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The CAL States OHV programs schedule, which must be maintained if grant money is to be paid by spring 2009

              Commission meeting document archive

2008/2009 Proposed OHMVR budget

http://ohmvr.com/ohvspending/OHV_Registration.htm

1. By February 15, 2008: The Division will have obtained written input from the 2007/2008 grant application cycle survey to evaluate the effectiveness of this cycle.

2. March 2008: The Division will review the written comments and make initial conceptual revisions to the organization, structure, and language of the current regulations and begin the focus group workshops.

3. April 2008: The Division will assimilate comments from the individual focus group workshops, make further revisions to the regulations, and prepare draft final language. One or more combined group workshops will be held during which representatives from the various focus groups will be invited to discuss and make comments on the final draft of the amendments to the regulations.

4. June 2008: Following the combined group workshop(s), the Division will finalize draft regulations for sharing with the general public at the OHMVR Commission meeting at the end of June to receive suggestions, comments, and recommendations from the Commission and the public.

5. July 2008: Following the Commission meeting in June, the regulations will be put in final form and noticed for a 45-day public comment period in accordance with the California Administrative Procedure Act. If substantial revisions are required as a result of the 45-day public comment period, there will be an additional 15-day public comment period before submitting the regulations to OAL for approval. However, the Division hopes the various opportunities available for public input prior to the final submission to OAL will result in a final grant package that is supported by the general public.

6. October 2008: The Division will submit the final regulations to the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) for its review (maximum 30 working days) and approval.

7. November 2008: The Division will adopt final regulations. This will enable the grant application process to begin not later than January 2009.

Where they are,

see 07/29/2008 meeting transcript:

http://ohmvr.com/regs/Live_Transcript.htm

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?

 

 

 

16787 Beach Blvd #318
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