supporters of the Union, who called themselves the Volcano Blues, the cannon tube was obtained from the Presidio in San Francisco as surplus from the Mexican War. It was shipped to Ione, then hidden in a casket, loaded in the hearse, and smuggled into Volcano under cover of darkness. The cannon was unloaded at the blacksmith shop, next to Sibley's Brewery. The blacksmith constructed a cannon carriage for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cannon was used in the only Civil War skirmish in Volcano.. When local Confederate sympathizers marched down the street, intent on taking possession of the next gold shipment to help fund the Southern cause, the outnumbered Volcano Blues lined up to stop them. When told to move, the Blues stepped aside, revealing the loaded cannon. That was enough to cow the would-be Confederates, and the confrontation ended without a shot being fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/011/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102382\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102382\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/011.jpg\" alt=\"Worlds Largest Collection of Indian Baskets\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross McGuire stands in front of one of the largest collections of Indian baskets in the world—4,400 housed in the state parks' North Highlands warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baskets that range from as tiny as a teacup to large enough for bushels of acorns are individually wrapped and filled with Styrofoam peanuts to keep them from collapsing on themselves. Each has a tag describing its provenance and location in the collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their former home the baskets were triple-stacked and overcrowded. Here they are well spaced and take up a linear mile of metal shelving, 15 levels high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the baskets may have a new home in coming years, at the \u003ca title=\"California Indian Heritage Center\" href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=22628\" target=\"_blank\">California Indian Heritage Center\u003c/a>, but for now they remain protected and available to loan out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/102368/the-treasures-living-in-the-california-state-parks-warehouse","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_6944"],"tags":["news_152","news_160","news_2461","news_2905","news_95","news_566"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_97365":{"type":"posts","id":"news_97365","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"97365","score":null,"sort":[1369227015000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"locals-still-picking-up-the-slack-for-californias-needy-state-parks-but-for-how-long","title":"Will Locals Keep Paying for State Parks They Saved?","publishDate":1369227015,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Two years ago this month, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/\">California Department of Parks & Recreation\u003c/a> announced a list of 70 parks it planned to close. Park lovers rallied, giving their time and money to pick up the parks the state was willing to drop off. There is no closure list now, and the department is under \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201301150900\">new management\u003c/a>, but the financial crisis has not passed. Those park lovers are now wondering how long they’re going to carry an extra load.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97368\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/palomarvolunteers/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97368\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-97368 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/PalomarVolunteers-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Left to right: Rosemary Johnston, Rick Barclay, Bob Hillestad wear sun hats and sun screen on a regular basis to volunteer at Palomar Mountain State Park in San Diego County.\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Rosemary Johnston, Rick Barclay, Bob Hillstead wear sun hats and sun screen on a regular basis to volunteer at Palomar Mountain State Park in San Diego County. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This time of year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=637\">Palomar Mountain State Park\u003c/a> smells wonderfully fragrant, a mix of oak and pine and earth. Woodpeckers chatter with each other in the trees, and purple lupine dots the landscape. Twelve miles of trails offer stunning vistas of valleys to the north and south of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those simple charms won over Rick Barclay of Temecula about 15 years ago. Somehow, he went from casual day hiking, to trail maintenance, to running \u003ca href=\"http://www.friendsofpalomarsp.org\">Friends of Palomar Mountain State Park\u003c/a>, established two years ago, after park system officials put Palomar on a closure list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re like parents,\" Barclay says. \"You may have a kid, but I love my kid, and this is my kid we’re talking about. I’m sure all of the other parks have a lot of things going for them. I haven’t been to all of them, so I can’t say that this park is worthy of staying open more than every other park that there is, but this is my park.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>Friends of Palomar has raised $190,000 in the last two years from more than 300 people, most of them from San Diego and Riverside Counties. Signs of the group's involvement are everywhere. Even the $2 trail map for sale in the ranger’s kiosk is theirs. Recently, they organized and funded the replacement of about a dozen bathroom doors at two campgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97369\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/bathroom-doors/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97369\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-97369 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Bathroom-Doors-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"It doesn't look like much, but these new bathroom doors will do a lot to draw back visitors to Palomar's campgrounds. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">They may not look like much, but these new bathroom doors will do a lot to draw visitors back to Palomar's campgrounds. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"This is how bad things have gotten,\" Barclay muses. \"We are celebrating bathroom doors being replaced the same way that we would if we were opening up a new trail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Friends of Palomar set up a “donor agreement” with the parks department. The nonprofit donates $38,000 a year to the agency to cover Palomar’s operating deficit, along with a wish list of things to spend the rest of money they've raised on. Yes, there's a list. The Friends would like to see cabins installed at the campgrounds, the Boucher Hill fire tower restored, and Doane Pond cleared of the cattail trying to transform it from a watering hole with fish into a meadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’d love to have State Parks fix that problem,\" Barclay says. \"We’d love to give them money to fix that problem. Our hope is the kind of improvements that we want to make will help to generate revenue as well. Then maybe, one day, the park can actually be self-sufficient. It can pay for itself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some folks have suggested some nonprofits might \u003cem>fully\u003c/em> adopt the parks the state can’t afford to run. But the math doesn’t add up in most of the more than 50 cases where a nonprofit is helping or fixing to help a state park stay open. Take Palomar. It costs the state roughly $220,000 every year—and that’s only counting direct expenses, not costs like regional management—or hundreds of thousands of dollars of deferred maintenance. Just the same, it has occurred to Barclay that Sacramento might continue to lean on Friends of Palomar for that extra $38,000 a year indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Is this a state park or is not?\" Barclay asks. \"If it’s a state park, then the state should support it. Do whatever it takes to keep it robust. Not limping along the way it has been over these several years. It’s been a long time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97371\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/view-from-fire-tower/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97371\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-97371 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/View-from-Fire-Tower-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Boucher Hill Fire Lookout offers a fabulous view of Aguanga Valley—as well as damage from the Poomacha Fire.(Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boucher Hill Fire Lookout offers a fabulous view of Pauma Valley—as well as damage from the Poomacha Fire of 2007. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Friends of Palomar—and the state—are going to continue to rely on generous local donors like Bob Wilson of Rancho Santa Fe. He grew up in Escondido, looking up at that mountain every day, going up there with his parents to visit the famous \u003ca href=\"http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/\">Palomar Observatory\u003c/a>, see snow in the wintertime, and in warmer weather, camp a mile high in the sky. Even if he did get the worst case of poison oak he ever suffered from Palomar Mountain. Fond memories like that one inspired Wilson to give Friends $30,000—its biggest donation—to help seed the group’s fundraising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hope that people will step up,\" Wilson says. \"Certainly, I’m of a mind to challenge them if they want to do that. I think that they’re out there and we have to make sure that they understand what the conditions are, what they could be, and what they should be doing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is likely to remain a live one for at least another year. Governor Jerry Brown’s latest budget proposal doesn’t include the kind of money it would take for the parks department to re-shoulder the load for Palomar and parks like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After news broke of as much as $29 million dollars \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/04/california-state-parks-investigation-report-released/\">unreported\u003c/a> at State Park headquarters in Sacramento, a number of people who’d pledged money to Palomar pulled back. That money has since been set aside as a pool of matching grants for groups like Friends of Palomar, and the group is applying. That said, it doesn't hurt local fundraising efforts to point out that every dollar donated to the nonprofit is directed to Palomar park, not some general operating fund in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Barclay and Wilson lament the way California's infrastructure is fraying. \"My concern is that now we’re in maintenance mode,\" says Barclay. \"We’re just trying to cobble the bridges back together, and cobble the streets back together. Why aren’t we opening more state parks? You know, we’re talking about just staying open. Why aren’t we expanding our territory?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97488\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/dylan/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97488\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-97488 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Dylan-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Dylan Unis, 4, of San Diego considers the first fish he's ever caught. (Credit: KQED/Rachael Myrow)\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four-year-old Dylan Unis of San Diego considers the first fish he's ever caught, a trout from Doane Pond. (Credit: KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's not just an issue with the Department of Parks and Recreation. The 6th grade school camp (aka \u003ca href=\"http://www.palomarmountain.com/outdoorschool.html\">Palomar Outdoor School\u003c/a>) closed in 2011 because its operator, the San Diego Unified School District, can't afford it any longer. \"Those fond memories are not being generated now,\" Barclay says. \"That’s a facility that’s going to waste, and it’s an opportunity that’s going to waste as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Friends of Palomar Mountain State Park is doing what it can to get the word out to Southern California: first, that there's a state park up on the mountain; and second, public donations help it thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Funds for coverage of California state parks are provided by the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F93230729\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1379112525,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1279},"headData":{"title":"Will Locals Keep Paying for State Parks They Saved? | KQED","description":"Two years ago this month, the California Department of Parks & Recreation announced a list of 70 parks it planned to close. Park lovers rallied, giving their time and money to pick up the parks the state was willing to drop off. There is no closure list now, and the department is under new management,","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Will Locals Keep Paying for State Parks They Saved?","datePublished":"2013-05-22T12:50:15.000Z","dateModified":"2013-09-13T22:48:45.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"97365 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=97365","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/22/locals-still-picking-up-the-slack-for-californias-needy-state-parks-but-for-how-long/","disqusTitle":"Will Locals Keep Paying for State Parks They Saved?","customPermalink":"volunteer-groups-helping-california-state-parks/","path":"/news/97365/locals-still-picking-up-the-slack-for-californias-needy-state-parks-but-for-how-long","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two years ago this month, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/\">California Department of Parks & Recreation\u003c/a> announced a list of 70 parks it planned to close. Park lovers rallied, giving their time and money to pick up the parks the state was willing to drop off. There is no closure list now, and the department is under \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201301150900\">new management\u003c/a>, but the financial crisis has not passed. Those park lovers are now wondering how long they’re going to carry an extra load.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97368\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/palomarvolunteers/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97368\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-97368 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/PalomarVolunteers-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Left to right: Rosemary Johnston, Rick Barclay, Bob Hillestad wear sun hats and sun screen on a regular basis to volunteer at Palomar Mountain State Park in San Diego County.\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Rosemary Johnston, Rick Barclay, Bob Hillstead wear sun hats and sun screen on a regular basis to volunteer at Palomar Mountain State Park in San Diego County. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This time of year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=637\">Palomar Mountain State Park\u003c/a> smells wonderfully fragrant, a mix of oak and pine and earth. Woodpeckers chatter with each other in the trees, and purple lupine dots the landscape. Twelve miles of trails offer stunning vistas of valleys to the north and south of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those simple charms won over Rick Barclay of Temecula about 15 years ago. Somehow, he went from casual day hiking, to trail maintenance, to running \u003ca href=\"http://www.friendsofpalomarsp.org\">Friends of Palomar Mountain State Park\u003c/a>, established two years ago, after park system officials put Palomar on a closure list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re like parents,\" Barclay says. \"You may have a kid, but I love my kid, and this is my kid we’re talking about. I’m sure all of the other parks have a lot of things going for them. I haven’t been to all of them, so I can’t say that this park is worthy of staying open more than every other park that there is, but this is my park.