{"id":1547,"date":"2007-10-29T13:22:29","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T18:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2007-10-29T13:22:29","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T18:22:29","slug":"so-much-for-cash-strapped-local-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/10\/29\/so-much-for-cash-strapped-local-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"So much for cash-strapped local parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/search\/ci_7304730\">Everybody should have this problem: what to do with $85 million bucks in the bank. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>  Six times in the past few decades, park-loving Santa Clara County residents voted to keep using a sliver of their property taxes to buy and maintain parkland and open spaces.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nNow, a new audit reveals that all those slivers have really added up &#8211; and pose a dilemma for the Santa Clara County parks and recreation department: what to do with roughly $85 million in cash &#8211; enough to meet its basic expenses for about three years.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe fact that the county department is sitting on such a fat savings account at a time when other county and city departments are bleeding for lack of money came as a surprise to park lovers and open-space advocates.<\/blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p>Three years of expenses in the bank, and we&#8217;re getting hit up for $6 to park in the county parks? This story did frost me just a little bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody should have this problem: what to do with $85 million bucks in the bank. Six times in the past few decades, park-loving Santa Clara County residents voted to keep using a sliver of their property taxes to buy and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/10\/29\/so-much-for-cash-strapped-local-parks\/\">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\/1547"}],"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=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}