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Friday the 13th Deputy Directors report....  

The State of California sweeps $90 Million from the OHV trust fund, that States
OHMVR Deputy Director, Division Chief and staff try to explain what this means.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-131998789321558171

Basically it states the money got taken because Division could not spend it over
the years, well I have been told many times this wont happen but never the less,
this is what I believe needs to happen. The Governors office did this, their
appointee has been in charge of the program for 5 years now, the Governors
office at least owes us a Deputy Director that can figure out how to utilize our
OHV trust fund dollars.

Then of course the Governors office needs to get to work big time, figuring out
how to return the money to our OHV trust fund.

Tom

Link to the Cal State program:

http://www.ohv.parks.ca.gov/

 

Did the OHMVR Audit achieve it's goals? Let's talk about it!!!

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Quote:
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814

Dear Governor Schwarzenegger:

This letter is to request that the Department of Finance look into the Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Community’s concerns that OHV Trust Funds may be overextended, and the spending definition of what is OHV related stretched too far. Over the years the OHV Community was uninvolved in the State Parks Department ‘s use of OHV Trust Funds for operational expense, and on many capitol outlay items, and this may have been a big mistake on our part.

The amount of OHV Trust Funds for support of the Parks Department has grown from 12.2 million dollars, to a proposed 37.8 million, in just five years, a 210% increase. During the Wilson administration the increase over eight years was only about 20%. I request to be informed of details of all the expenses included in the 37.8 million dollars of OHV Trust funds proposed for use by Parks Department for operational support.

The proposed budget includes positions to immediately staff an OHV Park in Riverside, with toxic waste cleanup issues and other significant concerns. This proposed OHV Park will not likely be open within the next three years, if ever. Still even these staff increases alone do come close to explaining the steep OHV Trust Funds spending increases, so contracting expenses need also to be looked at carefully.

The OHV program is conducting a study of it’s main revenue source, gas tax revenues. It unsound to raise spending greatly when future revenues are uncertain. Also, the OHV program itself is set to legislatively sunset on January 1st, 2007. On top that, the OHV Trust Fund reserves have been wiped out due to recent unusually high spending levels.

Please investigate this matter in detail, and please give pause to these huge Parks Department support budget increases from the OHV Trust Fund. It is important that the Public OHV Community can again be confident that our tax dollars, and OHV Trust Funds, are really only for what they were intended for in a truly frugal manner. Please contact me for further information and I very much appreciate your help.



Yours truly,
This was a from letter started by Kim Kammer in 2004, one of many that helped trigger the OHMVR audit, now that it's all said and done I must ask:

Did the OHMVR Audit achieve it's goals?

 

 

 

11432 South St, #279
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