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>Friends of Palomar has raised $190,000 in the last two years from more than 300 people, most of them from San Diego and Riverside Counties. Signs of the group's involvement are everywhere. Even the $2 trail map for sale in the ranger’s kiosk is theirs. Recently, they organized and funded the replacement of about a dozen bathroom doors at two campgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97369\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/bathroom-doors/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97369\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-97369 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Bathroom-Doors-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"It doesn't look like much, but these new bathroom doors will do a lot to draw back visitors to Palomar's campgrounds. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">They may not look like much, but these new bathroom doors will do a lot to draw visitors back to Palomar's campgrounds. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"This is how bad things have gotten,\" Barclay muses. \"We are celebrating bathroom doors being replaced the same way that we would if we were opening up a new trail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Friends of Palomar set up a “donor agreement” with the parks department. The nonprofit donates $38,000 a year to the agency to cover Palomar’s operating deficit, along with a wish list of things to spend the rest of money they've raised on. Yes, there's a list. The Friends would like to see cabins installed at the campgrounds, the Boucher Hill fire tower restored, and Doane Pond cleared of the cattail trying to transform it from a watering hole with fish into a meadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’d love to have State Parks fix that problem,\" Barclay says. \"We’d love to give them money to fix that problem. Our hope is the kind of improvements that we want to make will help to generate revenue as well. Then maybe, one day, the park can actually be self-sufficient. It can pay for itself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some folks have suggested some nonprofits might \u003cem>fully\u003c/em> adopt the parks the state can’t afford to run. But the math doesn’t add up in most of the more than 50 cases where a nonprofit is helping or fixing to help a state park stay open. Take Palomar. It costs the state roughly $220,000 every year—and that’s only counting direct expenses, not costs like regional management—or hundreds of thousands of dollars of deferred maintenance. Just the same, it has occurred to Barclay that Sacramento might continue to lean on Friends of Palomar for that extra $38,000 a year indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Is this a state park or is not?\" Barclay asks. \"If it’s a state park, then the state should support it. Do whatever it takes to keep it robust. Not limping along the way it has been over these several years. It’s been a long time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97371\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/view-from-fire-tower/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97371\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-97371 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/View-from-Fire-Tower-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Boucher Hill Fire Lookout offers a fabulous view of Aguanga Valley—as well as damage from the Poomacha Fire.(Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boucher Hill Fire Lookout offers a fabulous view of Pauma Valley—as well as damage from the Poomacha Fire of 2007. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Friends of Palomar—and the state—are going to continue to rely on generous local donors like Bob Wilson of Rancho Santa Fe. He grew up in Escondido, looking up at that mountain every day, going up there with his parents to visit the famous \u003ca href=\"http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/\">Palomar Observatory\u003c/a>, see snow in the wintertime, and in warmer weather, camp a mile high in the sky. Even if he did get the worst case of poison oak he ever suffered from Palomar Mountain. Fond memories like that one inspired Wilson to give Friends $30,000—its biggest donation—to help seed the group’s fundraising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hope that people will step up,\" Wilson says. \"Certainly, I’m of a mind to challenge them if they want to do that. I think that they’re out there and we have to make sure that they understand what the conditions are, what they could be, and what they should be doing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is likely to remain a live one for at least another year. Governor Jerry Brown’s latest budget proposal doesn’t include the kind of money it would take for the parks department to re-shoulder the load for Palomar and parks like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After news broke of as much as $29 million dollars \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/04/california-state-parks-investigation-report-released/\">unreported\u003c/a> at State Park headquarters in Sacramento, a number of people who’d pledged money to Palomar pulled back. That money has since been set aside as a pool of matching grants for groups like Friends of Palomar, and the group is applying. That said, it doesn't hurt local fundraising efforts to point out that every dollar donated to the nonprofit is directed to Palomar park, not some general operating fund in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Barclay and Wilson lament the way California's infrastructure is fraying. \"My concern is that now we’re in maintenance mode,\" says Barclay. \"We’re just trying to cobble the bridges back together, and cobble the streets back together. Why aren’t we opening more state parks? You know, we’re talking about just staying open. Why aren’t we expanding our territory?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97488\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/dylan/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97488\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-97488 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Dylan-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Dylan Unis, 4, of San Diego considers the first fish he's ever caught. (Credit: KQED/Rachael Myrow)\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four-year-old Dylan Unis of San Diego considers the first fish he's ever caught, a trout from Doane Pond. (Credit: KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's not just an issue with the Department of Parks and Recreation. The 6th grade school camp (aka \u003ca href=\"http://www.palomarmountain.com/outdoorschool.html\">Palomar Outdoor School\u003c/a>) closed in 2011 because its operator, the San Diego Unified School District, can't afford it any longer. \"Those fond memories are not being generated now,\" Barclay says. \"That’s a facility that’s going to waste, and it’s an opportunity that’s going to waste as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Friends of Palomar Mountain State Park is doing what it can to get the word out to Southern California: first, that there's a state park up on the mountain; and second, public donations help it thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Funds for coverage of California state parks are provided by the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F93230729\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/97365/locals-still-picking-up-the-slack-for-californias-needy-state-parks-but-for-how-long","authors":["251"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_4425","news_4428","news_152","news_2461","news_4430","news_4429","news_95","news_4427","news_71","news_566"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_93740":{"type":"posts","id":"news_93740","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"93740","score":null,"sort":[1365681637000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"state-plan-to-expand-carnegie-state-park-struggles-to-gain-traction","title":"Tussle in Tracy: Off-Roaders, Nature Lovers Fight over State Park's Future","publishDate":1365681637,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93745\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 158px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/state-plan-to-expand-carnegie-state-park-struggles-to-gain-traction/img_2345/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93745\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-93745 \" title=\"Pint-Sized Biker\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/IMG_2345-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"210\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family fun - or environmental threat on wheels? Jun Bato's 5-year-old son is one of many children you'll spot on the trails of Carnegie SVRA. (KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We’ve heard a lot over the last couple of years about all the money troubles the California state parks have been having—but not all state parks are starved for cash. Eight “off-highway vehicle parks” get a steady stream of gas-tax funds guaranteed by state law. These parks are a different breed from the rest. They’re even run by a separate division within the Department of Parks and Recreation. And in many ways, off-roaders struggle with Californians who have a very different idea of what a park should be. Take, for example, the story of \u003ca href=\"http://ohv.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1172\">Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About an hour’s drive east of San Francisco, Carnegie draws motorcyclists from all over the western United States to tear up and down its hills. The challenge is pretty obvious—climb about 500 feet in a matter of seconds without losing control of your vehicle. It looks exhilarating—and terrifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Outlet for Kids\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamid Majidy of Piedmont loves to come here. He rides a Honda CR 250 dirt bike, and he notes many of the biggest names in the sport have come to Carnegie, too, including California-grown greats like Modesto's Kenny Roberts and Berkeley's Brad Lackey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many parents who frequent Carnegie, Majidy says the promise of a weekend on dirt bikes is an excellent way to encourage kids (especially boys) to behave at home. \"Even though we don’t come out here very often,\" Majidy says, \"it just motivates them to have something to look forward to other than, you know, playing video games and watching TV all the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the Diablo Range park is most accessible to motorcycles, other four-wheelers such as sand rails, razors and military jeeps also ply Carnegie's territory. The state purchased this stretch of 1,300 acres from a private operator in 1979. In the years since, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/\">Department of Parks and Recreation\u003c/a> bought another 3,400 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clash Over Environmental Reports\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that property is still off-limits to off-roaders because the state didn’t do an environmental impact report first. Pre-purchase EIRs weren’t standard practice in the past. But then, most state parks involve a few hiking trails and a parking lot. Local environmentalists argue the need for an EIR at Carnegie should have been obvious from the get-go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those environmentalists is Celeste Garamendi, the sister of \u003ca href=\"http://garamendi.house.gov/\">Rep. John Garamendi.\u003c/a> (She's quick to say he's not involved in this conflict).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Off-road riding damages the land, she says: \"It erodes the hillsides. It destroys vegetation. It pollutes the water.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi married into a local ranching family with big holdings near both Carnegie tracts. She said state parks officials should lay off their expansion plans—and do a better job of caring for what properties it runs now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where some might see an endless range of undifferentiated rolling hills, Garamendi sees a delicate ecosystem deserving more respect than it gets. \"When I first came here [in 1990], I certainly didn’t have an appreciation for what this is,\" she says. \"Over the years, I’ve come to understand how very special this is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"High ridge tops, cascading canyons, a wonderful riparian Corral Hollow creek, variation in vegetation from savannah grasslands to blue oak woodlands, chaparral, sage, pine forests: all of this is contained within Tesla Park,\" she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.teslapark.org/\">Tesla Park\u003c/a>? There is no Tesla Park, yet. But Garamendi wants to establish one on the very land the state bought to expand the Carnegie SVRA. (Why name it Tesla, you ask? The area is the former site of \u003ca href=\"http://www.teslapark.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/TeslaHistory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an industrial town named Tesla\u003c/a>, once the site of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.teslacoalmines.org/Tesla.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most productive coal mine in California\u003c/a>. There's no connection between the proposed park and with Fremont's Tesla Motors--except for the fact the Teslas are named for the Serbian-American inventor and alternating-current pioneer \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikola Tesla\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marilyn Russell, an avid horse rider who taught biology at Livermore High for 33 years, would also like to see a park here. Russell says the hills are home to all kinds of critters, from spadefoot toads and whipsnakes to red-tailed hawks and golden eagles. She adds, with a wink in her eye, \"It would be wonderful to connect trails from Yosemite to Mount Diablo and beyond. You know, that’s a vision I have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not just a question of love for the flora and fauna. Backers of Tesla Park also argue more attention should be paid to the region's \u003ca href=\"http://www.teslapark.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/TeslaHistory.pdf\">history\u003c/a>. In Carnegie, a now-defunct mining site has been cordoned off to protect it from bikers. (The area has also been left free of signage to protect it from archeological poachers, a common problem in California.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last 13 years, the \u003ca href=\"http://ohv.parks.ca.gov/\">Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division\u003c/a> of State Parks has launched and abandoned two EIRs for the Carnegie expansion. The division is working now on a third one, which is the first one to consider the old property as well as the new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defining 'sustainable'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to counter accusations that Carnegie isn’t being run properly, park Superintendent Randy Caldera does a lot of monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every bare piece of dirt in this park has been GPS'ed, and it’s evaluated annually for soil loss. Pictures are taken,\" Caldera explains. \"These all are required now to meet our resource code. You can have a denuded area, or an area that doesn’t have vegetation. As long as we’re monitoring it and identifying that, it’s sustainable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, just to be clear, “sustainable” doesn’t mean sustainable for flora and fauna, so much as it means the soil isn’t eroding down the hillside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93929\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/state-plan-to-expand-carnegie-state-park-struggles-to-gain-traction/carnegiegrooves/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93929\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-93929\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/CarnegieGrooves-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"What the grooves look like. (Credit: TeslaPark.org)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What the grooves look like. (Credit: TeslaPark.org)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Caldera talks, there’s no escaping the visual of deep grooves worn into the hillsides behind him. But the hills outside the park also show evidence of human interference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diana Mead of Concord comes here on a regular basis with her family, including her 18-year-old son, Logan, who’s become a top competitor on the hill-climb circuit. She’s also an organizer with CORVA, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.corva.org/\">California Off Road Vehicle Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Impacts on the Landscape\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out that ranchers have remade the local landscape. With the naked eye, you can see how nibbling grazers in the area have worn ridges of their own into the hills, (albeit soft horizontal ones that grass grows over quickly). Those small clutches of oak trees surrounded by green in winter, yellow in summer? That's a new vista, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The wide open vistas are not indigenous to this area,\" Mead says. \"They’re that way because of the cattle. It’s beautiful, but let’s understand: There’s all kinds of human activity that impacts our environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>Yes, she acknowledges, motorbike trails tear up the hillsides and some of her fellow Californians might find that \"abhorrent. I understand that when you see that trail, that that viscerally bothers you in the pit of your stomach.