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Laura


                                ACTION ALERT!!!
                       Please respond by September 13th


                        GOVERNOR'S VETO OF S.B. 1968 URGED

                            $12 MILLION IN STATE PARK
                             BOATING FUNDS THREATENED

       As Senator Milton Marks' S.B. 1968 worked it's way through the Legislatu
re,
it seemed innocent enough.  In it's original form, the bill made vague
references to limiting how the Department of Parks could spend funds
received from the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund.  But in the last
days of the Legislative session, the bill was amended and, as passed, would
severely limit the Department of Parks' ability to not only spend allocated
Harbors and Watercraft funds, but funds from the Motor Vehicle Fuel Account
as well.   The Department's allocation from the two funds totals about
$12 million.

       If S.B. 1968 merely required that the Department use those funds for
boating related costs, there would be no objection.  However, the provisions
of the bill are extremely restrictive and do not recognize many of the
activities required to properly maintain a park with boating activities.
For example, the following state park activities could not draw upon boating
funds:

       -  Maintaining boat docks and piers.
       -  Search and rescue operations for offshore boaters.
       -  Constructing and maintaining "boat-in" camp sites.
       -  Beach law enforcement (i.e. preventing boat or Jetski operators from
going           back into the water after consuming too much alcohol).
       -  Maintaining beaches on which watercraft land.
       -  Building and maintaining mooring facilities and buoys.
       -  Debris removal from shore.
       -  Any and all overhead associated with boating support activities.

       What You Can Do: Fax letters (DO NOT USE DPR STATIONARY) or call Governo
r
Wilson and urge him "to veto S.B. 1968, because the provisions of the bill
are unreasonably restrictive."

       Governor Pete Wilson
       State Capitol, First Floor
        Sacramento, CA 95814
        Fax (916) 445-4633
        Phone (916) 445-2841


Laura Svendsgaard
Friends of California Parks
P.O. Box 1133
Sacramento, CA  95812-1133
(916) 452-8783
park@cwo.com


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From: park@cwo.com (friends of california parks)
Subject: SB 1968 / Boating Funds