Sad state of national parks and public lands.
On our way to Lassen Volcanic National Park. On a national forest rest stop and vista point, wifey went to the rest room. But it was posted "Closed due to lack of funding." And down on these...
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dave54 wrote:Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
Nothing political, just data and info, the current administration cut National Park's budget by 13% where they are saying that they are already behind in repairs and maintenance -- something that obvious and we are seeing.
And of course, by logic, if you are behind in those areas, how can you even do improvements?
The NPS requested less money in the FY2020 budget documents. I could not find an explanation why they requested less money from FY2019. I can only speculate a realignment of some programs meant they could get by with less, but I really do not know.
Good you italicized the "requested".
It's must be like our budgeting process for a global multinational company I worked for.
HQ, in the government, federal bosses, will mandate say, 3% reduction in overhead across the board for everyone.
That's an no-if-or-but mandate, so we incorporate that in our budget. Our only option is to make that reduction in the account or budget line item we want.
So when we finalize the budget, the "request" has that 3% reduction.
