RambleOnNW wrote:
Oregon voters approved a measure in 1998 that dedicates 15% of lottery dollars to parks and natural resources. This provides around $80 million per year, half for parks and half for natural resources. This has allowed new state parks to open, the first in 30 years, and also make many improvements at existing parks.
The lottery money is only good for new parks....it does not help with the older parks to upgrade or improve. Also.....a lot of parks are running out of their allotment of lotto funds earlier because lees money is coming in due to low lottery sales.
