{"id":1725,"date":"2008-02-03T21:46:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T05:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/02\/03\/a-summary-of-the-california-state-parks-situation\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T07:27:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T15:27:49","slug":"a-summary-of-the-california-state-parks-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/02\/03\/a-summary-of-the-california-state-parks-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"California state parks budget crisis &#8212; in brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=wu2g0ml7r6oori\">This article from Capitol Weekly <\/a> lays out the original proposal. Among the key facts: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Budget cuts would save $13.3 million &#8212; about a dollar for every family in California. <\/li>\n<li>Closures would shut out an estimated 6.5 million of 79 million annual park visitors &#8212; the largest state park attendance in the nation. <\/li>\n<li>The California Parks Foundation has 90,000 members.   <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Divide 90,000 members into $13.3 million and you get $147 and change. If every member of the Parks Foundation passed the hat among their family, friends  and neighbors and thew in $100 of their own, the shortfall goes away. <\/p>\n<p>What that tells me: if everybody who uses California parks regularly gets busy, gets generous with their time and thinks creatively, we could make a huge dent in the parks funding crisis. <\/p>\n<p>Another interesting link at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calparks.org\/act-now\/2008-budget-proposal.html\">Parks Foundation&#8217;s site<\/a>: Henry Coe State Park tallies 34,395 visits a year and takes in $67,344 (less than $2 per visitor &#8212; good thing so many people are car-pooling, eh?); at Portola Redwoods, it&#8217;s 36,277 visitors and $161,136 in revenue (they get a lot more campers there).  <\/p>\n<p>Should we get ourselves worked up over parks that get fewer than 100 visitors a day?   Absolutely: as soon as the visit count goes to zero, it&#8217;ll be far too easy for the state to succumb to the temptation to start eating its seed corn by selling public lands to raise cash.  <\/p>\n<p>The key will be to create partnerships between the state parks authorities and the private organizations that already support the state parks. It doesn&#8217;t have to be cash, it could be in-kind contributions of expertise. Whatever it is, it has to keep the parks in the hands of the public. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article from Capitol Weekly lays out the original proposal. Among the key facts: Budget cuts would save $13.3 million &#8212; about a dollar for every family in California. Closures would shut out an estimated 6.5 million of 79 million&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/02\/03\/a-summary-of-the-california-state-parks-situation\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[207],"tags":[205,498,137,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}