tod701
Posts : 50
Join date : 2011-06-27
Bike : CRF250X
 |  Subject: Discovery Pass fund theft bill – SB5979  12/8/2011, 8:08 am | |
| The Legislature is back in session and user fees are at risk of being misappropriated again. Senators Honeyford, Morton, Delvin, Becker and Schoesler have introduced legislation that would divert 70 percent of the Discover Pass funding going to the DNR and instead of using to facilitate recreation, give it to the trust beneficiaries. See link to SB5979 http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5979&year=2011 This would lower the DNR recreation portion of the $30 pass from $2.40 to 72 cents. Last spring the Legislature asked the recreational users of state managed public land to pay a new fee to facilitate than recreational access. To accomplish that SB5622 created the Discover Pass. Now, less than a year later SB5979 has been introduced, proposing to divert 70 percent of the funds originally intended to fund recreational access to Department of Natural Resources managed public land. For those citizens that recreate on DNR managed public land, the pass that costs them $35 including service fees would return approximately two percent back in their direction with no assurance than even a penny of that tiny amount will be spent to facilitate ORV recreation. It is hard to imagine how anyone could consider this an equitable distribution formula. This is a disappointment and violation of the trust given the state by the purchasers of the Discover Pass. If you don’t like this plan, please tell your State Senator to oppose SB5979 and let them know why. If you need to know who they are or how to contact them, go to: www.leg.wa.gov | |
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tod701
Posts : 50
Join date : 2011-06-27
Bike : CRF250X
| | Subject: Re: Discovery Pass fund theft bill – SB5979 1/31/2012, 6:33 pm | |
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