{"id":1386,"date":"2007-07-20T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2008-01-28T07:28:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T15:28:34","slug":"drastic-cuts-for-state-parks-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/07\/20\/drastic-cuts-for-state-parks-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Drastic cuts for state parks funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think the facilities at Big Basin and Castle Rock are looking a little ragged, just stand by.  Next year&#8217;s proposed state budget cuts state parks funding by 30 percent.  A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senatorsimitian.com\/index.php\/news\/entry\/simitian_takes_a_hike\/\">press release from the office of state Sen. Joe Simitian<\/a>, D-Palo Alto, says the senator&#8217;s going to visit Castle Rock on Sunday to try to drum up some interest in preventing a $181-million budget cut.   <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>The annual cost to maintain the system is about $185 million a year,&#8221; said Simitian, &#8220;but the state budgets just $67 million a year, which means that with every passing year the problem gets more than $100 million worse.  Worse still, the State&#8217;s failure to reverse this trend means the situation deteriorates.  Small problems become big problems \u00f1 with price tags to match \u00f1 adding even more to the billion dollar backlog.&#8221;<\/blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p>Well, you have to admit, the campgrounds will be less crowded if they never fix up the bathrooms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think the facilities at Big Basin and Castle Rock are looking a little ragged, just stand by. Next year&#8217;s proposed state budget cuts state parks funding by 30 percent. A press release from the office of state Sen.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/07\/20\/drastic-cuts-for-state-parks-funding\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}