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May 22, 2012
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SACRAMENTO – A proposal by State Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) and State Senator Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) to keep open up to 50 state parks slated for closure will be up for a vote in a Senate budget subcommittee on Wednesday. As many as 70 state parks had been slated for closure beginning July 1.
The ‘Sustainable Parks Proposal’ will be heard Wednesday morning in Senate Budget Subcommittee #2 on Resources, Environmental Protection, Energy and Transportation, which is chaired by Simitian. The hearing begins at 9 a.m. in room 2040 of the State Capitol. The parks proposal will most likely start to be heard between 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
The proposal encourages continued nonprofit support for the parks; finding ‘new ways of working,’ including allowing parks to become more entrepreneurial; and tapping existing loans and funds that have not previously been used for parks, including up to $10 million of existing funds collected from vehicle registration fees for road construction and maintenance and other uses.
For more information on the ‘Sustainable Parks Proposal’, go to http://www.senatorsimitian.com/entry/sustainable_parks_proposal/
WHO: State Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) and State Senator Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa)
WHAT: Senate Budget Subcommittee #2 Votes on ‘Sustainable Parks Proposal’
WHEN: Wednesday, May 23 at 9 a.m. (parks proposal likely between 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.)
WHERE: State Capitol, Room 2040