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she pointed out that ranching carries a cost, too. \"I find what cattle do to our water systems to be abhorrent,\" she said. \"But I’m not a vegetarian, so I kind of understand we need to manage this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mead argues off-roaders are trying to operate inside the boundary lines set by the law, the \u003ca href=\"http://ca.regstoday.com/law/prc/ca.regstoday.com/laws/prc/calaw-prc_DIVISION5_CHAPTER1p25.aspx\">Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Act of 1988\u003c/a>. Garamendi counters the law needs to be reassessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming months, there will be a series of public meetings over Carnegie’s environmental impact report and \u003ca href=\"http://carnegiegeneralplan.com/\">general plan\u003c/a>. The process is expected to wrap up by the end of the year—but that just means the state parks' Off-Highway Division will then be free to start the approval process with the general parks leadership, the state Finance Department and state lawmakers. That could take another three to four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hear the story as it sounded on The California Report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Funds for coverage of California state parks are provided by the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"We’ve heard a lot over the last couple of years about all the money troubles the California state parks have been having—but not all state parks are starved for cash. Eight “off-highway vehicle parks” get a steady stream of gas-tax funds guaranteed by state law. These parks are a different breed from the rest. They’re even run by a separate division within the Department of Parks and Recreation. And in many ways, off-roaders struggle with Californians who have a very different idea of what a park should be.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1648511086,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1422},"headData":{"title":"Tussle in Tracy: Off-Roaders, Nature Lovers Fight over State Park's Future | KQED","description":"We’ve heard a lot over the last couple of years about all the money troubles the California state parks have been having—but not all state parks are starved for cash. Eight “off-highway vehicle parks” get a steady stream of gas-tax funds guaranteed by state law. These parks are a different breed from the rest. They’re even run by a separate division within the Department of Parks and Recreation. And in many ways, off-roaders struggle with Californians who have a very different idea of what a park should be.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Tussle in Tracy: Off-Roaders, Nature Lovers Fight over State Park's Future","datePublished":"2013-04-11T12:00:37.000Z","dateModified":"2022-03-28T23:44:46.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"93740 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=93740","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/state-plan-to-expand-carnegie-state-park-struggles-to-gain-traction/","disqusTitle":"Tussle in Tracy: Off-Roaders, Nature Lovers Fight over State Park's Future","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/93740/state-plan-to-expand-carnegie-state-park-struggles-to-gain-traction","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93745\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 158px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/state-plan-to-expand-carnegie-state-park-struggles-to-gain-traction/img_2345/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93745\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-93745 \" title=\"Pint-Sized Biker\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/IMG_2345-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"210\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family fun - or environmental threat on wheels? Jun Bato's 5-year-old son is one of many children you'll spot on the trails of Carnegie SVRA. (KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We’ve heard a lot over the last couple of years about all the money troubles the California state parks have been having—but not all state parks are starved for cash. Eight “off-highway vehicle parks” get a steady stream of gas-tax funds guaranteed by state law. These parks are a different breed from the rest. They’re even run by a separate division within the Department of Parks and Recreation. And in many ways, off-roaders struggle with Californians who have a very different idea of what a park should be. Take, for example, the story of \u003ca href=\"http://ohv.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1172\">Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About an hour’s drive east of San Francisco, Carnegie draws motorcyclists from all over the western United States to tear up and down its hills. The challenge is pretty obvious—climb about 500 feet in a matter of seconds without losing control of your vehicle. It looks exhilarating—and terrifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Outlet for Kids\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamid Majidy of Piedmont loves to come here. He rides a Honda CR 250 dirt bike, and he notes many of the biggest names in the sport have come to Carnegie, too, including California-grown greats like Modesto's Kenny Roberts and Berkeley's Brad Lackey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many parents who frequent Carnegie, Majidy says the promise of a weekend on dirt bikes is an excellent way to encourage kids (especially boys) to behave at home. \"Even though we don’t come out here very often,\" Majidy says, \"it just motivates them to have something to look forward to other than, you know, playing video games and watching TV all the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the Diablo Range park is most accessible to motorcycles, other four-wheelers such as sand rails, razors and military jeeps also ply Carnegie's territory. The state purchased this stretch of 1,300 acres from a private operator in 1979. In the years since, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/\">Department of Parks and Recreation\u003c/a> bought another 3,400 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clash Over Environmental Reports\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that property is still off-limits to off-roaders because the state didn’t do an environmental impact report first. Pre-purchase EIRs weren’t standard practice in the past. But then, most state parks involve a few hiking trails and a parking lot. Local environmentalists argue the need for an EIR at Carnegie should have been obvious from the get-go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those environmentalists is Celeste Garamendi, the sister of \u003ca href=\"http://garamendi.house.gov/\">Rep. John Garamendi.\u003c/a> (She's quick to say he's not involved in this conflict).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Off-road riding damages the land, she says: \"It erodes the hillsides. It destroys vegetation. It pollutes the water.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi married into a local ranching family with big holdings near both Carnegie tracts. She said state parks officials should lay off their expansion plans—and do a better job of caring for what properties it runs now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where some might see an endless range of undifferentiated rolling hills, Garamendi sees a delicate ecosystem deserving more respect than it gets. \"When I first came here [in 1990], I certainly didn’t have an appreciation for what this is,\" she says. \"Over the years, I’ve come to understand how very special this is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"High ridge tops, cascading canyons, a wonderful riparian Corral Hollow creek, variation in vegetation from savannah grasslands to blue oak woodlands, chaparral, sage, pine forests: all of this is contained within Tesla Park,\" she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.teslapark.org/\">Tesla Park\u003c/a>? There is no Tesla Park, yet. But Garamendi wants to establish one on the very land the state bought to expand the Carnegie SVRA. (Why name it Tesla, you ask? The area is the former site of \u003ca href=\"http://www.teslapark.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/TeslaHistory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an industrial town named Tesla\u003c/a>, once the site of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.teslacoalmines.org/Tesla.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most productive coal mine in California\u003c/a>. There's no connection between the proposed park and with Fremont's Tesla Motors--except for the fact the Teslas are named for the Serbian-American inventor and alternating-current pioneer \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikola Tesla\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marilyn Russell, an avid horse rider who taught biology at Livermore High for 33 years, would also like to see a park here. Russell says the hills are home to all kinds of critters, from spadefoot toads and whipsnakes to red-tailed hawks and golden eagles. She adds, with a wink in her eye, \"It would be wonderful to connect trails from Yosemite to Mount Diablo and beyond. You know, that’s a vision I have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not just a question of love for the flora and fauna. Backers of Tesla Park also argue more attention should be paid to the region's \u003ca href=\"http://www.teslapark.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/TeslaHistory.pdf\">history\u003c/a>. In Carnegie, a now-defunct mining site has been cordoned off to protect it from bikers. (The area has also been left free of signage to protect it from archeological poachers, a common problem in California.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last 13 years, the \u003ca href=\"http://ohv.parks.ca.gov/\">Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division\u003c/a> of State Parks has launched and abandoned two EIRs for the Carnegie expansion. The division is working now on a third one, which is the first one to consider the old property as well as the new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defining 'sustainable'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to counter accusations that Carnegie isn’t being run properly, park Superintendent Randy Caldera does a lot of monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every bare piece of dirt in this park has been GPS'ed, and it’s evaluated annually for soil loss. Pictures are taken,\" Caldera explains. \"These all are required now to meet our resource code. You can have a denuded area, or an area that doesn’t have vegetation. As long as we’re monitoring it and identifying that, it’s sustainable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, just to be clear, “sustainable” doesn’t mean sustainable for flora and fauna, so much as it means the soil isn’t eroding down the hillside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93929\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/state-plan-to-expand-carnegie-state-park-struggles-to-gain-traction/carnegiegrooves/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93929\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-93929\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/CarnegieGrooves-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"What the grooves look like. (Credit: TeslaPark.org)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What the grooves look like. (Credit: TeslaPark.org)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Caldera talks, there’s no escaping the visual of deep grooves worn into the hillsides behind him. But the hills outside the park also show evidence of human interference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diana Mead of Concord comes here on a regular basis with her family, including her 18-year-old son, Logan, who’s become a top competitor on the hill-climb circuit. She’s also an organizer with CORVA, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.corva.org/\">California Off Road Vehicle Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Impacts on the Landscape\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out that ranchers have remade the local landscape. With the naked eye, you can see how nibbling grazers in the area have worn ridges of their own into the hills, (albeit soft horizontal ones that grass grows over quickly). Those small clutches of oak trees surrounded by green in winter, yellow in summer? That's a new vista, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The wide open vistas are not indigenous to this area,\" Mead says. \"They’re that way because of the cattle. It’s beautiful, but let’s understand: There’s all kinds of human activity that impacts our environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>Yes, she acknowledges, motorbike trails tear up the hillsides and some of her fellow Californians might find that \"abhorrent. I understand that when you see that trail, that that viscerally bothers you in the pit of your stomach.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she pointed out that ranching carries a cost, too. \"I find what cattle do to our water systems to be abhorrent,\" she said. \"But I’m not a vegetarian, so I kind of understand we need to manage this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mead argues off-roaders are trying to operate inside the boundary lines set by the law, the \u003ca href=\"http://ca.regstoday.com/law/prc/ca.regstoday.com/laws/prc/calaw-prc_DIVISION5_CHAPTER1p25.aspx\">Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Act of 1988\u003c/a>. Garamendi counters the law needs to be reassessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming months, there will be a series of public meetings over Carnegie’s environmental impact report and \u003ca href=\"http://carnegiegeneralplan.com/\">general plan\u003c/a>. The process is expected to wrap up by the end of the year—but that just means the state parks' Off-Highway Division will then be free to start the approval process with the general parks leadership, the state Finance Department and state lawmakers. That could take another three to four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hear the story as it sounded on The California Report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Funds for coverage of California state parks are provided by the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/93740/state-plan-to-expand-carnegie-state-park-struggles-to-gain-traction","authors":["251"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_24345","news_4207","news_4208","news_2461","news_2011","news_383","news_1419","news_4206","news_566","news_21068"],"featImg":"news_93763","label":"news_6944"},"news_92341":{"type":"posts","id":"news_92341","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"92341","score":null,"sort":[1364242973000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"report-california-should-give-parks-to-local-control","title":"Report: California Should Give Up Control of Some State Parks","publishDate":1364242973,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>by Tracie Cone, Associated Press\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Over the years, California has added more parks to its state system than it can afford and should consider turning over control of some to local entities, a new report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97351\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/25/report-california-should-give-parks-to-local-control/humboldtstatepark/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97351\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-97351\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/humboldtstatepark-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Humboldt Redwoods State Park (Image credit: Lee Edwin Coursey/Flickr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Humboldt Redwoods State Park (Image credit: Lee Edwin Coursey/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The report released Monday by the Little Hoover Commission identified a number of problems with the park system. It even suggested that tourist favorite Hearst Castle might be better run by an operator such as the Getty Museum that is more versed in protecting the hilltop mansion's European art collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the outlandish Central Coast home of William Randolph Hearst is a major source of revenue, its upkeep exceeds the income it generates through ticket sales and the cost of needed maintenance is as high as $60 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to take a fresh and rigorous look at the system from top to bottom,\" said Stuart Drown, former executive director of the commission, a state oversight agency. \"We need a new business model and fresh thinking.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the coast to the giant sequoias of the Sierra, the California parks system protects some of the most historic and breathtaking places in the world. For years, the department has allowed millions of dollars in maintenance problems to pile up as it struggled with shrinking budgets and a manager mindset unaccustomed to generating revenue or asking for help, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission began looking at the state park system a year ago. After decades of decreasing funding, a $22 million cut at the time from its $779 million budget threatened the closure of a quarter of the 278 parks in the system. Officials were unable to explain how the parks were chosen or the cost of operating individual sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelations — plus the discovery last year of $54 million hidden from the governor and Legislature in two special funds — damaged the public's faith in the park system, even as dozens of volunteer groups were scrambling to raise funds and form partnerships to keep them open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The old model is obsolete,\" the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>The commission is asking the governor and elected officials to give the parks department the tools, authority and flexibility required to develop a new operating model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission's report, \"Beyond Crisis: Recapturing Excellence in California's State Park System,\" is an overview for fixing the problems that have led to the long decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the parks department say the report echoes changes that managers were recently authorized to implement by the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are grateful for the positive nature of the report,\" said parks spokesman Roy Stearns. \"We are committed to an open and transparent process that identifies innovative approaches for managing our state parks system now and for future generations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report says the state Department of Parks and Recreation needs more business-minded managers at the regional and local levels and must revamp its historic management tactics, including those focused primarily on promoting law enforcement rangers, if the system is going to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This will require adding job classifications that do not yet exist and removing obstacles to promotion so the department can benefit from a broad range of management perspectives,\" commission Chairman Daniel W. Hancock wrote in an introductory letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California League of Park Associations, which said it was consulted by the commission, agreed with many of the findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The proposed changes may not be easy for all involved, but we realize that the system as it currently stands is not working,\" the group said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the 70 threatened parks have temporary agreements with nonprofit groups that are keeping them open, but the deals will begin expiring next year — the 150th anniversary of Yosemite, the first state park. It was taken over by the federal government after Californians had plowed the valley and built livestock fences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't have a lot of time,\" Drown said. \"We've blown it before. We had Yosemite and we lost it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission studied structures of park systems in other states and trends in management. The report recommends training for current employees to help them learn to think more creatively. It also recommends hiring people with business experience from outside of state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also suggests forging more equitable partnerships with nonprofit benefactors such as the arrangements that exist with the National Park Service at Redwood National Park, state parks in Northern California, and regional park districts in Sonoma and Napa counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission has faith in Anthony Jackson, a retired Marine Corps major general tapped by Gov. Jerry Brown late last year to turn around the beleaguered department. But state park managers, currently focused on preserving and protecting resources, must also learn to explore ways to generate revenue and to encourage visitors to come, the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Open the windows and let the fresh winds come in and blow the cobwebs away,\" Drown said. \"The opportunity is there with the new management group.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the California Report's \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201303290850/a\">interview with Stuart Drown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca title=\"View Beyond Crisis: Recapturing Excellence in California's State Park System on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/132281990/Beyond-Crisis-Recapturing-Excellence-in-California-s-State-Park-System\">Beyond Crisis: Recapturing Excellence in California's State Park System\u003c/a> by \u003ca title=\"View scprweb's profile on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/scprweb\">scprweb\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.scribd.com/embeds/132281990/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-26ufbmxoxhclcgy5mi0g\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1379113737,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":862},"headData":{"title":"Report: California Should Give Up Control of Some State Parks | KQED","description":"by Tracie Cone, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. 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The report released Monday by the Little Hoover Commission identified a number of problems with","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Report: California Should Give Up Control of Some State Parks","datePublished":"2013-03-25T20:22:53.000Z","dateModified":"2013-09-13T23:08:57.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"92341 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=92341","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/25/report-california-should-give-parks-to-local-control/","disqusTitle":"Report: California Should Give Up Control of Some State Parks","path":"/news/92341/report-california-should-give-parks-to-local-control","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>by Tracie Cone, Associated Press\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Over the years, California has added more parks to its state system than it can afford and should consider turning over control of some to local entities, a new report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97351\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/25/report-california-should-give-parks-to-local-control/humboldtstatepark/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97351\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-97351\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/humboldtstatepark-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Humboldt Redwoods State Park (Image credit: Lee Edwin Coursey/Flickr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Humboldt Redwoods State Park (Image credit: Lee Edwin Coursey/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The report released Monday by the Little Hoover Commission identified a number of problems with the park system. It even suggested that tourist favorite Hearst Castle might be better run by an operator such as the Getty Museum that is more versed in protecting the hilltop mansion's European art collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the outlandish Central Coast home of William Randolph Hearst is a major source of revenue, its upkeep exceeds the income it generates through ticket sales and the cost of needed maintenance is as high as $60 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to take a fresh and rigorous look at the system from top to bottom,\" said Stuart Drown, former executive director of the commission, a state oversight agency. \"We need a new business model and fresh thinking.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the coast to the giant sequoias of the Sierra, the California parks system protects some of the most historic and breathtaking places in the world. For years, the department has allowed millions of dollars in maintenance problems to pile up as it struggled with shrinking budgets and a manager mindset unaccustomed to generating revenue or asking for help, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission began looking at the state park system a year ago. After decades of decreasing funding, a $22 million cut at the time from its $779 million budget threatened the closure of a quarter of the 278 parks in the system. Officials were unable to explain how the parks were chosen or the cost of operating individual sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelations — plus the discovery last year of $54 million hidden from the governor and Legislature in two special funds — damaged the public's faith in the park system, even as dozens of volunteer groups were scrambling to raise funds and form partnerships to keep them open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The old model is obsolete,\" the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>The commission is asking the governor and elected officials to give the parks department the tools, authority and flexibility required to develop a new operating model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission's report, \"Beyond Crisis: Recapturing Excellence in California's State Park System,\" is an overview for fixing the problems that have led to the long decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the parks department say the report echoes changes that managers were recently authorized to implement by the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are grateful for the positive nature of the report,\" said parks spokesman Roy Stearns. \"We are committed to an open and transparent process that identifies innovative approaches for managing our state parks system now and for future generations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report says the state Department of Parks and Recreation needs more business-minded managers at the regional and local levels and must revamp its historic management tactics, including those focused primarily on promoting law enforcement rangers, if the system is going to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This will require adding job classifications that do not yet exist and removing obstacles to promotion so the department can benefit from a broad range of management perspectives,\" commission Chairman Daniel W. Hancock wrote in an introductory letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California League of Park Associations, which said it was consulted by the commission, agreed with many of the findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The proposed changes may not be easy for all involved, but we realize that the system as it currently stands is not working,\" the group said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the 70 threatened parks have temporary agreements with nonprofit groups that are keeping them open, but the deals will begin expiring next year — the 150th anniversary of Yosemite, the first state park. It was taken over by the federal government after Californians had plowed the valley and built livestock fences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't have a lot of time,\" Drown said. \"We've blown it before. We had Yosemite and we lost it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission studied structures of park systems in other states and trends in management. The report recommends training for current employees to help them learn to think more creatively. It also recommends hiring people with business experience from outside of state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also suggests forging more equitable partnerships with nonprofit benefactors such as the arrangements that exist with the National Park Service at Redwood National Park, state parks in Northern California, and regional park districts in Sonoma and Napa counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission has faith in Anthony Jackson, a retired Marine Corps major general tapped by Gov. Jerry Brown late last year to turn around the beleaguered department. But state park managers, currently focused on preserving and protecting resources, must also learn to explore ways to generate revenue and to encourage visitors to come, the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Open the windows and let the fresh winds come in and blow the cobwebs away,\" Drown said. \"The opportunity is there with the new management group.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the California Report's \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201303290850/a\">interview with Stuart Drown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca title=\"View Beyond Crisis: Recapturing Excellence in California's State Park System on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/132281990/Beyond-Crisis-Recapturing-Excellence-in-California-s-State-Park-System\">Beyond Crisis: Recapturing Excellence in California's State Park System\u003c/a> by \u003ca title=\"View scprweb's profile on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/scprweb\">scprweb\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.scribd.com/embeds/132281990/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-26ufbmxoxhclcgy5mi0g\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/92341/report-california-should-give-parks-to-local-control","authors":["237"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_152","news_4124","news_4123","news_2461","news_95","news_71","news_1419","news_566"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_89378":{"type":"posts","id":"news_89378","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"89378","score":null,"sort":[1360960291000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"marin-state-parks-association-lands-deal-to-care-for-three-parks","title":"Deal Will Keep China Camp, Olompali, Tomales Bay State Parks Running","publishDate":1360960291,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89380\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/15/marin-state-parks-association-lands-deal-to-care-for-three-parks/33-house-on-stilts/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-89380\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-89380\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/33-house-on-stilts-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nestled along the shore of the San Pablo Bay, China Camp was once home to a Chinese shrimp-fishing village that dates back to the 1880s. (Credit: Marin State Parks Association)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=466\">China Camp Village\u003c/a> lovers will be celebrating Saturday as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/\">California Department of Parks & Recreation\u003c/a> officially signs a new agreement that keeps the park running. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=465\">Olompali State Historic Park\u003c/a> near Novato. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=470\">Tomales Bay State Park\u003c/a>, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now for the back story. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinstateparks.org/\">Marin State Parks Association\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.friendsofchinacamp.org/\">Friends of China Camp\u003c/a>, and a host of similar groups around the state scrambled last year to save 70 parks put on a closure list — back when the state parks department claimed it didn’t have the cash to keep all its parks open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then $54 million dollars was discovered \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/20/state-parks-chief-resigns-agency-found-sitting-on-54-million\">sitting on the books\u003c/a> undeclared. Audits later determined $34 million of that was unspent money for off-highway vehicle projects. That still left $20 million for which the explanation appears to be that parks department officials feared\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>a) they would get in trouble\u003cbr>\nb) the money would be taken from them to plug state budget holes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->Shortly thereafter, then-Assemblyman Jared Huffman of San Rafael sponsored a bill that froze the closures and directed the parks agency to use $10 million of the $20 million to provide matching funds to support local operating agreements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>The Marin State Parks Association then raised more than $1 million, including grants of $100,000 from the county and $50,000 from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.deanwitterfoundation.org/\">Dean Witter Foundation\u003c/a>. The state will provide $950,000 in matching funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association will operate China Camp, Olompali and, along with the National Park Service, Tomales Bay state parks through mid-2015. After that, the operating agreement can be renewed annually through 2017, presuming all sides are happy with the arrangement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Association Chair Ernest Chung wrote this to supporters earlier this week:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The matching fund will relieve much of our near-term financial stress. It will also provide a valuable window to improve the viability of the three parks – by strengthening the parks’ revenue generation capabilities, catching up on deferred maintenance, and building programs to enhance the experience of park users...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is hard to believe that just a few months ago, we were a small and unknown organization to the public. Now, we are on the verge of operating 3 of the 6 state parks in Marin County (counting \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=468\">Angel Island\u003c/a>). We are only able to do this because of our community's love of these parks, and their tremendous support; we cannot thank them enough.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, back in Sacramento, yet another audit of the parks department found bad accounting festered for 20 years before the scandal finally broke last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As then-parks chief Ruth Coleman told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201203050850/a\">California Report\u003c/a>, state officials don't have a clear picture of how much each park costs because they track expenses by districts, each containing several parks. The review that the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bsa.ca.gov/reports/summary/2012-121.1\">state auditor\u003c/a> released this week criticizes that way of doing business, noting the parks department was using \"outdated information to develop estimated operating costs for its parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the parks department told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/02/15/5192590/california-state-parks-had-hidden.html\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> the agency agrees with the recommendations of the audit and plans to implement them with the help of the state's Finance Department.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1379113978,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":559},"headData":{"title":"Deal Will Keep China Camp, Olompali, Tomales Bay State Parks Running | KQED","description":"China Camp Village lovers will be celebrating Saturday as the California Department of Parks & Recreation officially signs a new agreement that keeps the park running. And Olompali State Historic Park near Novato. And Tomales Bay State Park, too. Now for the back story. The Marin State Parks Association, Friends of China Camp, and a","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Deal Will Keep China Camp, Olompali, Tomales Bay State Parks Running","datePublished":"2013-02-15T20:31:31.000Z","dateModified":"2013-09-13T23:12:58.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"89378 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=89378","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/15/marin-state-parks-association-lands-deal-to-care-for-three-parks/","disqusTitle":"Deal Will Keep China Camp, Olompali, Tomales Bay State Parks Running","path":"/news/89378/marin-state-parks-association-lands-deal-to-care-for-three-parks","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89380\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/15/marin-state-parks-association-lands-deal-to-care-for-three-parks/33-house-on-stilts/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-89380\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-89380\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/33-house-on-stilts-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nestled along the shore of the San Pablo Bay, China Camp was once home to a Chinese shrimp-fishing village that dates back to the 1880s. (Credit: Marin State Parks Association)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=466\">China Camp Village\u003c/a> lovers will be celebrating Saturday as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/\">California Department of Parks & Recreation\u003c/a> officially signs a new agreement that keeps the park running. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=465\">Olompali State Historic Park\u003c/a> near Novato. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=470\">Tomales Bay State Park\u003c/a>, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now for the back story. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinstateparks.org/\">Marin State Parks Association\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.friendsofchinacamp.org/\">Friends of China Camp\u003c/a>, and a host of similar groups around the state scrambled last year to save 70 parks put on a closure list — back when the state parks department claimed it didn’t have the cash to keep all its parks open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then $54 million dollars was discovered \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/20/state-parks-chief-resigns-agency-found-sitting-on-54-million\">sitting on the books\u003c/a> undeclared. Audits later determined $34 million of that was unspent money for off-highway vehicle projects. That still left $20 million for which the explanation appears to be that parks department officials feared\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>a) they would get in trouble\u003cbr>\nb) the money would be taken from them to plug state budget holes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->Shortly thereafter, then-Assemblyman Jared Huffman of San Rafael sponsored a bill that froze the closures and directed the parks agency to use $10 million of the $20 million to provide matching funds to support local operating agreements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>The Marin State Parks Association then raised more than $1 million, including grants of $100,000 from the county and $50,000 from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.deanwitterfoundation.org/\">Dean Witter Foundation\u003c/a>. The state will provide $950,000 in matching funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association will operate China Camp, Olompali and, along with the National Park Service, Tomales Bay state parks through mid-2015. After that, the operating agreement can be renewed annually through 2017, presuming all sides are happy with the arrangement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Association Chair Ernest Chung wrote this to supporters earlier this week:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The matching fund will relieve much of our near-term financial stress. It will also provide a valuable window to improve the viability of the three parks – by strengthening the parks’ revenue generation capabilities, catching up on deferred maintenance, and building programs to enhance the experience of park users...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is hard to believe that just a few months ago, we were a small and unknown organization to the public. Now, we are on the verge of operating 3 of the 6 state parks in Marin County (counting \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=468\">Angel Island\u003c/a>). We are only able to do this because of our community's love of these parks, and their tremendous support; we cannot thank them enough.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, back in Sacramento, yet another audit of the parks department found bad accounting festered for 20 years before the scandal finally broke last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As then-parks chief Ruth Coleman told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201203050850/a\">California Report\u003c/a>, state officials don't have a clear picture of how much each park costs because they track expenses by districts, each containing several parks. The review that the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bsa.ca.gov/reports/summary/2012-121.1\">state auditor\u003c/a> released this week criticizes that way of doing business, noting the parks department was using \"outdated information to develop estimated operating costs for its parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the parks department told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/02/15/5192590/california-state-parks-had-hidden.html\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> the agency agrees with the recommendations of the audit and plans to implement them with the help of the state's Finance Department.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/89378/marin-state-parks-association-lands-deal-to-care-for-three-parks","authors":["251"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_19906","news_13"],"tags":["news_3729","news_2461","news_383","news_1419"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_84679":{"type":"posts","id":"news_84679","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"84679","score":null,"sort":[1357331507000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-state-parks-investigation-report-released","title":"Audit: Parks Officials Hid Budget Surplus Due to Fear of Cuts; 'Useless Reserve' Went Unspent","publishDate":1357331507,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Released today: The Attorney General’s “Report of Investigation into Discrepancies in Financial Reports Submitted by the California Department of Parks and Recreation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit of the California state parks department sheds light on why senior officials covered up an unreported funding surplus of as much as $29 million for a decade or more. The report says department managers hid the surplus first because they were concerned about future budget cuts, then out of fear of \"embarrassment\" if the cover-up were to be disclosed. The report's executive summary concludes the extra money seems \"to have represented an essentially useless reserve that could not be spent by the Parks Department as there was no legislative appropriation to do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former State Parks Director Ruth Coleman resigned when the surplus was reported last July. She denied any knowledge of the hidden funds, and the audit found that reports that she was aware of the extra funds are \"unreliable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report says charges that the department also hid more than $34 million in the parks Off-Highway Vehicle fund were unfounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://resources.ca.gov/attorney_generals_investigation_into_discrepancies_in_financial_reporting_by_california_state_parks/\">\u003cstrong>Entire report online\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/20/state-parks-chief-resigns-agency-found-sitting-on-54-million/#interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Interview w/ former State Parks Chief Ruth Coleman\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (Jul 2012, News Fix)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/20/state-parks-chief-resigns-agency-found-sitting-on-54-million/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revelation of the surplus engendered outrage\u003c/a> this summer in light of the scheduled closure of dozens of 70 state parks because of what was thought to be a $22 million budget gap over two fiscal years. But, as The California Report's Rachael Myrow wrote in July, \"Most of those closures did not happen because of near-heroic fundraising from non-profits across the state. (T)he money, [however], could also have prevented cutbacks in hours, staffing and services systemwide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday's report says the disparity between reported funds and actual funds \"grew unintentionally during a challenging financial budgeting and tracking period from 1995 to 2003.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it goes on to implicate a number of department personnel in a deliberate cover-up:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It is clear, however, that by no later than 2003, and perhaps as early as 1999, the failure to accurately report all [State Parks Recreation Fund] monies to the [Dept of Finance] became conscious and deliberate. The facts show that former budget officer Becky Brown noticed the growing disparity as early as 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By late 2002, when the discrepancy in SPRF balance reports had reached $26.8 million, the budget and accounting officers and their supervisor, Tom Domich, then-manager of fiscal\u003cbr>\nservices, were all aware of the discrepancy. Thereafter, from 2002 to 2012, numerous individuals failed to take appropriate action to ensure the monies were revealed to the DOF. The primary reason consistently given for not doing so was fear that the Department would see its already-reduced general funding cut further if the extra monies in the SPRF were revealed. The embarrassment expected to result from revealing the funds was another motivating factor...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout this period of intentional non-disclosure, some Parks employees consistently requested, without success, that their superiors address the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Aaron Robertson arrived as head of the Department’s administrative services division and recognized his duty to report the matter up the chain of command, both within and outside the Department. Until then, no one had been willing to report the matter beyond their supervisors. Instead, people have consistently followed the directions of those above them that the fund balance disparity would not be disclosed to the DOF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conclusively identifying everyone who knew of the funds and gave orders that they not be reported to the DOF is difficult. Reports that former director Ruth Coleman knew of the\u003cbr>\nfunds are unreliable.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The report cites other officials, including Michael Harris, Coleman's chief deputy who was subsequently fired from the department, as having known about the extra funds as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the report's executive summary below. The \u003ca href=\"http://resources.ca.gov/attorney_generals_investigation_into_discrepancies_in_financial_reporting_by_california_state_parks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">entire report is online here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"View Investigation Into Parks Financial Reporting on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/118995801/Investigation-Into-Parks-Financial-Reporting\">Investigation Into Parks Financial Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1648511512,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":647},"headData":{"title":"Audit: Parks Officials Hid Budget Surplus Due to Fear of Cuts; 'Useless Reserve' Went Unspent | KQED","description":"Released today: The Attorney General’s “Report of Investigation into Discrepancies in Financial Reports Submitted by the California Department of Parks and Recreation.” The audit of the California state parks department sheds light on why senior officials covered up an unreported funding surplus of as much as $29 million for a decade or more. The report","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Audit: Parks Officials Hid Budget Surplus Due to Fear of Cuts; 'Useless Reserve' Went Unspent","datePublished":"2013-01-04T20:31:47.000Z","dateModified":"2022-03-28T23:51:52.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"84679 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=84679","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/04/california-state-parks-investigation-report-released/","disqusTitle":"Audit: Parks Officials Hid Budget Surplus Due to Fear of Cuts; 'Useless Reserve' Went Unspent","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/84679/california-state-parks-investigation-report-released","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Released today: The Attorney General’s “Report of Investigation into Discrepancies in Financial Reports Submitted by the California Department of Parks and Recreation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit of the California state parks department sheds light on why senior officials covered up an unreported funding surplus of as much as $29 million for a decade or more. The report says department managers hid the surplus first because they were concerned about future budget cuts, then out of fear of \"embarrassment\" if the cover-up were to be disclosed. The report's executive summary concludes the extra money seems \"to have represented an essentially useless reserve that could not be spent by the Parks Department as there was no legislative appropriation to do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former State Parks Director Ruth Coleman resigned when the surplus was reported last July. She denied any knowledge of the hidden funds, and the audit found that reports that she was aware of the extra funds are \"unreliable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report says charges that the department also hid more than $34 million in the parks Off-Highway Vehicle fund were unfounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://resources.ca.gov/attorney_generals_investigation_into_discrepancies_in_financial_reporting_by_california_state_parks/\">\u003cstrong>Entire report online\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/20/state-parks-chief-resigns-agency-found-sitting-on-54-million/#interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Interview w/ former State Parks Chief Ruth Coleman\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (Jul 2012, News Fix)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/20/state-parks-chief-resigns-agency-found-sitting-on-54-million/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revelation of the surplus engendered outrage\u003c/a> this summer in light of the scheduled closure of dozens of 70 state parks because of what was thought to be a $22 million budget gap over two fiscal years. But, as The California Report's Rachael Myrow wrote in July, \"Most of those closures did not happen because of near-heroic fundraising from non-profits across the state. (T)he money, [however], could also have prevented cutbacks in hours, staffing and services systemwide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday's report says the disparity between reported funds and actual funds \"grew unintentionally during a challenging financial budgeting and tracking period from 1995 to 2003.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it goes on to implicate a number of department personnel in a deliberate cover-up:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It is clear, however, that by no later than 2003, and perhaps as early as 1999, the failure to accurately report all [State Parks Recreation Fund] monies to the [Dept of Finance] became conscious and deliberate. The facts show that former budget officer Becky Brown noticed the growing disparity as early as 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By late 2002, when the discrepancy in SPRF balance reports had reached $26.8 million, the budget and accounting officers and their supervisor, Tom Domich, then-manager of fiscal\u003cbr>\nservices, were all aware of the discrepancy. Thereafter, from 2002 to 2012, numerous individuals failed to take appropriate action to ensure the monies were revealed to the DOF. The primary reason consistently given for not doing so was fear that the Department would see its already-reduced general funding cut further if the extra monies in the SPRF were revealed. The embarrassment expected to result from revealing the funds was another motivating factor...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout this period of intentional non-disclosure, some Parks employees consistently requested, without success, that their superiors address the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Aaron Robertson arrived as head of the Department’s administrative services division and recognized his duty to report the matter up the chain of command, both within and outside the Department. Until then, no one had been willing to report the matter beyond their supervisors. Instead, people have consistently followed the directions of those above them that the fund balance disparity would not be disclosed to the DOF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conclusively identifying everyone who knew of the funds and gave orders that they not be reported to the DOF is difficult. Reports that former director Ruth Coleman knew of the\u003cbr>\nfunds are unreliable.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The report cites other officials, including Michael Harris, Coleman's chief deputy who was subsequently fired from the department, as having known about the extra funds as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the report's executive summary below. The \u003ca href=\"http://resources.ca.gov/attorney_generals_investigation_into_discrepancies_in_financial_reporting_by_california_state_parks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">entire report is online here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"View Investigation Into Parks Financial Reporting on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/118995801/Investigation-Into-Parks-Financial-Reporting\">Investigation Into Parks Financial Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/84679/california-state-parks-investigation-report-released","authors":["251"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_24345","news_2461","news_2011","news_383","news_70","news_1419"],"featImg":"news_64820","label":"news_6944"},"news_77274":{"type":"posts","id":"news_77274","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"77274","score":null,"sort":[1349204177000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"park-donors-feel-betrayed-want-money-back","title":"Park Donors Feel Betrayed, Want Money Back","publishDate":1349204177,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Katharine Mieszkowski, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/parks/story/park-donors-feel-betrayed-want-money/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/BayCitizenLogo.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-77275\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/BayCitizenLogo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>Donors in the South Bay, angry over state mismanagement of park funds, are demanding the return of hundreds of thousands of dollars they gave to keep Northern California’s largest state park operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coe Park Preservation Fund, based in Scotts Valley, donated $279,000 earlier this year to prevent the closure of rugged, 87,000-acre Henry W. Coe State Park, located about 30 miles south of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77276\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 235px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/Henry-Coe-State-Park.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77276\" title=\"Henry Coe State Park\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/Henry-Coe-State-Park.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Coe State Park (Creative Commons)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to ask for the return of the $279,000 back to the Coe Park Preservation Fund,” said Dan McCranie, treasurer of the group’s board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the money is returned, the group plans to offer refunds to its donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state, however, says it has no obligation to refund the money. “As it stands, there is no legal mechanism to actually return the money,” said Richard Stapler, spokesman for the state Natural Resources Agency, which oversees the California Department of Parks and Recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an email, Stapler wrote that the agency does not rule out the possibility of a compromise. “We are very eager to speak with the Coe folks,” he said.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 25, Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB 1478, which prohibits the parks department from closing or proposing the closure of any park from now until July 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the parks department announced plans to close Henry W. Coe State Park, along with 69 other parks, after the state cut the department’s budget by $22 million. Nonprofit groups, municipalities and county governments around the state responded by coming up with millions of dollars to keep many of those threatened parks open, at least temporarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>Yet, the department was actually sitting on a hidden surplus of almost $54 million. About $20 million was in the state Parks and Recreation Fund, which comes mainly from fees paid by park goers. Another $34 million was found in a fund for off-road vehicles and can only be spent on parks that allow them. The Sacramento Bee reported on the funds in July, and three of the department’s top officials resigned or were fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the surplus came to light, the Coe Park Preservation Fund had already given the department its $279,000. The May donation was the first installment under a three-year agreement [PDF] to help staff the park. In addition to obtaining a refund, the donors want to dissolve their agreement with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That money was given to the park for a specific purpose,” said board President Ann Briggs. “The law that has just been passed supersedes that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement between the state and the Coe donors says it can be terminated by either party with 30 days notice, except when money for the year has already been donated. “Once funds are transferred to State Parks, this Agreement may not be terminated by either Party for any reason through Fiscal Year 2012/2013,” the agreement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We negotiated with the DPR (Department of Parks and Recreation) under the assumption that the only chance we had to keep Henry Coe open was to provide private donations,” said McCranie, a longtime executive in the semiconductor industry and one of the major donors to the Coe Park Preservation Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the group gets its money back, he plans to keep his share in the fund to help maintain the park and pay for interpretive programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation signed by Brown last week appropriates $10 million from the surplus to keep at-risk parks open over the next two years. Another $10 million would be spent on the parks only to match donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That plan did not mollify the Coe Park Preservation Fund, which voted unanimously last month to rescind its deal with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This $20 million came from visitors to our state parks,” McCranie said. “Why then are they going to take that $10 million, hold it in reserve and say that they’ll only allocate it to the parks when they receive matching funds?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stapler, the Natural Resources Agency spokesman, estimated that $3 million to $5 million that would be matched has already been raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators argue that despite the newly discovered surplus, parks still need the public’s donations. “The discovery of hidden funds does not change the fact that California still needs additional resources to prevent our beautiful parks from closing,” Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, D-San Fernando Valley, who sponsored AB 1478.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But McCranie expressed skepticism that donors will want to continue funding state parks. “It was a nightmare getting people to invest, because everyone kept saying: ‘We don’t want to bail out the state,’ ” he said. “Now, with this scandal, I just cannot imagine anyone is going to want to be freely giving funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1379116805,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":857},"headData":{"title":"Park Donors Feel Betrayed, Want Money Back | KQED","description":"Katharine Mieszkowski, The Bay Citizen Donors in the South Bay, angry over state mismanagement of park funds, are demanding the return of hundreds of thousands of dollars they gave to keep Northern California’s largest state park operating. The Coe Park Preservation Fund, based in Scotts Valley, donated $279,000 earlier this year to prevent the closure","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Park Donors Feel Betrayed, Want Money Back","datePublished":"2012-10-02T18:56:17.000Z","dateModified":"2013-09-14T00:00:05.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"77274 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=77274","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/02/park-donors-feel-betrayed-want-money-back/","disqusTitle":"Park Donors Feel Betrayed, Want Money Back","path":"/news/77274/park-donors-feel-betrayed-want-money-back","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Katharine Mieszkowski, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/parks/story/park-donors-feel-betrayed-want-money/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/BayCitizenLogo.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-77275\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/BayCitizenLogo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>Donors in the South Bay, angry over state mismanagement of park funds, are demanding the return of hundreds of thousands of dollars they gave to keep Northern California’s largest state park operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coe Park Preservation Fund, based in Scotts Valley, donated $279,000 earlier this year to prevent the closure of rugged, 87,000-acre Henry W. Coe State Park, located about 30 miles south of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77276\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 235px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/Henry-Coe-State-Park.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77276\" title=\"Henry Coe State Park\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/Henry-Coe-State-Park.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Coe State Park (Creative Commons)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to ask for the return of the $279,000 back to the Coe Park Preservation Fund,” said Dan McCranie, treasurer of the group’s board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the money is returned, the group plans to offer refunds to its donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state, however, says it has no obligation to refund the money. “As it stands, there is no legal mechanism to actually return the money,” said Richard Stapler, spokesman for the state Natural Resources Agency, which oversees the California Department of Parks and Recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an email, Stapler wrote that the agency does not rule out the possibility of a compromise. “We are very eager to speak with the Coe folks,” he said.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 25, Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB 1478, which prohibits the parks department from closing or proposing the closure of any park from now until July 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the parks department announced plans to close Henry W. Coe State Park, along with 69 other parks, after the state cut the department’s budget by $22 million. Nonprofit groups, municipalities and county governments around the state responded by coming up with millions of dollars to keep many of those threatened parks open, at least temporarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>Yet, the department was actually sitting on a hidden surplus of almost $54 million. About $20 million was in the state Parks and Recreation Fund, which comes mainly from fees paid by park goers. Another $34 million was found in a fund for off-road vehicles and can only be spent on parks that allow them. The Sacramento Bee reported on the funds in July, and three of the department’s top officials resigned or were fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the surplus came to light, the Coe Park Preservation Fund had already given the department its $279,000. The May donation was the first installment under a three-year agreement [PDF] to help staff the park. In addition to obtaining a refund, the donors want to dissolve their agreement with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That money was given to the park for a specific purpose,” said board President Ann Briggs. “The law that has just been passed supersedes that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement between the state and the Coe donors says it can be terminated by either party with 30 days notice, except when money for the year has already been donated. “Once funds are transferred to State Parks, this Agreement may not be terminated by either Party for any reason through Fiscal Year 2012/2013,” the agreement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We negotiated with the DPR (Department of Parks and Recreation) under the assumption that the only chance we had to keep Henry Coe open was to provide private donations,” said McCranie, a longtime executive in the semiconductor industry and one of the major donors to the Coe Park Preservation Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the group gets its money back, he plans to keep his share in the fund to help maintain the park and pay for interpretive programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation signed by Brown last week appropriates $10 million from the surplus to keep at-risk parks open over the next two years. Another $10 million would be spent on the parks only to match donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That plan did not mollify the Coe Park Preservation Fund, which voted unanimously last month to rescind its deal with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This $20 million came from visitors to our state parks,” McCranie said. “Why then are they going to take that $10 million, hold it in reserve and say that they’ll only allocate it to the parks when they receive matching funds?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stapler, the Natural Resources Agency spokesman, estimated that $3 million to $5 million that would be matched has already been raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators argue that despite the newly discovered surplus, parks still need the public’s donations. “The discovery of hidden funds does not change the fact that California still needs additional resources to prevent our beautiful parks from closing,” Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, D-San Fernando Valley, who sponsored AB 1478.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But McCranie expressed skepticism that donors will want to continue funding state parks. “It was a nightmare getting people to invest, because everyone kept saying: ‘We don’t want to bail out the state,’ ” he said. “Now, with this scandal, I just cannot imagine anyone is going to want to be freely giving funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/77274/park-donors-feel-betrayed-want-money-back","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_3243","news_3244","news_2461","news_1419"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_75070":{"type":"posts","id":"news_75070","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"75070","score":null,"sort":[1346806797000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"icymi-state-parks-bills-on-governor%e2%80%99s-desk","title":"Influenced by Scandal, State Parks Legislation Lands on Governor's Desk","publishDate":1346806797,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Now that we're all back from Labor Day weekend and nursing sunburns, this seems like a good time to review two key bills related to the future of state parks: \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_1589&sess=CUR&house=B\">AB 1589\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_1478&sess=CUR&house=A&search_type=bill_update\">AB 1478\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bear in mind everything parks-related moving through Sacramento now references the summer scandal that exploded when the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/21/4646682/hidden-parks-funds-spark-outrage.html\"> Sacramento Bee reported\u003c/a> that the Parks Department kept millions of dollars off the books when they filed annual reports with the Department of Finance, giving the impression a big deficit existed when that was not actually the case. Parks director Ruth Coleman resigned as a result of the scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1589, by Assemblymember Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael), requires that the Department of Parks & Recreation develop an \"action plan\" for generating revenue, as well as for collecting unpaid user fees at state parks. A lot of people are anticipating, to offer one example, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dmv.ca.gov/online/elp/elp.htm\">special-interest license plate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1589 also allows taxpayers to redirect portions of their tax refunds to the California State Parks Protection Fund in exchange for an annual state park day-use access pass. \u003c!--more-->AB 1478, by Bob Bloomenfield (D-Woodland Hills) appropriates $10 million from the fund for park maintenance projects and $10 million as matching funds for private grants for parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1478 is the more interesting bill for Bob Patrie of the Coe Park Preservation Fund. You may recall that organization wrangled a whopping $1 million of private money to keep their beloved local park open another three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>“AB1478 directly impacts our relationship with the DPR,” Patrie writes. He notes that half of the unreported $20.5 million in the State Parks and Recreation Fund will go towards the $1 billion deferred maintenance backlog, \"rather than being entirely spent on keeping the threatened 70 parks open - a bad idea. The smell of money in the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late July, the Fund and its sister non-profit, the \u003ca href=\"http://coepark.net/pineridgeassociation/support-coe/pra\">Pine Ridge Association\u003c/a>, issued a \u003ca href=\"http://coepark.net/pineridgeassociation/documents/Summer_2012.pdf\">press release\u003c/a> that more-or-less demanded the state not use the \"found\" money for purposes other than state parks...a temptation in these budget-strapped times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no doubt, that many of these funds were collected by the DPR from California citizens visiting and enjoying our beautiful state parks,” writes Daniel McCranie, CPPF treasurer and board member (and also the guy who wrote the biggest check to keep Coe open.) “It is both logical and morally correct that these discovered funds be allocated to the department from which they were collected – the California State Parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_75071\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/1-IMG_1585.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-75071\" title=\"1-IMG_1585\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/1-IMG_1585-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It takes a team to keep a state park like Henry Coe open. Ranger Cameron Bowers and non-profit advocate Bob Patrie (Credit: KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>AB 1478 also prohibits the Department of Parks and Recreation from closing or even proposing the closure of a state park until mid-2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For over a year, we were told that there was no alternative [to park closures],” Blumenfield writes KQED. “We were told park closures were a necessary sacrifice as the state faces tough budget challenges. Californians responded by rallying to raise funds to keep them open. This inspiring accomplishment cannot be soiled by the isolated acts of rogue bureaucrats who concealed over $50 million.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About that figure...could be more, could be less. Over the weekend, the Sacramento Bee’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/matt_weiser\">Matthew Weiser\u003c/a> wrote that the figure most everybody is bandying about ($54 million) … \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/02/4780548/numbers-on-hidden-funds-in-california.html\">may not be so correct\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $20 million was in the State Parks and Recreation Fund, as previously mentioned; the rest in \"a dedicated pot of money known as the Off Highway Vehicle Trust Fund.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, Finance Department chief deputy director Michael Cohen says his agency is no longer sure how much money was hidden in the OHV fund, and that answer will have to wait on three separate investigations by the attorney general, the state auditor and the Legislature. Those could take the rest of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OHV fund serves the state's eight parks dedicated to off-roaders, among other things. The OHV fund has routinely maintained a large balance. Parks officials have said this was to keep money in reserve to acquire land for new off-roading parks. \"Yet the department has not opened a new off-roading park in 15 years,\" Reiser notes dryly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Off-roading groups are understandably bitter about this state of affairs - not to mention the $34 million - if that's what it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Is that all?\" asks John Stewart, a consultant for the California Association of Four Wheel Drive Clubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Governor's office hasn't taken a position yet on either bill, or indicated whether he plans to sign one or both, sometime in September.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1648510303,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":799},"headData":{"title":"Influenced by Scandal, State Parks Legislation Lands on Governor's Desk | KQED","description":"Now that we're all back from Labor Day weekend and nursing sunburns, this seems like a good time to review two key bills related to the future of state parks: AB 1589 and AB 1478. 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Parks director Ruth Coleman resigned as a result of the scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1589, by Assemblymember Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael), requires that the Department of Parks & Recreation develop an \"action plan\" for generating revenue, as well as for collecting unpaid user fees at state parks. A lot of people are anticipating, to offer one example, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dmv.ca.gov/online/elp/elp.htm\">special-interest license plate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1589 also allows taxpayers to redirect portions of their tax refunds to the California State Parks Protection Fund in exchange for an annual state park day-use access pass. \u003c!--more-->AB 1478, by Bob Bloomenfield (D-Woodland Hills) appropriates $10 million from the fund for park maintenance projects and $10 million as matching funds for private grants for parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1478 is the more interesting bill for Bob Patrie of the Coe Park Preservation Fund. You may recall that organization wrangled a whopping $1 million of private money to keep their beloved local park open another three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>“AB1478 directly impacts our relationship with the DPR,” Patrie writes. He notes that half of the unreported $20.5 million in the State Parks and Recreation Fund will go towards the $1 billion deferred maintenance backlog, \"rather than being entirely spent on keeping the threatened 70 parks open - a bad idea. The smell of money in the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late July, the Fund and its sister non-profit, the \u003ca href=\"http://coepark.net/pineridgeassociation/support-coe/pra\">Pine Ridge Association\u003c/a>, issued a \u003ca href=\"http://coepark.net/pineridgeassociation/documents/Summer_2012.pdf\">press release\u003c/a> that more-or-less demanded the state not use the \"found\" money for purposes other than state parks...a temptation in these budget-strapped times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no doubt, that many of these funds were collected by the DPR from California citizens visiting and enjoying our beautiful state parks,” writes Daniel McCranie, CPPF treasurer and board member (and also the guy who wrote the biggest check to keep Coe open.) “It is both logical and morally correct that these discovered funds be allocated to the department from which they were collected – the California State Parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_75071\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/1-IMG_1585.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-75071\" title=\"1-IMG_1585\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/1-IMG_1585-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It takes a team to keep a state park like Henry Coe open. Ranger Cameron Bowers and non-profit advocate Bob Patrie (Credit: KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>AB 1478 also prohibits the Department of Parks and Recreation from closing or even proposing the closure of a state park until mid-2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For over a year, we were told that there was no alternative [to park closures],” Blumenfield writes KQED. “We were told park closures were a necessary sacrifice as the state faces tough budget challenges. Californians responded by rallying to raise funds to keep them open. This inspiring accomplishment cannot be soiled by the isolated acts of rogue bureaucrats who concealed over $50 million.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About that figure...could be more, could be less. Over the weekend, the Sacramento Bee’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/matt_weiser\">Matthew Weiser\u003c/a> wrote that the figure most everybody is bandying about ($54 million) … \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/02/4780548/numbers-on-hidden-funds-in-california.html\">may not be so correct\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $20 million was in the State Parks and Recreation Fund, as previously mentioned; the rest in \"a dedicated pot of money known as the Off Highway Vehicle Trust Fund.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, Finance Department chief deputy director Michael Cohen says his agency is no longer sure how much money was hidden in the OHV fund, and that answer will have to wait on three separate investigations by the attorney general, the state auditor and the Legislature. Those could take the rest of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OHV fund serves the state's eight parks dedicated to off-roaders, among other things. The OHV fund has routinely maintained a large balance. Parks officials have said this was to keep money in reserve to acquire land for new off-roading parks. \"Yet the department has not opened a new off-roading park in 15 years,\" Reiser notes dryly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Off-roading groups are understandably bitter about this state of affairs - not to mention the $34 million - if that's what it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Is that all?\" asks John Stewart, a consultant for the California Association of Four Wheel Drive Clubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Governor's office hasn't taken a position yet on either bill, or indicated whether he plans to sign one or both, sometime in September.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/75070/icymi-state-parks-bills-on-governor%e2%80%99s-desk","authors":["251"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_19906","news_13"],"tags":["news_24345","news_2582","news_2461","news_2011","news_95","news_18541","news_70","news_1419","news_566","news_98"],"featImg":"news_75087","label":"news_6944"},"news_73191":{"type":"posts","id":"news_73191","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"73191","score":null,"sort":[1344986864000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"state-lawyers-told-of-hidden-funds","title":"Former Parks Employee Says State Attorneys Told of Budget Stash","publishDate":1344986864,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>by Don Thompson, Associated Press \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A former California state parks employee says she told state attorneys her department was hiding about $20 million in a special fund several months before officials announced discovering the surplus money, according to a sworn declaration filed in court Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73197\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Ruth-Coleman2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-73197\" title=\"Ruth Coleman\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Ruth-Coleman2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Coleman resigned as California parks director when a special fund was uncovered in her department.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The development is the latest revelation in a budget scandal that has state officials on the defensive and threatens to undermine Gov. Jerry Brown's push for a voter-approved tax increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court declaration from Cheryl Taylor, a former parks employee, raises further questions about what state officials knew, when they knew it, and what action, if any, they took before the California Natural Resources Agency revealed the hidden pot of money in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such special funds contribute to the state's general fund budget each year as lawmakers take millions of dollars in loans from the funds to close budget deficits.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To plug this year's budget gap the governor proposed closing 70 state parks to save $33 million over two years, prompting a scramble by local governments and nonprofits to raise money and keep most of the parks open this summer. Brown also has pushed a message of fiscal responsibility as he has urged voters to increase the state's revenue by approving a tax hike in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration said it publicly disclosed the accounting problem within 48 hours of the discovery in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>But, according to Taylor's statement, officials should have known much sooner, said Elisa Stewart, a San Francisco attorney who filed the declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Maybe they wouldn't have come back and said we need to close 70 parks,\" she said. \"So much could have changed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor, according to her statement, first told a representative of the state attorney general's office in January about the hidden $20 million and that the budget manager for the parks department had warned employees to keep the underreporting quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor's declaration is part of a sexual harassment lawsuit naming Manuel Lopez, the state parks' former budget manager who is at the center of multiple investigations. State attorneys were tracing an unauthorized vacation buyout program organized by Lopez when they questioned Taylor about department finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her sworn declaration, filed in Sacramento County Superior Court, says she told Deputy Attorney General Corrine Lee Murphy and parks department staff attorney Jennifer Comilang in April that she \"was aware of the under reporting of funds,\" but that Lopez had told her not to report the information. She also told the attorneys that Lopez had ordered her to demote an employee who reported the $20 million surplus in the spring of 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said in her declaration that she had a similar conversation by telephone in January with the state Department of Justice, which is run by the attorney general's office. She recalled explaining the department's budget \"in great detail\" as she discussed whether Lopez would have access to department funds without going through the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did not name the individual, but remembered the conversation as being within days of Gov. Jerry Brown proposing his budget on Jan. 5. The attorney general's office assigned Murphy to the investigation Jan. 9, according to her official report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear if the state attorneys relayed Taylor's information to anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general's office and state parks department declined comment, citing the ongoing investigation into the underreported money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general's office and the state Natural Resources Agency initially told The Associated Press they were looking into Taylor's account and would provide details, then declined to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynda Gledhill, a spokeswoman with the attorney general's office, said she could not comment on Taylor's declaration because the matter fell under attorney-client privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are as interested as anyone in getting to the bottom of these things,\" resource agency spokesman Richard Stapler said. \"... We really need to let the investigation play itself out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One legal expert said the state attorneys had a duty to tell others if they recognized the significance at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Clearly, there's an obligation to report up the chain, assuming that the facts are such that a reasonable attorney would realize that a crime or civil wrong has been committed,\" said John Sprankling, who teaches professional responsibility at the University of Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former state parks director Ruth Coleman resigned last month once the surplus was disclosed. Lopez previously told The Sacramento Bee that he informed his supervisors about the underreported money, a claim Coleman denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resources agency said the parks department failed to report $20 million in a special recreation \u003cspan style=\"color: red\">fund\u003c/span> and another $34 million in a special \u003cspan style=\"color: red\">fund\u003c/span> for off-highway vehicle activities to the state Department of Finance, which uses department reports to write the annual state budget plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natural Resources Agency Secretary John Laird said last month that the \u003cspan style=\"color: red\">hidden\u003c/span> money was found in July by a new park fiscal staff member while the attorney general's office was examining the unauthorized vacation buyouts by parks employees. Taylor's court declaration says the attorney general's office knew as early as January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor, who now works for the California Department of Transportation, is not an alleged victim of the sexual harassment alleged in the lawsuit, but other parts of her declaration address whether Lopez acted inappropriately with his employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez did not return a telephone message left at his home. Messages were not returned by John Randall Andrada, an Oakland attorney representing Lopez in the sexual harassment lawsuit or by Marc A. Caraska, a Sacramento attorney representing Lopez in a personal bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1379117432,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":963},"headData":{"title":"Former Parks Employee Says State Attorneys Told of Budget Stash | KQED","description":"by Don Thompson, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A former California state parks employee says she told state attorneys her department was hiding about $20 million in a special fund several months before officials announced discovering the surplus money, according to a sworn declaration filed in court Tuesday. The development is the latest revelation","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Former Parks Employee Says State Attorneys Told of Budget Stash","datePublished":"2012-08-14T23:27:44.000Z","dateModified":"2013-09-14T00:10:32.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"73191 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=73191","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/08/14/state-lawyers-told-of-hidden-funds/","disqusTitle":"Former Parks Employee Says State Attorneys Told of Budget Stash","path":"/news/73191/state-lawyers-told-of-hidden-funds","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>by Don Thompson, Associated Press \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A former California state parks employee says she told state attorneys her department was hiding about $20 million in a special fund several months before officials announced discovering the surplus money, according to a sworn declaration filed in court Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73197\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Ruth-Coleman2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-73197\" title=\"Ruth Coleman\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Ruth-Coleman2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Coleman resigned as California parks director when a special fund was uncovered in her department.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The development is the latest revelation in a budget scandal that has state officials on the defensive and threatens to undermine Gov. Jerry Brown's push for a voter-approved tax increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court declaration from Cheryl Taylor, a former parks employee, raises further questions about what state officials knew, when they knew it, and what action, if any, they took before the California Natural Resources Agency revealed the hidden pot of money in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such special funds contribute to the state's general fund budget each year as lawmakers take millions of dollars in loans from the funds to close budget deficits.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To plug this year's budget gap the governor proposed closing 70 state parks to save $33 million over two years, prompting a scramble by local governments and nonprofits to raise money and keep most of the parks open this summer. Brown also has pushed a message of fiscal responsibility as he has urged voters to increase the state's revenue by approving a tax hike in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration said it publicly disclosed the accounting problem within 48 hours of the discovery in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>But, according to Taylor's statement, officials should have known much sooner, said Elisa Stewart, a San Francisco attorney who filed the declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Maybe they wouldn't have come back and said we need to close 70 parks,\" she said. \"So much could have changed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor, according to her statement, first told a representative of the state attorney general's office in January about the hidden $20 million and that the budget manager for the parks department had warned employees to keep the underreporting quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor's declaration is part of a sexual harassment lawsuit naming Manuel Lopez, the state parks' former budget manager who is at the center of multiple investigations. State attorneys were tracing an unauthorized vacation buyout program organized by Lopez when they questioned Taylor about department finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her sworn declaration, filed in Sacramento County Superior Court, says she told Deputy Attorney General Corrine Lee Murphy and parks department staff attorney Jennifer Comilang in April that she \"was aware of the under reporting of funds,\" but that Lopez had told her not to report the information. She also told the attorneys that Lopez had ordered her to demote an employee who reported the $20 million surplus in the spring of 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said in her declaration that she had a similar conversation by telephone in January with the state Department of Justice, which is run by the attorney general's office. She recalled explaining the department's budget \"in great detail\" as she discussed whether Lopez would have access to department funds without going through the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did not name the individual, but remembered the conversation as being within days of Gov. Jerry Brown proposing his budget on Jan. 5. The attorney general's office assigned Murphy to the investigation Jan. 9, according to her official report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear if the state attorneys relayed Taylor's information to anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general's office and state parks department declined comment, citing the ongoing investigation into the underreported money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general's office and the state Natural Resources Agency initially told The Associated Press they were looking into Taylor's account and would provide details, then declined to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynda Gledhill, a spokeswoman with the attorney general's office, said she could not comment on Taylor's declaration because the matter fell under attorney-client privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are as interested as anyone in getting to the bottom of these things,\" resource agency spokesman Richard Stapler said. \"... We really need to let the investigation play itself out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One legal expert said the state attorneys had a duty to tell others if they recognized the significance at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Clearly, there's an obligation to report up the chain, assuming that the facts are such that a reasonable attorney would realize that a crime or civil wrong has been committed,\" said John Sprankling, who teaches professional responsibility at the University of Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former state parks director Ruth Coleman resigned last month once the surplus was disclosed. Lopez previously told The Sacramento Bee that he informed his supervisors about the underreported money, a claim Coleman denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resources agency said the parks department failed to report $20 million in a special recreation \u003cspan style=\"color: red\">fund\u003c/span> and another $34 million in a special \u003cspan style=\"color: red\">fund\u003c/span> for off-highway vehicle activities to the state Department of Finance, which uses department reports to write the annual state budget plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natural Resources Agency Secretary John Laird said last month that the \u003cspan style=\"color: red\">hidden\u003c/span> money was found in July by a new park fiscal staff member while the attorney general's office was examining the unauthorized vacation buyouts by parks employees. Taylor's court declaration says the attorney general's office knew as early as January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor, who now works for the California Department of Transportation, is not an alleged victim of the sexual harassment alleged in the lawsuit, but other parts of her declaration address whether Lopez acted inappropriately with his employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez did not return a telephone message left at his home. Messages were not returned by John Randall Andrada, an Oakland attorney representing Lopez in the sexual harassment lawsuit or by Marc A. 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